Chapter 1468 — Her Father Appears Here
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Tianfang was the eleventh of the Forty-Nine Heavens of the Heavenly Dao, and Tianfang City was one of the Forty-Nine Divine Cities of Xuandu, where tremendous power gathered and the breath of the Heavenly Dao lay thickest. By the time they reached Tianfang City, they saw that the Heavenly Dao blessed the whole divine city, so dense above it that it had taken on substance; and gathered there were countless Sun Wardens, Moon Wardens, and Star Lords.
The divine city was encompassed by thousands upon thousands of suns and moons and stars and constellations, as though it floated at the heart of a vast galaxy, blazing so bright the eye could scarce bear to look. At that moment Tianfang City was under siege by the armies of the Ancestral God King, led by Dan Fenglai, Great Sun Star Lord under his command; numberless Golden Crows dragged sun after sun, and from those suns flew out countless Fire Crow troops to assault the city.
Yet against Tianfang City's rampart-like defenses, Dan Fenglai could not force his way in at all. Dan Fenglai had once been charged with surveying the Heavenly Dao in Xuandu and charting the heavens there, but the Lord of Heaven had indulged the Earth Mother Yuanjun, who swept away every force the Heavenly Court had left in Xuandu; the several million gods and demons of his personal guard all perished at her hands.
The army he held now was newly assembled, Golden Crow god-race conscripted from the myriad heavens and worlds, and it could not match his old guard. He was a being of the Emperor Throne realm, and he led from the front, charging into the fray. When Shen Mu and the others arrived, the fighting was at its fiercest, and Dan Fenglai was about to break into the divine city when suddenly the Heavenly Dao within the city quaked; Sun Warden after Sun Warden, Moon Warden after Moon Warden, and the Star Lords roared in unison, their powers linked as one, and in the sky the Heavenly Dao condensed and became a great Heaven Seal that came crashing down.
Before the Heaven Seal had fully fallen, Dan Fenglai's eye corners twitched violently and his body grew as if bound by chains of the Heavenly Dao, unable to move; boundless pressure bore down from above, and before the Seal reached the crown of his head his bones were already cracking and popping, his skin bursting open, his divine blood steaming.
Dan Fenglai screeched again and again; suddenly he shook himself and became a fire phoenix, and three heavenly palaces soared up into the sky. His primordial spirit and powers unleashed to the full, he dragged one forged divine sun after another up to meet the Heaven Seal; nine divine suns, strung like nine stars in a row, hammered into the Seal in succession, and the violent explosions held the Seal up a moment. At once the fire phoenix beat its wings and fled. A deafening boom!
The Heaven Seal ground the nine divine suns to powder and came down with a crash; at once severed limbs and broken arms flew through the battlefield, the bodies and primordial spirits of countless divine soldiers and generals under Dan Fenglai shattered, numberless limbs whirling through the air before the searing hurricane blew them into ashes.
This dread shockwave rolled to where Shen Mu and the others stood, shaking them off their feet, so that even the tower ship could not draw near Tianfang City. After the shock of the Heaven Seal passed, a heavenly well suddenly surfaced from the battlefield; unlike the wells of common sight, this well joined the heavens above and reached the earth below, its shaft like the body of a dragon. The moment the heavenly well appeared on the battlefield, the whole well was like a monster that devours all things, sucking in Dan Fenglai's great army; numberless divine soldiers and generals danced and flailed in the air, grasping at anything, but there was nothing to grasp, and they were drawn into the well one after another, turning to flying ash.