Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 398 - 154: Earth Deity: What on Earth Are You!? (A 10,000-word mega - , please subscribe)_1
As the Earth Deity presiding over a region, He had witnessed many things, too many to count. He believed that in the world of mortals, at least within the bounds of Guyuan County...
He was absolutely the most learned and the most broadly knowledgeable existence.
However...
Fan Wu’s maneuvers were something that even He, the Earth Deity, could not fathom.
It even made Him doubt whether Fan Wu was human at all!
In His established perception, which human, which Cultivator, could achieve such a feat?
Not one!!
"Just think of me as not human then," Fan Wu replied with a grin when faced with the Earth Deity’s astonished question.
Then!
The ground beneath Fan Wu’s feet suddenly collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, he closed the distance to the Earth Deity, his Demon-slaying Sword swinging straight toward the latter’s head without hesitation!
"How audacious!" The Earth Deity hadn’t expected that Fan Wu, after a sudden surge in strength, would actually make a decisive move against Him.
A sensation of sacred dignity not to be violated as a righteous god.
Anger flashed across His face, terrifying to behold.
The Earth Deity held a wooden staff in one hand and swung it toward the attacking Demon-slaying Sword head-on.
The wooden staff collided with the Demon-slaying Sword.
To His surprise, the collision produced a metallic clashing sound.
The ground beneath them cracked inch by inch, as the torn earth spread outward in all directions, the exaggerated fissures frightening the onlookers from the Imperial Heavenly Office to once again increase their distance.
"You lowly heretic, you have no idea what you’re facing!" The Earth Deity shouted with indignant anger.
As the wooden staff and the Demon-slaying Sword were locked in a standoff, the ground behind Fan Wu surged upward dramatically!
A massive deluge of mud and rock formed into a semi-body of a giant dragon.
It came barreling down straight at Fan Wu!
Strike!!!
Bang!!!
The swirling surge of air whipped around the Earth Deity’s beard and white hair in a wild dance, while a faint divine light of myriad colors swirled in His eyes. It seemed He wanted to see the condition of Fan Wu after the hit, to ascertain whether He had successfully slain him with that blow.
"Hmm?" But to the Earth Deity’s disbelief, Fan Wu, who He had hit from behind...
Had not shown the slightest fluctuation in his vital signs!
This guy...
Must surely not be human!!!
Him, a righteous god held a high esteem, the Earth Deity honored with incense offerings from the people of Guyuan County, a chosen god favored by the Witch Immortal, had failed several times to kill a mere mortal?
The other was merely an ordinary man!
At best, a Cultivator!
"Not bad," Fan Wu’s voice, still strong and steady, betrayed no signs of injury. "Your purity is even higher than that of the Trickster Immortal Sovereign. But... it’s possible that’s because He’s merely a fragment of a divine consciousness, so minuscule as to be negligible, whereas you, on the other hand, are the true body of a righteous god who has personally appeared."
Fan Wu emerged from the cover of mud and stones, his clothes having been shredded to powder. This might have been the most he’d had to expend, as almost every battle required a new set of clothes.
Yet his skin was not smeared with much dirt, because the Evil Qi wrapping around him had almost become tangible, repelling all the mud.
"Huff..."
Now, a casual breath from Fan Wu emitted steam like a vapor, and upon hitting the ground, that wisp of vapor created a shallow pit!
His breath shot out like an arrow.
Nothing could be more apt!
"Though it’s strange to say this to an old man with white hair... if I speak the truth, you have excited me!" Fan Wu said. "This excitement is like a shiver that could last for a very long time."
As Fan Wu finished speaking, the sharp energy of the Demon-slaying Sword became particularly glaring in the Earth Deity’s eyes.
He promptly raised his other hand, clutching a gold ingot as large as a human head.
In an instant!
A shield of golden light enveloped His body, and when the edge of the Demon-slaying Sword came into contact with this round shield... the grating collision sound made even Fan Wu squint his eyes, and even the Earth Deity showed a hint of discomfort.
Not to mention the members of the Imperial Heavenly Office hiding in the distance; they felt as if their ears were being tortured for the second time.
Some of them even began to bleed from their ears!
A few suffered temporary deafness!
Moreover, this place was not deserted wasteland; there were a few scattered homes nearby.
The commotion was so vast that the few scattered households thought a natural disaster had struck.
They were so frightened that they quickly gathered some valuables.
And hurriedly fled their homes.
However...
When these ordinary villagers ran out in panic, covering their painfully ringing ears, they realized that they might not have encountered a natural disaster after all.
One by one, they stared in utter shock at the astonishing spectacle in the distance.
In the darkness of the night...
The scene was too conspicuous to go unnoticed, making it almost impossible for them to turn a blind eye.
"Dad... Daddy..." A young lad was so scared that his legs had gone weak, leaning on a tree planted in front of his home to keep from falling. Pointing ahead with palpable terror, he murmured, "What’s that up ahead? Surely we haven’t stumbled upon some monster, have we?"
The boy’s father swallowed nervously, "That seems to be in the direction of the Earth Temple of Guyuan County... Could it be that the Earth God has manifested Himself?!"
