Chapter 1754 — The Ancients Invade, the Heavenly Palace Topples
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Before the Right Feather Forest Guard could so much as make a move, the youth vanished, and when he appeared again he was already beside the Dao-Burying Divine Coffin, so swiftly that not one of these Feather Forest officers or soldiers could follow the motion! Of the Ten Guards of the Heavenly Court, any single army, once it drew up its formation, could stand head-on against a Tianzun, and with the formations Meng Yungui had devised set in place, their might was all the more terrifying!
And among the Ten Guards, it was the Feather Forest Guard whose battle strength ranked first, hailed as the wings of the Emperor of Heaven! The first commander of the Feather Forest Guard had been Wei Suifeng, who won fearsome renown in the Battle of Guixu and wiped out outright the strongest demigod race of that age, the Longbo Kingdom.
This generation of the Right Feather Forest Guard surpassed even that age, and its commander was a being whose name stood equal with Emperor Yunluo, Wei Suifeng: Emperor Tianluo, Bian Yanfei.
Yet even he had failed to see the youth's movement. "Divine Feather Great Hong Formation, arise!
" Bian Yanfei roared, and fifty thousand elite soldiers of the Right Feather Forest Guard instantly set the formation in motion; in the space of a single turn its power surged to its utmost and became a colossal azure bird! "Hong!
Hong!
Hong! Great Hong!
" The momentum of fifty thousand soldiers linked as one, and from their mouths burst a single roar.
The Heavenly Palace, scattered and staggered, seemed itself an azure bird; the dao-sound quaked and rang like the mournful cry of the Great Hong, as though Hong Tianzun lived again! Hong Tianzun, in his day famed as first under heaven in dharma power, had been deconstructed into a formation by Meng Yungui, and the Divine Feather Great Hong Formation laid by the Feather Forest Guard joined the demonic of Hong Tianzun with the orthodox of the Heavenly Dao, folding Shen Mu's coffin and that youth alike into its killing array!
The killing array came to life, yet the youth trapped inside showed neither panic nor haste. His domain of the Thirty-Three Heavens spread out and joined with the thirty-three layers of the void; bearing the Dao-Burying Divine Coffin, he rose higher and higher, deep into layer upon layer of void, and soon reached the thirty-third layer. Bian Yanfei led the Feather Forest Guard in a combined assault, plunging after him into the layered void, but the higher they climbed, the more severe the voidification of all things became.
For all that the Feather Forest Guard possessed the Divine Feather Great Hong Formation, against that omnipresent voidification they struggled mightily. By the time they reached the thirty-third layer of void, the voidification had touched every last Feather Forest soldier; to press on deeper, and every one of them would surely lose his life! A true Tianzun could enter the thirty-fifth layer of void without perishing, but the Feather Forest Guard were no true Tianzun.
Mighty though the Divine Feather Great Hong Formation was, the soldiers who composed it did not possess a Tianzun's strength. Bian Yanfei looked toward the young man, unwillingness written in his eyes. The youth stood within the thirty-third layer of void as though he had melted into it; the power of the thirty-third heaven's void had no effect on him at all!
"Who are you, sir? " Bian Yanfei demanded sharply.
"Xu Shenghua of Shangcang.
" The youth, all courtesy, saluted him: "Greetings, fellow cultivator of the Heavenly Court.
" "Xu Shenghua! " Bian Yanfei turned and bellowed: "Everyone, withdraw from the void! " Fifty thousand Feather Forest soldiers raised their wings, blotting out sky and sun, and the Great Hong beat its pinions and flew.
Scarcely had they flown out of the void than Bian Yanfei ordered: "Halt!
Stir the formation and attack the Ultimate Void from here!