Chapter 1470 — The Amiable Old Senior
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Tianfang City had gathered too many living beings and gods and demons of Xuandu; star after star was already crowded with people, and the more they gathered here, the more perilous it grew! When a Tianzun at last made his move, these lives would doubtless be ground to powder. Beyond the walls, more of the Heavenly Court's armies came surging in, and Tianfang Divine City was now sealed so tightly that not a drop of water could leak through.
The Heavenly Court's armies brought the Four Emperors' divine artifacts and attacked several more times, yet even the Four Emperors' divine artifacts were driven back before Tianfang City. The First Celestial Master Shang Pingyin, the Second Celestial Master Meng Yungui, and the rest each mustered great armies and strove to take Tianfang City, but they too lost soldiers and officers, unable to match the might of the Heavenly Dao's Dao soldiers.
Then the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven, the White Emperor of the Western Heaven, and other divinities led troops to attack, but they too ate defeat; the White Emperor and the Azure Emperor were even gravely wounded.
The Five Emperor Thrones and the Five Emperor Inner Thrones of the Heavenly Court likewise sallied out one and all, and the Heavenly Court's Ten Guards arrived as well, forming ranks and joining battle, yet they could never break into Tianfang City—they could not even draw near the city gates! In these days Di Qing won dozens of battles in a row, beside himself with joy.
Only, with Tianfang City now besieged, no more of Xuandu's heavens could be moved over, and the last Dao soldier, the Heavenly Net, could never take form; it left him somewhat regretful. "The Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao have made their name known to all the world in this war," he said to Shen Mu and the others.
"If all forty-nine Dao soldiers came forth together, slaying a Tianzun would be no trouble at all! " And beyond the walls, in the enemy camp, suddenly a blue bird came flying on beating wings and alighted in the Heavenly Court's lines.
"We respectfully welcome Hong Tianzun!
" The great generals of the Heavenly Court's various armies went forward one after another to receive him and bowed in succession, pleading guilty: "We are incompetent.
We have been stalled here at Tianfang City and can never break the city or wipe out the rebels!
We beg the Tianzun to punish us! " Hong Tianzun laughed heartily.
"A trifling matter, no need to beg punishment.
Let me first look at the scene before us. " He came to the front of the ranks and studied Tianfang City, then looked at the forty-eight Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao hovering above the city, and cocked his ear to listen to the dao-sounds and dao-echoes of the Heavenly Dao.
"Truly fine treasures," he laughed.
"The Ancestral God King forged treasures of the Heavenly Dao, joining the treasures of the forty-nine Heavenly Daos into a single supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao, ever-changing. What a pity the Great Emperor shattered it.
Though he forged another set, treasures of the Heavenly Dao forged by one's own hand cannot compare with these Dao soldiers that the Heavenly Dao itself has transformed. Fine treasures—even the Lord of Heaven could not forge them; only at a juncture of life and death like this can such peerless treasures take form.
How enviable.
" The generals dared not say more.
Hong Tianzun asked, "Have the other Tianzuns arrived? " The generals shook their heads one and all.
"They have not.