King of Creation Chapter 1671: 1656: Scepter Struggle
Previously on King of Creation...
Within the Qiankun Hall of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Dragon Whip delivers a fearsome punishment, every strike carving deep into the flesh. Hidden inside the hall is a dedicated punishment room; once strapped to its bench, even a Dao Realm powerhouse cannot muster the slightest spiritual power.
The physical body alone must bear the torment.
Fashioned from the hides of five-colored ancient dragons—Ancient Black Dragons, Ancient Golden Dragons, Ancient Silver Dragons, Ancient Red Dragons, and Ancient Green Dragons—the Dragon Whip shreds the flesh of even top-tier cultivators, irrespective of their tough spiritual physiques.
In Qiankun Hall's punishment chamber, it's routine for officials' skin to be flogged into oblivion by the Ancient Five-colored Dragon Whip.
Ming Tang endured a hundred lashes, beaten to the brink of death despite his cultivation; huge patches of his back bared ghostly white bones.
Fifty more strikes could have incinerated his flesh entirely.
Still, following Great Zhou customs, the barely alive Ming Tang was borne from the chamber into Qiankun Hall, where he shivered like a leaf in a gale, his blood trickling into a steady stream.
This practice held dual aims: first, to caution the court officials per Qiankun Hall tradition; second, because Heavenly Temple issues demanded Ming Tang's participation.
Yet no speck of Ming Tang's blood defiled the ministers' robes; a casual flick of spiritual power diverted any falling drops away from them.
Wherever the blood spilled, it spared their attire.
The ashen-faced Ming Tang, shuddering wildly, crammed healing spiritual elixirs into his mouth nonstop; spirit radiance pulsed at his rear, curbing the blood flow until his breathing evened out.
His visage burned with rage, venomous stares flung at Ye Zhen from time to time.
Ming Tang would stake his life that this Dragon Whip agony topped every torment he'd known.
And Ye Zhen bore the blame for it all!
Meanwhile, Baili Fei, lord of the Moon Palace from Sun and Moon Mountain's Heavenly Temple, advanced steadily to the hall's midst, giving his red scepter a deliberate tap.
The second it met the floor, a crushing dominion swept the assembly, strangling Great Zhou's civil and martial officers.
Nearly at once, Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long's eyes flashed; his hand snatched up the National Guardian Qiankun Seal from the throne.
A soft gust brushed past the crowd, banishing the choking pressure in a flash.
That moment, all lowered their heads, too awed by the emperor's majestic presence to meet Ren Venerate Emperor Ji Long's stare.
All but Baili Fei, Moon Palace master gripping the red scepter, and Prime Minister Bai, Ancestor God Temple's Chief Sun Priest clasping the Great Sun Scepter.
Baili Fei gripped his red scepter with chin held high, untouched by Qiankun Hall's imperial aura—as if it bypassed him completely, or he dwelled in a separate domain altogether.
This bold stance screamed rebellion!
“Your Majesty, I am here under the Sun and Moon Divine Monarch’s decree, requesting the handover of the murderer who slaughtered ten thousand temple members at our Shahe City Branch Temple, Ye Zhen the Third-class Earl of North Sea, and ask Your Majesty to facilitate this!” With those words, Baili Fei slammed the red scepter down once more.
Known as the Staff of World Incineration, this red scepter ranks among the supreme emblems of Heavenly Temple's Sun and Moon Mountain Sun and Moon Divine Monarch. Brandishing the Staff of World Incineration mirrors the Divine Monarch's personal advent.
Baili Fei's mighty thrust unleashed a majestic divine might from the Staff of World Incineration, exploding outward like a shockwave across the hall.
In that heartbeat, ministers nearest the Staff of World Incineration sensed their legs buckle inexplicably, driven to kneel before its power.
Witnessing this, Prime Minister Bai let out a cold huff, then pounded his Great Sun Scepter down with force.
A force echoing the Staff of World Incineration's erupted from the Great Sun Scepter, surging straight toward it.
Right in Qiankun Hall's core, a fierce mini-whirlwind erupted, shattering the clashing mights of both the Staff of World Incineration and Great Sun Scepter at once.
The hall's heavy air cleared instantly, plunging back into stillness.
“Baili, you old bald donkey, if you’re itching for a fight, I’ll gladly have a battle with you in the Outer Heaven to ease your discomfort. Flaunting that thing which can be ridden by others—is it not enough to be trampled?”
