Chapter 1682 — Sounding the Depths (Happy Holidays!)
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
In the era of the Jingping Reforms, the people of Jingping came to understand the principle of the Between Life and Death, improved upon it, and forged many such bridges — also called Between Life and Death. In that moment, bridge after bridge was raised, and countless ghosts and gods of Fengdu charged onto the Between Life and Death, storming from Fengdu into the Yuan Realm!
On the other side, the Void Heavenly Venerable brandished the Styx and swept it across with a hiss; wherever the Styx passed, the Between Life and Death bridges collapsed with thunderous crashes one after another, and the many ghosts and gods of Fengdu crossing them were swept to fine powder, their primal spirits shattered, turned to the black sand of souls!
The Styx Long Whip swept all before it; but the next moment, Shen Fengqing barred the way before Fengdu, seized the Styx Long Whip, and with swift hisses coiled it around an arm.
The Void Heavenly Venerable shook the whip with force, jerking Shen Fengqing aloft and hauling that figure toward herself.
Her gaze was grim; she raised her palm and struck at Shen Fengqing. Just as that palm was about to fall upon Shen Fengqing, behind Shen Fengqing the primal spirit of the Nether Heavenly Venerable passed through her body, and the two palms met with a heavy clash!
The Void Heavenly Venerable's hair streamed; behind her her primal spirit swelled with a hum, blocking the Nether Heavenly Venerable's blow. Shen Mu stood upon the Yongjiang Heavenly Palace, gazing at this from afar, his heart chilled.
Ling Yuxiu walked quickly to his side and said in a low voice, "Husband, by rights the Ancestral God King and the Void Heavenly Venerable should not be so rash.
Striking at the Yuan Realm on their own initiative can do little damage — it only gives us the chance to cut them down.
" "They have made their move because the Haotian Heavenly Venerable, Lady Yuanmu, the Ancient God of Taiji, and Taichu and the rest have arrived.
" Shen Mu raised his head to the sky and murmured, "Only with them here would the Ancestral God King and the Void Heavenly Venerable have such nerve.
" He exhaled a breath of foul air and said, "The Ancient God of Taiji has Taishi to bar his way, and Taichu can be held off by the Cloud Heavenly Venerable in the Ultimate Void.
But Lady Yuanmu and the Haotian Heavenly Venerable are enough to wreak enormous ruin upon the Yuan Realm. " Ling Yuxiu's heart went cold.
"The Heavenly Court's armies cannot possibly arrive so soon!
" she said.
Shen Mu shook his head. "Of course the Heavenly Court's armies cannot come; they will need a dozen more years to reach us from the Heavenly River.
This move of the Haotian Heavenly Venerable's is no more than a first sounding of Jingping's strength — and of mine.
" He gazed afar at Jingping, and saw that above it, from one divine city after another, great silver spheres suddenly rose, trailing long silver flames, mounting into the high sky. The silver spheres were formed of six-faced mirrors, turning without cease, the mirrors spreading out on every side like silver panes, and hundreds of god-devils stood upon those mirrors.
The mirror-light shone downward, shielding every city and every place; and the god-devils standing upon the mirror faces drove their various divine weapons, hurling blow after blow down to slay the god-devils and monsters of the Nether Capital that charged at Jingping's cities and lands. But at that very moment, beyond the heavens there came a sudden blaze of light, and a vast sand table appeared upon the canopy of the sky, pressed against the world-barrier of the Yuan Realm.