# Chapter 2140: Biting Back
Chi Kongle was extremely surprised in her heart. She turned her gaze, sweeping across the surroundings, as if searching for something.
"Father, is that you who has come?"
Chi Kongle speculated silently in her heart.
Although the Time Sword Art was incredibly profound, it clearly seemed unlikely that one sword strike could defeat Saint King Hongkun.
Even though this might be related to the Swallow Pendant, Chi Kongle hoped even more that Zhang Ruochen had arrived, silently protecting her from the shadows.
Unfortunately, she searched for a long time and still found no trace of Zhang Ruochen, which could not help but make her feel quite disappointed.
And sensing Chi Kongle's gaze, those geniuses appeared very nervous, afraid of being implicated themselves.
At this moment, Bo Lan and Yan Yu both widened their eyes, their expressions filled with disbelief. Even Saint King Hongkun was no match for Chi Kongle.
They had originally been hoping that Saint King Hongkun would quickly suppress Chi Kongle, allowing them to vent their anger, but they never expected such an outcome.
"Quick, leave."
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Bo Lan and Yan Yu immediately wanted to retreat.
When Saint King Hongkun had arrived earlier, he had already lifted the restraints on them. After taking healing sacred pills, their injuries were rapidly improving, and the sacred qi and spiritual power within their bodies could be reactivated.
Chi Kongle snapped back to reality. Using her spiritual power to control the power of the Swallow Pendant, she displayed astonishing speed, instantly appearing in front of Bo Lan and Yan Yu, pointing her sacred sword at the two.
"Without kneeling and apologizing, where do you think you're going?"
Chi Kongle's body emitted a chilling killing intent, enveloping Bo Lan and Yan Yu.
Sensing this killing intent, both Bo Lan and Yan Yu felt a chill in their hearts. Having personally witnessed Chi Kongle cut the giant Palas into a mist of blood, they no longer dared to harbor any wishful thinking.
"Young junior, don't act so fierce."
Saint King Hongkun stood up, letting out a loud roar.
Although he was severely injured and had lost much of his lifespan, at this moment, he could not retreat. He could not stand by and watch Bo Lan and Yan Yu be killed.
Moreover, in Saint King Hongkun's view, the attack just now definitely did not belong to Chi Kongle herself. He did not believe that Chi Kongle could use such external power without limit.
While letting out his roar, Saint King Hongkun summoned a miniature sacred hall, built from extremely rare lard-like sacred jade, resembling an exquisite work of art.
Driven by sacred qi, the sacred hall rapidly expanded, emitting an incomparably holy light. Tens of thousands of inscriptions interwove on the surface of the sacred hall as it pressed down toward Chi Kongle.
This was a Seven Radiance Ten-Thousand Pattern Sacred Artifact level sacred hall, possessing powerful binding force. Saint King Hongkun had once used it to suppress a Nine-Step Saint King of the same rank.
As the sacred hall pressed down, the space of the entire Spirit Lake became frozen.
Chi Kongle's body trembled slightly, feeling as if an ancient divine mountain had been placed upon her, about to crush her.
Chi Kongle's gaze suddenly turned sharp. The more the opponent oppressed her, the more unwilling she was to yield.
And as if sensing Chi Kongle's will, the power surging from the Swallow Pendant grew stronger. Even the divine shadow behind her became much more solid, like an ancient deity about to cross time and space to descend here.
As a result, Chi Kongle immediately felt much more relaxed. A large amount of Five Elements Chaos Qi within her body circulated, spilling out of her body, condensing behind her into a phantom of a chaotic world.
This was a phenomenon of the Five Elements Chaos Body, something that could only be condensed when this physique was cultivated to a certain level.
According to legend, when the Five Elements Chaos Body was cultivated to its extreme, the physical body would become divine, and the phenomenon could transform into a real world capable of suppressing all heavens.
Chi Kongle trusted the powerful defensive strength of the Swallow Pendant, but she was unwilling to remain on the defensive forever. Even if the one attacking was only a Nine-Step Saint King, or even a Great Saint, she would still fight with all her might.
