Chapter 1752 — The Sovereign Lord Falls
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" A chill fell upon Her Majesty's heart, yet she would not give up the idea.
"Your Majesty, we are deities who have attained the Dao!
Deities who have attained the Dao ought to fight to the death in upholding the Heavenly Court's interests — how can we be protected by such petty deities as the Feather Forest, the Divine Might, and the Dragon Martial? " The Heavenly Emperor hesitated, then said, "Mother Empress speaks reason. But that arch-traitor Long Pi is leading the Beast Realm's great army against our rear, and the bodyguards are needed to go and crush him.
" Tai Chu, standing by, said flatly, "So many men are not called for! " "Then send the Left and Right Divine Might Armies to attack the Maple Valley.
. . " said the Heavenly Emperor.
Her Majesty laughed in fury: "To deal with Long Pi, the Left Feather Forest Army alone need go! Every other guard can hurry to the Maple Valley!
Trample the Maple Valley flat, and you may drive straight in, smite Jingping's capital, and level Jingping in a single battle!
" The Heavenly Emperor shook his head.
"Mother Empress, Lord Mu sits there. If all the bodyguards are sent to the front and he should suddenly rear up, they would be destroyed to the last man! Your reckoning falls short — say no more.
" Her Majesty flew into a towering rage and turned to go. Tai Chu followed her out and said in an undertone, "The Heavenly Emperor's state is not right; he has lost his mettle and his gall.
In his battle with the Cloud Lord, the Cloud Lord destroyed the incarnation of the Second Lord, and with it his Guixu Dao body was destroyed as well.
I fear he has already toppled from the realm of the Dao-attained, and for that reason he wavers between gain and loss, daring not to forge ahead. In such a state he is most harmful to the Heavenly Court. Though the Heavenly Court can never be defeated, even if we conquer Jingping it will only be at a grievous cost to our vitality; and who knows but that even we ourselves may be at risk of falling. " Her Majesty read his meaning: the Heavenly Court could never be defeated because of the Ancestral Court Jade Capital City! In this war, however severely the Heavenly Court's strength might be wasted, it could never lose; the Court had only to blood-sacrifice a few of the heavens, and the Dao-attained of the Ancestral Court Jade Capital City would descend and annihilate Jingping! This was a war that could not be lost, yet the only ones who could lose it were they, the Ten Lords! The Ten Lords might be slain or wounded, might forfeit their stations and their gains.
The two walked on talking, and Tai Chu, gazing far into the distance, said, "Since the Heavenly Emperor ascended the throne, the Fire Lord has died, the Divine Emperor Langxuan has died, and now the Void Lord is dead as well — old friends slipping away one after another, and I cannot keep from sighing deeply.
The Emperor is greedy for power and will share it with neither his old comrades nor the Ancestral Court Jade Capital City; and so this war to chastise the Primordial World has been fought into a sloppy muddle. And now, on top of all, he dreads to fight and dreads to lose — for us, I am afraid, that is fraught with extreme danger. " Her Majesty stopped in her steps and said with a smile that was not quite a smile, "You mean to depose the Heavenly Emperor and mount the throne yourself again?
Tai Chu, to exchange the Emperor at such a moment would throw the army into turmoil, and the Heavenly Court would lose without a battle!
" Tai Chu's frame gave a slight start; staring hard at her, he burst out all at once, "You are not Madam Yuanmu!
Madam Yuanmu would never weigh gains and losses with such grave sobriety! " Her Majesty walked on ahead. "We were man and wife — and it is only now that you see I am not that little slut, my young sister? Heh heh. Men — you always think with the part below the belt. .