Chapter 1634 — No Choice but Death
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The Heavenly Lord's strength had not yet reached the level of a Tianzun, and his magic power was far weaker than in his former life, yet in one respect he surpassed the Heavenly Lord of that former life, for his comprehension of the Heavenly Dao ran deeper, deeper even than that of his son the Ancestor God King. Freed from the flesh of the Heavenly Lord and from the fetters of the Heavenly Dao, he could instead grasp the inner meaning of the Heavenly Dao more clearly and draw nearer to it.
The Tiangang Dao weapon, foremost among the fifty Heavenly Dao treasures, had fallen into his hands, while the other forty-nine, Tianji, Tianqi, Tianyin, Tianxuan, Tianji and the rest, shifted without cease and pressed forward layer upon layer, shattering the fleshly body of Langxuan Divine Emperor.
As Langxuan's flesh broke apart, the celestial court between his brows swelled outward and expanded, and there could be seen five red cords piercing that court from every direction and passing through that Dao fruit. With the Tiangang Dao weapon in hand the Heavenly Lord charged forward, the forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures flying high and low and combining without pause, strangling all in their path and destroying palace after palace within Langxuan's court as he drove straight for that Dao fruit.
That Dao fruit lay caught in the red cord knot and dared not struggle, and could only watch him cut his way closer. Should the Heavenly Lord touch the knot, that Dao fruit could hardly be preserved.
At that very moment Hao Tianzun appeared before the Dao fruit, and with a wave of his hand a Guixu Great Abyss opened, into which the Heavenly Lord fell together with his treasures. That Guixu divine art shook violently, the fifty Heavenly Dao treasures spun, and bearing the Heavenly Lord with them they killed their way back out.
The Heavenly Lord flew clear of the court of Langxuan Divine Emperor and landed upon the ground, and his heavenly sword slashed toward A'Chou and the Earth Earl so that the golden cords binding A'Chou and the Earth Earl snapped and fell, and A'Chou crashed down into the stele forest.
"Skill not bad," Hao Tianzun praised, his gaze settling upon him, his two eyes like two invincible black holes that gave men a most uneasy feeling.
"Heavenly Lord, since Mu Tianzun revived you your skill has grown far handsomer than before. In those years when you were still Hong Tianzun, though first in magic power, your cultivation of the Dao heart was too poor.
After Shen Tianzun opened the Dao realm, Hong Tianzun fell behind, so that he was plotted against by Mu Tianzun and died miserably.
Heavenly Lord, if you would return to the Ten Tianzuns, I would welcome you with my shoes turned backward. " The Heavenly Lord planted the Tiangang Dao weapon upright, Heavenly Dao treasures dancing about him, and laughed.
"The death of Hong has nothing to do with Mu Tianzun, it was of my own making, and moreover the hand that slew Hong was not Mu Tianzun's but that of my rebellious son the Ancestor God King.
" Behind Hao Tianzun's head thirty-five celestial palaces formed the Myriad Dao Heaven Wheel, and within the wheel Shen Mu tried to break the formation and escape, yet Hao Tianzun's thirty-five palaces changed in a thousand ways and held him fast throughout. "Lingyu High Venerable, now you know that to cooperate with Mu Tianzun is to bargain for a tiger's skin? " Hao Tianzun suddenly said. "Mu Tianzun stops at nothing, and even if you made a Dao fruit alliance with him he would break it at any time. Of this the Heavenly Lord is also well aware.
" Shen Mu no longer tried to flee and laughed aloud. "Lingyu High Venerable, have I broken my Dao fruit alliance with you?