Chapter 1470 — The Amiable Old Senior

"The Tianzun most likely has his eye on these forty-nine Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao," they said.

"He even said the Lord of Heaven could not forge such Dao soldiers.

" Meng Yungui said to Shang Pingyin, "If this Dao soldier takes form, I fear the forty-nine Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao will merge into one, with boundless might. Hong Tianzun has never liked to contend with others—can he break these Dao soldiers?

" Shang Pingyin said, "Hong Tianzun is unfathomable; he is beyond our reckoning. " And in Tianfang Divine City, Di Qing waited a long while and never saw Hong Tianzun come to attack; instead the Heavenly Court's camp had opened a gap, seemingly to let the people in the city flee.

He set his heart at rest and laughed: "Hong Tianzun, the good-for-nothing among the Ten Tianzuns, dares not fight Tianfang City, so he has opened a gap hoping we will flee of ourselves and scatter our forces. But I shall do the very opposite, and let more people in!

" More of Xuandu's troops and common folk were moved over; another dozen days passed, and still Hong Tianzun did not come to attack, and at last the Heavenly Net Dao soldier took form. In Tianfang City the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao flourished greatly; the heavenly majesty rolled vast, the Heavenly Dao ran in ordered lines, and every soul in the city, god or demon or common mortal, was filled with a hundredfold vigor and a hundredfold confidence!

Shen Mu gathered Tian Shu, Zaifu, and the others and said, "Hong Tianzun is about to make his move.

He does not know we are in the city. In this battle we shall only take one of his arms, and seize the Heavenly Net Dao soldier.

" "Then what of these mortals in the city?

" Zhe Huali asked. Shen Mu was silent a moment, then shook his head. "First we preserve our own lives. As for the rest—" His eye corner twitched. "We will speak of it later!

" Boom—Suddenly a violent tremor came from beyond the walls, ten thousand daos crying out together. The five of them, Shen Mu and the others, hurriedly raised their heads and looked, and saw a vast face with white brows and white beard rising slowly, blotting out the sky before Tianfang City, blotting out the stars all around Tianfang City!

His face was so immense that the suns and the stars wheeling around Tianfang City seemed as fine as motes of dust. That was Hong Tianzun's face, white-browed and white-bearded, kind of brow and benevolent of eye.

Yet now this kindly-browed, benevolent-eyed Hong Tianzun reached out a great hand and smote down at Tianfang City! Di Qing roared in fury and soared into the air, crying aloud, "Hong Tianzun, you old fellow Hong, you have finally made your move!

Now you shall see how fearsome the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao can be!

Children, rouse the Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao!

" Above Tianfang City, the might of one Dao soldier of the Heavenly Dao after another was roused, the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao driven to its utmost, and it thundered toward Hong Tianzun's face!

Hong Tianzun smiled, a smile like a warm spring breeze upon the skin.

Behind his head a grand and resonant dao-sound arose, as though ten thousand daos encircled him; a vast halo appeared behind his head, and from that halo heavenly palace after heavenly palace emerged, forming a great Heavenly Court, its light a hundred million zhang and a hundred million rays. Before the onrushing Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao could reach his face, their might was simply erased by the power bursting from that Heavenly Court.

Bang.

A star burst apart; the countless living beings of Xuandu upon it fled and wailed, and the next moment they were ground to powder along with the star.

Bang, bang, bang!

The stars around Tianfang City were annihilated one after another before Hong Tianzun's great hand; before his palm had even fallen, the suns were already extinguished, the moons cracked open, and then shattered to pieces. Tianfang City shook, earth and mountains quaking; its unbreakable walls toppled one after another, and building after building was ground to powder.