Gate of God

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

He moved extremely quickly.

At least it was so fast that the three Settlement Chiefs beside the Demon Lord could not block him and could only watch how he slowly approached Lin Ji.

Then…

There was no ‘then’.

That was because although the Demon Lord could be faster than the three Settlement Chiefs, he definitely could not match up to Fang Zhengzhi’s speed.

With a simple kick, the Demon Lord turned to another direction in midair and landed on the wall of the cave with a thud.

Meanwhile, the three Settlement Chiefs regained their senses and pounced on the Demon Lord like three ferocious tigers.

Bam!

Bam!

“…”

After a round of kicking and punching, the Demon Lord was paralyzed and could only make moaning sounds.

That was because the three Settlement Chiefs had completely thrown their bodies on the Demon Lord “shamelessly” as they were afraid that he would help Lin Ji again.

“So is this the so-called “human pyramid”?” Fang Zhengzhi felt helpless as he stared at the Demon Lord who was being forcefully pressed on the ground with his face red.

Meanwhile, Lin Ji’s voice could be heard. However, her voice was extremely weak and one could only vaguely make out the front part of her sentence. “Actually, the Source of God is in the Heaven…”

“What? What did you say? Where’s the Source of God?!” Shan Yu bent her body involuntarily and leaned towards Lin Ji as she tried to figure out the rest of her sentence.

“Move aside, silly girl!” Fang Zhengzhi felt that something was wrong as he saw Shan Yu bending down.

However, it was too late.

Lin Ji had moved with the speed of lightning the instant Shan Yu bent down. Two sharp fangs appeared as she opened her mouth.

Fang Zhengzhi wanted to stop her.

However, Lin Ji was too close to Shan Yu. She was so close that she could reach Shan Yu just by moving an inch forward.

“Ah!” Shan Yu screamed painfully.

Meanwhile, her body was dragged by an invisible force and she landed on Lin Ji in a blink of an eye.

Fang Zhengzhi widened his eyes.

That was because two sharp fangs had sunk into Shan Yu’s neck. Purple fluid flowed out from the location of her teeth.

“Release her, or you will die!” Fang Zhengzhi threw a punch towards Lin Ji’s head without hesitation.

Boom!

Lin Ji’s body was sent flying in the air and her two fangs broke. Blood, as well as the purple fluid, splattered in the air like rain.

“Watch out, Senior!” Shan Yu turned forcefully when she saw the purple fluid and covered Fang Zhengzhi using her body.

The drops of purple liquid landed on Shan Yu’s back like lava and purple steam rose from her back.

Shan Yu’s face turned purple and she began moaning involuntarily. However, she tried to subdue her moans and bit her lips.

“Shan Yu!” Fang Zhengzhi hugged Shan Yu and looked at Lin Ji, who had landed on the ground, with bloodshot eyes.

“Die!” A furious roar was heard.

Fang Zhengzhi held on tightly to Shan Yu’s hand, tightened the grip on her dagger and along with Shan Yu, he approached Lin Ji.

Swoosh! A chilling radiance flashed past.

A head flew into the air and landed on the floor. Meanwhile, the corpse on the ground turned gradually into a gigantic black snake that was covered in thick scales.

It was evident that the gigantic snake had extremely sharp thorns on its back. Furthermore, it had four obvious bulges below its stomach.

“Hahaha, Meng Tian, did you expect this? I can’t kill you but I can kill Shan Yu, hahaha… Besides that, I am not a ‘small snake’, I am the ‘Pa snake’ [1. Pa snake was a python-like Chinese mythological giant snake that ate elephants], listen carefully, I am the ancient…”

Crack!

Before Lin Ji could finish her sentence, a foot stepped onto her head and crushed the half snake-like head completely.

“Your Highness!”

“Senior, please save Your Highness!”

“Monster lady, evil Monster lady, I will kill you and chop you up into pieces!”

The three Settlement Chiefs were completely stunned at this scene. When they finally regained their senses, roars could be heard in the cave.

“Senior, please save Your Highness!”

“Please save Your Highness!”

