Gate of God

Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations

At last, all nine cauldrons were in his chest.

At this moment, Fang Zhengzhi turned to look behind him. A pair of four-colored eyes descended by Great Elder Ying Yu. “Almost there. It’s your turn, Great Elder.”

“Rip!”

The Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples’ faces all changed. While Fang Zhengzhi did not look at them, they could all feel a chill running down their backs.

Even Great Elder Ying Yu’s face turned pale. His fist tightened because he never expected that Fang Zhengzhi could humiliate the Nine Pinnacles Mountain to this extent.

By himself…

He was able to render ten Sages and hundreds of disciples helpless.

He could not believe it. However, the fact remained that this was the case. He could not even fathom how did the Yin Yang Hall catch Fang Zhengzhi.

What could he do?

If he allowed Fang Zhengzhi to walk away like this with the Nine Cauldrons, how could the Nine Pinnacles Mountain remain respected in the Holy Region?

Impossible!

He had to seize Fang Zhengzhi.

When he thought about this, a shadow appeared in front of him. It was as tall as a mountain and thick black armor covered its body. A ray of golden cloud pattern swirled around its armor. The black flames from the armor made everyone’s heart turn cold.

“So fast!” Great Elder Ying Yu’s heart missed a beat. He never expected Fang Zhengzhi to seize the initiative at this point.

In his heart, Fang Zhengzhi’s choice should be to take up a defensive position on top of the rock. Then, he should look for an opportunity to break through.

However, Fang Zhengzhi instead chose to attack. Furthermore, he seemed determined to do so.

Almost instantly, Ying Yu saw a huge fist, which was about the size of a small mountain, coming down toward him.

Ying Yu, who clashed with Fang Zhengzhi once before, naturally would not let himself be hit by Fang Zhengzhi just like this. His figure moved as he deftly retreated.

However, just as he took half a step back, a powerful restrictive energy encircled him. His entire body felt as if it had been trussed up.

“Heaven Dao!? Damn it!” Great Elder Ying Yu gritted his teeth. A trickle of blood seeped out from his mouth. At the same time, he cried out, “Crystal Pillar!”

“Crack!” A delicate sound, like crystals breaking, rang out. following that, a silver light pillar which seemed to be made from crystals appeared in front of Ying Yu.

However, this crystal pillar was already shattered. It was shattered in the middle and the crystalline light which shone off it slowly faded away.

At the same time, Great Elder Ying Yu’s body descended down in a straight line. Then, a huge boom rang out.

The ground split apart.

Cracks started to appear underneath Ying Yu’s feet.

One could see Ying Yu’s face turning pale. Evidently, that blow injured him.

“Leader!” When the four Nine Pinnacles Mountain elders saw this scene, they all rushed to his side with complex expressions on their faces.

The Leader of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain was suppressed by Fang Zhengzhi to this extent. This was something that they could not imagine.

“Could the four elders please help me!” Ying Yu looked at the black shadow above his head and his lips trembled slightly.

“Alright! Listen up, Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples. Take up defensive positions!” When the four Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples heard Ying Yu’s words, they looked at each other. Then, they nodded their heads in unison as they shouted their orders to their disciples.

“Yes!” The Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples naturally understood what Ying Yu and the four elders meant. Instantly, they laid a huge formation.

This was a strange formation. It had nine components and each of them had a different shape. Some were square and some were round. There were also some which were triangular.

Ying Yu and the four elders were in the center of the huge formation and completely within its protection.

Fang Zhengzhi blinked.

It was slightly awkward but despite him having read many books, he could not recognize this formation before him. Furthermore, he had never seen it before in all of the military books which he had read.

“Is this a unique formation of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain?” Fang Zhengzhi’s eyes lit up. Then, his body came crashing down as he stepped into the formation.

So what if he did not recognize this formation? He stopped trying to recognize it but instead, relied on his fist. This was how Fang Zhengzhi settled problems. It was a rather stunning way to do so.

His huge form instantly stomped out a huge hole in the formation. He was like a huge beast which had charged into a herd of tiny goats.

This was also why he made the black armor which covered his body as big as a small mountain. If his body was big enough, and his fist was strong enough, what could he not do?

Of course, other than this reason, there were many other smaller reasons. For example, if his armor was big and thick enough, his body would be better protected. In fact, he would also look more fearsome in terms of his aura.

As for wasting his Origin Energy…

Fang Zhengzhi never thought about it.

This was because he did not lack Origin Energy. In 49 days, the Thousand Year Fire Herb in his body had been completely cultivated. Other than that, the ten acres of herb farm in his body had been turned into actual pills. With each pill he ate, his body brimmed with energy. Right now, his Origin Energy was plentiful and they all circulated every well.

Hence, he should fight!

Without wasting any word or hesitating anymore, he landed a fist.

“Boom!” A huge explosion rang out.

The ground split apart once more and countless of gravel and shrapnel flew in all four directions. They turned into dust which covered the sky, enveloping the huge formation within it.

However, what shocked Fang Zhengzhi was the fact that his fist did not blow the huge formation apart. Instead, it just made it twist.

In other words…

When his fist landed on the ‘circle’, the entire formation came alive. It started to transform before his very eyes.

Furthermore, the entire formation became bathed in a silver light.

“Fang Zhengzhi, if you lose, you’ll lose because of your overconfidence!” At this moment, Great Elder Shi Yu’s voice rang out from the middle of the formation.