"Hmm?"
Chi Kongle's heart stirred, sensing that the phenomenon she had manifested seemed to have undergone some strange change.
But at this moment, she had no time to think more about it, because the sacred hall was about to press down.
The phantom of the chaotic world slowly rose, meeting the descending sacred hall. The two collided violently together.
"Crack."
The sacred hall was originally extremely solid, but now it emitted a sound of breaking, with several clear cracks appearing on its surface.
"Not good."
Saint King Hongkun's expression changed, and he immediately wanted to retrieve the sacred hall.
A Seven Radiance Ten-Thousand Pattern Sacred Artifact, and in the form of a palace, was worth over a hundred million sacred stones. Saint King Hongkun had spent a thousand years of savings to acquire it. How could he watch it be destroyed?
However, Saint King Hongkun was a step too slow. The phantom of the chaotic world exploded with a bang, releasing terrifying power.
"Boom."
Bearing the impact of this power, the sacred hall instantly shattered, turning into countless fragments shooting in all directions.
Tens of thousands of strands of Five Elements Chaos Qi broke through the obstruction, condensing into a five-colored divine dragon, extremely solid and lifelike, charging straight toward Saint King Hongkun.
"Damn it."
Saint King Hongkun was secretly furious, feeling as if his heart was bleeding. He had never expected that his precious treasure would be destroyed by a junior.
Facing the charging five-colored divine dragon, Saint King Hongkun naturally did not dare to be careless. His two pairs of snow-white wings flapped, and feathers shot out like arrows.
Each feather radiated extremely brilliant sacred light, containing terrifying destructive power, unstoppable.
"Boom."
One by one, the feathers exploded, and the vast destructive force engulfed the five-colored divine dragon.
Just as Saint King Hongkun was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the five-colored divine dragon reappeared, without any obvious damage.
At such close range, Saint King Hongkun had no way to avoid it. He had to immediately mobilize all the sacred qi in his body, instantly setting up dozens of sacred qi shields outside his body, preparing to endure the blow.
"Bang."
Facing the five-colored divine dragon, the dozens of sacred qi shields set up by Saint King Hongkun were like paper, instantly torn apart.
"Block it for me."
Saint King Hongkun growled lowly, folding his two pairs of snow-white wings to wrap around himself.
But he underestimated the power of the five-colored divine dragon. The snow-white wings could not withstand it either, instantly breaking, with a large number of blood-stained feathers flying about.
Saint King Hongkun was severely injured again, his body twisted, flesh and blood blurred, no longer in human form, forcibly pressed into the Spirit Lake. Even the formation could not stop it.
It was not that the Spirit Lake's formation was not strong enough, but that the power of the five-colored divine dragon had already exceeded the limit the formation could bear, tearing open a gap.
In the blink of an eye, a large area of the lake water turned blood-red and began to boil.
Every drop of a Saint King's blood contained immense energy, and ordinary sacred artifacts could not withstand it.
If this were not a Spirit Lake protected by a formation, it would likely have been evaporated dry.
"How could she possess such powerful strength? Why?"
Saint King Hongkun's eyes were filled with disbelief, also exuding a sense of despair.
He was too severely injured this time. Even his sacred soul had cracks. Even if he could save his life, he would never reach the Dao Domain realm in this lifetime.
Moreover, with over two hundred years of his lifespan cut off, he had only a few hundred years left to live.
"Was that the phenomenon of the Five Elements Chaos Body? How terrifying."
"Chi Kongle is truly going against the heavens, even more terrifying than Zhang Ruochen back then."
"With such a big commotion, those big shots gathered at Lianzhu Mansion will definitely be alarmed. When they learn what happened here, I wonder what expression the leader of the Paradise Realm will have?"
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A group of geniuses watched with wide eyes, wishing they could immediately flee this place.
Even an old-school Nine-Step Saint King could only be trampled upon. If Chi Kongle got carried away killing, they might also suffer misfortune.
At this moment, the geniuses who had been exchanging in other areas of the Spirit Lake were also alarmed, rushing over one after another. Among them were naturally geniuses from the Paradise Realm or its faction, with higher cultivation than Bo Lan and the others, but they did not dare to act rashly.
