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- MWM Chapter 591
“Surround them with me!”
Marshal Tianpeng brandished his nine-toothed rake while Curtain Lifting General wielded his crescent shovel. Each led eighty thousand heavenly soldiers, closing in from both flanks to form a three-sided encirclement with the Golden Crow Formation.
“Yang Jian and Nezha, break the Golden Crow Formation. Yang Chan, use the Lotus Lamp to hold off Curtain Lifting General and his eighty thousand soldiers. Yang Jiao, you handle the other eighty thousand behind Tianpeng. I’ll take on Tianpeng!”
Leo tossed Auriel’s Bow and several Bloodcursed Arrows to Yang Jian, swiftly laying out their strategy.
With Yang Jian at the peak of the Golden Immortal stage, supported by Nezha in his Lotus Avatar form, armed with the Bloodcursed Arrows that counter the Golden Crows, breaking the formation was just a matter of time.
Yang Chan, at the early Golden Immortal stage, could hold off the mid-stage Golden Immortal Curtain Lifting General with the powerful defensive Lotus Lamp. Yang Jiao, wielding the Thunder Axe, could handle eighty thousand soldiers on his own.
The only real challenge was Tianpeng. As the commander of the celestial navy, wielding his nine-toothed rake and at the peak of the Golden Immortal stage, he was no pushover.
“Take this!”
Tianpeng, aware of Leo’s reputation for using unorthodox techniques, charged straight in with a fierce melee attack.
But Leo had planned for this. He threw out a prepared magical artifact.
“Nine-Heavens Demon Banner!”
Black smoke enveloped Tianpeng, forcing him to pause. Soon, nine stunning women appeared, surrounding him.
“Marshal, come play with us…”
The Nine-Heavens Demon Banner, a dark artifact Leo had seized in the Shushan world, specialized in trapping and mentally seducing its victims. He had recently enhanced it by merging it with the Great Xu Mi Yin Cauldron, amplifying the seductive power of the nine spirits within.
This artifact was especially effective against someone like Tianpeng. Although it couldn’t hold him indefinitely, it would buy some time.
As expected, the usually cautious Tianpeng faltered at the sight of the nine beauties, momentarily trapped by their allure.
Seizing the moment, Leo unleashed a barrage of massive purple lightning strikes from the heavens, bombarding the Golden Crow Formation to help Yang Jian and Nezha.
With a series of earth-shaking explosions, the formation shattered. The nine Golden Crows spat blood and were thrown back.
“Kill them and weaken the Heavenly Court!”
Under Leo’s command, Yang Jian and Nezha chased after the wounded Golden Crows.
Meanwhile, Tianpeng, using his formidable cultivation, managed to suppress his desires and broke through the Nine-Heavens Demon Banner with his nine-toothed rake.
“Fear not, my lords! I am coming to assist you!”
He ordered his forces to regroup and rescue the nine Golden Crows. But Leo had no intention of letting that happen.
“Shadow Clone Technique!”
This time, Leo summoned a massive army of a hundred thousand shadow clones.
With the Golden Crow Formation neutralized, the clones could now unleash their full potential. Eighty thousand clones cast large-scale spells and elemental techniques to block the heavenly soldiers’ advance, while twenty thousand positioned themselves between Tianpeng and the Golden Crows.
Curtain Lifting General was already ensnared by Yang Chan’s Lotus Lamp.
“You think mere clones can stop me?”
Tianpeng powered up, ready to force his way through. However, as he raised his rake, the shadow clones collectively performed a transformation technique.
“Super Harem Jutsu!”
In an instant, Tianpeng found himself overwhelmed again.
“Seal him!”
Taking advantage of his distraction, the clones surged forward, plastering him with various sealing techniques.
Meanwhile, Leo and Yang Jiao joined the hunt for the nine Golden Crows.
One by one, the Golden Crows fell. After collecting eight of their corpses, Leo finally halted the bloodthirsty Yang Jian and his siblings.
“Enough! Leave the youngest one. The Three Realms still need him to maintain the cycle of day and night.”
After sparing the youngest crow, Leo turned to the captured Tianpeng and Curtain Lifting General.
“Do not resist, or you’ll end up like those crows. Be obedient captives, and you’ll be released safely when this is over.”
Understanding the futility of resistance, Tianpeng and Curtain Lifting General exchanged a glance and nodded in resignation.
With the two generals subdued, the group pressed forward, their shadow clones scattering the remaining heavenly soldiers. They blazed through the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Heavens, pausing only at the Ninth Heaven—the location of the Queen Mother’s Peach Orchard.
While the others pushed forward, Leo made a quick detour, harvesting all the ripe, massive peaches and storing them. He left the unripe ones for a future visitor—his junior disciple, Sun Wukong.
With the peaches secured, they sped up their advance, aiming for the Hall of Supreme Harmony on the Thirty-Third Heaven, where the elixirs awaited.
The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, a manifestation of the Daoist Deity Taishang Laojun, was also the Jade Emperor’s alchemist. Unknown to many, even to the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, Taishang Laojun was the elder brother of Leo’s master, Yuan Shi Tianzun.
Thus, looting the Hall of Supreme Harmony for its elixirs was within bounds. After all, it was common knowledge that those pills were of little use to a saint like Taishang Laojun, and were brewed mainly to maintain the Heavenly Court’s prestige.
Past incidents with Sun Wukong and Chen Xiang, who also raided the elixirs, had gone unpunished. Moreover, Leo wasn’t keeping the loot for himself; he intended to share it with Nezha and the Yang siblings to strengthen their ranks for the looming God-Sealing War.
By boosting the collective strength of Chan Sect’s third-generation disciples, he was preparing for the battles ahead—working with destiny, rather than against it.
(End of this chapter)