Chapter 1740 — Once More Treading the Road of the Old Garden
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The Earth Host of the Heavenly Court's Three Hosts, the army that had crushed the Sorrowless Land's forces in ground attack and defense, was now buried within the Sorrowless Land itself.
True, no small number of Earth Host remnants had never entered the Sorrowless Land, but they no longer amounted to anything; the Earth Host, as one of the Three Hosts, had been struck from the rolls.
In the sky, Lan Yutian commanded one divine artifact after another, gathering the power of the Sorrowless Land; viewed from afar, he seemed to wield the Grand Clarity Realm of the Sorrowless Land as a sword hilt, and the other heavens as its guard, its edge, its blade, its point, its radiance! The whole of the Sorrowless Land's power was roused, like a great sword planted between heaven and earth.
That power was fading swiftly; the Sorrowless Land was only the sword-heart of the Sorrowless Sword, and lacking the Sorrowless Sword itself, that it could slay so many gods and demons of the Earth Host was already a feat beyond measure.
Driven on by Lan Yutian, Taihuang Heaven and Taiming Heaven crashed together and overlapped, then struck Qingming Heaven, Xuantai Heaven, Yuanming Heaven!
In the space of a single breath, the powers of the Sorrowless Land's heavens had all collided, forming a thirty-two-fold heaven sword domain, and it crashed into the final heaven — the Grand Clarity Realm! With a thunderous boom, the Dao-sword domain of the Grand Clarity Realm and the thirty-two-fold heaven sword domain merged completely!
Lan Yutian's aim was to seize the moment before the Sorrowless Land's power scattered entirely, and turn its residue against Lady Yuanmu to slay her. Just then, Lady Yuanmu, who had fallen into the cycle of reincarnation, suddenly awoke; at the sight before her she could not help but shudder with dread, and with a fierce shout she unleashed the full strength of a Dao-attainer of the Ruins of Return! Within the Grand Clarity Realm, the Dao-sword domain revolved around an enormous Ruins of Return, and domain and Ruins clashed violently, a spectacle to shake heaven and earth!
That was sword dao contending against the wind of heat-death, against the great abyss that devours all things, a fury beyond measure; the sword domain revolving about the Ruins of Return was scorched red by the wind of heat-death, wreathed in raging fire. Suddenly a single lotus leaf rose slowly out of the Ruins of Return, and Lady Yuanmu stood amid that leaf and roused its power.
That lotus leaf was the equal of a Dao-attainer's Dao-tree, and when a Dao-attainer calls upon their Dao-tree, it means their very life is at stake. Lady Yuanmu called upon the lotus leaf and drove the strength of a Dao-attainer of the Ruins of Return to its utmost; a tremendous roar that shook heaven and earth rang out, and the sword domain abruptly burst apart!
Lady Yuanmu turned into a streak of black light, broke through the sky, and vanished.
At that same moment, the Sorrowless Land exploded into fragments, and immense sword-like shards of metal rained down from the heavens, jutting every which way from the ruins of the old Sorrowless Land.
For ten thousand li in every direction, fallen swords lay strewn about, forming a desolate graveyard of swords.
In the distance, Di Yiyue and the other officers of the Sorrowless Land stood desolate, each straightening up. The Woodcutter Sage said quietly, "Gentlemen, the Water Host, the God Host, and the rest of the Heavenly Court's armies will soon catch up with us.
Let us leave this place with all speed.
" The officers turned in silence and marched east toward Jingping. The woodcutter looked back; the Heavenly Court's God Host was swiftest of all, and already it was visible far off on the horizon.
With the strength of the God Host, one of the Three Hosts, it was more than enough to cut them down to the last man.