“…”

“Shut… shut up!” Shan Yu broke off the requests of the three Settlement Chiefs. Then, she grabbed tightly on Fang Zhengzhi’s arm. “Senior, just now… Lin Ji said… she said…”

“Shan Yu, stop talking.” Fang Zhengzhi wanted to stop Shan Yu from talking because the more she talked, the more injuries it would cause to her heart.

However, Shan Yu shook her head vigorously. Her purple face was filled with determination and patterns that looked like the Cloud Pattern appeared on her arm.

Fang Zhengzhi felt hurt when he saw this. He knew that Shan Yu was using her last breath to complete her sentence.

“Alright, speak.” Fang Zhengzhi presses one of his hand on Shan Yu’s throat, causing power to surge into Shan Yu’s body in order to protect her heart.

“Thank you Senior… Lin Ji said just… just now that the Source… Source of God is… is in the Heaven… Heaven Zen Mountain. She said it… it is in the Heaven Zen Mountain… Senior, the Source of God is in the Heaven…”

“I got it, the Source of God is in the Heaven Zen Mountain!”

“Hmm, My sacrifice is nothing… nothing much. However, I have a final… final wish, I hope that Senior… Senior can help me ful… fulfill…”

“Speak.”

“I hope to take a last look at Fang… Fang Zhengzhi. However, I… I know that… it is im… impossible for me to… to meet him. Senior, I… I only hope that after I die… you can move my bo… body to… to the Northern… Northern Mountain Village of the Great Xia Dynasty, and hand… hand it over to…” A large amount of purple blood fished out of Shan Yu’s mouth towards the last part of her sentence.

“No, you can still meet him, he is just beside you!” Fang Zhengzhi’s body shook as he heard this. How could he continue hiding his identity as he saw Shan Yu’s purple face?

Perhaps it was not the best time to reveal his identity. Perhaps his identity may be exposed after the three Settlement Chiefs were caught.

In fact, the Demon Lord was right in front of him.

There were many possibilities…

However, Fang Zhengzhi could not bother about them. Perhaps he was too rash, perhaps he did not think it through, but this rashness was exactly Fang Zhengzhi’s personality.

Without any hesitation, Fang Zhengzhi took off the black face mask on his face.

A handsome face appeared in front of Shan Yu. This face was a familiar one because Shan Yu had dreamt of it countless times.

However, at the same time, this face looked slightly foreign because she had not seen it for a very long time.

“Shameless brat, it is indeed… indeed you!” Shan Yu’s eyes widened as she started breathing heavily and rapidly.

The three Settlement Chiefs and Demon Lord were completely stunned.

Fang Zhengzhi!

Sagely Battle God Meng Tian, the legend who once stood at the peak of the world was actually Fang Zhengzhi?!

Wait a minute!

To put it in other words, the man standing in front of them, the man who split apart the Demon Palace and the gates of the Blood Shadow City was Fang Zhengzhi!

“Fang Zhengzhi?!” The Demon Lord was in disbelief because he had sent people down to check that Fang Zhengzhi was in the Northern Mountain Village.

So why did Fang Zhengzhi appear in front of him?

Furthermore, he appeared using the identity of Sagely Battle God Meng Tian?!

The other three Settlement Chiefs were also in disbelief. They had the impression that Fang Zhengzhi was the teenager in the battlefield of the Southern Region who only had the power of the Rebirth State.

In less than a year’s time…

The shameless Fang Zhengzhi who had once made an accomplishment in the battlefield of the Southern Region and stirred things up in the Flame Capital City of Great Xia had become a “Sagely Battle God” who was able to split apart the Blood Shadow City with a single strike of the sword!

How exaggerated and terrifying was that!

“Shan Yu, rest assured, as long as I am here, I will not let you die!” Fang Zhengzhi ignored the reactions of the Settlement Chiefs and the Demon Lord and turned his gaze towards the Monster Pearl on the ground. “Yes, as long as I have the Monster Pearl, Shan Yu won’t die!”

Fang Zhengzhi stretched out his hand and the Monster Pearl landed in his hand.