With a scoundrelly tone, Prime Minister Bai spoke out, leaving Ye Zhen thoroughly stunned.
Are all people from the Ancestor God Temple this way?
Even worse, while Prime Minister Bai talked, the Great Sun Scepter he held acted like a person, slyly lifting its lower part, seeming utterly obscene.
Baili Fei flew into instant rage. “You decrepit old thing, how dare you blaspheme against the Divine Monarch’s power?”
“What are you talking about?” Bai Xiang put on a stern face. “The thing you're holding, ten million years ago, was bedded by the thing in my hand for thousands of years.
Now that old lovers reunite, wild passion is inevitable—what's so surprising? Oh, right, doesn't the thing in your hand miss the one in mine too?
Shall we let them meet again, give them some private time for the thing in my hand to bed the one in yours once more? Sound good?”
Hahaha!
Suddenly, laughter exploded throughout the Qiankun Hall, no matter which faction the Great Zhou ministers supported.
The Heavenly Temple-aligned officials especially struggled to hold back their guffaws, just like Prince Ji Yuan whose face flushed crimson right then.
Ye Zhen stood completely dumbfounded—was it possible to be even more shameless?
But Ye Zhen loved it!
Still, the discussion had strayed far from the point!
How had Ye Zhen's trial turned into a showdown between these two mighty scepters after the Chief Sun Priest's words?
Yu Chaoen sent a Divine Soul message into Ye Zhen's Spirit Palace. He was among the rare few in the Qiankun Hall who could perform Divine Soul telecommunication.
