Chapter 1710 — A Beauty Beyond Compare
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The sky curtain shattered, and the sun, moon, and stars hung upon the firmament all vanished without a trace! The Heavenly Lord's face turned ashen. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, reached out and plucked the supreme treasure of the Heavenly Principles from the ground, then swept his sleeve, gathering up the other supreme treasures of the heavenly dao.
"Taichu, your abilities remain as formidable as ever!
" The Heavenly Lord raised his head, gazing at the Dao Tree in the sky—that was Taichu's Dao Tree and the One Qi Grand Luo Heaven. So long as it suppressed the skies above the Yuan World, his fifty supreme treasures of the heavenly dao could never be deployed again.
Beyond the heavens all was pitch-black; there was no sun, no moon, no stars whatsoever.
The entire Yuan World plunged into darkness and cold. Only the divine citadels and the myriad heavens emitted a faint, ghostly radiance, lighting the night that shrouded the Yuan World.
The Ancestral Divine King within the Xuandu had long since obscured the stars and moved away the Yuan World's sun and moon, leaving the Yuan World drifting lonely in the dark cosmos.
The Yuan World of this day would know no distinction between day and night. People would wake from the night and never again see the sun rise as it once had; and in the night, there would be no moon in the sky, no stars!
After seven days, the oceans would begin to freeze. Above the Yuan World would appear a vast black cloud shrouding the entire realm, and great snow would fall from the heavens, lasting for months on end, until the whole Yuan World was buried in ice and snow!
After that day, even the deepest oceans would be frozen into one massive block of ice, and the entire Yuan World would become a land of extreme cold! By then, even the air people had grown accustomed to would freeze!
Part of the air would be frozen solid, part would liquefy. The spiritual energy of the Yuan World would cease to flow, and all life would perish!
And now, it was only the first night. In that darkness, beside one of Jingping's divine citadels, a sun rose slowly.
A massive Sun Boat, like a giant beast with twelve legs, moved its limbs, advancing along a predetermined orbit.
Beside another divine citadel, a new Sun Boat activated, releasing its sun into the sky. Gradually, more and more Sun Boats appeared in every corner of Jingping and Carefree Township.
Seen from high above, they were like brilliant candles lit in a dark land—yet the candlelight grew ever brighter, slowly dispelling the night.
Upon the Sun Boats stood mostly white-robed divine beings—the Divine Race from Xuandu. In the battle of Xuandu years ago, Shen Mu had rescued the Heavenly Lord and saved many clansmen of the Xuandu Divine Race, sending them to Jingping.
They had once been Xuandu's Sun Wardens; now the Xuandu Sun Wardens had long since been replaced by Heavenly Court gods and demons, while they had come to Jingping and become the Sun Wardens of the Yuan World.
These Sun Wardens stood upon the Sun Boats, hauling one massive artificial sun after another, giving light to the world, allowing crops to grow, driving back the cold. The destination of these Sun Boats was one Sun Spring after another, long since constructed. Within each Sun Spring was stored an artificial sun.
At the Sun Boats' speed, the journey from their starting point to their destination took exactly half a day.
Upon arrival, the Sun Boats entered the Sun Springs. Within the celestial palaces of the Heavenly Court, mighty Imperial Thrones and Lingxiao powerhouses watched this scene from afar, struck by a shock that rose from the very soul. "So many Sun Boats, so many Sun Springs—Jingping's Emperor Yanfeng is truly a talent without peer.
In but a short time, he prepared such countermeasures! " Among the Seven Lords, the High Lord Chu Yuming murmured: "Emperor Yanfeng is indeed most fearsome—a man of magnificent talent and grand strategy.