297: Bai Qi, the God of Slaughter, stains the Kunlun Road with blood.

"Summon?"

When Yuan Tiangang's terrified voice echoed in the Hall of Miraculous Mist, Li Chengqian's pupils constricted sharply.

He instantly understood.

That old hag, Queen Mother of the West, never expected her so-called "children" to defeat his Great Tang fleet from the very beginning.

Those overwhelming, seemingly formidable Vicious Beasts were simply cannon fodder she threw out to die!

She was using the deaths of this cannon fodder, their fresh blood, and their Souls as sacrifices!

To summon an existence that was even more ancient, more terrifying, and perhaps didn't even belong to this era!

"Heh, a little interesting." A cold smile appeared on Li Chengqian's face. "Hit the young, then the old come out. Can't win, so you're calling for backup?"

Not only did he not feel the slightest tension, but he also found the matter increasingly intriguing.

If he were to just sweep through, slaughtering those so-called Innate Divine Beasts and primordial gods like chopping vegetables, that would be truly boring.

Now that Queen Mother of the West had pulled off such a stunt, it actually piqued his interest.

He wanted to see what kind of trump card a middle-ranked world of three thousand, sacrificing everything to summon, truly was.

"Your Majesty! You must not!"

Li Jing was the first to react, his face instantly turning pale.

He understood His Majesty's meaning; His Majesty was going to... go personally?!

"Your Majesty! The Kunlun Mountains are Queen Mother of the West's lair, the core of the entire Mountain and Sea Realm! The Laws there are chaotic, and the Divine Might is like a prison. How can your precious person risk such danger!" Li Jing's voice trembled slightly.

What a joke!

An emperor personally leading an expedition has been a military taboo since ancient times!

Especially going to break into the enemy's lair!

If anything were to go wrong, the entire Great Tang Immortal Kingdom would collapse in an instant!

No one could bear such consequences!

"Yes, Your Majesty! General Li is absolutely right! Please reconsider, Your Majesty!"

"That Queen Mother of the West is cunning and full of tricks. This move must be a deception! Perhaps she wants to lure Your Majesty to the Kunlun Mountains to use the Origin power of that world against you!"

"Your Majesty, you are the stabilizing force of our Great Tang! If anything happens to you, we would be condemned to ten thousand deaths!"

Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji, and the other Civil and Military Officials were all scared out of their wits, kneeling down in a heap, pleading bitterly.

They were truly afraid.

Before, when His Majesty said he wanted to build god-demon mecha, they thought he was crazy.

Now that His Majesty wanted to personally break into the enemy's final BOSS lair, they thought His Majesty was truly insane!

Looking at the anxious officials below, Li Chengqian frowned impatiently.

"All of you, rise for Us!"

He snorted coldly, and an invisible imperial pressure instantly enveloped the entire hall.

All the kneeling officials felt an irresistible force lift them, each as silent as a cicada in winter, not daring to utter another word.

"Look at all of you, what kind of decorum is this!"

Li Chengqian rose from his imperial throne, paced to the center of the hall, and swept his cold gaze across everyone.

"We are not dead yet, who are you showing your long faces to?"

"One Queen Mother of the West, one Kunlun Mountains, scares you all like this?"

He sneered inwardly; these fellows still had too narrow a vision.

Risk?

When had he, Li Chengqian, ever done anything without confidence?

The reason he dared to go personally was naturally because he had his own backing.

Firstly, he had absolute confidence in his current strength. As the Lord of Humanity, wielding the national destiny of the entire Great Tang Immortal Kingdom and the telekinesis (thought power) of billions of citizens, the essence of his power already surpassed most gods in this world. Queen Mother of the West wanted to suppress him with the world's Origin? That depended on whether her small "Divine Dao Authority" could suppress his "Human Dao Torrent," which gathered the achievements of three great civilizations!

Secondly, capture the king to capture the bandits!

Queen Mother of the West was making such a big show, with sacrifices and summons, clearly to stall for time and unleash a powerful move.

What he, Li Chengqian, hated most was waiting for others to unleash their ultimate moves.

Instead of letting the twelve god-demons slowly grind against a bunch of cannon fodder outside, consuming energy and stamina, it was better for him to go personally and settle it with one blow!

As long as he crushed Queen Mother of the West, the main BOSS, wouldn't the remaining small fries be annihilated by his fleet in minutes?

This was the most efficient and most beneficial way to fight for him!

"Our decision is made, no need for further words."

Li Chengqian's voice was beyond doubt.

He looked at Li Jing and said in a deep voice, "After We leave, the fleet will be under your full command. Hold the defense for Us, and don't let those miscellaneous creatures disturb the research personnel in the rear."

"Your subject... obeys the decree." Li Jing's lips moved, but in the end, he didn't dare to persuade further, only accepting the order with a tragic expression.

He knew that once this Your Majesty (Your Majesty) made a decision, ten oxen couldn't pull him back.

The only thing he could do now was to guard this home and wait for His Majesty to return.

Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction, then his gaze turned to the blood-colored figure in the corner of the hall, who had remained silent all this time.

"Bai Qi."

"Your subject is here."

A blood-colored shadow, like a ghost, silently appeared before Li Chengqian.

He had not a trace of life Qi on him, only the bone-deep, eternal coldness and stillness.

As if he wasn't a person, but a peerless weapon of war, born only for slaughter.

From the beginning of the war until now, the other eleven God-Demon Knights had been fighting fiercely outside.

Only he, God of Slaughter Bai Qi, had quietly remained within the Hall of Miraculous Mist.

Because his mission was never to fight on the battlefield.

But to guard by Li Chengqian's side and slay all living things that dared to approach within a hundred zhang of him.

He was Li Chengqian's last and sharpest barrier.

"Accompany Us on this trip."

Li Chengqian's gaze seemed to penetrate endless space, through the blood-soaked battlefield, finally landing on the peak of the cloud-shrouded Kunlun Divine Mountain, which exuded supreme Divine Might.

"Your subject, obeys the decree."

Bai Qi's voice was still as calm as an ancient well, as if he was merely stating a trivial matter.

Li Chengqian stopped speaking nonsense, turned around, and walked out of the hall.

Bai Qi's blood-colored figure followed like a shadow.

The two walked out of the Hall of Miraculous Mist, one after the other, arriving before a secret teleportation array located in the core area of the "Lingxiao" flagship.

This teleportation array was the most advanced spatial teleportation device created by the Great Tang Immortal Kingdom, combining the Wizard World's spatial magic and the Gaia Federation's warp drive technology.

It could bypass most spatial blockades, accurately sending people tens of millions of li away.

Of course, the cost was extremely high; each activation consumed enough energy for a "Heavenly Palace" class flagship's main cannon to fire ten times consecutively.

"Coordinates, at the foot of Kunlun Mountains."

Li Chengqian ordered indifferently.

"Coordinates locked! Energy injection complete! Teleportation commencing!"

As the cold voice of the control personnel sounded, the entire teleportation array burst into brilliant light!

Li Chengqian and Bai Qi's figures instantly vanished in the dazzling light.

And in the next second after they disappeared, the entirely silver-white "White Tiger" mecha, filled with an aura of extreme slaughter, also appeared out of thin air on the teleportation array, then transformed into a data stream and vanished.

Watching the empty teleportation array, the hearts of all the Civil and Military Officials in the Hall of Miraculous Mist were in their throats.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the central light screen, on the Kunlun Divine Mountain, which represented ultimate terror.

Their Your Majesty, their Great Tang Heavenly Emperor, had already stepped onto that unknown land of gods and demons!

At the foot of Kunlun Mountains.

Space twisted, and the figures of Li Chengqian and Bai Qi appeared out of thin air.

As soon as they landed, an indescribable sense of profoundness and majesty assailed them.

As if the weight of the entire world was pressing down on them.

The Laws here were completely different from the outside world.

