Bai Ze spoke, but before Yi Zi could answer, Fang Yun at his side beat him to it.
That remark.
Coupled with Fang Yun's rebuke when he first appeared.
The two together had, in truth, greatly offended Bai Ze.
Though Bai Ze himself was not one to dwell on such matters.
He could not simply let Fang Yun continue spouting nonsense.
So with a slight shift of thought, the torrent of divine abilities that had been washing out in all directions without focus immediately changed course, concentrating its bombardment on Fang Yun.
One hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred divine abilities did not sound like much.
But when they cycled over and over.
Their terrifying might thundered like a rushing Milky Way, pouring down upon the earth.
Many beings who had not faced it directly and were merely sensing the battlefield could not help but change expression.
Yet Fang Yun's expression did not change in the slightest.
Faced with such terrifying divine abilities.
He merely opened his mouth.
And slowly recited a poem:
"Lying stiff in a lonely village, I do not mourn my plight; still I dream of guarding the realm at Luntai.
Late at night, I lie listening to wind and rain; iron steeds and icy rivers enter my dreams."
Chapter Fourteen: Terror! Confucian Path Divine Ability! The Primordial World Shaken!
"Lying stiff in a lonely village, I do not mourn my plight; still I dream of guarding the realm at Luntai.
Late at night, I lie listening to wind and rain; iron steeds and icy rivers enter my dreams."
One line, one step.
Four lines.
In exactly four steps, he arrived before Yi Zi, shielding Yi Zi, who had been preparing defenses for the Divine Capital, behind him.
Fang Yun's action.
Seemed like nothing more than showing off.
But that was not the reality.
The moment Fang Yun uttered the first word.
An inexplicable change had already occurred between heaven and earth.
At first.
Even Bai Ze merely keenly sensed something unusual.
Without being able to truly determine.
What exactly this change was.
But he soon found out.
It was not only Bai Ze.
Countless great powers watching the battlefield at that moment immediately understood, and were deeply shaken by it.
For while Fang Yun recited those twenty-eight characters.
Behind him.
In Divine Capital Luoyang.
Those Human Race warriors who had fought the demon race before Yi Zi and Fang Yun descended, and had either been wounded, fallen, or died, all rose to their feet in unison.
No.
Saying they rose was not entirely accurate.
More specifically.
Something resembling primordial spirits, yet also unlike primordial spirits, emerged from their bodies.
In any case, these beings closely resembled their original selves.
Yet everyone knew they were different.
Because those beings who marched out from the battlefield and formed ranks behind Fang Yun step by step possessed highly uniform auras.
And their strength far surpassed what they had possessed in life.
"These are... Heroic Spirits!"
Within the Divine Capital, Zhou Yuan watched the figures appearing one after another as Fang Yun recited his poem. With a thought, he had found the most fitting description.
Heroic Spirits.
Or rather, Human Race Battle Souls.
Either way, they meant the same thing.
They had once fought to protect their kin.
Afterward, they had either died or been gravely wounded and fallen unconscious.
Their true spirits should originally have followed the workings of the laws of heaven and earth into the underworld governed by Ping Xin, entering reincarnation.
But at this moment.
As Yi Zi wielded laws akin to the Dao and recited a poem that stirred heaven and earth into response.
These Human Race Battle Souls awakened and returned.
They formed ranks behind Fang Yun.
Waiting only for his command before charging into battle ahead.
"Confucian Path Divine Ability does not manifest this way in the world of the Supreme Being of the Confucian Path. It has clearly changed after arriving in the Primordial World, adapting itself to its rules."
"But that is not bad... no! It should be said that it is even better!"
Zhou Yuan thought to himself.
His confidence that Fang Yun and Yi Zi could hold Bai Ze back and buy more time grew considerably.
"What kind of technique is this?"
"It looks like it awakens the three souls and seven spirits of living beings, yet it is somewhat different."
"When humans die, their souls have nowhere to return to and should enter the underworld. Even those who remain lucid can only become wandering souls."
"Only those with accomplished cultivation may perhaps retain the power they possessed in life."
This was not the first or second time Bai Ze had dealt with the human race.
Before today.
Bai Ze could have thumped his chest and responsibly declared.
That there was no kind of scene in heaven and earth he had not seen.
But today.
The divine ability Fang Yun displayed exceeded his understanding somewhat.
He could only say.
That he truly had never seen the scene Fang Yun had created.
Was Bai Ze simply ignorant?
Of course not.
As the Leader of Ten Thousand Demons, foremost among the Ten Great Demon Marshals, and one born with knowledge of past and future, Bai Ze.
If he were ignorant.
Then few in heaven and earth would dare claim to be knowledgeable.
Therefore.
There was only one explanation for this—
"Another entirely new law!"
With his past experience proving useless.
Bai Ze immediately came to this conclusion.
If it were not a new law, there could not be a situation where even he could not discern the truth.
"Yi Zi! Fang Yun!"
"Where exactly did these two come from?!"
"And who exactly is this Human Ancestor???"
Sensing the strangeness before him, Bai Ze's heart shook, and this question once again rose from its depths.
Bai Ze on the battlefield was greatly shaken as he faced Fang Yun's divine ability.
Above the clouds of the Ninth Heaven, Xuan Du and Sui Xiang, who had no face left to remain on the battlefield yet were unwilling to leave directly.
As they watched Yi Zi's actions and Fang Yun's divine ability, they too were filled with shock.
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