Chapter 2159: The Myriad Forms Celestial Mantra!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
As the drums pounded, clangclangclang! A force of a hundred-thousand-some soldiers swept out of the alliance army in a steel flood. A few moments later, a second force of a hundred-thousand-some soldiers marched out.
And then a third, a fourth…
War banners snapped in the air with a grim and somber mood.
“Hmph! Do you think that turtling up in your fortress will do anything?”
An Lushan looked at the steel fortress and sneered.
Since he dared to strike against the Great Tang, he had naturally made all possible preparations. It didn’t matter that w.a.n.g Chong had this steel fortress and tens of thousands of ballistae. He had expected all of this.
One could not get the tiger’s cub without entering its den!
In order to realize his ambitions, he needed to utterly crush the Great Tang!
“It’s my turn! This time, w.a.n.g Chong, I’m going to give you a big surprise!”
An Lushan’s eyes flashed with cold light as he extended his hand toward the sky.
Rumble!
Suddenly, the dark clouds above the alliance army accelerated toward the steel fortress.
Crackoom! Above An Lushan, thunder rumbled and lightning blazed. A moment later, a giant vortex of thunderclouds had formed with a diameter of thirty to forty thousand feet.
The army fell silent.
The Power of the World!
After fusing with the black dragon, An Lushan had gained even greater control over the Power of the World.
“Go!”
His eyes chilled as his fingers extended toward the steel wall and then flicked.
Whoos.h.!.+
As everyone stared in shock, the snow falling from the clouds suddenly intensified by several times, and the world instantly whited out.
And as An Lushan made his move, the temperature began to rapidly fall.
Bang!
A hundred-some feet away from the alliance army, a crystalline ball of hail dropped from the sky with a crisp smack. In the distance, a layer of ice began to rapidly creep across the steel fortress.
Most bizarre of all was that under An Lushan’s control, the rapidly falling temperature was restricted to only the steel fortress and its environs.
As for the nearby alliance army, it was completely unaffected.
As the Child of the World, An Lushan felt as if this power rightly belonged to him. He could even sense the existence of the World Consciousness. He had a strange connection with the world, and it felt like nothing he did would ever fail.
When the entire world was standing on his side, who could contend against him?
Kaclack!
The open fingers of An Lushan’s right hand that were aimed at the sky closed together, and with a crackle, the temperature of the steel fortress dropped once more, and the blizzard pressed forward.
Under An Lushan’s control, only the area of the steel fortress was affected by the blizzard.
“True Dragon!”
“True Dragon!”
“True Dragon!”
All of the Youzhou soldiers and the alliance soldiers cheered, their morale restored.
He could summon clouds and blizzards, control the weather. If An Lushan was not the future master of the Central Plains, the True Dragon Son of Heaven, then who was?
All of the alliance soldiers were br.i.m.m.i.n.g with excitement.
An Lushan smiled.
After a parting of three days, a gentleman had to be looked at in a different light. He wanted to give w.a.n.g Chong a big surprise this time.
“Your Highness!”
Within the fortress, the crackling and groaning of forming ice could be heard. The descent of the cold wave had already left the fortress very cold, but now, the temperature had dropped several more degrees. The banners fluttering within the fortress were swiftly enveloped in frost.
The banners which should have snapped in the air had now become frozen cudgels.
It wasn’t just the banners, but the steel buildings and the metal armor on the bodies of the soldiers that also began to rapidly frost over.
The Tang soldiers had been through a strict selection process, and all of them possessed outstanding cultivation and thick reserves of Stellar Energy. But in this awful environment, their Stellar Energy was rapidly consumed, directly influencing their fighting power.
Countless eyes turned to w.a.n.g Chong.
Everyone felt somewhat uneasy.
The battle had only just begun, and the two armies had yet to actually clash. For their army to be caught up in such terrible weather was extremely bad news!
w.a.n.g Zhongsi, Abusi, and Zhang Shougui all gravely looked up at the sky.
This ability to control the weather from the Youzhou side had transcended the domain of martial arts, and it had also gone beyond the realm of an ordinary war. This was a domain that none of them could interfere with.
