Chapter 1627 — The Yin Lord's Legacy
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Shen Fengqing's tears pattered down onto the flawless Book of Life and Death. The golden volume gleamed, illuminating every drop until it shone translucent.
Gradually light began to seep from within the tears, as though passing through crystal, refracting in all directions, flowing and shifting without cease. Shen Fengqing flew into a rage and hurled the scroll of the Book of Life and Death away!
"What use have I for this foot-wiping cloth of yours?
Give me back my Earth Lord—" Whoosh— The Book of Life and Death floated in the air, its pages unfurling, growing larger and larger, until in an instant a golden radiance shrouded the space above his head.
The golden light continued to expand, to stretch outward.
By now the Void Heavenly Venerable had followed the Heavenly River to Youdu. Chancing to look up, she saw a curtain of golden light extending from above the Earth Lord's head, growing ever broader, and soon veiling countless worlds within the darkness!
Shhk— The Nether River too was severed by the golden light.
The surging waters of the Nether River poured into the golden curtain, flowing within it! The Void Heavenly Venerable was filled with shock and uncertainty. Youdu's vastness was nearly equal to the entire cosmos; wherever there was death, there was Youdu.
Even the Ancestral Court overlapped with Youdu!
Only a handful of worlds could prevent Youdu from descending upon them—worlds such as Xuandu, Tianyin, and the Heavenly Court. Now this golden curtain was expanding at an inconceivable speed, screening off nearly all worlds, severing their connection to Youdu!
"Has the Earth Lord gone mad? " The Void Heavenly Venerable's eyes flickered with sharp light.
"Has he decided to drag all living beings of the world down with him in death?
So he truly has lost his mind, and begun a great slaughter! But then again, this is the Earth Lord—this is the true demonic path!
" Demonic qi surged from her whole body, dyeing the Nether River black.
She laughed. "You always put on such pious airs, feigning fairness and selflessness, feigning impartiality, wearing the look of one who handles matters justly and without selfish motive. But I am your daughter—how could I not know what the demonic path is? And now at last you show your true face!
" Behind her, the void split open. The Heavenly Lord's enormous face squeezed through the sky, bending down to look. The Ancestral God-King stood at the center of the Heavenly Lord's brow, where demonic qi and the divine breath of Xuandu collided and annihilated each other, filling the sky around the Heavenly Lord with the flames of that annihilation. "Void Heavenly Venerable, the Earth Lord means to slaughter all beings.
If he kills every living creature, whom will we have left to rule?
" the Ancestral God-King called out. "Let him kill!
" The Void Heavenly Venerable flicked her sleeve and sneered. "The more he kills, the less work for us.
Never mind slaughtering all beings—even if he destroys every world, what of it?
He cannot escape death in the end! " The Ancestral God-King frowned. The Void Heavenly Venerable said coldly, "At worst, we remake the heavens and create beings anew, fashioning a new batch of obedient creatures and gods!
" Suddenly, unwittingly, tears had wet her cheeks.
They slid down her face, drifted into the air, and transformed into motes of demonic fire floating there. "Why am I weeping?
" the Void Heavenly Venerable murmured. "In all my life I have shed tears only once, when I was young and ignorant.
After that I never wept again.
. .
" She gazed at her demonic-fire tears floating in the air, somewhat dazed, a faint unease stirring in her heart. Just then, upon the surface of the Book of Life and Death that shrouded the entire world of Youdu, a name emerged.
"Tu.
" The Void Heavenly Venerable looked at this name and showed bewilderment.
She murmured, "Who is Tu?