Chapter 1717 — Death to the Oathbreaker
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If only he could sense his body, this Little Tu Bo would surely be no match for him! The magma upon the twin horns above Shen Fengqing's head flowed ever faster, and slowly he reached out a hand to grasp at him.
Through Long Xiao's nine heads clamored the sundry and demonic thoughts of all those beings, confounding his consciousness, so that he could not marshal his divine sense or his divine powers; at the sight of Shen Fengqing's great hand sweeping toward him, all his former bluster vanished in an instant, and he turned and fled!
Yet the space he inhabited was passing strange: flee which way he would, Shen Fengqing and the Heavenly Wheel of Six Paths were always before him. He swelled his primordial spirit and hurled himself at Shen Fengqing in a frenzy, meaning to slay him by sheer might of soul.
But strike as he might, his blows landed upon Shen Fengqing with not a shred of force, and Shen Fengqing's palm simply closed about his nine necks and lifted him bodily into the air.
"Stop! " The eyeballs of Celestial Venerable Long Xiao rolled white as he was squeezed, and he gasped in desperation: "Stop!
I surrender!
I surrender to Celestial Venerable Mu!
" Shen Fengqing shook his head. "The Nether Capital has its own laws.
Once a compact is struck, there is no regret afterward.
Those who betray faith and forsake righteousness shall die.
" He opened wide his mouth, and Long Xiao watched in horror as he was carried up to those jaws, his voice shrill and desperate: "Were my physical body still with me, I would not die by your hand!
I do not accept—" Gulp. Shen Fengqing swallowed him down, and his three eyes slowly closed one after another.
"Your physical body has been there all along.
At this very moment, you and I are inside it.
" His form gradually faded away, and the Heavenly Wheel of Six Paths likewise dissolved into the darkness: "Long Xiao, you were one who would not be enlightened.
" The darkness dispersed, and the towering, measureless physical body of Celestial Venerable Long Xiao lay coiled within the Heavenly Palace, its long necks rearing beyond the palace into the sky, eyes bulging wide as though searching everywhere for something.
Then, all at once, his body lost all strength; the nine heads drooped feebly, and those long necks turned utterly limp. His heads tumbled from the sky, and on head after head the eyes bulged round while the flames within them yet blazed fiercely - like eighteen suns smashed down from the heavens.
But he had not a breath left in him.
He had violated the Compact of Little Tu Bo, and Little Tu Bo, Shen Fengqing, had appeared within his physical body, before his very primordial spirit, and taken his soul straight away. The body he had sought so desperately, sensed so desperately - it had been there all along.
In that instant, nearly all the primeval behemoths of the Beast Realm, wherever they were, raised their heads of their own accord.
In the sky eighteen suns fell; Long Xiao's necks and heads crashed one after another into his Heavenly Palace, toppling palace upon palace.
Long Xiao was dead.
The gorgeous Heavenly Palace he had raised with countless treasures of the Ancestral Court was shattered and split apart by his own falling corpse.
The Heavenly Palace dropped out of the sky, plunging toward the earth.
Within the Divine Sense Cage, Long Qilin suddenly flung himself to the ground, wailing aloud; he had sensed the death of his foster father.
Within the palace, countless strange beasts scattered in every direction as the Heavenly Palace collapsed and fell from the heights; some behemoths could not fly, and for them only one road lay ahead - death.
Even the kings among the great beasts guarding the Divine Sense Cage fled about like headless flies; not a few behemoths threw themselves straight off the edge of the falling palace, only to be dashed into pulp of flesh and blood!