Chapter 1804 — The Final Battlefield

Beyond the Ancestral Court, the armies of Jingping and the Myriad Heavens and Worlds were still withdrawing in orderly fashion. Emperor Yanfeng, Ling Yuxiu, Lizheng and the others remained at the very rear. They would not depart until the last of the soldiers had withdrawn.

Just then, they saw an enormous "wall."

The "wall" rising from the east of the Ancestral Court was terrifying in its height, terrifying in its length, and its breadth was no less staggering to behold!

It could not possibly be called a wall. It was more like a heavenly barrier!

The mountains, rivers and geography upon that "surface" were still shifting. Someone was employing immense magic power to alter the lay of the land, transforming that heavenly barrier into a vast seal!

"The Beast World!"

Dragon Qilin suddenly cried out, his voice failing him. "The Beast World has been folded as well!"

Yan'er stood beside him, gazing into the distance. The folding of the Ancestral Court was no mere spatial divine ability; had it been simple space magic, the Beast World would never have been folded.

This was true inexhaustible power, forcibly folding the Ancestral Court, so that the Beast World upon its reverse side was revealed!

The Beast World dwelt within a seal. Long before the Longhan Era had arrived, the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor Taichu had led all the Ancient Gods of the world and the mightiest among the demigods to seal the Ancestral Court with the reverse side of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, cutting it off from them.

Later Shen Mu and the Ten Heavenly Venerates came here and broke open the Ancestral Court's seal, but they did not fully undo it. The reverse side of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds remained sealed, and evolved into the Beast World.

The moment this heavenly barrier rose, Dragon Qilin at once sensed the seals left by the gods of the Primordial Era snapping one after another. A quarter of the seal over the Beast World upon the Ancestral Court's reverse side was severed in an instant!

As the new lord of the Beast World, his perception of it was exceedingly keen. The Beast World upon the Ancestral Court's reverse side was the most flourishing realm among the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and now that this upheaval had struck so suddenly, he was at a loss, not knowing what to do.

That wall continued to rise and change, surpassing the World Tree, standing beyond the heavens. Granny Zhu hurriedly severed the spirit-energy transfer bridge beside her that led to Jingping, crying out, "Yuan magnetic storm! Stop the transfer!"

She at once rushed to the other spirit-energy transfer bridges. Emperor Yanfeng, Ling Yuxiu, Lizheng and the others had already stepped forward, shutting down one transfer bridge after another.

The remaining army of a million gods and devils, unable to enter the transfer bridges, grew alarmed and uncertain.

Granny Zhu cried out, "Everyone stand guard and form ranks! Prepare to meet the yuan magnetic storm!"

The crowd hastily marshaled the various armies and arrayed their formations. Granny Zhu stood at the very front, activating her yuan magnetic divine ability, leading her subordinates to set the Wheel of Myriad Laws turning, awaiting the onslaught in strict array.

The starry sky was utterly still.

The crowd looked toward the place where the Ancestral Court had been folded, but saw no abnormality—only that the heavenly barrier spanning north to south had grown more majestic still.

Suddenly, one of the heavens nearest to the Ancestral Court shifted in the starry sky, as though pushed some distance by some thing.

Wei Suifeng shuddered with dread, his hair suddenly bristling like a hedgehog's. "Everyone ready," he cried sternly. "Activate every last measure of your power! The impact of the Ancestral Court's yuan magnetic storm is several times fiercer than we imagined!"

The crowd was instantly thrown into the utmost panic.

One heaven pushed forth seemed not to have moved far to the eye, but in truth, in the starry sky, the distance the yuan magnetic storm had moved it was absolutely terrifying!

This meant the yuan magnetic storm born of the Ancestral Court's shifting geography was of an appalling intensity!

The impact of the yuan magnetic storm must be strong beyond imagining!

In the starry sky, stars suddenly seemed to run wild, blown by a radiance, drifting and swaying in every direction. Now the stars flattened like thin cakes, now stretched long, now shrank into a ball, now swelled hundreds of times over—most bizarre.

A river of stars swayed, its spiral arm suddenly bending as though struck a fierce blow by an invisible giant. The hundreds of millions of stars within that river turned chaotically, in grotesque disorder!

The crowd's eyelids twitched wildly. The yuan magnetic storm had at last reached them.

Boom!

Boundless light suddenly erupted before their eyes. The might of the yuan magnetic storm surged in, and space warped at once. Unimaginable forces stretched and compressed them in every direction. Some were drawn into long thin lines, some crushed to the size of a bean by boundless force, and still others—their bodies lurching—suddenly found themselves split into hundreds and thousands of pieces, each fragment of flesh in a different space.

More grotesque still, he found himself still alive!

Even in such a state, he had not died!

This was because the yuan magnetism was so powerful that it split space into different divisions. Though he dwelt in separate spaces, his flesh was in fact still connected.

The various formations of Jingping were triggered. Everyone joined strength, each activating their yuan magnetic divine abilities to counter the storm—yet the power of this yuan magnetic storm surpassed their expectations, inflicting casualties among the soldiers of every army.

At that very moment, the stars in the starry sky suddenly grew brighter and brighter, their starlight converging to form the enormous face of the Heavenly Duke.

Whoosh—

A beam of starlight incomparably thick descended—the hand of the Heavenly Duke, formed of countless stars, blocking the way before the million-strong army.

The crowd felt a great weight lift—but then they saw the Heavenly Duke's palm crumbling ceaselessly within the yuan magnetic storm. Soon the palm was blown apart, revealing the bones formed of countless stellar cores!

Yet thanks to the Heavenly Duke's brief block, they weathered this wave of the yuan magnetic storm at last. Granny Zhu let out a breath of relief and looked around. The armies were in disarray, and many skilled in yuan magnetic divine abilities were aiding the gods and devils caught in the storm's afterwaves.

Countless divine weapons and treasures in the hands of gods and devils had shattered—some melted, some crushed, some reduced to lumps of iron, some drawn into thin threads. The runes branded upon those weapons had almost completely dissolved!

The power of the yuan magnetic divine ability was terrifying beyond measure. This ability had originally been held in the hands of the Earth Mother Yuanjun, one of the Earth Mother's Three Paths.

Since the Earth Mother's death, few could bring the yuan magnetic divine ability to such a degree. Even were the Earth Mother alive, she might not have managed such a feat.

Granny Zhu was one of the few to have cultivated the yuan magnetic divine ability to the thirtieth heaven, and so, in the very instant the Ancestral Court's yuan magnetic storm erupted, she perceived the danger and gave warning in advance.

"The Ancestral Court has undergone a tremendous change—we must leave at once!"

Emperor Yanfeng cried out, "Enter the spirit-energy transfer bridges at once!"

Wei Suifeng shook his head. "Your Majesty, the spirit-energy transfer bridges have already been destroyed."

Emperor Yanfeng was startled and hurried to look. The several spirit-energy transfer bridges they had built had been completely destroyed by the yuan magnetic storm, reduced to heaps of scrap iron.