Chapter 1286 — Fellow Daoist, Please Go on Your Way

Heavenly Lord Xi swung his demon-quelling pestle down upon the crown of Venerable Haotian, and with a tremendous clang it smashed into his forehead and exploded on the spot, tearing open Heavenly Lord Xi's grip as he was flung helplessly backward, blood spraying from his mouth. Venerable Haotian opened his mouth and let out a great roar, and Heavenly Lord Xi's flesh melted like white snow under a blazing sun, blood and flesh dissolving until white bone showed through as he tumbled wildly backward through the air.

Yan Yunxi laid down a killing formation even as she charged, and the moment it rose it drew upon an unspeakably dreadful majesty of heaven and earth, borrowing the Great Dao of heaven and earth to strangle Venerable Haotian!

She had once used formations to plot against Earth Mother Yuanjun and the New Earth Mother Yuanjun and had grievously wounded those two dreadful beings, and now her formations were only stronger than then, never weaker!

Her formation had barely started when suddenly a great hand broke through her killing formation, shredded until it dripped with blood, and that bloody hand slammed into her body. Yan Yunxi's bones broke and her sinews snapped until she was nearly a puddle of pulp, and as those fingers curled to kill her, the one-armed Martial Combat Heavenly Master rushed up and met it with a fist from his remaining hand, and that arm too burst apart on the spot.

Xiu Zhong drove a punch into Venerable Haotian's back, but in the next instant Venerable Haotian turned his hand into a blade and chopped level across his neck, and though Xiu Zhong's flesh was incomparably tough, surpassing even the other mighty ones of the Emperor Throne realm, that hand-blade left his head severed from his body, his skull flying into the sky.

To a Creator this was not yet death, and in the instant his head flew off, his headless body threw its arms together and locked Venerable Haotian in a crushing embrace, while his head shrieked from midair: "Silkworm Girl! " Silkworm Girl was already upon them, and the seven-soul grass flew from her hand and hissed into Venerable Haotian's body to ravage his soul.

The seven-soul grass bored into Venerable Haotian and in a flash pierced his divine-consciousness Great Luo Heaven and rooted itself in his primordial spirit. Silkworm Girl shrieked, awl in hand, stabbing toward Venerable Haotian's brain! At that very moment Xiu Zhong's headless body exploded with a roar, Venerable Haotian stamped a palm upon Silkworm Girl's face, her head burst open, and her headless body turned and fled.

"Damned Creators! " Venerable Haotian's eyes shot forth divine light, and the two beams crossed like shears to snip Silkworm Girl's headless body in two and utterly destroy her consciousness!

At that very moment Xiu Zhong's head flew over and landed upon Silkworm Girl's neck, and their divine consciousness merged into a single torrent and erupted together!

With a boom, the two as one head and body were sent flying outward.

The woodcutter sage was beside himself with rage and charged at Venerable Haotian with axe in hand to fight to the death, roaring: "I told you to wait a moment.

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" Suddenly the Black Tiger God flew in, crying: "Master, run!

" The woodcutter sage rushed past him and was about to swing his axe when Lu Zheng came head-on, Yan Yunxi, barely breathing, tucked under one arm, reaching out with the other to clamp the sage under his armpit and sprint away, shouting: "Great Heavenly Master, your skill is only good for beating plumed fire pheasant dragons, charging up there is suicide!

" Clamped so tight he could scarcely breathe, the woodcutter sage could not struggle free.

On the other side Niu Sanduo hoisted the Martial Combat Heavenly Master onto his back and fled madly outward, while Red Emperor Qi Xiayu and Xi Muhong, the Heavenly Lord Xi, having no mounts, could only force their wounded bodies onward in flight.

In their panicked escape the ground around Venerable Haotian emptied in an instant, leaving only a few corpses behind.

Venerable Haotian stepped forward to give chase when suddenly muffled booms rang out from within his flesh, his body bursting open again and again, his lifeblood rampaging and streaming out to escape his flesh!

He bowed his head and vomited blood, and in the instant his head dropped,片片 sheets of spatial mirrors appeared silently around him, countless spatial runes lighting up within them to form a spatial killing formation. "Another disciple of Venerable Moon? " Venerable Haotian sneered and forcibly suppressed his wounds, for much of the power he had devoured and refined from the heart-demon Mu Tianzuns, painstakingly hoarded, had already been spent, yet what remained was still enough to slay this foe.

He roared aloud, and at the same moment the spatial killing formation erupted, leaving Venerable Haotian dripping with blood, while the spatial killing formation shattered with a roar amid his bellow!

In the instant the mirrors burst apart, Venerable Haotian's pupils shrank, for floating before him was a lantern. Within that lantern light gathered into a single line, a zither string a thousand hundred miles long!

A fair hand gripped that string and drew it back!

At the same moment he broke the spatial killing formation, the string had already left the hand. A note rang out, lingering and far-reaching.

Though distant, the note was swift, and the luminous spatial string was before him in a flash!

Venerable Haotian howled and struck forward, the space ahead bursting apart as a great hand met the string and blasted through the sky above the Dark Gorge, the palm chasing straight after the one who had plucked the string. As his palm passed the luminous string, four fingers were severed at the root, sliced off by that string, and the palm with only one finger left slapped down upon the sky a thousand miles away.

That sky burst apart with a crash, and Bai Yuqiong, hidden there, spat blood as she fell out of the void and fled in panic, concealing her form.

The luminous string reached Venerable Haotian's throat and flickered past. Venerable Haotian clapped his other hand to his neck, where a line of blood appeared.

A line of blood appeared on the nape of his neck as well!

"You dare kill me.

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you rebels.

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" His fury unabated, rumbling explosions suddenly came from within him again, and a狂暴 surge of lifeblood blasted his head into midair. That string, a treasure of Venerable Moon, had still severed his head.

"Return!

" Venerable Haotian's head shouted from its mouth, the spurting gore hissing back into his body as the head dropped of itself onto his neck.

"Not one of you shall escape!

" The explosions within him unceasing, he strode outward, for as one of the most powerful beings in all history he deemed himself little weaker than the Celestial Emperor reborn, and yet now he had been wounded to such a state by a few petty thieves!

A mighty Venerable, famed since the Longhan Era, chief of the Ten Venerables, the one most likely to become Celestial Emperor, to him this was an unbearable humiliation!

The moment he stepped out of the nest, his stride suddenly halted, and he did not pursue.

A flicker of dread showed in his eyes.

Before him stood thousands of heart-demon Mu Tianzuns in neat ranks!

Those heart-demon Mu Tianzuns stood in perfect order, their lines unwavering, like a ruthless army awaiting a general's review.

"Venerable Mu, is that you?

" Venerable Haotian spat out a breath of foul air, his gaze sweeping the myriad heart-demon Mu Tianzuns as he sneered: "I know you are here, for only you could command so many heart-demons.

Heh, Venerable Mu, do you only dare hide among them? " "Not hiding.