Chapter 1727 — A Move That Shakes Heaven and Earth
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
The Eastern Emperor's long chant did not cease; those divine dragons, their strength swelling wildly, hurled themselves at the other armies in Eastern Heaven's camp, and in a moment all was chaos, flesh and blood flying everywhere. At the same instant Jiang Baigui ordered a general assault; the tower ships and great vessels flying in the sky were still a thousand li from Eastern Heaven's camp when cannon-light split the sea's surface, blasting the camp gates and bursting them open.
Countless gods and demons trod the sea's surface and charged the camp; the might of heavy divine weapons was roused one by one, the Sun-Shooting Divine Cannons were triggered, and the killing intent of every slaughter-formation soared to the heavens, churning wind and cloud! At the same time, numberless gods and demons groped along the sea floor to beneath the camp and broke through its foundations to kill their way into the city; from the sea armored giant kun leapt from the water and flew through the air, each kun bearing dozens of gods and demons on its back, who pushed out sword towers from which sword pellets poured like rain.
Just then the Primordial Lady of Earthly Virtue, Gongsun Yan, flew forth and advanced toward Eastern Heaven's camp.
On the sea before her countless tender shoots sprouted from the camp, branches whirling, binding numberless Eastern Heaven officers and soldiers! Ordinarily, so long as Eastern Heaven's soldiers could form their formations, they might still have contended with the Primordial Lady of Earthly Virtue.
For though the Lady of Earthly Virtue was the daughter of the Primordial Lady of the Earth Mother, her cultivation was only that of an Imperial Throne powerhouse who had built a dozen or so Heavenly Palaces, and she could not yet be called a Heavenly Venerable. Moreover, she had seen little slaughter and lacked battle experience; to suppress her, a few hundred thousand gods and demons drawn up in strict formation would have sufficed to hold their own against her.
But in this moment the great army was in chaos, scattered as loose sand, and no one could stop Gongsun Yan! Gongsun Yan was also called the Little Earth Mother; against a being of her own realm she might not have been a match, but against Eastern Heaven's soldiers, scattered as they were, it was a one-sided massacre! Wherever her divine power passed, the Eastern Heaven soldiers in the midst of battle turned to wood, flesh and blood becoming timber, transformed into one wooden carving after another!
Gongsun Yan could not turn the primordial spirits of these gods and demons to wood, but once a primordial spirit leaves the fleshly body, how much fighting strength remains to it?
In Eastern Heaven's camp the primordial spirits of its soldiers fluttered aloft, only to collapse and disintegrate one after another under the attacks of Jingping's soldiers and the divine dragons of the Eastern Pole Heaven; some even became black soul-sand!
The rolling black sand surged along the sea's surface, flowing toward the Tianyin Realm.
Seeing this, the trapped Cyan Emperor was utterly desolate; that single stroke of Jiang Baigui's had cut off every hope he had — the sixty army marquises of Eastern Heaven would surely be routed beyond recovery! One move amiss, and the whole board is lost! "Jiang Baigui, I—" Scarcely had the Cyan Emperor of the Eastern Heaven spoken, before he could utter the two words of surrender, when the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon suddenly rose in fury and charged into the ranks of the three armies!
In a few bounds the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon slew the Cyan Emperor's primordial spirit!