Chapter 1720 — The Heavenly Gate's Divine Fire Burns My Soul
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
The Fire Heavenly Venerable killed the Cloud Heavenly Venerable and won His Majesty's favor—but the Fire Heavenly Venerable is full of ambition.
Do not repeat his mistakes.
" "I will become another Fire Heavenly Venerable? " Bai Yuqiong smiled.
Within her, the flames given off by that mad soul blazed ever more fiercely, ever harder to suppress.
It was the thing she dared not face, for it was the soul of the Southern Emperor—and that soul was actually showing signs of awakening on its own, without passing through the final reincarnation!
Was it the conscience Meng Yungui had spoken of?
Was it that Meng Yungui, with his own death, had awakened the conscience of the people of Southern Heaven—and awakened hers as well? Was it this conscience that had set the Southern Emperor's soul within her to stirring, to erupting in raging flame, to burn her flesh and break free of its bonds?
The wild fire scorched her dao heart, scorched her soul, made her want to release this fire that could not be bound, to release the inexhaustible energy in her breast, to take Meng Yungui's place and guard Southern Heaven, to accomplish what the Southern Emperor had never accomplished.
And yet, she did not want to die.
To release the Southern Emperor's soul meant Bai Yuqiong would no longer be Bai Yuqiong, but the Southern Emperor!
Yiluo Heavenly King walked to her side, looked at the people of Southern Heaven who were struggling to their feet, and said: "You will do better than the Fire Heavenly Venerable.
All of you, kneel!
" His face darkened, and he shouted at the people of Southern Heaven: "The farce is over.
Every one of you, kneel.
" Yet before him, not a single person knelt. Yiluo Heavenly King's face darkened further, and he sneered: "You maggots—do you want to die?
" Suddenly a youth picked up a splinter of wood and, with all his strength, hurled it—striking him square on the forehead.
To a being like Yiluo Heavenly King the blow was neither painful nor itchy; yet it was as though someone had touched the dragon's reversed scale, as though he had suffered a monstrous humiliation, and suddenly he could not hold back the fury in his breast!
Yiluo Heavenly King reached out and seized the youth by the throat, lifted him up, and said coldly: "Hit me again!
" The youth could not breathe, yet he raised his fist and tried to smash it into his face.
Yiluo Heavenly King bared his teeth in a grin and opened his great mouth: "Wretched thing, not a shred of strength.
.
. " He was just about to swallow the youth when a flash of sword light streaked past, and the hand gripping the boy's neck was severed clean at the wrist!
"I am not the Fire Heavenly Venerable!
" A voice of boundless fury reached his ears, and in an instant the sword light pierced his brow, his eyes, his throat, his chest!
In Bai Yuqiong's hand the sword light was swift beyond compare; in an instant it stabbed into his body, wantonly wrecking his flesh, piercing through his divine treasury, his heavenly palaces, driving straight at his primal spirit!
Yiluo Heavenly King roared; his wings spread, countless pinions whirled, like golden flying swords, and blocked Bai Yuqiong's sword light! Boom!
His primal spirit soared into the air, heavenly palaces arrayed one after another, forming a lesser Heavenly Court!
Any who have not cultivated eighteen heavenly palaces are called a lesser Heavenly Court. Yiluo Heavenly King was the Northern Heavenly King of the Heavenly Court; among the Four Great Heavenly Kings, the Northern Heavenly King is the most exalted, and the number of his heavenly palaces already reached six!