The air was filled not with Spiritual Qi, but with a more ancient, more primitive "divine particle."

If a Mortal were to inhale even a breath, they would probably explode on the spot.

Even a Golden Immortal, in this environment, would have their Immortal Essence and magical power suppressed to less than one-tenth.

"Heh, a little interesting, is this the Domain suppression of the world's core?"

Li Chengqian felt the ubiquitous pressure, but a look of interest appeared on his face.

This pressure was like a gentle breeze to him, having no effect whatsoever.

His Human Dao Emperor's Physical Body was impervious to all methods, immune to all Law suppression from non-Human Dao systems.

He was the Human Dao Law itself walking; as long as his feet were on the ground, the place he stood was the territory of Great Tang!

"Who goes there! How dare you trespass on Kunlun Divine Mountain!"

Just then, a thunderous roar, like a great bell, came from the mist not far ahead.

Immediately after, a terrifying god, a hundred zhang tall, with a human face and a tiger body, nine tails, and wielding a giant mountain-splitting axe, emerged from the mist.

His copper-bell-like tiger eyes stared fixedly at Li Chengqian and Bai Qi, filled with condescending scrutiny and disdain.

He was precisely the Guardian God of the Nine Gates of Kunlun Mountains, one of Queen Mother of the West's most powerful Divine Generals — Beast God!

Behind him followed dozens of Mountain Gods and Essence Spirits of various forms, but equally powerful auras, each holding weapons and showing fierce expressions.

"Mere Acquired beings, like ants, dare to set foot here?"

Beast God's voice was full of contempt.

"Did Mother order us to wait here for a long time, to cut off your heads and hang them above the Heavenly Gate as a warning?"

"Or... will you yourselves kneel, offer your Souls, and become two new Souls under my mountain-splitting axe?"

Beast God laughed cruelly; it had been a long time since he had personally torn apart such "interesting" toys.

In his view, these two uninvited guests were already within his grasp.

However, facing his threats and mockery.

Li Chengqian didn't even bother to lift an eyelid.

He was even too lazy to waste words on such a minor character.

He merely turned his head and uttered a single word to the blood-colored figure beside him.

"Kill."

"As you command."

Bai Qi's voice remained devoid of emotion.

The moment his voice fell.

Boom!

A massive, silver-white figure appeared out of thin air behind him!

It was precisely the "White Tiger" god-demon mecha, filled with an aura of ultimate slaughter!

Bai Qi's figure instantly merged into the mecha's cockpit.

The next second!

The "White Tiger" mecha's crimson electronic eyes suddenly lit up!

There was no roar, no battle cry.

Only, a deathly silence.

“Hmm? A lump of iron? Is this what you rely on? How ridiculous...”

The mockery on the Beast God's face grew thicker.

However, before he could finish speaking.

Swoosh—!

A silver streak of cold light flashed past his eyes.

Fast!

It was fast to the extreme!

So fast that even his Divine Thought couldn't capture it!

The Beast God only felt a chill at his neck, and his massive tiger head uncontrollably shot up into the sky!

Fresh scarlet divine blood surged out like a fountain from his hundred-zhang-tall cavity!

“Wha... what...”

The Beast God's head, flying in mid-air, still held the expression of contempt and mockery.

His consciousness hadn't even registered that he was already dead.

Thud!

The massive head slammed heavily onto the ground and rolled far away.

In those wide-open, unblinking tiger eyes, the last trace of confusion and disbelief was forever frozen.

And that silver-white “White Tiger” mecha had, at some unknown point, appeared behind his headless corpse.

On the mecha's right claw, the “god-slaying blade,” which could sever Karma, was slowly dripping golden divine blood.

One strike!

Only one strike!

A powerful Innate God, infamous in the Mountain and Sea Realm and strong enough to rank among the top ten, was instantly killed just like that!

He couldn't even leave behind a complete dying word!

The entire foot of the Kunlun Mountains fell into a deathly silence.

All the Mountain Gods and Essence Spirits who had followed the Beast God were petrified where they stood.

