Chapter 1654 — The Fool of the Southern Heaven
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Then the Great Abyss of Guixu erupted, swallowing the Great Heavenly Court behind Huotian Zun like a whale, and dragging his primal spirit into the Wild Ruins.
Huotian Zun fell back and crashed into the Empress Consort; she toppled backward, and the red mole at her brow at once turned black, becoming Lady Yuanmu.
Lady Yuanmu laughed till she shook like blossoms in the wind, and roused her Samsara divine power to seal the Empress Consort---only to see Huotian Zun's primal spirit soar up from the abyss, trailing a tattered, shattered heavenly palace, and pierce clean through the back of Lady Yuanmu's skull.
Whoosh---
Huotian Zun's primal spirit flew out from Lady Yuanmu's brow, trailing the battered palaces and court; thunderous explosions rang within her skull, blood spurted unceasing from eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and the blood turned to firelight as it sprayed.
Huotian Zun's chest heaved; his head grew out from his chest cavity, and just as he was about to recall his primal spirit, Xutian Zun, her head facing backward, brought both palms down heavily upon his skull, and frightful demonic power ran through his body, shattering his Divine Bridge and Divine Treasury!
That power drove straight in, dismantling his Life and Death, his Heaven-Man, his Seven Stars, his Six Harmonies, his Five Luminaries, and was on the verge of destroying his Prime Embryo Divine Treasury!
Huotian Zun's primal spirit flew in and, with a single strike, drove Xutian Zun's primal spirit out of her body; her flesh at once burst into flame within the Dao-fire.
His primal spirit entered his body and became firelight, soaring into the sky. He had scarce risen when Zushen Wang, himself burning, roused the Tiangong flesh-body and pierced the back of his skull with one finger!
A great hole burst open at Huotian Zun's brow; the force of that finger ran through the Heavenly Court within his head, destroying the Heavenly Gate, the Jade Pool, and the God-Slaying Terrace, and sweeping across Jade Capital City.
The frightful power rolled on in overwhelming tide to the Lingxiao Hall and blasted it to powder!
The Lingxiao Treasure Hall exploded, and Huotian Zun's primal spirit, seated upon the Imperial Throne, was likewise pierced through by the finger of the Tiangong flesh-body!
Beneath him, the Imperial Throne became a phantom and slowly dispersed.
Huotian Zun then felt his own mana collapse and drain away madly; his realm plunged from the Heavenly Court to the Imperial Throne, from the Imperial Throne to Lingxiao, and then his cultivation was pressed down through Jade Capital, the God-Slaying Terrace, the Jade Pool, the Heavenly Gate, the Divine Bridge, Life and Death, and Heaven-Man!
"I have cultivated twelve kinds of Imperishable Attainments. A wound like this cannot destroy me!"
Huotian Zun forcibly steadied his scattering mana, and saw Zushen Wang and Xutian Zun, dragging their grievous wounds, come hunting after him. So he shook his form, and in the starry sky millions upon millions of streaks of firelight scattered in every direction.
Streak after streak of firelight filled the Southern Heaven, flying off along different paths.
Zushen Wang and Xutian Zun reached out again and again, snatching up many streaks of firelight, but all were empty.
Zushen Wang vomited great mouthfuls of blood; he forced his mana to suppress the Dao-fire upon his body, and could pursue no further. Xutian Zun's cultivation was a shade inferior to his, and she fared worse still.
The two barely steadied the Dao-fire. Zushen Wang scraped together a thread of mana and cried out sternly: "Gods and demons of the Southern Heaven, hear the command! Huotian Zun has turned traitor. Seal the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge for me, hunt him down on every side, and kill him; the Heavenly Court will reward you richly, making you kings and marquises!"