Chapter 1195 - 823: The Five Directional Banners Emerge

Zhang Chen looked at the arrogant innate being who was gesturing and pointing at him, and immediately felt displeased.

Even if you are a great cultivator of the Kunlun faction, you’re not the Queen Mother, so why do you think you can boss me, Zhang Chen, around? I’ve cultivated to this day, and you think I’ll take such grievances from you?

Although your cultivation is higher than mine and your strength is stronger, do you have the ability to withstand the heavenly punishment?

Without a second thought, Zhang Chen rushed directly towards that arrogant innate being. As the rolling thunder ropes descended, the innate being faced him with an angry scolding: "Bastard, I told you to charge at the Demon Race’s camp, why are you coming at me?"

While speaking, that innate being turned around and ran, not daring to delay in the slightest, afraid of being dragged into it.

Zhang Chen saw this and coldly smiled, yet didn’t pursue, after all, the opponent’s speed was too fast for him to catch up.

His gaze shifted towards the battlefield of the Queen Mother versus the three terrifying innate beings. The Queen Mother was holding her own against three opponents without falling behind, and the battle was fierce and hard to distinguish victory from defeat.

The being surrounded by a starry river swayed the stars with a mere gesture, forming a starfield around them, even the Queen Mother didn’t dare to underestimate it.

And that colossal giant, embodying Heaven and Earth, harnessed the Power of Heaven and Earth, its body indestructible, as the Queen Mother’s plain-colored cloud flag marked gashes on its body, yet with each step it took, the Power of the Earth Veins was drawn, and its body healed back to peak condition in an instant.

The innate being shrouded in a sea of flames was even more terrifying, holding a small sun in its hands that radiated terrifying scorching heat, pressing down on the Queen Mother.

"That really is a small sun!" Zhang Chen watched the divine spirit holding the small sun within the flames, a cautious look appearing in his eyes.

"In this Great Thousand Worlds, among the endless starry river, there should only be one sun representing the operation of the Heavenly Dao, where did the small sun in the opponent’s hand come from?" In Zhang Chen’s pupil shone a look of curiosity.

"These beings are so powerful, perhaps if I drag them into the thunder punishment, I can resolve my dire dilemma." Zhang Chen pondered and then turned to run towards the battlefield of the Queen Mother and others.

The Queen Mother asked me to bring about the Power of Celestial Punishment, so asking her to share some of the pressure seems fair, right?

As the Queen Mother and others were locked in an intense battle, such masters’ confrontations resolved the outcome and decided life and death in a mere instant. With eyes and ears attuned to everything, the powerful beings sensed something was amiss the instant Zhang Chen charged over, yet none dared to retreat rashly, lest they gave the Queen Mother the opportunity to exploit.

Seeing Zhang Chen charging over with the thunder punishment looming above, the ancient existences looked at each other in shock. The giant raised its hand intending to swat Zhang Chen dead from a distance, but upon noting the omnipresent celestial punishment in the skies, immediately withdrew its hand, knowing that to act rashly might kill Zhang Chen yet also attract the Power of Thunder Punishment, dragging itself in as a target to be suppressed.

"This ant’s intentions are malevolent!" The innate being holding the small sun cursed in anger, already contemplating retreat.

To everyone’s surprise, the Queen Mother across from them rolled her eyes and murderous intent flowed from her hand, as the plain-colored cloud flag cut through the void to trap the three innate beings, then she urged Zhang Chen: "Jia Shiba, run over here!"

"Damn it, this woman wants to perish with us! She wants to borrow the Power of Celestial Punishment to suppress us." The giant’s complexion changed drastically, "Quickly tear apart the plain-colored cloud flag, do not let this woman succeed!"

The three innate beings exuded terrifying qi mechanisms, acting in unison to shake the plain-colored cloud flag that confined them. The innate spiritual treasure wavered as if it could be torn apart at any moment, facing the Queen Mother.

Seeing the demon gods about to break through, the Queen Mother forcefully churned divine power, and four beams of light shimmered from her sleeve, transforming into four flags that landed on all four sides around her, operating according to a mysterious rhythm. Combined with the plain-colored cloud flag, they formed a grand array that trapped the divine spirits.

"Those are the Five Directions Banner!" Zhang Chen watched the flags swirling around the Queen Mother, his pupils constricted and his eyes filled with amazement.

He had already seen the Profound Yuan Water Control Banner in the Master of the Flood Banner’s hand from the White Lotus Sect, while the other flags he saw for the first time.

"So the Five Directions Banner is actually in her hands, the Queen Mother is the possessor of the Five Directions Banner." Zhang Chen eyed the Queen Mother’s Five Directions Banner with eagerness, thinking that if he could seize them, wouldn’t he be invincible back in the real world?

"Wait, the appearance of the Profound Yuan Water Control Banner in the White Lotus Sect suggests the Queen Mother’s Five Directions Banner was split? Yet, what kind of peril had she encountered to have her Five Directions Banner unraveled?" A look of disbelief flickered in Zhang Chen’s eyes.

The Queen Mother, equipped with the Five Directions Banner, was virtually unchallengeable, yet someone managed to scatter the banners, foretelling an inevitable misfortune for her in the future.

Or is the White Lotus Sect actually founded by the Queen Mother of the West, who bestowed the Five Directions Banner, and has been alive for an exceedingly long time?

"The Queen Mother of the West is still alive? That’s absolutely terrifying!" Zhang Chen dared not imagine that if the Queen Mother of the West was indeed still alive, it would truly be frightening.

"So what exactly happened in the Ancient Era? Did the Queen Mother of the West voluntarily give away the Profound Yuan Water Control Banner, or was her great tomb robbed?" Thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen’s mind, yet he did not delay his flying speed, continuing like an arrow released from the bowstring, heading towards the Queen Mother of the West.

"Open it for me!"

The three Innate Spirits desperately attacked the Five Directions Banner, their voices filled with anger, cursing incessantly. The Queen Mother of the West could be seen entrenched on the Five Directions Banner, forming hand gestures and chanting without paying any heed to the attacks below, her hands continuously moving to suppress the three Innate Spirits beneath.

In the despairing gazes of those three Innate Spirits, Zhang Chen rushed directly below the Five Directions Banner. The next moment, rolling thunders rumbled in the void, the Power of Celestial Punishment vibrated, capturing the aura of the three Innate Spirits, as well as the aura of the Queen Mother of the West. Then, four lightning threads suddenly blasted out from the thick lightning river destroying the sacrificial altar, striking towards the Queen Mother of the West and the three terrifying Innate Spirits, vowing to sweep away all who offended the will of Heaven and Earth.

The Queen Mother of the West hurriedly put away the Five Directions Banner, which transformed into five-colored light, enveloping her entire body, enduring the rainbow divine thunder from the outside, while she remained unmoved like a mountain.

"What a terrifying Queen Mother of the West, even celestial punishment cannot do anything to her." Watching the Queen Mother of the West remain unmoved like a mountain within the five-colored light, Zhang Chen couldn’t help but be shocked by her power.

Meanwhile, those three Innate Spirits were in a much sorrier state, driven to flee by the Power of Thunder Punishment, crying out as they dashed around the mountains, causing countless Demon Beasts and Innate Spirits to perish wherever they went.

How swift were those three Innate Spirits?

As they continued to dart around the mountain ranges, countless threads of lightning descended from the sky, beginning an indiscriminate slaughter of the countless beings of Kunlun Mountain.

Seeing the overwhelming Thunder Punishment, Zhang Chen’s face abruptly changed color. With such dense lightning, one couldn’t even dodge it!

"Earth Escape!"

Without thinking, Zhang Chen directly escaped into the earth. The earth was the only way he could think of to avoid the disaster now.

As the thunder rumbled through the void, the lightning ropes descended, disappearing completely after touching the ground.

Underground, Zhang Chen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Good! Good! Finally, I can breathe easily."

Just as Zhang Chen relaxed, the pervasive lightning abruptly gathered, all the lightning ropes in the world vanished, and then the black clouds gradually tinged with light red. The color of the cloud deepened, and after a dozen breaths, the red clouds seemed like red paint, the whole world inexplicably quieted down, as if it gained an indescribable murderous aura.

In comparison, the three Innate Spirits’ expressions changed drastically, as if encountering something terrifying, they suddenly became soft, prostrate on the ground, and incessantly kowtowed towards the scarlet clouds in the sky.

On the scarlet clouds, divine light flowed, the light golden in color, even the blood-red clouds couldn’t conceal its brilliance.

The golden light wove and traversed through the void, and before long, a golden eye appeared amidst the scarlet clouds.

As soon as the eye appeared, even the Queen Mother of the West, protected by the Five Directions Banner, couldn’t help but change color drastically: "The Eye of Heavenly Dao!!!"

Without hesitation, the Queen Mother of the West transformed into a stream of light and flew towards the sacrificial altar.

The golden eye looked down silently at the movements of the Queen Mother of the West, when a purple lightning shot out from the golden eye, transforming into a purple chain snaking downward, dividing in midair, with the larger portion targeting the direction of the altar, the other weaker purple chain targeting Zhang Chen in the soil.

Even though Zhang Chen escaped into the earth, the lightning rope also pursued him like a shadow, and more crucially, the chain was unique. Even in contact with the earth, it neither dissipated nor scattered, directly weaving through the void towards Zhang Chen.

"Even the earth cannot guide the Power of Celestial Punishment to scatter?" Zhang Chen’s expression changed continually, leaving no choice but to emerge from the ground and unfold the Ice Domain in the void.

The ground was all soil, and to unfold the Ice Domain, he had to first mobilize the Authority of Earth to move the soil away, but it was clear now he had no time, forced to emerge from underground.