Chapter 1732 — The Wrong Side

" the plump little fellow cried, dealing them murderous blows. The two Taiji Ancient Gods were now truly enraged and marshaled every shred of their cultivation; the Taiji Sand Table abruptly transformed into twenty-eight layers of heavenly realms, like twenty-eight Taiji Diagrams spread out one after another and piled one upon another beneath their serpentine tails, as they roared: "Taishi, you are shameless beyond measure! You speak of the same breath and the same branch, yet you fling every vicious and venomous trick at us!

You have no sense of the greater good, and no eye for the situation! Enough! Today we duel you to the death!

Do you dare step into our Taiji Diagram?

" Taishi halted, warily surveying the twenty-eight-layered Taiji Diagram, and laughed: "So the two of you walk the road of attaining the Dao through the Dao Realm? That road was pioneered by the Founding Emperor. When you drink the water, remember who dug the well!

You have taken the benefits of Founding Emperor Shen Ye, and yet you come to slaughter his Wuyou Township - you are no sons of men!

" The Taiji Ancient God split into two, becoming the Sun Heavenly Venerable and the Moon Heavenly Venerable; the Sun Heavenly Venerable flushed red with some shame, while the Moon Heavenly Venerable sneered: "Such talk is useless!

Do you dare come in? " Taishi strode in on his short little legs and laughed as he entered the twenty-eight layers of heavenly realms: "Why wouldn't I dare? I should like to see just how brilliant this Red Dust entry into the Dao of yours truly is! " At the same moment, the world barrier of the Tianyin Realm was suddenly breached. A colossal Ancestral Court Jade Terrace smashed through the Tianyin Realm's barrier and appeared on the surface of the Tianyin Sea, and the Heavenly Court's armies flew up from the terrace in an unending stream, invading the Tianyin Realm.

The Tianyin Realm was a dependency of Jingping; many people of Jingping lived there, and there they had built a unique civilization belonging to the Tianyin Realm, cultivating the Dao arts of the Tianyin Realm. Since the great war had erupted, living beings had been cast into ruin, one world after another destroyed, and countless souls transformed into black sand - and so the Tianyin Realm had grown larger and larger, until now it had become the greatest of all the realms attached to the Yuan Realm! The Tianyin Sea, too, had expanded dozens of times over; yet when the Ancestral Court Jade Pool descended, it pressed the Tianyin Sea flat until not a ripple stirred.

Countless Heavenly Court gods and demons trod the surface of the sea and charged toward the shores of the Tianyin Realm! This wave of invasion could be called the first time the Heavenly Court had ever set foot upon Jingping's territory!

Madam Tianyin reached out and caught up the sea itself, then shook it violently; the sea's surface instantly convulsed, and the Heavenly Court gods and demons at the very front were suddenly devoured by the deep. But the might of the Ancestral Court Jade Pool was truly too great: the Heavenly Court generals upon the terrace led a host of holy beings in driving the pool's power together, and at once pressed the quaking sea back into stillness; when Madam Tianyin tried to lift the sea again, she could not move it.

"I do not want to turn my divine arts into weapons that slaughter living beings. .

. " Madam Tianyin's body trembled.

She suddenly remembered how Shen Mu, when he had come to consult her on the Imperial Throne Art all those years ago, had said that she would one day face this situation, and that she would need to make a choice. And now, make a choice she must.

She turned to look at the divine cities of the Tianyin Realm - within those cities there were but a few scattered soldiers of gods and demons, but within and behind the cities lay all the living beings of the Tianyin Realm.

Some were people of Jingping, but many were beings she herself had created, beings whose souls she had personally awakened and shaped!

She was their mother - their Heavenly Mother!

Madam Tianyin turned back, tears streaming, and her Dao arts erupted.

Of that great army of Heavenly Court gods and demons charging up the shore at her and at the divine cities of the Tianyin Realm, black sand suddenly poured in rolling torrents from the eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouths of every one; their primordial spirits shattered and became black soul-sand that merged into the very heaven and earth of the Tianyin Realm! This trend spread like a plague along the sea, racing straight for the Ancestral Court Jade Terrace, and almost no god or demon could resist the terrible might of the Tianyin Realm's Dao arts!

One after another, the gods and demons quickly became hollow husks - no souls, no spirits - and their corpses sank into the Tianyin Sea!

Madam Tianyin's heart ached, and she could not bear it. Ancient goddess of the Tianyin Realm though she was, since her rebirth she had killed only one person - the Netherworld Emperor.

She had never been able to raise her hand against any other living being; yet this time, she had no choice but to strike.

The Heavenly Court's army of gods and demons was simply too vast, while the gods and demons of the Tianyin Realm were too few and utterly unable to resist; she had to ensure the safety of her subjects! The Ancestral Court Jade Terrace blazed with light, and the commander-general guarding the terrace drove the terrace's might, slamming it hard against Madam Tianyin's divine art; before the power of her strike could even reach the Ancestral Court Jade Pool, it was shattered!

"Madam Tianyin truly possesses boundless Dao arts!

" Upon the Ancestral Court Jade Pool, the Heavenly Court's army formed its battle formations; Duke Ming, Duke Li, Duke Yu, Duke Da, and Duke Suo - the seven dukes - each stepped forward, and Duke Li said in admiration: "His Majesty ordered us to pacify the Tianyin Realm.

If we relied on ourselves alone to take the Lady, the casualties would surely be grievous. Fortunately, in this battle, we need not fight Her Ladyship to the death. " The moment his words fell, a thunderous boom resounded as an ancient god landed upon the Ancestral Court Jade Pool, his whole body pitch-dark.

He rose slowly to his feet and gazed across the sea at Madam Tianyin, his voice shaking the waters so that ripples covered the sea's surface: "The Spirit Official greets Madam Tianyin.

Do not blame me, Lady; if blame there must be, it can only be that the Lady has chosen the wrong camp.

. .

" Whoosh - a strange sound of tearing air came, and a figure was seen to streak across the terrace; the pitch-dark ancient god and that figure vanished without a trace!

Boom! The Tianyin Realm shook violently.

Everyone hurried to look and was horrified to see a great hole split open in the sky above the Tianyin Realm. The ancient god called the Spirit Official had been rent into pieces and was falling from beyond heaven, his corpse chunks plunging one after another into the sea with heavy splashes, flinging up great waves.