Chapter 1731 — A Senior's Masterful Hand Breaks the Deadlock
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Behind the Heavenly Emperor Hao, Taichu walked slowly forward. The Heavenly Emperor Hao, composed and unhurried, said, "Brother Yun, your weakness is your heartlessness and forbearance. Heartlessness makes it difficult to win the loyalty of others; forbearance means retreat. It was by exploiting this weakness of yours that I defeated you in the Longhan Era. You could not obtain the aid of the Heavenly Venerable Huo, Langxuan, the Ancestral God King, the Heavenly Venerable Gong, Consort Qiang, and the others, while I better understood how to get along with them, how to forge a community of shared interests with them. Your forbearance meant that to achieve your goals you would choose to retreat, to cede more benefits. That is how I was able to devour, step by step, the Heavenly Alliance you had painstakingly built, seize its power, and push you to the margins."
The Heavenly Emperor Hao laughed. "Are you convinced now?"
The Heavenly Venerable Yun smiled and shook his head. "I have never been convinced."
The Heavenly Emperor Hao gave a light laugh and said, "The Retired Emperor—I leave him to you. Brother Yun, kindly step aside. I wish to go look at the palace of the Heavenly Venerable Shen, Shen Ye, and sit for a while."
Taichu stepped forward. Behind him, in the One Qi Grand Luo Heaven, the branches of the Dao Tree swayed as he walked toward the Heavenly Venerable Yun.
The Heavenly Venerable Yun still blocked the way between him and the Heavenly Emperor Hao. The Heavenly Emperor Hao frowned, then laughed despite himself. "Brother Yun, do you intend to block both Us and the Retired Emperor at once?"
At that very moment, Taichu suddenly halted, staring at his own shadow and the shadow of the Heavenly Venerable Yun.
The Ancestral God King and countless Sun Guardians flew over Wuyou Township. In the sky hung great sun after great sun, their light poisonously fierce—even the Heavenly River was boiled into seething vapor!
Because there were too many suns in the sky, at this moment they cast no shadows. Yet Taichu discovered that he and the Heavenly Venerable Yun now had shadows—and that their two shadows were joined together.
Taichu's eye twitched. Even as his hand reached to draw his sword, the Innate One Qi erupted!
At that instant, blade-light flared from within the shadow, rising from beneath Taichu's crotch—an upward slash!
Shhk—
Taichu was split in two!
The figure of Lord Shang appeared. With a single blade he cleaved Taichu's body upward, and then the blade-light fell like rain, chopping Taichu's two halves into fragments!
In those years, Taichu's body had been the body of an Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, hailed as the mightiest of physical forms. Yet now it was hacked into countless pieces beneath Lord Shang's blade-light!
What Lord Shang shattered was not merely Taichu's body, but Taichu's primordial spirit as well!
As one who had attained the Dao through slaughter, Lord Shang's every strike was a peerless killing move. Even a Dao Achiever like Taichu had no way to withstand it!
Lord Shang's figure burst forth from the drifting fragments of flesh falling through the air, charging straight for the Dao Tree in Taichu's One Qi Grand Luo Heaven. At this moment, the killing intent within him was even more intense than the killing intent of the countless gods and demons on the battlefield of Wuyou Township—enough to make one tremble, enough to make one recoil in terror!
Upon Taichu's Dao Tree, the Dao Flowers spun, the Innate One Qi burst forth, and boundless Dao might surged to meet Lord Shang!
At the same time, Taichu's body and primordial spirit, chopped into countless fragments, suddenly dissolved, transforming into Innate One Qi that merged together and reassembled into body and primordial spirit.
Shhk—