The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1024: Immortal Mountain Descent

If there is one rule all must follow while undergoing tribulation, then it is the fact that you must only attack when the tribulation completely reveals itself.

If you were to attack while it was manifesting, the heavens would consider it as defiance and thus turn their fury on you.

Regardless of how one hates the heavens, this one rule will be obeyed by them. However, Klaus is different.

His hate toward the heavens isn’t merely a feeling. His hatred is what fuels his strength. This was why, when the heavens self-destructed, the black spear, he got angry and started doing what they said shouldn’t be done.

Klaus destroyed the five spears that came after the first spear, causing the heavens to boil to the point that Klaus hadn’t even passed the first form of the Tribulation, but they had already started sending down the Karmic retribution.

In the air, while the red spear that is 14 times stronger than the first spear was slowly coming out from the tribulation clouds, thousands of beasts, each having the strength of a Chaos stage.

[Looks like you have angered them]

Klaus smiled, “They are too hateful.”

[How do you plan on handling this one? I have a feeling they wouldn’t back down from the fight easily.]

“I don’t expect them to. Just now, I sensed that in order to pass this tribulation, I nearly yielded to the heavens and followed their rules. If I had, they would have won even if I somehow managed to pass the tribulation.

They tested my resolve, and they nearly won. However, now that I know their tricks, I wouldn’t be facing them in fear that I will die. If I plan to bring them to their knees one day, then it must start now.”

Just thinking about the feeling he sensed when the black spear exploded, Klaus knew that if he had retreated and followed the rules of the heavens, although things wouldn’t have been this chaotic, he would have lost his belief.

The heavens came close to shattering his Dao heart, and that alone infuriated him.

Klaus brushed his hand, “Kids, time to get to work.” Two dragons, a Phoenix, and a Qilin came to life, and flames filled the tribulation ground.

Klaus unleashed his four flame spirits, allowing them to fight, since that was what they had been waiting for.

Fury, Nirvana, Void, and Qilin went wild, and soon, flames were everywhere.

Klaus looked at them for a few seconds before turning back to the red spear that was almost out of the clouds.

“Now that I don’t see them as a threat, they don’t mean much to me.” Klaus waved his hand, and a long spear appeared. This one was different from the one he used to destroy the first spear.

“Soul Imprint.” Klaus waved his other hand, and the spear shuddered. Then his hand moved again, just when the red spear had finally come out of the cloud.

This casual wave generated a powerful force that carried the spear forward.

However, just when Klaus made his move, the red spear hummed and waves of spear qi gushed out. Klaus’s hand moved, and the spear he sent flying stopped and moved back.

Then a sword appeared in his hand, “Today, I will be taking something from you again.”

With a quick swing, thousands of sword arcs came out from his sword and collided with the spear qi coming his way. Klaus didn’t stop there; he took another swing, and this time, a flaming dragon burst out.

The red spear hummed again, sending out thousands of spears at Klaus. However, instead of defending, Klaus waved his hand, causing the spear that he had imprinted his soul on to move, closing in on the red spear.

“I was so worried about what you would do that I nearly yielded.” The spear moved and stabbed toward the red spear. There were sparks when the tip of Klaus’s spear met the red spear.

However, he managed to leave a mark on the red spear.

“You must compensate me.” His spear moved again, and ten more sparks flew.

“I can’t lose face without getting compensated.” More sparks flew. All Klaus was doing was waving his hand, and in that one gesture, the spear would execute a series of maneuvers, each aiming for a spot on the long spear.

“Since you wouldn’t willingly give it to me if I ask, then I will take it myself.” In that moment, the heavens shuddered.

They realized what Klaus was doing, and that enraged them.

“Too late, you suckers. Next time, do well not to throw something real at me if you are not certain it will kill me.” Klaus’s hands formed a seal, and with a smug smile on his face, he muttered,

“Soul Possession… Seal.”

The red spear shuddered violently as it tried to move back into the clouds as if the heavens were pulling it back, but it was already too late.

Klaus gestured with a casual wave, and the marks left by the red spear lit up. In that very moment, the heavens lost connection to one of the Seven Colored Superimposing Heaven’s Spears.

The heartbreaking part is that they lost the seventh spear, which is said to contain the power to kill even a celestial.

Klaus waved his hand, and the spear shrank to the size of a hairpin. He pulled out the hairpin his mom placed in his hair and used the red spear as a pin.

When the heavens saw this, their anger erupted, and in an instant, the void began to shatter.

“Cry all you want. This spear is now mine, and however I want to use it, I will.” Klaus waved his hand, and thousands of spears appeared in the air, quickly decimating the rest of the beasts on the battlefield.

Fury and his siblings appeared beside Klaus and looked up at the sky.

“Daddy, it looks like you are in trouble.”

Klaus laughed, “Indeed. However, with you four around, I am not afraid.”

“Yes. Daddy shouldn’t be afraid, Qilin will protect Daddy.”

“Void will also protect Daddy.”

“Nirvana will also protect Daddy from these hateful clouds.”

“Fury will also protect Daddy with everything he has.”

Klaus could only smile and shake his head, unsure of how to handle these four kids. It was supposed to be him having four flame elements, but in a twist he never saw coming, he now had four kids.

Naturally, this was due to the circumstance that led to Fury and Nirvana’s birth. It was all Lunara’s doing.

Because of her nature as the mother of flames, that essence of birth and growth was what caused his elements to become like this.

But he didn’t hate this development. In a way, hearing the childish and sweet words, he was filled with so much strength.

It was like a father who wants to ensure his kids are always happy.

“I will be in your care then. For now, go back. I will call you back when I need help.” They nodded and became tattoos on his arm.

At that same moment they left, the heavens chose to crush Klaus to pulp.

The turbulent clouds shuddered violently, and then a tip of something incredibly huge appeared. Klaus felt his bones crack.

[An Immortal Mountain] The senior’s voice came out faint.

Klaus coughed up a mouthful of blood when a powerful soul attack slammed into his soul.

However, instead of panicking, his eyes revealed a wave of excitement.

Inside his soul sea, the cauldron, which he had never managed to figure out its origin or how to use it, started humming excitedly as the mountain slowly appeared from the clouds.