Chapter 1799 — Seizing Life Through Control
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The Golden Ship of Salvation crashed through layer after layer of void, the Dao fruit following behind, striking out blast after blast, so that Xu Shenghua's and Lan Yutian's domains shook violently, and they could hardly contend with the Empress's Guixu domain.
The great advantage collapsed in an instant.
Seeing that the Empress would soon wake, suddenly Lord Shang's Dao-Slaying Melody sounded, and with it a blade-light that rose from below to meet the Hall Master of Joy's Dao fruit and cut it open.
The first kill of Lord Shang's Dao-Slaying Melody.
Lord Shang had truly come.
When the second kill of Lord Shang's Dao-Slaying Melody sounded, the blade-light was like white silk, cutting the split Dao fruit to pieces.
At the third kill, tens of thousands of Hall Masters of Joy were cut in two at the waist, their blood spraying into the sky.
At the fourth, fifth, sixth and the rest of the Dao-Slaying Melody, the space around the Hall Master of Joy became a sea of blood, strewn everywhere with severed, withered limbs.
The Hall of Joy descended from the sky and came down upon that blade-light with a thunderous crash, shaking Lord Shang out of the blade-light and pinning him beneath the Hall of Joy.
The Hall Master of Joy, drenched in blood, wounds everywhere, stood before the hall and cried harshly, "Lord Shang, you still think to ambush me twice? I am no longer the one who had just descended..."
As she spoke, beneath the Moon Heavenly Venerable's qin the Dao-Slaying Melody was driven to its thirty-seventh kill; the aura of slaughter rose in a surging crescendo, reaching its uttermost.
In that thirty-seventh kill a blade-light split the Hall of Joy asunder.
The Hall Master of Joy's face showed horror; just as she would dodge, Jiang Baigui came flying in, and the seventy-two halls and thirty-six heavenly palaces crashed down and pinned her in place.
At the same instant the Golden Ship of Salvation charged once more into the Ultimate Void, and Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian crossed and circled around the Empress, stepping without pause: now Xu Shenghua blocked her attacks, now Lan Yutian — and whenever either found an opening he used the Samsara art, or the Red Rope Knot Seal, holding the Empress in a death grip.
The Ultimate Void and the Guixu domain clashed violently; these two meant to hold the Empress in control until she died.