The Humiliation of the Otherworld Ancestral God

In the face of death, gods are sometimes less composed than men. Perhaps because they have lived so long, far removed from the cycle of birth and decay, they have never truly known the gnawing anxiety of mortality. When that advantage is stripped away, their frailty becomes all the more glaring.

Xiao Chen advanced step by step, each footfall falling with a rhythm that seemed to drive directly into the heart of the Otherworld Ancestral God. The divine being's face went pale, and he stumbled backward.

Though he had faced countless challenges and weathered many dangers, he had grown soft after eons of peace. The primal fear of death set his body trembling. In the past, he had looked upon mortal beings as ants. Now that he himself was being looked down upon, he truly understood how suffocating such oppression could be.

This was no contest of equals. He could not possibly contend with Xiao Chen, who stood at the Ninth Heaven of Mortal-Shedding. His mighty divine consciousness was shackled, his flesh stripped of divine power. In that moment, the god's body was reduced to a mere mortal shell.

"An ant, you called me earlier. And what are you now?" Xiao Chen's divine will stabbed forward like a razor-sharp blade, hovering just before the Ancestral God's body, making every hair on him stand on end.

The Otherworld Ancestral God's eyes flashed with a violent light, seemingly enraged at his own pathetic state. He opened his mouth to roar, but the sound that came out was a weak, strangled cry.

"An ant... an ant?" Xiao Chen took another large step. The absolute pressure of the Ninth Heaven against the First Heaven sent the Otherworld Ancestral God hurtling sideways, blood spraying from his lips. His face grew even paler.

He looked desperately toward the withered stone man in the distance, but that dried-up stone being was in no position to help him—it had already been locked down by the Stone-Man King Puppet, and battle was imminent.

As for the Super-A Ancestral God and the ordinary Ancestral God beside him, they were already pinned down by the Little Defiant Dragon and Tianwaitian, who now controlled the Great Dread Nether King's battle body. None could spare a hand.

"Ya ya..." Keke stepped forward, its large eyes red. "He killed the Azure Dragon King! When he was pursuing the Ancestral Lord warship, he struck the Azure Dragon King into nine pieces."

The Azure Dragon King had been Liu Mu's dragon companion, sharing the same origins from Dragon Island as Keke and the Little Defiant Dragon. Their bond was far from ordinary.

"Hate!" Keke, its eyes still red, lashed out with a beam of nine-colored divine light. In an instant, it shaved off one layer of the Ancestral God's divine power—a divine principle it had mastered after embarking on the Supreme Ancestral God path.

"You killed the Azure Dragon King..." Xiao Chen's voice was icy cold. With both him and Keke suppressing him, this Ancestral God could not move a single inch.

"I've killed many. He was just a crawling insect..." Knowing now that there was no escape, the ancestor in question grew defiant.

Keke was furious. It raised its small snow-white paw, ready to shave off another layer of his power, but Xiao Chen stopped it. "Don't waste it. This resource can be put to better use..."

"You!" The Otherworld Ancestral God was both shocked and enraged.

But soon, regret flooded him. His divine consciousness and flesh were both sealed, and even suicide was impossible. Under the suppression of a Ninth Heaven Ancestral God and a Supreme Ancestral God, he had no room to resist.

"Let me handle him. He can't die thinking himself a hero!" Sha Polang came swaggering over, his smile utterly wicked.

Xiao Chen glanced at him but did not stop him. He only sealed all the Ancestral God's power.

Sha Polang shook his flowing hair with exaggerated flair, rolled up his sleeves in a grotesque imitation of sophistication, and grinned. "I've come to have a little chat with you about life and ideals. Let me show you why the sun shines so brightly, why flowers bloom so fragrantly, and why you exist just to be beaten like a dog."

"Wham!"

He slammed a brutal side kick into the Ancestral God's kidney area, sending him flying a hundred meters to crash heavily onto the cold, deathly ground.

Bound by Xiao Chen and Keke, this Otherworld Ancestral God's eyes spouted flames, but he had no choice but to suffer such outrage.

"An ant, you say? If I'm an ant, what are you, groveling at my feet?" Sha Polang was not the least bit angry. He strolled over lazily and planted a large, very unseemly foot directly onto the Ancestral God's face.

"Crack!"

