Chapter 1470 — The Amiable Old Senior
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" "I was held up by the Moon Tianzun, who has rebelled against the Heavenly Alliance, and so was delayed a while. I had thought I would arrive late; I never expected that I should be the first to come here. " Hong Tianzun's face glowed, ruddy and radiant, and he laughed: "Withdraw part of your troops first. Open a gap and let the people of Xuandu into Tianfang City. When his Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao have ripened, I will break him. " He was the famously good-natured one among the Ten Tianzuns; he neither berated the generals nor killed a few defeated officers to consecrate the banner, which let everyone breathe easy.
Still, that Hong Tianzun should bid them open a gap and let the Xuandu rebels gather, and let that Heavenly Net Dao soldier take form, was somewhat hard to understand.
"The Tianzun most likely has his eye on these forty-nine Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao," they said.
"He even said the Lord of Heaven could not forge such Dao soldiers.
" Meng Yungui said to Shang Pingyin, "If this Dao soldier takes form, I fear the forty-nine Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao will merge into one, with boundless might. Hong Tianzun has never liked to contend with others—can he break these Dao soldiers?
" Shang Pingyin said, "Hong Tianzun is unfathomable; he is beyond our reckoning. " And in Tianfang Divine City, Di Qing waited a long while and never saw Hong Tianzun come to attack; instead the Heavenly Court's camp had opened a gap, seemingly to let the people in the city flee.
He set his heart at rest and laughed: "Hong Tianzun, the good-for-nothing among the Ten Tianzuns, dares not fight Tianfang City, so he has opened a gap hoping we will flee of ourselves and scatter our forces. But I shall do the very opposite, and let more people in!
" More of Xuandu's troops and common folk were moved over; another dozen days passed, and still Hong Tianzun did not come to attack, and at last the Heavenly Net Dao soldier took form. In Tianfang City the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao flourished greatly; the heavenly majesty rolled vast, the Heavenly Dao ran in ordered lines, and every soul in the city, god or demon or common mortal, was filled with a hundredfold vigor and a hundredfold confidence!
Shen Mu gathered Tian Shu, Zaifu, and the others and said, "Hong Tianzun is about to make his move.
He does not know we are in the city. In this battle we shall only take one of his arms, and seize the Heavenly Net Dao soldier.
" "Then what of these mortals in the city?
" Zhe Huali asked. Shen Mu was silent a moment, then shook his head. "First we preserve our own lives. As for the rest—" His eye corner twitched. "We will speak of it later!
" Boom—Suddenly a violent tremor came from beyond the walls, ten thousand daos crying out together. The five of them, Shen Mu and the others, hurriedly raised their heads and looked, and saw a vast face with white brows and white beard rising slowly, blotting out the sky before Tianfang City, blotting out the stars all around Tianfang City!
His face was so immense that the suns and the stars wheeling around Tianfang City seemed as fine as motes of dust. That was Hong Tianzun's face, white-browed and white-bearded, kind of brow and benevolent of eye.
Yet now this kindly-browed, benevolent-eyed Hong Tianzun reached out a great hand and smote down at Tianfang City! Di Qing roared in fury and soared into the air, crying aloud, "Hong Tianzun, you old fellow Hong, you have finally made your move!
Now you shall see how fearsome the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao can be!
Children, rouse the Dao soldiers of the Heavenly Dao!
" Above Tianfang City, the might of one Dao soldier of the Heavenly Dao after another was roused, the dao-majesty of the Heavenly Dao driven to its utmost, and it thundered toward Hong Tianzun's face!
Hong Tianzun smiled, a smile like a warm spring breeze upon the skin.