Chapter 1708 — Mountains Layered, Rivers Doubled, the Silver River Pours Down
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"The Yuan World needs a victory!
A dazzling triumph to lift the hearts of all!
" In the South Sea, where islands lay strewn like stars, great and small, the Crimson Emperor and the Bright Emperor stood before the Five Dragon Isles. The remnant clansmen of Chiming had transformed into gods with three heads and six arms, had burst out from the islands, and were locked in a bloody battle upon the sea against the thirty-nine army marquises of the Heavenly Court.
In truth, any single one of those marquises, drawn out alone, commanded more gods and demons than the whole of the Chiming Suspended World. The host of gods and demons in the Chiming Suspended World was equal only to a single one of the heavens. Though the Chiming clansmen were fierce and battle-hardened, their fleshly bodies and primal spirits uncommonly powerful, able to fight three at once, before the enemy's superior numbers they remained as precarious as a stack of eggs.
That the Crimson Emperor and the Bright Emperor had held out until now was owed to the support of the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird.
The Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird had few troops, but her daughter Yan'er was one of the generals most highly regarded by the Jingping Heavenly Venerate Mu. Though her cultivation had been delayed a time by the bearing of a child, her cultivation and realm had already reached the Emperor Throne, making her one of Jingping's rare Emperor Throne powerhouses. She had led her troops here, and with the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird holding the position, they had formed a pincer with the remnants of Chiming, pinning down the strength of the Heavenly Court's thirty-nine army marquises.
Otherwise, the Chiming Suspended World could hardly have held out until now. Yet even with Yan'er supporting the flank, victory remained desperately difficult for the Crimson Emperor and the Bright Emperor.
The two Heavenly Emperors of the Chiming era had been dead far too long; though they had been reborn, their cultivation and their arts and divine powers had fallen behind the times. In these years they had absorbed the Jingping Reforms and grown with startling speed, but they still lacked time.
And the Heavenly Court would not grant them time!
Each of the Heavenly Court's thirty-nine army marquises was anchored by an Emperor Throne powerhouse, and with the Red Emperor Qi Xiayu, whose cultivation and strength were unfathomable, added to their number, the Crimson Emperor and the Bright Emperor had no chance of victory at all!
"The Yuan World needs a great victory. " Yan'er's gaze fell upon the Red Emperor's host, which held the rear, where flames soared to the heavens, phoenixes danced, and fire blazed so fiercely that it set the sea boiling.
Within the flames, a nine-headed phoenix soared in a vision among the heavenly palaces.
"The Red Emperor Qi Xiayu is a hidden piece that the Moon Heavenly Venerate and I planted together. " The Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird came to her side, her gaze also resting upon that nine-headed phoenix.
"She is a disciple of the Moon Heavenly Venerate and myself, planted within the Heavenly Court.
If she were suddenly to lead her forces into battle, we could strike from three sides at once!
Breaking the thirty-nine army marquises would cost us very little! " Yan'er said, "Then why has the Red Emperor not acted? What is she waiting for?
" The Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird hesitated, then said, "In those years she betrayed the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign and threw in her lot with the Supreme Emperor of the South, and was captured by the Crown Prince Mingya, whereupon she betrayed the Supreme Emperor of the South and pledged herself to the Heavenly Court.
This was the stratagem the Moon Heavenly Venerate and I devised. I fear she. .
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" She did not wish to say more.