Chapter 1470 — The Amiable Old Senior
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Di Qing had won another battle, and this one had been won with even greater ease.
It was the host of Lang Tianzun that came to attack, marching in overwhelming array against Tianfang City, and he had led his troops out and beaten them, slaying tens of thousands of gods and demons.
Lang Tianzun's eldest disciple had been turned by Shen Mu and had fled no one knew where, and the disciples of Lang Tianzun's school had been mauled by Shen Mu until the dead and wounded lay thick; and so, compared with the other Tianzuns, the power beneath his command was somewhat thin. But he was, after all, the leader of the demigods; the demigods of all the heavens and all the worlds honored him with the title Divine Emperor, and so within his army the mighty ones drawn from every demigod race were exceedingly many—only it was an army assembled in haste, a rabble.
Before Tianfang City the host of Langxuan Divine Emperor had suffered grievous slaughter; outside the walls the heavenly drums rolled, and the drumbeats swelled the fighting strength of Tianfang City's defenders, so that when they charged the enemy ranks the sound itself harrowed the soul, and gods and demons of shallow cultivation could not withstand it at all—their souls split asunder and they perished where they stood. This battle was won with matchless ease.
Di Qing returned in triumph, laughing aloud, his spirits soaring, and with a great wave of his hand he said, "Record this merit to the Mingdu Heavenly King—count it as his! Men, set out the victory feast; I shall welcome the Heavenly King and wash the dust from his feet, and celebrate this great merit! " Tian Shu could not decline, and so he let it be.
Some dozen days later, the Heavenly River Navy, having swept clean the surrounding star systems, at last arrived before Tianfang City, laying out a million troops and glaring like a tiger. Di Qing gave it not the slightest thought, for in those dozen-odd days star after star had been moved to the vicinity of Tianfang City. The domain of Tianfang City was vast, and crowded all around it were stars great and small; and these stars were living worlds, and upon them dwelt the peoples of the demigod races, living beings numbered in the hundreds of millions!
After these stars were moved over, the Heavenly Dao of Tianfang City grew so dense that the Heavenly Dao hovering above the city was no longer a mere transformation of form but had taken on substance!
In the space of a scant dozen days, the Heavenly Bell, the Heavenly Fire, the Heavenly Thunder, the Heavenly Light, the Heavenly Disk, the Heavenly Well, the Heavenly Drum, the Heavenly Weave, the Heavenly Field, and the rest—the Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao—all took on substance, and the majesty of the Heavenly Dao pressed down upon the four quarters, so that even the great army of the Heavenly Court was cowed by the might of the Heavenly Dao!
Nor was that all: more and more stars of Xuandu were moved over, and the other Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao were still ceaselessly taking form.
Of the forty-nine Heavenly Daos, only the Heavenly Net had yet to take form. If the Heavenly Net took form, the Dao soldiers of all forty-nine Heavenly Daos would be complete—a power beyond all measure!
And the gods and demons within the city likewise felt the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, which made their magic power more vigorous and their strength greater; whether in divine abilities or in divine weapons, their might rose by a great margin. Shen Mu, Zaifu, and the others too felt the power of the Heavenly Dao strengthen them, and their dao hearts grew ever more lucid; yet the more it was so, the more they worried.