Chapter 1720 — The Heavenly Gate's Divine Fire Burns My Soul
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
A lesser Heavenly Court formed of six heavenly palaces was enough to rank among the Heavenly Court's very finest fighting strength! But no sooner had his lesser Heavenly Court appeared than cloud vapor seethed above Bai Yuqiong's head, and out of the vapor heavenly palaces leapt, four of them, and from each of the four palaces a Bai Yuqiong rose and came flying at him, divine powers shifting and changing beyond all fathoming!
Those Bai Yuqiongs truly existed; each had her own flesh, her own primal spirit—this was the Qionghua Palace's unique secret! Bai Yuqiong had been reborn one hundred and ninety-seven times, and across those one hundred and ninety-seven lives, to evade the death-tribulation the Yin Tianzi had brought upon her, she had cultivated far too many arts and divine powers.
She had once taken the Moon Heavenly Venerable as her master and studied the Zaiji Void Sutra before it was complete; she had once entered the Daoist order and been a Daoist nun, entered the Buddhist order and been a bodhisattva; she had even been a disciple to one great emperor after another of the Heavenly Court! Her arts were strange beyond measure, built upon the Moon Heavenly Venerable's Zaiji Void Sutra and fused with all manner of other methods.
In the use of space it could not compare with the Zaiji Void Sutra of today, but she had fused too many things, and had walked out a strange road of her own. The five Bai Yuqiongs pounced in the space of a breath, ignoring Yiluo's lesser Heavenly Court and primal spirit, driving straight at his flesh. Yiluo Heavenly King's body was wounded, and at once he unleashed all his fighting strength, no longer restraining his flesh; layer upon layer of golden feathers burst from within him, and his body grew larger and larger!
He was of the demigod race, patriarch of the Golden-Winged Roc clan from the Yuan Realm, his whole body divine sinew and demonic bone; his muscles bulged hideously, thumping and leaping outward, his wings ever wider, their shadow ever broader!
As a Heavenly King charged with the Heavenly Court's martial function, he had lived through too many slaughters; in battle experience and in ability alike he far surpassed any Heavenly Master! Yet before his flesh could fully shed its human shape, one of the Bai Yuqiongs drove through his roc's skull, pinned his head down, and smashed him savagely onto the deck of the great ship!
The other four Bai Yuqiongs formed a formation; before Yiluo Heavenly King could rise, the formation erupted, and in a single instant he took he knew not how many blows; his flesh burst apart with a boom, blood and gore flying! Yiluo Heavenly King's primal spirit transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc, wings spread, bearing the lesser Heavenly Court of six heavenly palaces on its back, and flew off, crying shrilly: "Shenwu Guard!
Activate the Southern Heavenly Gate! Strike down the rebel Bai Yuqiong!
" The twenty thousand officers and men of the two Shenwu Guards roared in unison, their dharma power blooming, and set the Ancestral Southern Heavenly Gate in motion! Between the two mountain ranges of that Southern Heavenly Gate, the dao fire in an instant blazed to its utmost; the dao fire's flames swept the heavens, burning the waters of the Heavenly River to vapor, twisting and collapsing the starry sky of Yanming!
Tongues of fire licked the stars, licked the Heavenly River, and wherever they passed, all things became nothing! The five Bai Yuqiongs had no time to pursue Yiluo Heavenly King's primal spirit; they hurried to block the Southern Heavenly Gate!
She could evade the might of the Southern Heavenly Gate's dao fire, but the common folk of Southern Heaven aboard this ship could never evade it; she could not let the awakening of the people of Southern Heaven—bought with Senior Brother Meng Yungui's death—come to nothing! Her aura erupted utterly, her divine power meeting the Southern Heavenly Gate's dao might!