Chapter 1628 — The Decisive Battle of the Netherworld
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The Fire Heavenly Venerable snorted in fury; the Dao fire burned and consumed it all. Yet as this layer of illusion vanished, he appeared in another.
This layer of illusion was of his going to slay the Ming Emperor. The Ming Emperor of the human race had led a great army against the Heavenly Court, fighting his way into the starry void beyond the Southern Heavenly Gate. The Fire Heavenly Venerable himself had led troops to put him down, and after long fighting could not win.
The Hao Heavenly Venerable came, and the Fire Heavenly Venerable saw another version of himself bow to him with an ingratiating smile: "It is not that I am incompetent; it is that this brute has refined his creation divine art to the point where his fleshly body cannot be destroyed. But in crossing blows with him I discovered one place he has never refined—his primordial spirit! I recommend Yin Tianzi, and this brute can be destroyed!"
The Fire Heavenly Venerable's face was grim; whatever the illusion, he smashed them all to pieces.
The zither music was melodious and sweet.
In the layers of illusion that followed were scenes of him assassinating the Moon Heavenly Venerable, of him campaigning against Kaihuang, of him trying to slay Lan Yutian upon the Heavenly River, and of him enslaving the South Heaven human race.
The Fire Heavenly Venerable did not even look. He simply shattered every illusion with his monstrous dharma power, until at last he saw Langwan—and without a word he launched a killing strike!
His dharma power exceeded Langwan's by far too much. Though she was a Creator of formidable fleshly body, and her consciousness was the foremost surviving in the world—with the Great Emperor dead and Gong Yun destroyed, Langwan's consciousness stood unmatched beneath heaven.
Yet her dharma power fell far short of the Fire Heavenly Venerable's. Among the Heavenly Venerables, his dharma power was second only to the Hao Heavenly Venerable and Taichu!
Under that blow Langwan's face changed drastically; she raised a hand and met it head-on.
With a tremendous boom, the Fire Heavenly Venerable's blood and qi surged uncontrollably, and astonishment showed upon his face.
This Langwan's dharma power was actually not much inferior to his own!
Without a second thought he pressed the attack, Dao fire blazing, striking to kill; and Langwan before him matched him, divine arts whirling, trading blow for blow in the hardest of clashes, her divine arts and Dao methods exquisitely refined!
Both were wounded. Suddenly the Fire Heavenly Venerable's heart gave a small jolt, and Langwan opposite seemed to recall something as well; in one voice they cried: "The three rooms of the Bridge of the Void!"
In Youdu, in the thirty-fifth layer of void, the Moon Heavenly Venerable sat within the void, plucking her zither strings, her gaze upon the dancing of her ten fingers. Langwan stood behind her, the consciousness at her brow erupting.
And there in Youdu, the Fire Heavenly Venerable was trading furious blows with the Void Heavenly Venerable, fighting to the death.
The three rooms at the end of the Bridge of the Void in the Taixu Land had originally been built by the Moon Heavenly Venerable together with the clan chiefs and elders of the Creator race; the Fire Heavenly Venerable and the Void Heavenly Venerable had once been trapped within them and barely escaped with their lives.
At the same moment, above the Ancestral Court, the Hao Heavenly Venerable rose to his feet, a look of alarmed uncertainty upon his face; his gaze pierced through into the Youdu within the Ancestral Court, and he stepped down from the Heavenly Court.
Beneath the World Tree, Kaihuang rose to his full height, robes snapping in the wind, and walked out of the Black Wood Holy Land.