At the same time, nine brilliant rays of light shone out from the huge formation. All of them were silvery-white, just like the nine rays of crystalline light which shot into the sky.

“Did I just fall into a trap?” Fang Zhengzhi looked at the nine pillars of silver light. A look of shock seemed to flash past his four-colored eyes. However, he remained there without moving and showed no intention of escaping.

At this moment, Great Elder Ying Yu moved too.

His body instantly rose from the center of the formation and he looked like he had been cloaked entirely in a layer of silvery-white light. His hair, body, and clothes were all silver.

He was not the only one. Underneath him, the four elders of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain all shone with a similar silver light.

“Nine Crystals Formation, seal!” Ying Yu roared. Immediately, the silvery-white light from his body was unleashed.

“Seal?” Fang Zhengzhi frowned. Then, as he looked at the silvery-white crystal coming in his direction, he understood Ying Yu’s trick.

“Hahaha… do you think I’m getting the four elders to help me? You’re wrong. The Nine Crystals Formation by the Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples is my most powerful move!” Ying Yu smiled gleefully.

As someone who had spent much time in the Holy Region, his battling experience was vast and faced with Fang Zhengzhi’s powerful rise, he clearly knew that if he tried to fight back head-on, the Nine Pinnacles Mountain would incur heavy casualties.

Hence, he had to design a better trick. When he asked for help from the four elders and the disciples of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, his real plan was to make Fang Zhengzhi fall for his ruse.

Fighting with the strength of five people and using his disciples’ formation were all ruses to get Fang Zhengzhi to rush into the formation. The real attack was when he used the formation to launch it!

“Boom!”

The earth shook and then, the nine pillars of silvery-white light shattered. Countless silvery-white ice crystals zoomed toward Fang Zhengzhi like chunks of ice as they surrounded him.

“Crackle, crackle…”

Nine differently-shaped silvery-white ice crystals surrounded Fang Zhengzhi. They then reformed according to some pattern and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a huge silvery-white light pillar.

In the light pillar, Fang Zhengzhi’s body was completely sealed. He felt as if he had been sealed in a pillar of ice.

However, he was not sealed in ice but instead, ice crystals!

“Fang Zhengzhi, just stay there sealed! My Ice Crystal Dao took me almost 30 years to master. Furthermore, it is the best defensive Dao. However, once you have been sealed by it, even if you’re stronger than me and are in the peak Sage State, you can’t escape!” Ying Yu looked at Fang Zhengzhi, who was inside the silvery-white pillar of light and said gleefully.

When the Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples saw this scene, they all sighed in relief. After all, this battle was too dangerous.

Had they not understood their Great Elder well enough, coupled with the four elders understanding what he meant almost instantly, the results of this battle may have been utterly different.

Fang Zhengzhi!

This character, who they had ignored and did not treat seriously, shocked them to their core today.

Just when everyone was sighing in relief in their hearts, they suddenly heard a crack coming from the huge ice crystal pillar.

Then, with that sound, cracks started to appear in the ice pillar. It came from inside out and quickly enveloped the entire silvery-white ice crystal pillar.

“Boom!” A huge explosion.

The huge silvery-white ice crystal pillar split open and turned into countless rays of silvery-white dots of light. They flashed in the air and floated about like icy rain.

Near the center where the pillar split, a figure stood there quietly. His 30 meters’ tall body had completely disappeared and his bare upper body shone with a faint golden light. His lower half wore blue robes which fluttered in the wind.

“What did you say just now? I did not catch it. Do you mind repeating yourself?” Fang Zhengzhi looked at Ying Yu, whose face was pale and frozen, and smiled brilliantly.

Ying Yu stood where he was without moving. He did not say a single word or breath. This was because he could not believe it.

Even if he died…

He could not believe this scene.

He was not alone. The other four elders next and the hundreds of Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples were all stunned.

“It broke?!”

“He broke the Nine Crystals Formation!”

“The Nine Crystals Formation, strongest among all defensive formations, was broken!”

The Nine Pinnacles Mountain disciples could not believe it. There was no way they could believe or accept this fact. Something like this should not even happen!

It should not be possible!

However, the silvery-white pillar made from ice crystals had been completely shattered. Fang Zhengzhi stood quietly in front of them.

More importantly…

In Fang Zhengzhi’s hand, there was a chunk of white ice crystals. A chunk of ice crystal, which resembled the Nine Crystals Formation exactly, floated in his palm.

“30 years to master the Ice Crystal Dao? Great Elder, did I hear wrongly? You don’t seem to be that smart. Why would this take you 30 years? I can master it in three breaths!” Fang Zhengzhi’s mouth twitched as he played with the ice crystal in his hand.

“Three breaths… three breaths’ time…” Ying Yu’s lips quivered and his body shook uncontrollably. His brain could no longer think straight. However, he stared intently at the ice crystal in Fang Zhengzhi’s hand and his eyes bulged.

“Bleurgh!” A mouthful of fresh blood flew out from Ying Yu’s mouth. Then, his body turned soft as he sat down on the ground.

As the Great Elder of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, and the new Leader of the Nine Pinnacles Mountain, he was extremely adept at strategies and hiding his feeling. Normally, he could maintain his calm in any situation.

However, at this moment…

He could not stay calm anymore.

This was because he could not take this shock. Something which took him 30 years to master was achieved in just three breaths’ time!