After all, judging from the strength Chi Kongle had displayed, even a Dao Domain realm expert might not be her match.
The geniuses from various realms who had come to exchange had at most a cultivation of the Seven-Step Saint King realm. None had the confidence to withstand a single blow from Chi Kongle.
Bo Lan and Yan Yu's faces were ashen. If they had known this would happen, they would never have provoked Chi Kongle.
Thinking of the words he had spoken at the beginning, Bo Lan was filled with shame and anger, wishing he could immediately find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Chi Kongle withdrew the scattered Five Elements Chaos Qi, simultaneously grabbing the already severely injured and dying Saint King Hongkun from the Spirit Lake, pulling him close.
After this severe injury, Saint King Hongkun had completely lost the ability to resist. Any weak martial artist could easily kill him.
Chi Kongle pointed her sacred sword at Bo Lan and the other two, not hiding her killing intent at all. Her voice was cold: "I'll say it one last time. Kneel and apologize. Empress Chi Yao cannot be insulted, and neither can my father."
"Chi Kongle, don't go too far. You've already killed Palas. Do you want to kill us too? Are you trying to provoke a conflict between the Kunlun Realm and the Paradise Realm?" Bo Lan said solemnly.
He was the offspring of a deity, and more nobly born than ordinary divine offspring, because both his parents were deities. They had been together for tens of thousands of years before giving birth to him, their only child.
Making him kneel and apologize would not only cause him to lose face, but also bring shame to his father god and mother goddess, and they would be ridiculed by others.
Chi Kongle waved her hand, releasing two streams of sacred qi, wrapping around Saint King Hongkun and Yan Yu, causing the two to rapidly rise into the air.
"You really won't kneel and apologize?"
Chi Kongle asked once more.
"No, I don't want to die. Bo Lan, save me quickly." Yan Yu said in terror.
"My life is over." A look of despair appeared in Saint King Hongkun's eyes.
Bo Lan naturally understood what Chi Kongle intended to do, which filled his heart with anger. No one had ever dared to force him like this.
But at this moment, even though he was gnashing his teeth in hatred, there was nothing he could do.
"Stop."
Just then, a majestic roar sounded.
From the deepest palace within Lianzhu Mansion, an extremely brilliant divine light shot out. Terrifying sacred might instantly enveloped the entire Lianzhu Mansion.
"Hmph."
Chi Kongle let out a cold snort, and the sacred sword in her hand slashed out with incredible speed.
"Pfft."
Thousands of sword qi burst forth. Before Saint King Hongkun and Yan Yu could even let out a scream, they turned into two clouds of blood mist, their sacred souls subsequently annihilated.
An old-school Nine-Step Saint King and a genius of the Elf Clan with great potential had thus perished.
The hot sacred blood instantly dyed the entire Spirit Lake red. Blood-colored water mist rose, rapidly spreading to the surroundings.
Everyone in Lianzhu Mansion could smell the thick scent of blood.
"Killing a Saint King of my Paradise Realm, who gave you the courage?"
Accompanied by an angry voice, a slender figure bathed in sacred light appeared on the Spirit Lake.
This person was eight feet tall, dressed in a white robe, spotlessly clean, with long golden hair and jade-like green pupils. His body contained tens of millions of sacred dao rules, and the rules and sacred qi of heaven and earth all converged toward him.
He was none other than the leader of the Paradise Realm, Zhou Yu.
Previously at the Blood God Sect, Zhou Yu had suffered a great loss. The "Radiant Heavenly Scripture" had been taken, and all the Truth Esoterica had been lost to Zhang Ruochen, nearly causing Zhou Yu's mental state to collapse.
But in the end, Zhou Yu had pulled through. He returned to the Paradise Realm to go into seclusion for a period, only recently coming back to the Kunlun Realm.
Zhou Yu was furious. After he had spoken to stop her, Chi Kongle still dared to kill Saint King Hongkun and Yan Yu, completely disregarding him. This was a provocation to him and the entire Paradise Realm.
