Lord of the Celestial Throne
His fate was predetermined: fight, defend, and perish with the stars, a mere cog in the great machinery of creation. But something within him resisted this cruel fate. A seed of defiance sprouted in his heart, whispering of freedom. He sought a way to transcend the cosmic chains—to escape, to defy destiny, to seize freedom at any cost. As a mortal, he felt the agony of watching his loved ones wither and die, powerless to stop the decay of time. He wept for children, lovers, friends. As an emperor, he conquered kingdoms and wielded unimaginable power, only to be betrayed by those he trusted most, dragged from his throne, and executed in shame. As a beggar, he wandered the streets, starving and shivering under the cold gaze of uncaring gods. As a villain, he became the monster in stories told to frighten children—burning cities, drowning nations in blood, only to be hunted and killed by the heroes of those same tales. As a saint, he gave everything—his wealth, his strength, his life—to others, only to discover that gratitude was fleeting and the world did not remember the sacrifices of the righteous. But, Every failure, every death, every betrayal—they were nothing but steps on a long, infinite path. And the path had only one direction: up, through the layers of existence, through the fabric of reality itself. No prison could contain him. No curse could hold him. His heart whispered one thing to him, a truth carved into his soul:Move forward. Always forward. Because he was Li Shenrong—the Lord of the Celestial Throne.
Flying rats.
"Everyone alert, there's a hundred year old flying rat approaching us. No there's two…three…five…seven! Oh no! We are in trouble everyone we should run." Someone who was in charge of scouting shouted, no one dared to stay as they ran without looking back.
Li shenrong and his group killed many fifty year old beasts along the way and also few hundred year old beasts. But this was the first encountering so many at once.
Flying rats were very fast as they quickly caught up to them.
A flying rat jumped and landed in front of Xiao Han, it had the size of a mammoth with large four black wings on its back. Even though it was huge but its agility was top notch. With sharp black claws and chainsaw teeth it hissed at Xiao Han who was only a meter away. There was no delay as Xiao Han raised up his hammer and slammed it toward the rat.
One of its claw was broken by the hit. Xiao Han was no slouch as he fiercely attacked.
The group became surrounded by seven mammoth size rat with wings.
The only spirit accumulation expert among them took the initiative and fought with two rats alone.
The other two were fighting with two more rats and had the upper hand.
Suddenly another rat went after xiao han, Xiao Han's martial prowess was impressive but due to his limited cultivation it was hard for him to win against two rat.
Li shenrong swiftly dodged all the claw strikes and bites. Each one of his sword slash dealt heavy blow to the rat. It was riddled with injury within few seconds. His sword penetrated the rats head and killed it.
Five more rats joined the battle all of a sudden which made everyone bewildered and helpless.
"What the fuck! Why is there more rats! Everyone we need to hold on. " The spirit accumulation realm expert cursed loudly. He was dealing with three rats at the moment.
Four more rats joined in.
Suddenly the group of five was surrounded by fifteen flying rats and these rats were over hundred years old.
All escape route was blocked by horde of fat flying rats.
Xiao Han with the help of others killed five rat, and the spirit accumulation realm guy name Hanzo killed twelve. The other two co operated together and killed eight.
They were full of injuries and stamina almost depleted.
Their movements couldn't help but slow down after a long atrocious battle.
The most unbelievable thing was flying rats continued to surround them as if there was no end to it.
"Did we trigger a beast tide?" Someone lamented.
Li shenrong swiftly killed another rat as it screeched loudly before dying.
Everyone couldn't help but squint their eyes at li shenrong.
He was the only one without a single scratch on his body, his movements were fast as lightning as if he had unlimited stamina. He continued slaughter rats one after another nonchalantly.
"Great swordsmanship." Xiao han praised as he fought.
"If you have the leisure to praise others then why not find a way to get out of this encirclement?" Hanzo reprimanded.
"The rats are being controlled by a beast king. So unless you kill the beast king there's no way out. " Li shenrong commented casually.
Everyone's face turned extremely ugly after hearing this.
"Since that is the case then no matter how many rats we kill, they will continue to come out until everyone is exhausted to death." Hanzo spoke grimly.
At this point mammoth sized rat corpses were piled up high everywhere. Everyone lost their kill count, only one thing hovered inside everyone's mind and that is how to survive.
Hours passed, Xiao Han, Hanzo and Li shenrong was alive fighting. Xiao han and Hanzo was putting up a desperate fight.
Xiao han fought with a gruesome injury on his stomach, his intestines were hanging out.
Hanzo was not any better, he also suffered a heavy claw strike on the chest which almost cleaved him in half.
Till now there was no sign of beast king coming out. Sure enough a beast kings intelligence was no less than a human.
Xiao Han killed a rat and was about to move backward to create some distance but another rat pounced at him suddenly it wanted to tear off his head with one bite.
Xiao Han was about to dodge but intense pain assaulted him from the stomach almost causing him to faint, it created a momentary pause in his track.
"Sigh, so this how i die." In the last moment before death he closed his eyes as a huge jaw with sharp teeth was closing on his face.