Chapter 1674 — A Battle to Break the Deadlock
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Go, quickly—" Tears welled in the Black Tiger God's tiger eyes. He turned about, and countless teleportation runes burst forth and swallowed him. He was gone in an instant, and from the shattered, collapsing Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridge came that Daoist's voice: "We of the Daoist sects observe truth through the arts of calculation and seek the Great Dao!
Do not make light of the arts of Jingping's Daoist sects!
Lesser Heavenly Star Dao Dissolution—" BOOM— Boundless starlight erupted from that place, spinning madly and swelling outward. It was a microscopic art of calculation among Jingping's arts, one that used calculation to unravel the phenomenon of a star's explosion; its power was terrifying, and it swiftly engulfed everything there. "Every Spirit-Nexus Transfer Bridge from the myriad heavens and worlds to the Heaven Court has been severed.
" Outside the Yuan World, the vertical eye at the center of Shen Mu's brow slowly opened.
"Haotian the Heavenly Venerable's move is nothing more than to ask Heavenly Venerable Xu to strike from Youdu and wipe out every living thing in Jingping or Wuyou Township. Or to strike from Xuandu, plunging the Yuan World into utter darkness and letting the Ancestral God King send calamity down upon it. And to all of this, I have long since prepared my countermeasures. " Taichu's pupils shrank sharply, his gaze falling on the Yuan World behind Shen Mu.
There, in Jingping of the Yuan World, a youth's body was swelling madly, growing taller than Jingping's Yuan Tree, his head towering into the clouds, two long horns twisting in nine bends and eighteen curves, thrusting straight beyond the sky!
"Where my body stands, there is Youdu! " From the mouth of that youth, Tubo, came the heavy demon tongue of Youdu, and in an instant the space where Jingping lay split apart, forming the strange sight of a lesser Youdu overlapping Jingping!
At the same time, in the position of the Thirty-Three Heavens of Wuyou Township, Heavenly Venerable You sat in a paper boat and raised his hand to light the storm lantern before him.
The lamp flared, and his shadow swept down to cover the earth. His primordial spirit was as vast as his shadow, and in the west of the Yuan World he raised another Youdu!
The two Youdus overlapped, and in the corners and edges they did not cover, the Fengdu World emerged. The stone steles of the realm where the dead live rose higher and higher, like a great mountain standing in the Yuan World, shielding those places.
King Yama's cloak flapped in the wind; sword in hand, he shrouded Fengdu, standing tall in the darkness. At the same moment, the Lord of Heaven came to the center of the Yuan World and abruptly planted the Heavenly Net Supreme Treasure in the ground.
He stood tall, and the other forty-nine Supreme Treasures of the Heavenly Dao rose whistling into the air! A deep hum. The supreme treasures — Tianji, Tianquan, Tiansha, and the rest — floated up into the sky of the Yuan World, and in an instant formed forty-nine layers of barriers!
Hidden within the Yuan World was the Inner Heaven of Forty-Nine Layers.
The stars and constellations of the myriad heavens emerged within that Inner Heaven of Forty-Nine Layers, sun and moon and all things complete, transforming into a lesser Xuandu. Taichu watched this scene and said in a hoarse voice, "Fourth Brother, you have prepared most thoroughly.
" Shen Mu smiled faintly.
"You flatter me, Second Brother.
" Suddenly a great Heaven Court appeared behind him, seventy-two treasure halls ringing the Palace of the Thirty-Three Heavens. Shen Mu's primordial spirit stood before the Chaos Hall, and his voice was the tongue of the Dao, vast and far-heard: "Second Brother, you know that I am the Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace, but you do not know that it was not in the universe of the past that I became the Seventh Young Master.