That was because he recalled the scene outside the Flame Capital City when Ping Yang was about to die but was miraculously saved by a Monster King’s Monster Pearl.

The Monster Pearl could heal.

Yes, the Monster Pearl definitely could heal.

Without any hesitation, Fang Zhengzhi was ready to put the Monster Pearl into Shan Yu’s mouth. However, he stopped when the Monster Pearl touched her lips.

“Hold on, something is wrong!” Fang Zhengzhi’s mind was in a mess but there was a voice telling him that there was a scheme behind this.

“Senior? Oh, no… Young Master Fang, this Monster Pearl can save Your Highness, right?” The three Settlement Chiefs looked at each other and asked cautiously.

“Please save Your Highness, Young Master Fang!”

“Yes, if Young Master Fang managed to save Your Highness with the Monster Pearl, the villagers of the Southern Region would be grateful to you for our entire lives!”

The three Settlement Chiefs were extremely anxious when they saw Fang Zhengzhi stop. They could feel Shan Yu’s weakening breath.

“The Monster Pearl can certainly cure injuries, but…” Fang Zhengzhi frowned as thoughts ran through his mind.

“Then what are you waiting for?” The three Settlement Chiefs were stunned for a moment before they fell to their knees. “Young Master Fang, we know that the Monster Pearl is precious, but Your Highness is the future of the Southern Region, please save her!”

“Please, Young Master Fang!”

“Your Highness got tricked by Lin Ji because she was too anxious to find out about the location of the Source of God. Furthermore, Your Highness is true to Young Master Fang, we hope that you…”

“What did you say? Say it again?” Fang Zhengzhi suddenly turned to the three Settlement Chiefs.

“Ah? We said that… Your Highness was true to Young Master Fang…”

“No, the previous sentence.”

“The previous sentence? Oh… Your Highness got tricked by Lin Ji because she was too anxious to find out about the location of the Source of God…”

“Yes, the location of the Source of God!” Fang Zhengzhi felt chills behind his back as his eyes lit up. In fact, his back was drenched in sweat.

So close, he was so close to taking Shan Yu’s life with his own hands.

Lin Ji was an extremely cunning Monster.

This was a scheme that killed three birds with a stone. It was also perfectly planned. If the three Settlement Chiefs had not mentioned about the location of the Source of God, Fang Zhengzhi would not have figured out.

Of course, after thinking through, he clearly saw the loophole in the plan.

For instance, when Lin Ji bit Shan Yu, she did not kill her but rather injected venom into Shan Yu’s body.

This did not seem like anything wrong but was actually an extensive scheme.

Fang Zhengzhi was very sure that with the capability of Lin Ji, if she had really bitten her throat, she would not need to waste time and efforts to inject the venom.

She could have just killed her!

However, Lin Ji did not do so. Instead, she gave Shan Yu a chance to respite and made her tell Fang Zhengzhi what she had heard.

The first bird in her plan was to let Fang Zhengzhi, who was desperate to save Shan Yu, feed her the Monster Pearl and therefore kill her with his own hands.

If Fang Zhengzhi had done this, he would naturally become the enemy of the people in the Southern Region.

Besides that, he could become the enemy of the Great Xia Dynasty and the Northern Mountain Village.

That was the second bird.

The battle between Sagely Battle God Meng Tian and Fang Zhengzhi!

That was what Lin Ji was anticipating and what the Monster Race and Demon Race hoped to see. The battle between two tigers would definitely see one side injured. This story was passed on for hundreds of years.

Lin Ji’s plan was as such.

However, Lin Ji was too cunning and hated “Meng Tian” too much. Therefore, she was not satisfied with her plan and despite knowing the inevitability of her death, she revealed the location of the Source of God and made Shan Yu convey the message to Fang Zhengzhi.

Heaven Zen Mountain!

Nobody could be clearer about what kind of place that was.

Lin Ji wanted to use the hand of “Meng Tian” to kill Shan Yu and invoke a great battle between Fang Zhengzhi and “Meng Tian”. Then, she could use the Heaven Zen Mountain as a trap to trick “Meng Tian”.

What a perfect plan of killing three birds with one stone.