Chapter 1310 — Fallen from the Sky

The might of the lantern in Yan'er's hands began to erupt, a string of light parting to left and right.

The lantern slipped from her grasp and hung floating in midair, while Yan'er shook herself and turned into a Dragon Sparrow, her sharp talons seizing the light-string as she beat her wings and flew backward, leaving the lantern fixed where it was.

Twang!

The light-string shot forward, and at the same moment a clear zither note rang out, shaking the whole valley.

In the instant the string sounded, the snap of a bowstring answered on its own, and a shaft of arrow-light flew from the cliff wall, swift as rainbow and lightning, piercing straight through the lantern.

The sun within the lantern burst apart at once, raging flames turning the lantern to ash in an instant, utterly annihilating the spatial divine power hidden in Moon Tianzun's treasure.

As the fireball burst outward, the light-string sliced through the flames and came to rest beneath the throat of that withered body.

The gaunt figure's eyes blazed, shooting forth two beams like twin sharp arrows, one striking the exact center of the light-string. The string split in two and flashed past on either side of his neck, leaving two bloody gashes that nearly severed his head.

The other divine gleam from his eyes chased straight after the Dragon Sparrow that was Yan'er, arriving behind her.

The Dragon Sparrow beat its wings to rise, yet had no time to dodge.

At that very moment the twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Blue Sky Banner swelled and drew the Dragon Sparrow into the first heaven.

Long Qilin drove the heavens with all his strength, desperately shifting the order of the great heavens to move the Dragon Sparrow again and again, evading that terrible arrow-light.

Thud, thud, thud! The arrow-light pierced heaven after heaven, howling through the air, blasting through all twenty-eight heavens in succession and shooting beyond the sky, tracing a brilliant trail across the dark night before vanishing.

Long Qilin breathed a sigh of relief, cold sweat rolling down his forehead.

At the same time he had shifted the twenty-eight heavens to bring the First Ancestor Human Emperor, Jiang Yunjian, and the others down upon the great treasures, each of them unleashing their last remaining magic power to drive the mighty treasures one by one. Within the Glazed Blue Sky Banner, many treasures gradually brightened, glittering like a host of stars.

As the foremost supreme treasure in the world, the Glazed Blue Sky Banner had now lost the wish-granting Taisu Egg, yet after recasting and redesign by the Blind Old Man and the Silent Craftsman, its formations were even more exquisite than before.

Only the redesign and recasting of such a treasure demanded an exceedingly long time, and the Blind Old Man and the Silent Craftsman had not yet finished. Moreover, there were not many gods and men in the Great Black Wood, and their cultivation could hardly bring the treasure's power to its utmost, and that was its greatest flaw.

Shen Mu too was swept up by the Glazed Blue Sky Banner and landed upon one treasure, drawing the divine bow, but the bow leapt uncontrollably in his hands, struggling to fly free and return to its master.

Shen Mu was startled and suppressed the divine bow with all his might.

"At last I have freed myself from that ruined universe! " The armless gaunt figure lifted his head to the sky, his vast thought shaking time and space so that all present understood his mind with perfect clarity.

"Fresh air, fresh heaven and earth, fresh life, without that aura of age and death!

" He was fearfully thin, like a man wholly drained of water, with no blood flowing beneath his withered skin, only wind-dried muscle clinging to bone.

When he moved, his body gave cracking sounds, like sinews snapping.

"My age is too ancient, so ancient it has lost all vitality.

" "The particles that make up matter are disintegrating and collapsing, the great dao that makes up order is crumbling and has lost its life.

The calamity that destroys all has destroyed everything, and here shall become the place where I begin anew!

" Long Qilin paid no heed to his lament, driving the twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Blue Sky Banner to close over him, meaning to take him into the heavens and gather the might of the treasures in the great heavens to refine and slay him.

Yet the heavens passed over the man's body without moving the gaunt figure in the slightest, the twenty-eight heavens wholly unable to contain him. Long Qilin's heart shook, for this was the first time he had met so terrible an existence, and he was at a complete loss.

The First Ancestor and the others drove the mighty treasures within the Blue Sky Banner, their power erupting together as they blasted toward the gaunt figure!

Though the gaunt figure had lost both arms and his body was withered and drained of blood and qi, he faced this earth-shaking blow with calm indifference. "My blood shall begin to flow anew, my body shall begin to revive.

" "To withstand that great calamity of annihilation I spent far too much strength.

I must replenish my power!

" The gaunt figure opened his mouth, a mouth wider and larger than his head, and facing the dreadful combined strike of the treasures of the twenty-eight heavens, he inhaled with all his force, and those attacks howled down into his mouth!

Boom, boom, boom-- dull thuds came from his belly, which suddenly swelled, shrank, swelled and shrank again more than ten times in succession before at last falling still.

And the color of blood returned somewhat to his face.

Within the Glazed Blue Sky Banner, the hearts of all turned to ice.

While this powerhouse of the former universe had been within the cliff wall he could still be fought, but once he had stepped out of the wall, he could no longer be resisted! His strength had reached an inconceivable level, for even the attacks of the treasures within the Glazed Blue Sky Banner could be devoured by him and turned into energy to restore himself!

"I need still more blood and qi!

" His vast thought surged outward, and suddenly he opened his great mouth and drew a long breath toward the sky.

In the valley, the primordial spirits of all wavered, nearly torn from their bodies by that inhalation!

Each steadied their primordial spirit against the dreadful pull, yet their blood and qi flew uncontrollably out of their bodies! Shen Mu shouted aloud: "Use the Creation Heavenly Demon Art and seal your hundred orifices!

" Many of the younger masters at once drove the Creation Heavenly Demon Art, their fingers tapping swiftly to seal their own blood and qi, yet with their blood sealed, their cultivation could not withstand the pull, and they were lifted up, flying helplessly out of the heavens.

Long Qilin hastily drove the Glazed Blue Sky Banner, shifting the heavens to keep these people within them, in frantic haste.

The older masters, like the Blind Old Man, the Alchemist, the First Ancestor, and the others, had never cultivated the Creation Heavenly Demon Art of the Heavenly Saint Cult, and their blood ran out of control, draining swiftly away, blood spurting like long rainbows above each head as the gaunt figure sucked it up! Shen Mu's face was grave as he gripped the divine bow tightly and sped through the heavens, sealing the First Ancestor and the others with the Creation Heavenly Demon Art lest their blood keep draining away.

Yet before he could seal the older masters, the younger ones could bear it no longer, their seals bursting apart one after another as their blood surged wildly.

A trace of despair rose in Shen Mu's heart as well: "Did not Brother Taiyi say he would come?

Why has he still not arrived? " At that moment, he suddenly saw the Egg of Taishi lifted flying by that suction, rolling out of the Glazed Blue Sky Banner.