Chapter 1730 — Ten Steps to Slay a God
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
"Time is short. Drink no more."
Empty wine jars were piled around Cloud Heavenly Venerable and Shen Mu. Only one jar remained untouched. Cloud Heavenly Venerable laughed. "Beings like you and me can hardly get drunk anymore. You need to go and block the Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall. After all, he has split himself into thirty. Killing him will not be easy. Let this jar of victory wine stay here. Whoever returns first, you or I, drinks this jar of celebration wine!"
"Agreed!"
Shen Mu also knew there was no time to waste. He rose to his full height and said with a laugh, "This jar of wine shall be the victory wine. Whoever returns here first earns the right to drink it!"
He turned and departed.
In the brief instant of his turning, Cloud Heavenly Venerable sensed a faint, barely perceptible presence enter his shadow. It was Lord Shang, leaving Shen Mu's shadow to lurk within his own. In ordinary times it would be nearly impossible to detect, but Lord Shang deliberately emitted a subtle fluctuation to signal his arrival.
Cloud Heavenly Venerable gazed down at the battlefields below. The theaters of war surrounding the Land of No Sorrow stretched vast and magnificent. Jingping's reinforcements and supplies poured ceaselessly through the传送 gates to this place. The sovereigns of the Land of No Sorrow who commanded the Thirty-Three Heavens had all led their troops onto the battlefield. Of the Four Great Heavenly Masters, only the Woodcutter remained to oversee the whole situation, unleashing his wisdom to its fullest in directing the battle!
Because Moon Heavenly Venerable, Cloud Heavenly Venerable, Shen Mu, and others held the Land of No Sorrow, even the Martial Heavenly Master led the warriors of the Dou Niu Heavens charging into battle, rather than staying to protect the Woodcutter Wen Tiange.
Cloud Heavenly Venerable's eyes flickered. The Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall's first battle, and the most perilous one, would be the Land of No Sorrow!
The Land of No Sorrow was nearest, so it would inevitably be the first battlefield he reached, to hunt down the Four Great Heavenly Kings of the Land of No Sorrow: the Founding Emperor Yi Yue, the Elder of Qinghuang, Emperor Shitian, and the Underworld King Tian Shu!
Beyond them, he would also hunt the Four Great Heavenly Masters on the Land of No Sorrow battlefield: Wen Tiange, Yan Yunxi, Zhuo Cha, and Han Tang!
With the Land of No Sorrow in chaos and leaderless, even with Jingping's heavy weapons and countless gods and demons, without anyone to coordinate them, defeat and annihilation would be unavoidable.
The second place the Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall's ancient god avatars would reach was the South Sea battlefield. There, the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, the Two Emperors of Chi and Ming, the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, and the Red Emperor Qi Xiayu awaited.
Then came the Tianyin Realm, to hunt the Tianyin Niangniang!
The Heavenly Lord and the Earth Lord, who resided behind Taihuang Heaven in the heartland of Jingping, were the fourth place he would go.
Youdu, where the Little Earth Lord Shen Fengqing dwelled, was the fifth place he would go!
Then the Two Emperors of the Black Tortoise, who had just descended upon the Kan Region of the Northern Frontier, and Wei Suifeng, who commanded the overall situation there.
The next targets would be the Dao Ancestor of the Daoist sect, and the Great Brahma Heavenly King of the Buddhist sect!
Nearest to the Daoist sect was Emperor Yanfeng in the Jingping capital, along with the Earth Virtue Primordial Lady Gongsun Yan; then Jiang Baigui of the Eastern Sea, and the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon, who had just been reborn.
After the Eastern Sea, the Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall would arrive at the Western Lands, where the Western Emperor White Tiger had descended. Eliminating the Western Emperor and the Heavenly Master Yue Tingge was his aim!