Chapter 1764 — Triumph at Xuandu
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Emperor Yanfeng stood upon his tower-ship, driving his mystic arts; one after another the Ancestral Dragon Heavenly Palaces floated forth, ten thousand dragons dancing, and they slew toward the primordial spirits of those Heavenly Court officers and men. At once countless black soul-sands howled through the air; one primordial spirit after another was shattered, turning into rolling black sand.
Just then the Divine Might armies of left and right came charging in, rushing at Emperor Yanfeng. The hundred-odd divine cities of Jing Ping that followed behind the tower-ship blazed with cannon-light, and a volley of that light burst forth, holding the two Divine Might armies at bay.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable sat upon the city tower, head bowed over her qin.
The music rose, and of a sudden the hundred thousand officers and men of the Two Divine Might Guards were each spun head over heels and vanished in an instant — banished by her arts of space to some place none could say. The Two Divine Might Guards at once formed their formations, becoming the Fire Sage Demon-Breaking Formation.
Within those two formations, two phantom images of the Fire Heavenly Venerable rose slowly, wheels upon wheels of Dao-fire behind their heads, for the Two Divine Might Guards had spent their own mana to re-enact the Fire Heavenly Venerable's Daoist arts and divine powers. This Fire Sage Demon-Breaking Formation too had been devised by the Heavenly Master Meng Yungui, and mastered by the Two Divine Might Guards; it was made to break the Moon Heavenly Venerable's Zaiji Void.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable raised her brows; her form flew up from the tower of the divine city, and the next moment she pressed in among the great formations of the Two Divine Might Guards. At the same time Lady Tianyin lifted her hand and flung out the hourglass. It flew into the two great formations and burst of a sudden; rolling black soul-sand poured out, and darkness spread.
The Dao-fire of the two great formations could not melt the black soul-sand, and at once both formations sank into darkness.
Gongsun Yan's form flew up, became a Primal Tree, and cast herself into the two darkened formations. The formations stirred; the Primal Tree burst into furious flame, yet it held the two Fire Sage Demon-Breaking Formations back for a moment at least. In that moment, music came through the darkness; the next, the two great formations split apart, breaking into several hundred pieces.
The music grew ever more urgent. The Moon Heavenly Venerable plucked her strings and suddenly drove her mana; space spun, and tens of thousands of the Two Divine Might Guards' officers and men were stretched long and flattened thin to the music, until of a sudden a rift in space opened, revealing the Void of Chaos.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable swept her sleeve and plucked her qin; the music swelled, and those tens of thousands of officers and men went howling away, banished into the depths of the Void of Chaos.
Yet the strength of those tens of thousands of the Two Divine Might Guards was truly great.
A single Divine Might Guard was no match for the Moon Heavenly Venerable, but the leaders who held the formation charts were among the Heavenly Court's foremost beings of the Emperor Throne realm. They drove the charts, drawing one Divine Might Guard after another into them; the charts stirred once more, and twisted layer upon layer of space, seeking to escape from the Moon Heavenly Venerable's divine power.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable's ten fingers flew as though she had grown countless arms, her finger-shadows like phantoms, spending all she had to contend with the Fire Sage Demon-Breaking Formation and drive those Two Divine Might Guards little by little into the depths of the Void of Chaos.