Every one of them stared blankly, as if they had seen a ghost, first at the headless corpse spraying blood, and then at the silver-white mecha radiating an aura of endless death.

Their minds had completely crashed.

This... what is happening?

Lord Beast God... just... died?

Chopped down by that lump of iron... with a single slash?

How is this possible?!

That was the Beast God! The Great God guarding the Nine Gates of Kunlun! His Physical Body was so strong that even an Innate Spirit Treasure could barely scratch it!

How could... "Noisy."

Just as all the gods were sinking into stupor and terror, a cold voice emerged from the “White Tiger” mecha.

It was Bai Qi.

He seemed to intensely dislike the terrified looks in the gods' eyes.

And so, he moved.

The figure of the “White Tiger” mecha once again transformed into silver afterimages, impossible for the naked eye to catch.

A massacre, without any suspense, began.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Streaks of silver blade light continuously flashed through the crowd of gods.

With every flash, the head of one or several gods was guaranteed to shoot into the sky.

The Mountain Gods and Essence Spirits who, in the outside world, were powerful enough to rule territories and act tyrannically, were as fragile as wheat in a field before Bai Qi's “god-slaying blade.”

They were harvested in swathes!

They couldn't even clearly see Bai Qi's movements!

They could only watch helplessly as their companions, one by one, were decapitated and fell into pools of blood.

That kind of despair—watching death descend while being utterly powerless—was a hundred times more terrifying than being killed directly!

“Devil! He is a devil!”

“Run! Run quickly!”

Finally, some gods reacted to the extreme terror, letting out shrill screams and turning to flee.

However, it was already too late.

“In my Slaughter Domain, no one can escape.”

Bai Qi's cold voice, like the judgment of the God of Death, rang out in the ears of every god.

Buzz—!

An invisible Domain, filled with bloodlust and the aura of death, instantly enveloped an area of a hundred miles!

All the gods attempting to flee felt their bodies sink as if into a swamp, becoming incredibly heavy and slow.

Yet the silver figure, representing death, became even faster!

This was a one-sided massacre.

No, using the word massacre was no longer accurate enough.

It was more like an efficient, precise, industrialized assembly-line style... slaughter!

Every move Bai Qi made was precise to the extreme.

There was not a single unnecessary movement, nor an ounce of wasted energy.

In his eyes, there were no enemies, only targets that needed to be eliminated.

He was not a warrior.

He was a butcher.

An ultimate butcher who treated gods and demons as livestock!

In the short span of less than a minute.

Dozens of powerful gods had already fallen, every single one of them, into the pool of blood.

The entire foot of the Kunlun Mountains had become a veritable mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

Golden divine blood gathered into streams, slowly flowing across the ground.

And that silver-white “White Tiger” mecha stood silently right in the center of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

Its silver-white armor remained spotless.

As if the bloody massacre that just occurred had nothing to do with it.

Only its scarlet electronic eyes slowly lifted, gazing toward the cloud-shrouded peak of the Kunlun Mountains.

That was his next target.

Li Chengqian stood quietly on the side, watching from beginning to end.

There was no expression on his face.

It was as if Bai Qi wasn't slaughtering a group of Innate Gods, but a herd of actual pigs and dogs.

“Let's go.”

He spoke lightly, as if instructing a trivial matter.

“Don't keep the main host waiting.”

After speaking, he stepped forward, walking step by step up the path paved with the corpses and blood of gods toward the peak of the Kunlun Mountains.

Bai Qi, controlling the “White Tiger” mecha, followed closely behind like the most loyal, yet most terrifying, shadow.

Stepping onto the jade staircase leading to the peak of the Kunlun Mountains, Li Chengqian could clearly feel the surrounding pressure increasing exponentially.

The concentration of “Divinity Particles” in the air was incredibly high, almost solidifying into substance.

If an ordinary Immortal came here, they would likely be unable to stand steady and would be crushed into paste by this enormous Divine Might.

On both sides of the staircase were exotic flowers and rare grasses that only existed in myths and legends.

