Chapter 1739 — The Paradise Offers Its Sword
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Only the Grand Clarity Realm, having no garrison, remained comparatively peaceful.
But the Sorrowless Land's cause was lost, and Kaihuang Di Yiyue too had to wipe away his tears and flee the Sorrowless Land in defeat. The Heavenly Court's Divine Army and Water Army, with the other hosts at their heels, pursued and slaughtered; the Earth Army occupied the Sorrowless Land and pressed its attack on the Grand Clarity Realm, where but one man remained: Lan Yutian.
Countless troops of the Earth Army climbed up without cease from the Sorrowless Land's other thirty-two heavens, massing an overwhelming host to strike at the Grand Clarity Realm.
And upon the Grand Clarity Realm, Lan Yutian wielded the divine artifact of Heavenly Venerable Yu and laid down a killing array; at the entrance to the Grand Clarity Realm, the din of slaughter shook the heavens! On the other side, the Crimson Emperor Qi Xiayu, the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, the two emperors of Chiming, and Zhu Yan'er led the hosts of the Phoenix Clan, Chiming and Jingping out from the Southern Wastes, ready to meet the defeated armies of the Sorrowless Land along the road. At the same time, Wei Suifeng and the Northern Emperor Xuanwu cut down Lingguan's ancient-god clone and routed the hosts of the northern heaven, leaving them flinging away armor and helmets as they fled.
Wei Suifeng left Xuanwu's host with the defenders of Kan Land, and together with the two emperors of Xuanwu went from Kan Land all the way southwest, coming to meet them.
In the western lands, High Heaven had been breached; Yue Tingge drove into High Heaven, while Dragon Qilin led the host of the Beast Realm and, together with the Western Emperor White Tiger, advanced from the west, seeking to strike the Heavenly Court's armies from the rear and ease the pressure upon the Sorrowless Land. "Kaihuang, it can begin now.
" Wen Tiange gathered the defeated armies of the Sorrowless Land and joined Di Yiyue and the others. This war for the Sorrowless Land had cost its soldiers bitterly: sixty parts in a hundred were dead or wounded, and those who remained all bore wounds.
The divine weapons in their hands were battered and broken, the armor on their bodies riddled with holes; their pills and medicines were spent, their baggage exhausted, and the array charts, war chariots and other divine arms sent by Jingping had all been consumed in the fighting.
Even so great a vessel as the Ark of the Other Shore had been so battered that it could no longer be used, and Emperor Shitian Li Youran had cast it aside.
If the Sorrowless Land fought on, utter annihilation was the only end.
Di Yiyue's face was complex; gazing far off toward the Sorrowless Land, he said in a hoarse voice: "Master Wen, Lan Yutian is still upon the Grand Clarity Realm holding the enemy at bay. . . " "Pay him no mind.
He can get out.
" Wen Tiange said: "This time I asked him to meet Lady Yuanmu in the Grand Clarity Realm precisely so that he would draw more of the enemy there. Only while he remains there can the power of the Sorrowless Land be brought out to its utmost!
" Di Yiyue sighed.
"Then.
. .
let it begin. " The leaders of the Sorrowless Land's heavens came out one by one, leading the remnant troops disposed beneath them, gazing far toward the Sorrowless Land, their eyes full of tangled feeling.
The Sorrowless Land was their second homeland, and now it was to be destroyed at a single stroke — destroyed by their own hands! "Our first homeland is the Yuan Realm; the Sorrowless Land was only a place where we sheltered for a time.
Now, to slay the enemy, for the sake of our first homeland, we destroy this place — and shatter the 'sorrowless' in our own hearts as well!
" Wen Tiange's voice was low. "Gentlemen, let the Sorrowless Land blaze forth with the radiance it deserves.