Chapter 1742 — Burned in Fire, Reborn Anew
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
After all, the new system had only just been founded by Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua; as its founders, they had made these realms too profound and abstruse, very hard to comprehend. But this time the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court has cut away four realms outright, and that will force Emperor Yanfeng and Emperor Kai Yiyue to sever their own wrist like warriors and throw all their strength behind this fallback plan. " Shen Mu flew to Jingping. The Jingping front was already in utter chaos; whether gods and demons of Wuyou Township or of Jingping, all were seized with terror, their hearts in turmoil, overcome by boundless despair. Even Heavenly Venerable Yue and the God King Langwan, then locked in battle with the Ancestral God King, fell into disarray at once.
The two women lost three realms in succession, their vital essence and cultivation reduced to almost nothing, and they came within a hair of being slain by the Ancestral God King. Fortunately, Heavenly Venerable Yue's Dao realm cultivation remained; she at once employed the Zaiji Void and fled with Langwan.
The Ancestral God King pressed his advantage, leading the Xuandu army with the intent to slaughter on every side and raze the Lanfeng Valley in western Jingping in one stroke, when a vast shadow flew past beside the Xuandu army. "Heavenly Venerable Mu.
" The Ancestral God King was startled, and hastily moved his troops to shield himself, keeping well clear.
At the same time, the same thing happened in the fighting at Youdu in the Yuan Realm: every divine being of Jingping or Wuyou Township who had cultivated to the Jade Capital, Lingxiao, or Imperial Throne realm felt their power rapidly drain away. The higher the realm, the greater its share of one's power, especially the Imperial Throne realm, which accounted for as much as nine-tenths of one's cultivation.
Without the Imperial Throne realm, one's cultivation was in an instant reduced to a mere tenth.
And if an Imperial Throne powerhouse lost even the Lingxiao and Jade Capital realms, their strength would be left at only a thousandth of what it had been.
What a blow this would deal to the high-level fighting strength of Jingping and Wuyou Township. This was one reason Emperor Yanfeng and Emperor Kai Yiyue had not dared to promote the new cultivation system on a large scale outright.
The Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court system was deeply rooted in people's hearts; to promote it rashly would surely cause chaos, and would bring about a short-term decline in the strength of the upper echelons.
At that time the war in the Yuan Realm was imminent, the new cultivation system was not yet complete, and there was no time to spread it; it could only be promoted on a small scale within the Jingping Wendao Academy.
But now they had no choice but to promote the new cultivation system. What the Third and Fourth Young Masters of Miluo Palace would lose would be the power-wielders of later generations, who would never again cultivate the traditional Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court system, depriving them of a future wellspring of power.
By this act, the Third and Fourth Young Masters forced the power-wielders and the gods and demons of Jingping to be reborn in fire.
Shen Mu made a circuit of the western battle zone, overawing the champions of the Heavenly Court, forcing its various marquises to dare fight no more; they could only pull back their forces and first hold firmly the territory they had taken.
Shen Mu then pressed deep into Youdu in the Yuan Realm, forcing Heavenly Venerable Xu to abandon the fine chance to slay Heavenly Venerable You and withdraw into the Heavenly Court's camp. Meanwhile, in the Heavenly Court's main camp, two treasure halls rose slowly into the air, bursting with incomparably dense Dao light that even blotted out the radiance of the countless suns in the sky.