Chapter 1652 — Twelve Kinds of Dao Fruits

"Hear me, subjects of the Southern Heaven: the Fire Heavenly Venerable has turned traitor and slain the Yin Heavenly Venerable and the Azure Dragon Heavenly Venerable! " The Ancestral God King, majestic and awe-inspiring, cried aloud: "The Fire Heavenly Venerable's crimes admit no pardon.

His Majesty the Haotian Emperor has already given the order to punish the Fire traitor!

All subjects of the Southern Heaven, kneel!

Whoever stands is a conspirator of the Fire traitor!

" The whole Southern Heaven was in an uproar. Throughout the heavens of the Southern Heaven dwelt countless demigods and humans, and among the demigods, gods, and among the humans, gods, who had built divine cities one after another — the army of gods and demons that guarded the Southern Heaven.

At this moment, even the army of gods and demons of the Southern Heaven, hearing the Ancestral God King's command, could not help kneeling one after another; not a single one rose to his feet.

And in the Fire Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly Palace in the Southern Heaven, his disciples — some polishing his statue, some busy with other matters — trembled at the words, bewilderment on their faces, and turned one after another to Yan Yazi.

Yan Yazi was a disciple of the Fire Heavenly Venerable, and hearing the Ancestral God King's words his mind fell into chaos, and for a time he knew not what to do.

"Eldest Senior Brother, what do we do?

" the Fire Heavenly Venerable's many disciples asked. Yan Yazi steadied his disordered mind, thought a moment, and shouted: "The Sage teaches: the ruler is the bond of the minister, the father the bond of the son, the husband the bond of the wife!

Though the Fire Heavenly Venerable is our master, he is not greater than ruler or father!

Kneel, all of you, kneel! " In the Fire Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly Palace the disciples hesitated; Yan Yazi had already knelt and bowed his head, and seeing this the others prostrated themselves one after another.

Even those who wished to resist, at such a sight, abandoned all thought of it and knelt.

Far away, the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon's head swam, and doubt rose in his heart: "I'm clearly still alive, so why does the Ancestral God King say I was killed by the Fire Heavenly Venerable? Damn it, seems siding with the Haotian Emperor was a mistake.

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" The Ancestral God King's strike brought him above the Fire Heavenly Venerable's head, and he laughed: "Fire, you never thought you'd see this day, did you? The disciples you taught with such painstaking care won't lift a finger for you, are of no use at all; and the Southern Heaven you labored to build has instead become the finest slaves you ever tamed for the Heavenly Court!

" The Fire Heavenly Venerable met the Heavenly Lord's hand with his other palm and sneered: "Ancestral God King, you want to break my Dao heart? You're far from it!

If I win, who will write the histories in the future? Will it not be for my word alone to decide?

" Boom — The Ancestral God King, controlling the Heavenly Lord's body, could be said to possess the strongest mana and the strongest fleshly body; yet against an existence like the Fire Heavenly Venerable, utterly without weakness, even he felt an impact beyond compare! In that blow, he gained no advantage at all! "Even if every human in the Southern Heaven dies out, even if the humans of all heavens and myriad worlds die out, so long as I live, the human race is not extinguished!

" The Fire Heavenly Venerable's qi and blood surged, then steadied; he laughed aloud and struck ruthlessly at the two, his voice echoing without end: "I am the human race! I am the supreme!

In those years the Yu Heavenly Venerable asked for too little — he merely wanted the human race to stand equal with the other races, and even that, he could not achieve!

" In the instant his qi and blood surged, the Void Heavenly Venerable plucked the long horn from her head and drove it savagely into the Fire Heavenly Venerable's palm. Hiss.

The horn pierced through his palm and shot out from the back of his hand, stabbing toward his brow.

Two streams of Dao fire jetted from the Fire Heavenly Venerable's eyes, his gaze like a torch, shining upon the flying horn; the horn, a Heavenly Venerable treasure refined by the Void Heavenly Venerable, melted away at once under that gaze!

The Fire Heavenly Venerable drove a fist into the Void Heavenly Venerable; she gave a stifled groan, spat blood, and flew back, her demonic blood turning straight into flame in the starry void, blazing fiercely. "But so long as I win, even if I alone remain, the human race shall be the noblest race in the world! " Behind the Fire Heavenly Venerable's head a Heavenly Court appeared, his primordial spirit enthroned within it; he reached out and seized the Heavenly Lord's body, dragging the Ancestral God King along with it, as if to haul him out of Xuandu, and sneered: "What the Yu Heavenly Venerable could not do will be accomplished by my hand!

" The Ancestral God King clashed with him head-on, the might of the heavenly Dao driven to its utmost, pitting heavenly fire against Dao fire.

The Fire Heavenly Venerable urged on his mana; behind his head layer upon layer of Dao fire turned like wheels, twisting Xuandu, even warping the Heavenly Lord's body, stretching it long and thin, as though it would become a wheel of flame behind his head!

Such formidable strength was truly rare.

At this moment, at the edge of the Southern Heaven, the Haotian Emperor strode through the starry void, the Great Luotian of the One Qi appearing, the branches of the Dao Tree swaying. He would come in person to punish the Fire Heavenly Venerable.

The very moment he stepped into the Southern Heaven, another Great Luotian of the One Qi appeared in the void ahead, and beneath it two ancient gods of Taiji, flanking Taichu, blocked his way.