Chapter 1735 — Outwitted by His Own Schemes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The flesh of the Xuanwu Emperors was torn and tattered as they fought with all their strength. Theirs was a combined husband-and-wife art, yet the ancient-god clones of Lingguan also wielded a combined art, even more overbearing than the couple's, and had they not stood within their ancestral ground, Lingguan would have slain them long ago!
Shen Mu charged in and cut sideways between the two ancient-god clones of Lingguan, neither dodging nor evading, taking the combined strike of the Lingguan clones full upon his own flesh, letting the divine arts of those two ancient gods fall upon him. His hands, left and right, stamped upon the brows of the two ancient gods, and the might of the Red Cord Knot erupted! The two ancient gods grunted and fell from the sky, and the instant they struck the ground, the might of the Red Cord Knot had already shattered their ancient-god primordial spirits to pieces.
Shen Mu did not break stride but tore through the air and was gone. Wei Suifeng had rejoiced at first to see Shen Mu arrive, only to see him never charge toward his own side at all and vanish in the blink of an eye, and he flared in anger: "After all I am the eldest senior brother, and you would watch me die without rescue! " The Xuanwu Emperors, saved, spared no thought for else and hastened to lend aid, joining forces to slay that ancient-god clone of Lingguan.
"Four remain! But the Western Lands, it is already too late.
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. " Shen Mu grew ever more anxious at heart, yet no anxiety could avail him, for from the Kan Lands of the Northern Frontier to the Western Lands the road was long and would take time.
The clones of Palace Lord Lingguan had started before him and were extremely swift, and moreover on this journey he had trodden nearly every war zone of Jingping.
By now Lingguan must surely have reached the Western Lands! The Western Lands.
The flames of war had already burned up to Shangcang.
Shangcang was Xu Shenghua's old home, but it had been seized by the White Emperor, and when the White Emperor saw the Western Emperor's army approach, he withdrew to hold Shangcang and refused battle.
After Western Emperor White Tiger descended, the battle of Shangcang began. The White Emperor raised the Western Heavenly Gate of the Ancestral Court to serve as the gate of Shangcang, holding Shangcang to the death while awaiting reinforcements from the Heavenly Court.
The Western Emperor attacked by force but was blocked by that gate and could not break into Shangcang, whereupon Yue Tingge led the many women of the Western Lands skilled in spirit-summoning arts forward, each urging her art, intending to summon the spirit of the Western Heavenly Gate. At that moment, beyond the heavens of Shangcang, there came an ancient god of handsome bearing.
At the same instant, the sky shook violently, the void tore, and a huge Void Mother Beast bearing Long Qilin descended from the sky, with countless primeval giant beasts behind him, descending upon the Western Lands!
The ancient god, seeing this, said in surprise: "Lord of the Beast Realm! He was not in Southern Heaven after all, but has run to the Western Lands!
No matter. I never went looking for him anyway.
Since I am here, I will settle him together with Yue Tingge and the Western Emperor all at once. " When Shen Mu reached the Western Lands, he saw the ancient-god clone of Lingguan trapped.
That clone was handsome and lofty in power, a supreme existence among Heavenly Worthies, yet Yue Tingge had pinned him with a formation.
The fourth complete Great Heavenly Court chart, devised by the Blind Elder leading the formation masters of Jingping, was in Yue Tingge's hands. The binding formation alone could not refine him to death, so Yue Tingge had invited Western Emperor White Tiger to enter the formation in person and beat that ancient god beyond recognition.