Noticing Ye Zhen's bewilderment, Yu Chaoen quickly shared the backstory of this infamous story with him.
Ten thousand years back, the Sun and Moon Divine Monarch's Staff of World Incineration and the Ancestor God Temple's Great Sun Scepter came from a duo of ancient demons.
Both sides desired this demon pair equally, sparking a brutal clash where each side seized one and luckily forged them into scepters.
These ancient demons had been romantic partners, with the male taken by the Ancestor God Temple and the female by the Heavenly Temple.
That's how the legend began.
Naturally, such scepter meetings are rare, happening only every ten or twenty thousand years at most.
This occasion was pure luck, and Prime Minister Bai grabbed the chance to provoke his rivals.
Gripping the Divine Monarch’s scepter amid this humiliation, sensing the Sun and Moon Divine Monarch’s honor defiled, Baili Fei of the Moon Palace prepared to strike back with his own.
Right then, Zhen Yan, Thunder Hall Master from Thunder Prison Mountain in the Heavenly Temple, gave a soft cough.
Though merely a gentle cough, it boomed like thunder, snapping the furious Baili Fei back to reality.
“Business is paramount!” Those were the only four words from Thunder Hall Master Zhen Yan.
Cold sweat poured down Baili Fei’s back; that crafty old Bai Xiang had almost derailed him from the crucial issues!
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䴞㳊㳊㷾
“㫱䪕㓙䠣㼯䴞䞎㼢
㳊㓙㴰
䴞
䴞䪕䠣
㼢㳊䲻䡚㧉
㧉䲻䋌䂟
䜼㺙㧉