“Evil beast!” Zhang Shougui cursed, his face ashen.
If he had not long ago agreed to obey all of w.a.n.g Chong’s orders in this war of the northeast, he would have already jumped down from the walls to kill An Lushan.
“Just a minor trick that’s not worth worrying about!”
This voice instantly drew everyone’s attention.
Whoos.h.!.+
As the winds wailed around him, w.a.n.g Chong stood with his hands held behind his back, appearing lofty and majestic as if nothing in the world could trouble him.
“Is this what you’re relying on?”
w.a.n.g Chong looked across and coldly laughed.
With his formidable Psychic Energy, he had far sharper senses than the others. He could clearly sense some immense, unnatural power gathering above An Lushan’s head. Through some bizarre method, it was influencing the air above the steel fortress.
Not only that, the region upon which the steel fortress sat was trembling due to this unnatural power. It felt as if a volcano deep within the earth was about to erupt.
w.a.n.g Chong was no stranger to this power.
The World Consciousness!
Changing the world and changing history were no easy tasks. An Lushan was only so bold precisely because he had the protection of the World Consciousness, which allowed him to oppose him and escape again and again.
One could say that though it seemed like he was fighting An Lushan, he was actually fighting the entire world!
“Hmph! What does it matter if it’s the World Consciousness? An Lushan, even if you have the help of the entire world, I will still kill you!”
w.a.n.g Chong’s cold voice pierced through the snowstorm and rumbled like thunder across the battlefield.
Whoos.h.!.+
Before anyone could react, w.a.n.g Chong looked up and slowly reached out his hand. A moment later, w.a.n.g Chong activated one of the Stone of Destiny’s abilities.
“Myriad Forms Celestial Mantra!”
Boom!
A ma.s.sive, silver lightning bolt suddenly emerged out of the sky and shot toward the north. w.a.n.g Chong’s armor clattered as an invisible energy spread out from him like a turbulent wave.
In w.a.n.g Chong’s mind, a miniature projection of the continent appeared. The steel fortress, the million-man army, the flat steppe, the dark clouds, the endless snow… all of it displayed itself in front of him with startling detail.
At this moment, w.a.n.g Chong was a G.o.d that looked down on the northeastern region of the continent.
He could clearly ‘see’ lightning flas.h.i.+ng across the world. With An Lushan at its center, a terrifying energy was influencing the weather.
Above his head was a vortex of dark clouds, and one could vaguely make out a pair of cold and golden eyes within it.
These were not real eyes, but the Power of the World that was targeting w.a.n.g Chong, growing stronger and stronger and approaching physical manifestation.
That was the World Consciousness!
Bolstered by the World Consciousness, An Lushan was like a tiger with wings!
But…
Rumble!
About ten thousand feet away from the steel fortress, the Power of the World that An Lushan had unleashed encountered formidable resistance. This turbulent and boundless energy was not one bit inferior to An Lushan’s weather-controlling power.
Bang!
With a ma.s.sive explosion, the raging snowstorm was blasted apart by some enormous force, dwindling to not even one-tenth of its original force.
The extreme cold that had enveloped the steel fortress scattered. The sheets of ice that had formed on the banners and walls cracked off and dropped to the ground as the temperature rapidly recovered.
Although the steel fortress was still enveloped by the cold wave, it was not an unbearable cold.
“Notice! User has activated the ability of the ‘Archon of Destiny’!
“Archon of Destiny! This is an expression of extreme praise to the user, and its privileges are above those of the Controller of Destiny! For the Archon of Destiny, all Destiny Energy exchange prices will be sharply reduced, and it additionally comes with an ability to resist the World Consciousness!
“As the Archon of Destiny, you are the master of your own fate. Not even the World Consciousness or the torrent of history can stop you! This is a reward for user’s tenacious spirit!
“Notice: The Myriad Forms Celestial Mantra is a powerful ability that can resist the World Consciousness, but it requires the expenditure of additional points of Destiny Energy. Each second consumes one hundred points of Destiny Energy! As the ability of the Archon of Destiny sharply reduces all Destiny Energy exchange prices, each second will consume ten points of Destiny Energy. Calculation starting now!”