Chapter 1715 — The Lotus Seed Returns to the Pond
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The lotus seed the Second Young Master had flicked forth fell into Taihuang Heaven, and where it landed, threads and wisps of chaos qi spread out, quickly becoming a pool of chaos. The embattled armies around paid it no heed; here were flying divine weapons everywhere, dreadful divine arts, and enemy after enemy displaying the mighty power of gods and demons, moving mountains and filling seas, churning rivers and overturning oceans, and no one had leisure to mark the chaos pool that had appeared upon the ground.
The chaos pool grew to some four or five mu across, then stopped; suddenly a ripple of light crossed its surface, and a lotus leaf grew forth. With the growth of that leaf came a dreadful portent!
With the lotus pool as its center, the earth all around twisted and spun, and space itself collapsed in an instant toward the pool! Taihuang Heaven was a heaven vast beyond measure, yet with a thunderous roar it was twisted into the shape of a kaleidoscope! The edges of Taihuang Heaven were folded like the petals of a lotus; the armies of both sides fighting within it lost their footing one after another and fell tumbling toward the chaos pool!
Aboard ship after ship, tower ship and great vessel, the power of the furnaces was raised to the utmost, yet still they could not fly free of Taihuang Heaven; the gods and demons aboard looked on in horror as both they and their vessels were stretched infinitely long!
Boom, boom, boom!
God after god, demon after demon, caught by the wind of heat-death as they fell, burst apart against their will, becoming streams of chaos qi that sank down and fell toward the lotus pool!
Emperor Haotian watched from afar, and his heart quailed.
The sight was too dreadful; even a Dao-attainer facing such an attack would find it hard to withstand, let alone Taihuang Heaven and those gods and demons. "If I possessed such power.
. .
" His heart burned.
Even though the armies of the celestial court within Taihuang Heaven far outnumbered those of the Land of No Sorrow, he felt no sting of pity; he thought only of how he might seize such power for himself! At that moment, above the Land of No Sorrow, Shen Mu raised the Taiyi staff and hurled it from afar!
The Taiyi staff pierced layer upon layer of space, and in the next instant drove into the chaos pool, fixed itself upon the lotus leaf, and pinned that leaf down to the bottom of the pool!
A tremor ran out. Taihuang Heaven was pierced through by the Taiyi staff; with the chaos pool it flew out from behind Taihuang Heaven, and then, with a bang, the chaos pool burst apart!
The Second Young Master's divine art was utterly broken!
Yet though her divine art was broken, Taihuang Heaven remained twisted into the shape of a lotus; the survivors of the celestial court and the Land of No Sorrow armies did not resume their slaughter, but stood dazed within that monstrous lotus-heaven, at a loss what to do. "Old Seven.
" The Second Young Master raised her head and gazed far off at Shen Mu standing upon the Taiqing Realm of the Land of No Sorrow, and gave him a charming smile, very lovely to see.
The two looked at each other across the void.
Shen Mu raised a hand and drew it across his own throat in a gesture. The Second Young Master giggled, her head shrank, and vanished: "Old Seven, apart from the Master, who has not suffered at your hands?
But I am the exception.
. . " Emperor Haotian's body returned to a man's, and he felt as though a great weight had lifted from him.
And above the Land of No Sorrow, Heavenly Venerable Yun quietly watched this scene, probing the Second Young Master's character and her weaknesses: "So long as a character has a flaw, there is a chance to kill her!
" At the same moment, in the Southern Heaven, Shang Pingyin at last held out until the arrival of the Third Celestial Master Bai Yuqiong and Heavenly King Yiluo.