Chapter 1729 — Bloodbath at Jade Cliff Pass
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 6
In the very instant they burst free of the Sword Dao divine artifact, that massive artifact abruptly collapsed, shattering into fine dust. After all, the Sword Dao divine artifact had not been personally refined; it was the Village Chief's Sword Dao that, by chance, had transformed the molten million divine weapons into a Sword Dao divine artifact. After this one eruption of power, it had exceeded the artifact's capacity to endure—and thus it shattered. Even so, the results of this strike were extraordinary.
At the same time, the million defeated Southern Heaven gods and demons charged up Jade Cliff Pass, and the successive generations of Human Sovereigns, leading the Jingping officers and soldiers, immediately fell into a death struggle! "Hold fast! " The Human Sovereign Qi Kang shouted, "Hold until the Southern Emperor and Qi Xiayu arrive—then we win!
" "Those who block me, die! " The Southern Heaven soldiers came charging like mad demons, terrifying to behold.
They knew that if they were stopped at Jade Cliff Pass, what awaited them would surely be pursuit by the two Emperors of Red and Bright, the Red Emperor, the Southern Emperor, and the others. By then, all of them would be buried here. Only by carving out a bloody path and breaking through Jade Cliff Pass could they join forces with the Heavenly Court's army!
This war was truly a battle of blood and gore, a meat grinder, and the most terrifying battle of cornered beasts.
The defeated Southern Heaven army went mad, fearless of death. No matter how many were slain, not one retreated or surrendered!
Around the successive Human Sovereigns, familiar faces fell one by one.
Even Human Sovereigns suffered losses.
And the First Ancestor, joining hands with the Village Chief to face more than a dozen Imperial Throne powerhouses, fought an even more savagely brutal battle.
Gradually, the sky darkened, yet the fighting at Jade Cliff Pass had still not ended. In the distance, a Moon Keeper passed by. Moonlight spilled down, illuminating Jade Cliff Pass, stained red with blood and gore.
The battle continued.
The moon tilted; the Moon Keeper steered his Soul Boat farther and farther away. By the time the moon vanished and the sunlight of the Sun Boat gradually rose, the Red Emperor Qi Xiayu's Phoenix Ship and the Southern Emperor Yanyu, leading the Jingping Feiyu Army, finally arrived at Jade Cliff Pass. The armies of the Red Emperor and Bright Emperor were slower, still behind.
They looked ahead and saw that along the unbroken chain of mighty passes at Jade Cliff Pass, the bodies of gods and demons hung everywhere.
And at the cliff base below the pass, the ground was also piled full of gods' and demons' corpses.
Within the pass, waves of divine ability still emanated. The Red Emperor Qi Xiayu immediately steered the Phoenix Ship forward, leaping over Jade Cliff Pass. They saw the battlefield stretching nearly a thousand li behind the pass, strewn everywhere with fallen gods and demons, the fires of war still burning.
The Phoenix Ship flew on, catching up to where the divine ability waves originated.
There they saw the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, Su Muzhe, and the others leading several thousand Jingping officers and soldiers, fighting the enemy in near-mad desperation. And beside the First Ancestor, only six or seven generals remained.
Of a hundred thousand officers and soldiers, only these were left.
Even of the Human Sovereigns, only eight survived. The battle of Jade Cliff Pass had been unimaginably brutal.
The First Ancestor looked up, his eyes filled with blood. Through the blood, he saw countless nine-headed phoenixes flying toward him from the Phoenix Ship. Bloody tears streamed from his eyes. They had finally held out until this moment.