God Slayer Chronicles 22 Trapped Old Men

A giant serpent let its vicious voice be heard throughout a small snowy mountain range.

The beast was at least half a mile long, with golden scales glittering in the morning sun, with strange inscriptions etched into each of them.

It had four legs folded up against its body as it slithered through the sky, with razor-sharp ebony claws and tusks to match.

The beast was horrifying, every demonic beast in the entire mountain range dare not move in the slightest, scared that this behemoth might notice them.

All of a sudden, the roaring vanished, in its place was an old man stretching his back yawning. He wore a white robe and rubbed his purple eyes.

"Ugh, what a horrible place… why can't we go back to our realities?" the old man asked out loud, utterly unsatisfied with being here.

If Yang Chi were here, he'd recognize this man – Kew.a.n.g Tian.

"Kew.a.n.g Tian, you lazy b.a.s.t.a.r.d! We've got a task to do, and we're not allowed to leave until accomplis.h.i.+ng it." A middle-aged man with a gruff beard and dark rings around his eyes barked.

"Oh, and since when have you been the responsible one?!" Kew.a.n.g Tian growled,

"You think just because you're the overlord of the Sky Paradise Reality that you're so great? I remember when you were just a newt and I had to help you with that body s.n.a.t.c.her." He snorted, spitting on the floor.

"You'll never let that go, will you?" The middle-aged man's face went purplish, remembering his shame from all those years ago.

"w.a.n.g Zhu my dear boy, you're such a thick-headed kid for being so talented at cultivating, I swear if you didn't have the power to cleave planets apart, you'd be a slave in some woman's all-male Harem." Kew.a.n.g Tian gaped.

"Will you stop bringing up my past you old fool! How about I bring up your instead?! Hmm! I wasn't the one who went on a murderous rampage and devoured an entire galaxy!" w.a.n.g Zhu retorted.

"Oh, that's a low blow, you know I was suffering from bedevilment. Whereas you, weren't you seduced by a woman's touch?" Kew.a.n.g Tian raised an eyebrow, smirking.

w.a.n.g Zhu growled as he stood up, summoning a sword and staff.

"You want to dance?" Kew.a.n.g Tian scoffed in amus.e.m.e.nt, summoning a giant halberd which he slung over his shoulder as his age visibly reduced.

From the ancient hunchbacked old man emerged a proud but mature looking youth, he was tall and handsome with stubble over his face.

"It's literally been an age since I've had a good throw down. Want to go pretty boy?" He started to whirl his halberd with alarming speed, that tore the mountains asunder.

w.a.n.g Zhu's lip started to twitch, he knew that he wasn't this old beast's match, at most he could fight him off and retreat.

"Enough both of you!" A voice boomed from the skies.

"Do you think this a joke?!" A man descended from the clouds in a pale blue robe.

"Geeze Kong, I thought you were meant to be a bard. Your voice isn't too lyrical." Kew.a.n.g Tian scoffed, which made w.a.n.g Zhu chuckle.

"Listen, the both of you, we all want to go home. Those three sent us here to perform a small task to the likes of us, and we've almost carried it out. We've been away from home for near enough three-hundred millennia. Let's just wait it out and see our task through." Kong Jin shook his head.

"You're just missing the Eternal Empress." w.a.n.g Zhu sn.i.g.g.e.red, causing Kew.a.n.g Tian to drop his halberd falling over laughing.

The roars of his laughter shook the small mountain, as he kept slamming the ground.

"I remember your face when being separated, it looked like a mouse!" Kew.a.n.g Tian almost wet himself.

Kong Jin's face sunk while rubbing the side of his forehead.

"Did you plant the Orsulin Vein beneath the Yang Clan or not?" Kong Jin was losing his patience with these two fools.

"Yes, yes. Boy, you take the fun out of everything." Kew.a.n.g Tian rolled over on his back, returning to the form of an old man.

"Now go away, I'm tired and want to sleep. You know its hard for me to control myself went I'm sleepy." Kew.a.n.g Tian shut his eyes, and slowly drifted off until he started to snore.

w.a.n.g Zhu and Kong Jin sat down by a small campfire that they made, sitting in silence until finally, it became uncomfortable.

"So, we've been here all this time… but I've never asked. Do you know how they got big Tian over there to do this?" w.a.n.g Zhu frowned, both him and Kong Jin all knew of each other, which beings at their level always do.

Both of them were young in comparison to Kew.a.n.g Tian, he was countless years older than the both of them, and both owed him a lot in their lives.

Kew.a.n.g Tian had helped w.a.n.g Zhu recover his body when he was but a few hundred years old, a favor that reunited him with his loved ones.

He'd never forget that favor.

Kong Jin on the other hand, while he was running for his life, he'd stumbled upon Kew.a.n.g Tian's resting place, where he'd protected him.

Little did he know back then that he'd stumbled upon a creature as complex as a Celestial Devouring Beast.

He was young in those days though, unable to comprehend the mystery behind him.

"I heard that they're holding the Spirit hostage." Kong Jin frowned.

"What? That's preposterous!" w.a.n.g Zhu gritted his teeth, he knew Kew.a.n.g Tian and how dominant he was. The fact that they'd been able to steal 'her' was unimaginable.

Even though those three are unbelievably powerful, they still shouldn't be a match for Kew.a.n.g Tian!

"What can I say? He'd do anything for her. Including breaking the boundaries of reality once again. Each time he does it the heavens go into disarray…" Kong Jin smiled in admiration of the Devourer's actions but also sighed a little. He knew what the toll on him was, how it played on him.

"All this, just so that one boy can grow up safe and sound? It's maddening." w.a.n.g Zhu looked puzzled.

"It's ironic, your soul is gifted at foresight, yet you don't use it… why?" Kong Jin asked.

"Because… truths are better left untold. Some futures are better left unseen." w.a.n.g Zhu answered while sighing.

"There's your answer. It's not long left now, the end game has begun." Kong Jin laid down, trying to get some sleep.