Chapter 1286 — Fellow Daoist, Please Go on Your Way
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
In their panicked escape the ground around Venerable Haotian emptied in an instant, leaving only a few corpses behind.
Venerable Haotian stepped forward to give chase when suddenly muffled booms rang out from within his flesh, his body bursting open again and again, his lifeblood rampaging and streaming out to escape his flesh!
He bowed his head and vomited blood, and in the instant his head dropped,片片 sheets of spatial mirrors appeared silently around him, countless spatial runes lighting up within them to form a spatial killing formation. "Another disciple of Venerable Moon? " Venerable Haotian sneered and forcibly suppressed his wounds, for much of the power he had devoured and refined from the heart-demon Mu Tianzuns, painstakingly hoarded, had already been spent, yet what remained was still enough to slay this foe.
He roared aloud, and at the same moment the spatial killing formation erupted, leaving Venerable Haotian dripping with blood, while the spatial killing formation shattered with a roar amid his bellow!
In the instant the mirrors burst apart, Venerable Haotian's pupils shrank, for floating before him was a lantern. Within that lantern light gathered into a single line, a zither string a thousand hundred miles long!
A fair hand gripped that string and drew it back!
At the same moment he broke the spatial killing formation, the string had already left the hand. A note rang out, lingering and far-reaching.
Though distant, the note was swift, and the luminous spatial string was before him in a flash!
Venerable Haotian howled and struck forward, the space ahead bursting apart as a great hand met the string and blasted through the sky above the Dark Gorge, the palm chasing straight after the one who had plucked the string. As his palm passed the luminous string, four fingers were severed at the root, sliced off by that string, and the palm with only one finger left slapped down upon the sky a thousand miles away.
That sky burst apart with a crash, and Bai Yuqiong, hidden there, spat blood as she fell out of the void and fled in panic, concealing her form.
The luminous string reached Venerable Haotian's throat and flickered past. Venerable Haotian clapped his other hand to his neck, where a line of blood appeared.
A line of blood appeared on the nape of his neck as well!
"You dare kill me.
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you rebels.
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" His fury unabated, rumbling explosions suddenly came from within him again, and a狂暴 surge of lifeblood blasted his head into midair. That string, a treasure of Venerable Moon, had still severed his head.
"Return!
" Venerable Haotian's head shouted from its mouth, the spurting gore hissing back into his body as the head dropped of itself onto his neck.
"Not one of you shall escape!
" The explosions within him unceasing, he strode outward, for as one of the most powerful beings in all history he deemed himself little weaker than the Celestial Emperor reborn, and yet now he had been wounded to such a state by a few petty thieves!
A mighty Venerable, famed since the Longhan Era, chief of the Ten Venerables, the one most likely to become Celestial Emperor, to him this was an unbearable humiliation!
The moment he stepped out of the nest, his stride suddenly halted, and he did not pursue.
A flicker of dread showed in his eyes.
Before him stood thousands of heart-demon Mu Tianzuns in neat ranks!
Those heart-demon Mu Tianzuns stood in perfect order, their lines unwavering, like a ruthless army awaiting a general's review.
"Venerable Mu, is that you?
" Venerable Haotian spat out a breath of foul air, his gaze sweeping the myriad heart-demon Mu Tianzuns as he sneered: "I know you are here, for only you could command so many heart-demons.
Heh, Venerable Mu, do you only dare hide among them? " "Not hiding.