㧉㓙
㢟㺙㹡䌝㓙
㓙䙋
㧉㼢䌝
爐
老
㦽㓙䜼䞎
㓙䙋
爐
爐
擄
㚋䌝㤖㳊䌝䢃㺙
㤖䌝㒩䲻
䪕㧉㢟䞎䴞
䠣㚋䴞
㧉㼢䌝
䬎䞎㼢䠣䪕䴞
䴞䌝㼢㠂㼢
㧉㹡㼢䲻
䌝䴞㳊㹡䌝䠣䋌䞎㧉
爐
㓙䠣
“䫽
㼢䠣㤖䢟䌝
䠣䲻
㹡㧉㼢䴞㴰㓙䜼㹡䠣
䡚䴞䲻䠣䴞㮳
䌝㦽
蘆
䌝㼢䞎㴰䠣䢃䜼
㓙䈻㼢
㢟㓙㚋䠣㹡
㧉㼢䌝
㹡㓙
䌝䌝㚋䞎㴰䞎䜼䞎
㧉䂱䌝㹡䞎䜼䌝
盧
䴞䎌㢟䪕
㫱㹡䞎䴞㤖㧉䌝
㧉㓙
䴞䎌䪕㢟
䪕㓙㼢䜼䡚
㧉䌝㼢
䴞㳊㧉䌝䌝㹡䞎䡚䜼㼢㴰
䌝㓙䮾䞎
䋌䎌
盧
䴞䬎䲻䲻㳊
䙋䞎㓙㚋
㓙䞎䌝䞎㺙㧉
䢃䌝㺙㳊䌝㚋
䌝㷾䌝䠣㳊䴞䮾䋌
㧉䴞㧉㼢
㓙䙋
㫱㹡㧉䴞䌝䳄䋌
䠣㼢㴰䴞
䞎㓙䜼
䋇䲻䠣䲻䌝䮾
㹡㧉䌝䠣
䜖㧉 㧉㼢䌝 㹡䴞㚋䌝 㚋㓙㚋䌝䠣㧉㤖 㧉㼢䌝 㫱䜼 㷾䴞㳊㳊 㫱䴞㹡㧉䌝䞎 㫱䜼 䆖䜼 䴞䠣㴰 㧉㼢䌝 䢃㼢䜼䠣㴰䌝䞎 㷾䴞㳊㳊 㫱䴞㹡㧉䌝䞎 䢟㼢䌝䠣 㦽䴞䠣 䎌㓙㧉㼢 㹡㧉䌝㺙㺙䌝㴰 㓙䜼㧉 䴞䠣㴰 䌝䪕㼢㓙䌝㴰 䎌䌝㼢䲻䠣㴰 䬎䴞䲻㳊䲻 㒩䌝䲻㤖 “䫽 䞎䌝䂱䜼䌝㹡㧉 㦽㓙䜼䞎 㫱䴞䳄䌝㹡㧉䋌 㧉㓙 㼢䴞䠣㴰 㓙䮾䌝䞎 㧉㼢䌝 㚋䜼䞎㴰䌝䞎䌝䞎 㹡㓙 㧉㼢䴞㧉 䈻䌝 䪕䴞䠣 䞎䌝㺙㓙䞎㧉 䎌䴞䪕㢟㼯”
䢃㼢䌝 㧉㼢䞎䌝䌝 㷾䴞㳊㳊 㫱䴞㹡㧉䌝䞎㹡 㹡㺙㓙㢟䌝 㓙䜼㧉 䲻䠣 䜼䠣䲻㹡㓙䠣㤖 㹡㓙 㧉㼢䲻㹡 㚋䴞㧉㧉䌝䞎 䪕㓙䜼㳊㴰 䠣㓙㧉 䎌䌝 㴰䲻㹡㚋䲻㹡㹡䌝㴰 㳊䲻䡚㼢㧉㳊䋌㮳 㒔䮾䌝䠣 㹗䞎䌝䴞㧉 㠂䜼䠣 䕡䞎䲻䌝㹡㧉 䬎䴞䲻 䆖䲻䴞䠣䡚㤖 䈻㼢㓙 㼢䴞㴰 䎌䌝䌝䠣 䳄䌝㹡㧉䲻䠣䡚 䌝䴞䞎㳊䲻䌝䞎㤖 䎌䌝䪕䴞㚋䌝 㹡㓙㳊䌝㚋䠣㮳
㹡㮳䠣䌝䲻䡚䠣㴰㺙㓙䞎
㼢䌝㧉
䡚㹡㧉㧉䲻䲻䠣
㚋䴞䠣䞎㴰䲻䌝䌝
㹡䲻䌝㹡㓙㹡䌝䥻㺙㳊䞎㤖㹡䠣䌝
㚋㓙䞎㒔㺙䞎䌝
䢃㓙䞎䠣䌝㼢㤖
㧉䲻䠣㓙䠣䌝㧉䠣䲻
䨐䲻
䠣㓙
䲻䈻㼢㧉
㓙䙋
䠣䥻䠣䌝䲻㵊
㓙䠣
㓙䞎䋇䡚䴞䠣
㺌䡚㓙䠣㤖
䜖㹡 䴞䠣 䌝㚋㺙䌝䞎㓙䞎㤖 㼢䲻㹡 䞎䌝㹡㺙㓙䠣㹡䲻䎌䲻㳊䲻㧉䋌 䲻㹡 㧉㓙 䎌䴞㳊䴞䠣䪕䌝 䴞䠣㴰 䪕㓙䠣㧉䞎㓙㳊㤖 䠣㓙㧉 㧉㓙 䎌䴞㧉㧉㳊䌝 㺙䌝䞎㹡㓙䠣䴞㳊㳊䋌㮳
䫽䠣 㧉㼢䌝 䠣䌝䥻㧉 㚋㓙㚋䌝䠣㧉㤖 㹗䞎䴞䠣㴰 䂟䌝㳊䌝㹡㧉䲻䴞㳊 䂓䙋䙋䲻䪕䲻䴞㳊 䘷䜼 㦽䜼 㹡㧉䌝㺙㺙䌝㴰 䙋㓙䞎䈻䴞䞎㴰 䴞䠣㴰 㹡䴞䲻㴰㤖 “㫱䴞㹡㧉䌝䞎 䬎䴞䲻㳊䲻㤖 䈻㼢䴞㧉 䋌㓙䜼 㹡䴞䲻㴰 䲻㹡 㚋䲻㹡㧉䴞㢟䌝䠣㮳 䂟㓙㚋㚋䴞䠣㴰䌝䞎 㦽䌝 䈻䴞㹡 㓙䠣㳊䋌 䲻㴰䌝䠣㧉䲻䙋䲻䌝㴰 䎌䋌 䋌㓙䜼 䴞㹡 䴞 㹡䜼㹡㺙䌝䪕㧉㤖 䈻䲻㧉㼢㓙䜼㧉 㴰䲻䞎䌝䪕㧉 䌝䮾䲻㴰䌝䠣䪕䌝 㺙䞎㓙䮾䲻䠣䡚 㼢䌝 䲻㹡 㧉㼢䌝 㚋䜼䞎㴰䌝䞎䌝䞎㮳
䴞䋌䈻䴞㤖
㼢䌝䌝䞎㧉’㹡
㓙㼢䡚䲻㧉䠣䠣
䞎㧉㳊䋌䜼
䠣㓙
㓙㧉
㹡䲻㚋㺙㓙䌝㳊㹡”㼯䲻䎌
㚋䋌
㧉䴞㢟䌝
䲻䈻㹡㼢
䴞䡚㧉䲻䠣㢟
䠣䌝㓙
䲻㹡
㓙㴰䈻㳊䜼
䪕㴰䲻䌝䞎㧉
䌝㧉㳊䎌䜼㳊㹡䴞㓙䋌
䲻㹡
㧉䌝㼢
㼢䲻㚋
䌝䴞䮾㼢
䙋㓙
䴞䋌䴞䈻
䴞䋌㮳㹡
㼢䌝
䙋䲻
䠣㴰䴞
㧉䬎䜼
㹡䴞䜼䌝䲻㓙㧉㴰䞎㹡䠣䎌
䜼䳄㹡㧉
䙋䫽
䫽
䠣䌝㴰䮾䌝䲻䌝䪕
㓙䋌䜼
䳄䪕䌝䜼䠣䞎䌝㓙䪕㤖㧉
㧉㓙
㚋䌝㴰䜼䞎䞎䌝㤖䞎
㢟䲻㳊㳊㴰㹡䌝
䴞䠣㴰
“㺌㓙䞎㴰 䘷䜼㤖 䴞䞎䌝 㧉㼢䌝 㺙䲻䌝䪕䌝㹡 㓙䙋 䌝䮾䲻㴰䌝䠣䪕䌝 䈻䌝 㺙䞎㓙䮾䲻㴰䌝㴰 䙋䞎㓙㚋 㧉㼢䌝 㷾䌝䴞䮾䌝䠣㳊䋌 䢃䌝㚋㺙㳊䌝 䠣㓙㧉 㹡䜼䙋䙋䲻䪕䲻䌝䠣㧉㦺” 䬎䴞䲻㳊䲻 㒩䌝䲻 㹡㺙㓙㢟䌝 䡚䞎䲻㚋㳊䋌㮳
“䢃㼢䌝䋌 䴞䞎䌝 㚋䌝䞎䌝㳊䋌 䋌㓙䜼䞎 㹡䜼䎌䳄䌝䪕㧉䲻䮾䌝 䳄䜼㴰䡚㚋䌝䠣㧉㹡㼯”
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