Chapter 1716 — The Fall of a Heavenly Venerable
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 6
The scheme the Northern Heaven King had laid was exceedingly vicious; with only the meager force Meng Yungui had, he could not stand against the Heavenly Court's great army — the only way to resist was to summon the ancient giant beasts of the Beast World. Yet the moment Heavenly Venerable Long Xiao recalled the giant beasts and Long Qilin, he would pull the firewood from under Meng Yungui's cauldron; the arrays within the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner would scatter like loose sand, unable to withstand a single blow! What awaited Meng Yungui was not only his own death, but the annihilation of his whole army — every officer and soldier of the Feathered Ascension Camp would be buried with him! She and Meng Yungui were close friends, the closest of friends. Both were of the human race, both Celestial Masters of the Heavenly Court, each upholding the other.
Meng Yungui had once helped her stand against Yin Tianzi. To watch him die before her eyes — her heart could not bear it. "And yet the Northern Heaven King is at my back, holding the Southern Heaven Gate.
At the slightest misstep from me, I am dead beyond doubt.
" Bai Yuqiong struggled inwardly.
"Senior Brother Meng, why did you have to rebel at this very juncture? You are such a cunning, such a cautious man — why rebel at this moment of all moments. .
. " Across the field, when Bai Yuqiong and Yiluo led their troops in, Long Qilin had already made his preparations, ready at any moment to summon the ancient giant beasts of the Beast World.
He was Long Xiao's adopted son, the young master of the Beast World, who had managed its affairs for many years and commanded countless giant beasts. He too had great ambitions, and the wish to share Jingping's burdens and ease his troubles.
He wanted to turn the Southern Heaven into a battlefield that pinned down the Heavenly Court's great army!
The great army of the Beast World was his capital. To accomplish this, he must drag as many of the Heavenly Court's gods and demons as possible into the Southern Heaven, forcing the Southern Heaven to become a place the Heavenly Court could not abandon, so that the Heavenly Court would have to pour in more and more forces without end.
Thus Jingping's pressure would be eased.
Long Qilin had cultivated under Shen Mu for many years and had been sent out by Shen Mu to temper himself; he had grown into a competent commander. In name he was Longshan Sanren, famed as the foremost Celestial Master under heaven, yet in the movement of troops and the laying of formations he was still inferior to Shang Pingyin.
These past years it had been Meng Yungui secretly helping him control the shifting arrays of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner, and in but a few short years he had grown with astonishing speed, so that his command of battle formations was now all but instinct, and the gap between him and a Celestial Master grew ever smaller. But when he summoned the ancient giant beasts of the Beast World, everything was already sealed.
It was the Ancient God Taiji who devised the strategy for Yiluo.
These two Ancient Gods possessed wisdom of the highest order; with the schemer against the unwitting, Long Qilin's defeat was foreordained!
At Bai Yuqiong's command, the Heavenly Court's army surged forth.
Long Qilin at once summoned the ancient giant beasts; the sky of the Southern Heaven was torn open, and beast after beast descended from the heavens into the twenty-eight heavens laid out by the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner!