Chapter 1674 — A Battle to Break the Deadlock
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" He flicked the blade with his finger; the sword rang out, and in an instant its light pierced layer upon layer of the void, sword light filling the heavens. Shen Mu gave a light sweep, the tip of the sword pointing down, aimed at the Yuan World. In that moment a rainbow of sword light arched across the sky above the Yuan World, stretching from the far western reaches of the Yuan World across countless thousands of miles of sky to hover over the seas in the east of the Yuan World.
The vertical eye at the center of Shen Mu's brow slowly opened, and he said softly, "Sever! " In Jingping, a divine being saw that sword light and hurried to inform Emperor Yanfeng and Jingping's Imperial Preceptor.
Emperor Yanfeng was stirred beyond measure, while Jingping's Imperial Preceptor appeared far more composed; he rushed at once to the Wendao Academy and cried in a stern voice, "Sword light has appeared in the sky! Cut the transfer bridges — cut the transfer bridges at once! " In the Wendao Academy, Wen Tiange, the Woodcutter and Heavenly Master of Wuyou Township, raised his axe and swung it. Order after order went out, and throughout the Yuan World and the myriad heavens and worlds, Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridges were destroyed one after another by the divine beings of the Heaven Court's Daoist sects and Jingping's Daoist sects.
Great chaos erupted throughout the myriad heavens and worlds. The divine beings ordered to sever the spirit bridges immediately clashed with the Heaven Court troops guarding the transfer bridges, and the slaughter was savage!
In the Langcang Heavens, a dozen or so Daoists, with the Black Tiger God among them, fought blood-soaked through the enemy, struggling to reach the altar of the Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridge.
The army of divine demons the Heaven Court had stationed here poured up without end; the Daoists shouted in unison and joined their strength into a sword formation, transforming into the Dao Sword of the Twenty-Eight Heavens to hold the enemy back.
The Black Tiger God pressed forward with all his strength and roared, driving the Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridge. Layer upon layer of its structure expanded outward, rotating in different directions. Suddenly a divine spear pierced one Daoist through the body; his primordial spirit flew free of his flesh and was nailed dead upon the altar.
The Black Tiger God paid it no heed, driving the altar with all his power, throwing the order of the arts of calculation into disarray.
The Langcang Heavens were the greatest of all the heavens in the Heaven Court's domain. The Heaven Court kept hundreds of thousands of troops stationed here to guard the transfer bridges, so that it could respond with the greatest speed, rushing to the Yuan World at a moment's notice and sending word back to the Heaven Court at once!
Therefore, no matter the cost, the Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridges here had to be destroyed, or all their efforts would come to nothing! Another Daoist fell in battle, the sword formation was broken, and the Heaven Court army stationed here pounced like wolves and tigers, drowning the dozen or so remaining Daoists!
The Black Tiger God clenched his teeth and gave a furious roar, tearing the core out of the Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridge.
The whole bridge collapsed at once!
He turned and charged into the Heaven Court army, thrown into disorder by the collapse of the transfer bridge, trying to save those dozen or so Daoists. "Go, quickly—" A Daoist, his body pierced by dozens of swords and riddled with wounds, held off six or seven Heaven Court divine demons by sheer force, turned his head and grinned, blood staining his teeth red. "We have succeeded!
Every one of us who lives is one more!