With that stomp, his leather shoe split open, and a big toe poked out stubbornly, coming to rest right against the Ancestral God's nostril. The divine being nearly fainted from fury.

"These shoes are crocodile leather—bought on East Street or West Street in Yan Capital for over thirty thousand gold coins. They're so shoddy they must be fake!" Sha Polang wore a heartbroken expression as he wiggled his big toe, pressing the Ancestral God's nose flat and swollen.

"You filthy stinking bug!" The Otherworld Ancestral God caught a whiff of something foul and nearly passed out from the stench, enraged beyond measure.

"I warn you, don't slander me. I douse myself in flower-scented perfume every day. I'm famous all over as the Fragrant Lord. Here, take another whiff and see." Sha Polang was utterly shameless. His broken shoe fell away completely, and his bare foot pressed wantonly against the Ancestral God's mouth and nose, the five toes curling and uncurling rhythmically.

"Ugh..." The Otherworld Ancestral God felt he would go mad. He had fought many battles in his life, but never had he encountered such a despicable foe. His insides churned; his internal organs felt as if they were being retched out.

"I hate it when people ruin my reputation. What kind of expression is that? What's with that attitude?" Sha Polang shifted the blame without a shred of shame. "What's that look? You find it unpleasant? This is a foot that leaves fragrance with every step! You're slandering me!"

"You stinking bug! I won't let you go even as a ghost!" The Ancestral God's face had turned green. He gnashed his teeth, longing to bite down on that foot.

"Wham!"

Sha Polang applied a little more force, and the entire foot drove the Ancestral God's head deep into the ground, leaving only his body above the surface.

"I warn you, keep slandering me and I'll get angry!" Sha Polang said, utterly unashamed. "Who around here doesn't acknowledge the Fragrant Lord?" As he spoke, he ground his bare foot against the buried head.

It was fortunate that this was an Ancestral God, his flesh still tough despite the sealing of his divine power. Otherwise, he would have been crushed to pulp.

"Brother, I've got to say, your face has the thickest skin—I can't even stomp it flat. My sole is starting to hurt!" Sha Polang mocked as he kept grinding. "I've decided I'm going to peel your face off and make armor out of it. It would be indestructible."

Assaulted by such a grotesque and twisted character, the Otherworld Ancestral God wished he could die. He felt like crying. The face of a dignified Ancestral God was being utterly ravaged by a bare foot.

"Brother, you actually managed to get snot all over my sole—how disgusting!"

Sha Polang kicked the Ancestral God flying with a bang.

The Ancestral God very much wanted to slam his head into the ground and die. He wanted to scream that it was *** tears, not snot! But he could not bring himself to say it.

"All right, no more wasting time." Xiao Chen urged him on. He intended to Sacred Sacrifice this Otherworld Ancestral God.

Keke's large eyes were round with curiosity. It had watched the whole spectacle, blinking with lively interest.

"Give me just a bit more time. I need to beat him until he's convinced, not just defeated." Sha Polang hauled the Ancestral God upright.

'Convinced, my mother!' The Ancestral God wished he could drown Sha Polang in his own spit. He glared at him with rage-filled eyes.

"Don't look at me with such longing. I'm not interested. My orientation is perfectly normal." This fiend then struck a suave pose and said, "A man of taste like me can only be matched by the True Wood Female Sage, and that's barely."

"Why don't you just die!" The Ancestral God finally forced out a few words through his clenched teeth.

"Broken Army Meteor Fist!" Sha Polang swung a fist the size of a boulder, smashing it into the Ancestral God's face and sending him rocketing three thousand meters into the sky. He shot up after him and yelled again, "Greedy Wolf Shadow Kick!"

"Wham!"

That bare foot once again made intimate contact with the Ancestral God's nose and mouth, kicking him back down from high altitude.

"Seven Kill Iron Ass Art!"

From three thousand meters up, Sha Polang came hurtling down, his posture as disgraceful as possible, and his massive rear end slammed squarely onto the Ancestral God's lower belly.

"Ugh..."

The mighty Ancestral God, sealed and powerless, was simultaneously enraged, pained, and utterly humiliated. His eyes rolled back, his legs kicked wildly, and he passed out.