"What a Zhou Yu. After experiencing that setback last time, he has actually managed to improve further. Even if he hasn't truly reached the first level below Great Saint, he's not far off." Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.
Based on his perception, Zhou Yu's current strength should be comparable to Azure Heaven Sacred Dragon and Mo Yin.
If the "Radiant Heavenly Scripture" were returned to Zhou Yu, his strength would truly reach the first level below Great Saint, not inferior to the Mara Grand Prince at his peak.
But even so, Zhou Yu was still not worthy of Zhang Ruochen's attention.
If that Archangel Michael himself were to come, it might arouse Zhang Ruochen's interest.
Following closely behind Zhou Yu, an old man with a gray-white beard also appeared on the Spirit Lake.
He wore a purple Kun official robe and a jade crown, appearing very refined. His body exuded the temperament of a long-time high-ranking superior, imposing without being angry.
This old man was none other than the current ruler of the imperial court, Grand Chancellor Wang Shiqi.
As a disciple of Emperor Wen, Wang Shiqi had received the true transmission of the Confucian path. His spiritual power was extremely powerful, infinitely close to the sixtieth rank.
Sensing the terrifying killing intent emanating from Zhou Yu, Wang Shiqi could not help but block in front of Chi Kongle.
Chi Kongle was the offspring of Empress Chi Yao and could not have any mishap.
"Wang Shiqi, do you want to stop me?" Zhou Yu's expression darkened.
Wang Shiqi said, "I think it's necessary to first clarify what exactly happened."
"Isn't the matter clear enough? Your Kunlun Realm's people, disregarding the heavenly laws, publicly killed three experts of my Paradise Realm. Not only must she die, but your Kunlun Realm must also give my Paradise Realm an explanation." Zhou Yu said extremely forcefully.
Clearly, someone had secretly informed Zhou Yu that the giant Palas had also died at Chi Kongle's hands.
Zhang Ruochen had repeatedly opposed the Paradise Realm, and now his daughter dared to act so recklessly. How could this be tolerated?
Chi Kongle stepped forward and said, "They blasphemed against the deities and deserved to die."
"Kongle, what exactly happened?" Wang Shiqi immediately asked.
Chi Kongle then roughly recounted what had happened earlier.
Of course, she did not mention that Zhang Ruochen had been helping her in secret.
After hearing Chi Kongle's account, Wang Shiqi's expression darkened. He turned his gaze to Zhou Yu and said, "Blaspheming against Her Majesty the Empress is a capital crime. It is your Paradise Realm that should give us an explanation."
Hearing this, Zhou Yu's brows furrowed slightly. Involving blasphemy against deities was indeed very troublesome.
Because "blasphemers die" was a rule established by all deities together. Who dared to challenge the gods?
"This is just Chi Kongle's one-sided statement. It cannot be taken as fact. Bo Lan, did you blaspheme against Empress Chi Yao?" Zhou Yu said.
Bo Lan's heart stirred, and he immediately replied, "No, I have the utmost respect for Empress Chi Yao. How would I dare to blaspheme."
Chi Kongle pointed to the dozens of geniuses in the pavilion and said, "They all heard it with their own ears."
"Is that so? What did you all hear?" Zhou Yu turned his head, an invisible pressure enveloping those dozens of geniuses.
The bodies of the dozens of geniuses involuntarily began to tremble.
They knew very well that at this moment, saying the wrong thing would have serious consequences.
Offending the Paradise Realm for the sake of a Kunlun Realm on the verge of destruction was clearly a very unwise choice.
Thinking this, all the geniuses shook their heads, doing their best to distance themselves.
Seeing the performance of these people, Chi Kongle could not help but shake her head slightly, her eyes filled with disappointment.
Bo Lan, on the other hand, showed a smile. As long as he firmly denied having said anything blasphemous against Empress Chi Yao, no one could do anything to him.
Moreover, they could turn around and find fault with Chi Kongle, which was truly a satisfying thing.
Zhou Yu turned to look at Chi Kongle and Wang Shiqi, saying indifferently, "Do you have anything else to say?"