There was Yao Grass emitting seven-colored divine light, which, if consumed, could make a person as light as a swallow.

There were Langgan Trees bearing infant-shaped fruits, which were the main ingredients for refining Immortality Divine Medicine.

And various types of Immortal Blossoms and Divine Ganoderma, all different in form and exuding rich Law auras.

If any Cultivator were to come here, they would probably have gone mad with excitement and rushed forward to wildly plunder them.

But Li Chengqian's face was utterly calm, even showing a hint of distaste.

“It's a mess, completely unplanned.”

He muttered internally.

“Once we conquer this place, I need to get people from the Academy of Sciences to come and properly plan it out. This area should be designated Zone A, specifically for growing Peaches of Immortality; that area should be Zone B, for establishing an Immortality Medicine Cultivation Base. All Divine Beasts must be separated and raised according to their species and purpose, and a Gene Bank must be established...”

In his eyes, this Kunlun Divine Mountain, which the gods of the Mountain and Sea Realm considered utterly sacred, was fundamentally no different from the Royal Vegetable Garden he inspected in his previous life.

The only difference was that the output of this garden was more valuable.

As for Bai Qi, who was following him, he completely ignored these Heaven And Earth Treasures.

In his world, there were only two things: Your Majesty's orders, and targets that needed to be eliminated.

Everything else was illusory.

The man and the mecha, treading on the divine corpses and bathed in rich divine light, ascended step by step to the peak of Kunlun.

At the summit was an immensely vast white jade platform.

At the end of the platform, a majestic palace forged from Divine Gold and beautiful jade, shrouded in misty Immortal Qi, stood silently.

It was the Yaochi Immortal Palace.

In front of the Immortal Palace, a colossal, dark-red vortex, over a thousand zhang in diameter and composed of endless fresh blood, vengeful Souls, and fragmented Laws, was slowly spinning.

A terrifying aura, one that did not belong to this world, was slowly seeping out from the center of the vortex.

The Queen Mother of the West stood silently before that vortex.

She was still dressed in plain palace robes, her appearance graceful and noble, and her eyes as calm as an ancient well, as if the brutal massacre at the foot of the mountain had nothing to do with her.

Behind her stood more than ten Innate Gods, all looking nervous and solemn.

They were the last remaining deities on the Kunlun Mountains.

When they saw Li Chengqian and the “White Tiger” mecha, radiating sky-high Evil Qi, appear safely at the summit, all the gods revealed unconcealed shock and terror on their faces.

The Beast God... and all the guardian gods of the Nine Gates, were annihilated?

Moreover, judging by their appearance, they were virtually unscathed!

How is this possible!

That was the Beast God!

“You have arrived.”

The Queen Mother of the West finally spoke.

Her voice was calm and indifferent, as if greeting an old friend she hadn't seen in a long time.

Her gaze passed over Li Chengqian and landed on the silver-white “White Tiger” mecha behind him; a subtle ripple flashed deep within her eyes.

“You killed so many of my children, and destroyed the beloved general who guarded my gates.”

“You, are the Human Emperor from the Outer Domain?”

Her tone carried a hint of condescending scrutiny.

She admitted that she had underestimated this “Human Emperor.”

His methods were far more ruthless and far more... unreasonable than she had imagined.

The efficiency of slaughter displayed by that lump of iron made even her, an ancient deity who had witnessed the rise and fall of countless Yuanhui, feel a trace of dread.

“Old woman, don't try to get familiar with me here.”

Li Chengqian scoffed and interrupted her without ceremony.

“I don't like talking nonsense.”

He pointed at the massive bloody vortex behind the Queen Mother of the West, his eyes cold.

“Shut that thing down yourself, then kneel and offer up your World Origin and the Divinity of all your gods. I might consider leaving you a whole corpse and letting you undergo Reincarnation.”

“Or, wait for me to take action personally, and crush you and your wretched mountain into cosmic dust.”

“Choose one.”

Li Chengqian's words were utterly arrogant! Utterly domineering!