"Bam! Crack! Thump! Smash!" Sha Polang kept on hitting, his mouth running all the while. "A single blossoming branch, two plants blooming together, a three-tiered lotus throne, four glances around, five flavors and herbs... Are you satisfied? Not yet? Let's go again!"

"I—a dignified Ancestral God—have fallen to this..." The Otherworld Ancestral God wept freely. This was beyond imagination.

Sha Polang battered the Ancestral God with unbridled glee. Finally, striking a pose like an invincible master, he planted a foot on the Ancestral God's torso and sighed to the heavens. "I ask the world—who can rival me?"

Then he looked down at the Ancestral God at his feet. "Are you convinced now?"

"I... I... am convinced!" The Ancestral God forced the words out against his conscience, then pleaded with absolute sincerity, "Just kill me quickly, please!" That was his true heart's wish.

"He's convinced!" Sha Polang's face lit up. He turned to Xiao Chen. "Even he agrees that I am unrivaled under heaven."

"You truly are unrivaled." Xiao Chen slapped him flying and began the Sacred Sacrifice on the Ancestral God.

Such a being did not deserve sympathy. Being tormented by a villain like Sha Polang was simply his just reward.

On the other side, the Otherworld stone man had been shattered three times by the Stone-Man King Puppet and was clearly on the verge of collapse. Though his combat power was formidable, he was utterly outmatched against a king-level stone body.

The Little Defiant Dragon's battle with the Super-A Ancestral God was also drawing to a close; he had completely suppressed his opponent. As for the Great Dread Nether King's battle body, it was overwhelming an ordinary Ancestral God with crushing superiority, about to end the fight.

As the battle in this region was about to conclude, the situation at the Seven Primordial Demon Cities in the depths of the Death World also shifted.

The Hell Demon Dragon leader roared, its cry shaking the heavens as it maneuvered its massive skeletal frame, carrying the powerful undead being across the sky. Together with its densely scaled devil companion and the stone man, it jointly besieged the blurry figure from the Imperial City, posing a considerable threat.

At the same time, the three Otherworld peak powerhouses, surrounded by seven stone men, launched a fierce counterattack.

The divine city that Peerless King of the Ages, Meng Degang, had condensed shook violently. Then, a myriad of beams of light, thick as mountains, pierced through heaven and earth. An incomparably powerful aura exploded from within the city.

A stone man who had nearly taken the final step rose up and charged out of that enormous demon city, joining the battle. The moment he emerged, the wind and clouds changed and the heavens and earth lost their luster.

"Merely a powerful incarnation. Did you think you could deceive me?" The blurry figure from the Imperial City let out a voice like frozen steel. He threw a punch that dominated heaven and earth, sending the undead being riding the Hell Dragon flying, shattering ten thousand layers of undead curse magic.

The sky turned white. The millions of summoned undead beings were instantly destroyed.

Meng Degang knew he could not deceive the Lord of the Imperial City. Using a secret method, his powerful incarnation broke free from the encirclement of the seven stone men and charged toward the blurry figure, intending to join forces and launch a decapitation strike.

But at that moment, the blurry figure suddenly blazed with brilliant light. From the distant horizon, an overwhelming pressure rolled in like a mountain range, like a vast ocean. A colossal Imperial City slowly rose from beyond the horizon, its majestic pressure shaking the entire Death World.

The great city advanced, not quickly, but the crushing force it radiated made everyone present feel a tremor in their hearts. Its aura was too powerful, enveloping all.

The city ascended into the high heavens, slowly descending toward this place!

The Lord of the Imperial City grew more dazzling by the moment, gradually revealing his solid stone body. As the Imperial City descended before him, his stone physique, condensed from light, grew stronger and stronger!

Everyone's expression turned grave. They all began an all-out assault. The Imperial City descended, converging with the Seven Primordial Demon Cities, pressing down like a mountain range, suffocating all.

"ROAR!"

The Imperial City's master roared, his voice shaking the very dome. The clouds for tens of thousands of li were scattered. Even the deathly clouds thousands of li away began to collapse. The space between heaven and earth seemed filled with a great river in wild torrent, its power surging to an extreme.

"KILL!"

He blocked all incoming attacks, focusing entirely on Peerless King Meng Degang's powerful incarnation, intending to break them one by one.

That fist condensed the very essence of his Dao. The entire Death Continent fell into a momentary silence, its pulse briefly stopped.

