Chapter 1767 — The Powerful Minister's Dao-Slaying Melody
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One Ten Heaven Venerable falls, and a new Ten Heaven Venerable grows up, as though a warrior sprouted a dragon's claws and fangs, still occupying the high seat, still venting power without restraint, suppressing all!
That drumbeat was dripping with blood; it made all who heard it see before their eyes the shattered, ruined state of the myriad heavens and worlds, the Ten Heaven Venerables who controlled the world wearing kind brows and kindly faces, controlling all the strife and turmoil of the universe, sending down countless calamities, only that they might linger a little longer, only to glut their own lust for power.
At this moment the qin music was pressed to the extreme, pressed until it was scarcely audible, as though the lives of all living beings were to end here, crushed utterly by calamity.
And just then the qin music suddenly tripped; zheng, zheng, zheng, and slaughter rose up at once!
In that single instant, the qin notes that had numbed the scalp and made the spirit shudder seemed to come alive, bringing tears to a man's eyes, giving him the feeling of returning to history, living through history, spanning history.
That feeling released the will to fight in that moment, so fierce, so surging and savage, like a tide running over the mountains and covering the earth, like a giant stirring the starry sky and dragging at the River of Heaven! This was upheaval, this was the heart's cry of unyielding warriors!
The qin's slaughter strove against the drumbeat, the two killing intents entangled and collided, raising the killing intent of heaven and earth to its utmost.
Zaifu went madder still, a hundred arms flying, beating the war drums, doing all in his power to suppress the qin, to suppress the rebellion of all living beings; yet the killing intent in the qin never ceased, and having been crushed it rebounded all the more violently, higher and higher, louder and more sonorous!
Of a sudden Heaven Venerable Yue's long hair flew, and her ten fingers swept the strings; the notes of her fifty-stringed qin gathered into one in that moment and became towering killing intent that came charging forth! Zheng, the qin note was incomparably sharp, its piercing power at its utmost, setting the blood boiling!
Lord Shang's Dao-Slaying Melody, the First Kill of the Moonlit Night! At the same moment a layer of heaven appeared behind Heaven Venerable Yue, a layer of the Dao Realm, and within that layer there appeared the figure of Heaven Venerable Yue playing the qin, the notes urgent, giving a man no room to breathe, and then a sudden sweep, and the qin music pushed the killing intent that filled heaven and earth up yet another step!
The Second Kill of the Moonlit Night!
Before the note had faded, another layer of heaven appeared behind her, the phantom of Heaven Venerable Yue standing within that layer of the Dao Realm, long sleeves flying, ten fingers flying, the ancient qin revolving ceaselessly around her body, notes of every kind crisscrossing in confusion, and then she seized the great qin and swept it heavily!
The Third Kill of the Moonlit Night! Again a layer of the Dao Realm's heavens emerged, the phantom of Heaven Venerable Yue playing, then abruptly she stood the ancient qin on its side, her two hands plucking in frenzy!
The Fourth Kill!
And then the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth!
One after another the layers of the Dao Realm emerged behind Heaven Venerable Yue, raising the unyielding spirit of all living beings, the protection that those with resolve wished to give, the killing intent of heaven and earth, to the utmost!
Zaifu's drumbeat had already been scattered, smashed to pieces, yet he forced himself to drum on, contending with the qin, trying to press it down, to force out an even deeper and more violent unyieldingness and killing intent!