Chapter 1764 — Triumph at Xuandu
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Yet the mana of the Two Divine Might Guards was truly too strong; strain as she might, she could not banish them wholly. Just then a Daoist cry rang out, clear and long: "The Dao-Sword Shatters the Heavenly Dipper! " Sword-light came rending the air, following the Moon Heavenly Venerable's music, and plunged into the Void of Chaos. An old Daoist came walking, and behind him tens of thousands of Daoists of the Jing Ping sect; the Dao-swords in their hands all leapt forth, piercing into the Void of Chaos together with the music.
In the Void of Chaos, blood-light flashed; one form after another burst asunder, flesh and blood scattered. At once the Moon Heavenly Venerable's divine power ran unhindered, and in one stroke she banished the Two Divine Might Guards to the deepest reaches of the Void of Chaos.
"The Daoists enter the city!
" The old Daoist sheathed his sword and led his tens of thousands of Daoists in a charge into the great camp of the Heavenly Court.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable had banished two of the Heavenly Court's Ten Guards, and the drain upon her cultivation was vast. She hastened to drive what mana remained to quench the Dao-fire upon Gongsun Yan, and saw that the girl was burned black as charcoal, her breath as faint as a thread.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable waved her hand and sent Gongsun Yan back to a divine city of Jing Ping; there the pill masters came forward at once to heal her.
Little mana remained to the Moon Heavenly Venerable.
Three of her realms had been stripped from her in succession; deep as her Dao-realm was, for she had cultivated to the thirty-fifth heaven of the Dao-realm, her mana could not keep pace with it at all.
"Open! " She clenched her teeth, plucked her strings, and drove out all the mana that remained to her in a single burst.
With great cracks and crashes, the Heavenly Court's great camp, stretching hundreds of thousands of li, suddenly split into seven or eight parts, each drifting off in a different direction.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable spat blood; her ten fingers ran red, the strings of her ancient qin all snapped at once, and she fell from the sky. Lady Tianyin caught her in haste and was about to carry her back to the divine city in the rear, but the Moon Heavenly Venerable shook her head: "A moment's rest will serve me.
Pay me no mind — enter the city as swiftly as you can!
" Lady Tianyin set her upon her shoulder and strode toward the city. She drove the divine powers of the Tianyin Realm, and one after another the gods and demons of the Heavenly Court, before ever they came near her, burst in their primordial spirits, black soul-sand pouring from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, a sight of utter horror.
The armies of every road strove to charge the great camp of the Heavenly Court, and the bloody battle shook the heavens.
From the Heavenly River too came violent surges: the Two Xuanwu Emperors now showed their true form, now split in two to become Emperor Xuan and Emperor Wu, leading the officers and men of the Northern Pole Heaven in slaughter. Wei Suifeng laid his formations, drove the Great Heavenly Court, and rolled cutting into the Heavenly River Navy, sweeping all before him.
The Heavenly River had long since been dyed a great river of blood-red. And in Youdu, of a sudden Shen Fengqing stamped his foot hard. With a thunderous roar the dark demonic qi of Youdu broke the boundary between Youdu and the world of the living, and the vast Gate of Receiving Heaven appeared within the great camp of the Heavenly Court.
The Gate of Receiving Heaven opened, and countless gods and demons who had fallen in the battle of the Land of No Sorrow and the battle of Lanfeng Valley came howling out upon paper horses, charging into the great camp of the Heavenly Court. "Where is our Xuandu army?
" In the great camp of the Heavenly Court, an officer cried out in despair: "The Xuandu army is made to overcome the ghosts and gods of Youdu!