"BOOM!"

Finally, overwhelming divine power surged forth like a breached flood, shaking the heavens and the earth, locking onto Peerless King Meng Degang.

This power was simply too vast. The surging life essence blazed like a furnace forged from the sky and earth, emitting an unbearable, raging heat. It could tear apart an Ancestral God in an instant. Countless falling stars crashed down, and beams of chaotic light crisscrossed the sky.

"SLAM!"

Peerless King Meng Degang's powerful incarnation could not withstand such a heaven-shaking strike. It was smashed into four or five pieces, falling to the deathly land. The great city besieged by the seven stone men shook violently as well.

All the powerhouses were deeply shaken, unleashing their full strength to attack the Imperial City's master.

"THUD!"

Peerless King Meng Degang's stone body, now in five parts, crashed onto the hard, cold ground, raising clouds of dust.

Just as he was about to reassert his scattered stone fragments, three snow-white skeletons suddenly appeared around him.

These three moved with uncanny speed. Their expressions, though nothing but bone, somehow twisted into a cunning grin in the direction of Meng Degang's head. Then two of them each grabbed a stone leg, while the third snatched the stone chest. They turned and fled like the wind.

Peerless King was dumbfounded, then all seven of his orifices emitted smoke in fury. These three cunning skeletons were too despicable! Stealing his stone body parts and bolting! It was utterly beyond expectation.

Meng Degang tried several times to reassemble his body, but failed. His expression shifted. These three skeletons were extremely strange; they had severed his mind's connection to the remnants of his incarnation.

His remaining body fragments rose into the air, but the three odd skeletons had already vanished without a trace. He searched with his powerful divine consciousness and found no clue.

How could this be so fast? Even a Stone Man crossing space was not this swift!

"..." Meng Degang was beside himself with rage. This affair drove him to madness. His body had been stolen by three cunning skeletons! The thought was unimaginable.

He swept across ten thousand li of land, almost digging three feet into the earth, but still found no trace.

Back in the outer regions of the Death World, the battle was decided without suspense. Under the might of the Stone-Man King Puppet, the Otherworld stone man was finally smashed to pieces, unable to reform.

Xiao Chen quickly sealed the shattered fragments. Sha Polang swaggered over. "Leave them to me. I'll beat them into submission first."

"BOOM!"

Whether it was from hearing Sha Polang's words or from sheer proud defiance, the Otherworld stone man's consciousness self-detonated, leaving only his stone body, still pulsing with divine energy.

"BOOM! BOOM!"

Just then, the Little Defiant Dragon and the Great Dread Nether King battle body also finished their fights. Each pinned their defeated opponents and flung them into the center of the field.

"These two are mine too. Let me teach them a lesson first."

"BOOM! BOOM!"

Both Ancestral Gods' physical bodies were preserved, but their consciousness self-detonated on the spot. The lesson of what had come before was still fresh in their minds; they had no desire to suffer such a fate.

This left Xiao Chen somewhat stunned. The Little Defiant Dragon, Tianwaitian, and the others were also baffled.

"How tragic. Am I really that terrifying?" Sha Polang struck a narcissistic pose. "Unrivaled under heaven—what can I do?"

"You certainly are unrivalled." Xiao Chen sat down cross-legged and began the Sacred Sacrifice on the stone man's remains. They contained vast, boundless divine power. For him, trapped at a bottleneck, these were of no immediate use for personal cultivation, but he could preserve them all for great future need.

Thousands of divine radiances flickered, boundless life essence enveloped the space. Xiao Chen continuously drew in the Ancestral God's refined essence and the stone man's marrow.

This continued for a long time before everything finally ceased.

When Xiao Chen finished and returned to the area before the Seven Primordial Demon Cities, he saw Peerless King Meng Degang's half-incarnation. Without a word, he flew up and charged straight at him.

He unleashed not only the Divine Diagram, the Ancient Scroll, and the Heavenly Marks, but also summoned the Stone-Man King Puppet and called on Keke to aid him from the side.

"An ant!" Peerless King was furious.

"A cripple!" Xiao Chen mocked. "Lost half your stone body? Borrowed it to someone, did you? The remaining half might as well lend it to me."

This teasing jab struck straight at the nerve of the enraged Peerless King, Meng Degang. He said coldly, "You..."