Chapter 1252 — The Might of the Dao Domain

On the city walls the celestial soldiers and generals could not help but be stricken with horror, staring blankly at the scene.

The general guarding the gate promptly gave the order, dispatching a squad of gods and devils out of the city to investigate.

At that very moment, before the Divine City there appeared string after string of enormous footprints, as though an invisible giant were sprinting; and not only that, wherever that giant ran, shocking rifts abruptly tore open in the air—fissures dozens of li long! The squad of gods and devils was torn apart in the next instant, dying inexplicably on the spot.

"What manner of demon dares to whip up such turmoil?

" the gatekeeping general cried out sharply.

Boom!

The void shook violently; a seal in the shape of a dragon's head abruptly surfaced, and then an enormous palm print appeared as well, the tremor so great that even within the Divine City they felt the violent fluctuation of space! What was more, the footprints seemed to be walking backward, and at great speed, heading straight for the Divine City.

"Those footprints—what in the world are they?

" Dread gripped the hearts of the gods.

Then a god of the Heavenly Eye Clan sent his gaze piercing through the void-darkness, fathoming Youdu and beholding the scenes within it, and cried out sharply: "Mighty ones are battling inside Taixu Youdu! Their strength is so great it can affect reality from within Youdu! Everyone, be on your guard!

" Bang bang bang—a succession of spatial tremors rolled in; before the Divine City, all manner of marks appeared, fist prints, blade scars, formation runes—something was brawling furiously in Youdu, and it was spilling over into reality with staggering force!

Suddenly Bai Yuqiong's voice rang out through the Divine City: "Xiluo Shimen, hear my command! Raise the guardian formation!

Whatever breaks in from Youdu is to be killed on sight! " The soldiers took the order and activated the formation at once, standing in full battle array.

The guardian formations of each Divine City had all been designed by the Four Great Celestial Masters, and their power was extraordinary; though these masters were not the foremost formation masters of the Heavenly Court, their attainments in formations were nonetheless nothing to be slighted.

If the enemy truly was a mighty one come from Youdu, he would surely fall into the formation they had devised, and might even be annihilated in a single stroke! The gods and devils in the city each breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Yuqiong mounted the gate tower and looked down from on high, her heart trembling faintly: "This newcomer's strength is no small matter!

But this should be the territory Yin Tianzi guards—how could anyone have entered his domain? " Bai Yuqiong said in a deep voice, "Scry the scenes of Youdu and report them to me.

I want to see which masters are clashing!

" The Heavenly Eyes in the army all began probing Youdu, searching.

In truth there was no need to search: the battle between Shen Mu and Yu Wufei was so vast in scale that it affected reality itself, and finding them was not hard.

What was hard was seeing their faces clearly.

Both were formidable in cultivation, and neither wished his true face seen; moreover they moved too fast—even the Heavenly Eyes of Xiluo Shimen could not make out who they were. And the divine abilities of Youdu held an uncanny property: whoever saw their faces would forget them.

Bai Yuqiong waited long and still no report came from the Heavenly Eyes, and she wondered inwardly, "Could that pretty boy Yin Tianzi be trying to scheme against me again?

" Just then the earth before the Divine City abruptly twisted and deformed; a vast, boundless power came surging out of Taixu Youdu, remaking the land, lifting the earth into the air, yin and yang qi diffusing everywhere as all manner of strange forces burst forth.

Then countless stars surfaced in the sky, and even within Taixu Youdu another Youdu was born! This power carried an extraordinarily singular aura of the Great Dao, and Bai Yuqiong's heart skipped a beat: "A domain!

Someone has unleashed a domain of his own Great Dao!

" The Great Dao domain was also called the Dao domain; Tai Di's supreme divine sense domain and Kai Huang's sword domain were both kinds of Dao domains.

To cultivate one required a deep understanding and comprehension of the Dao—even a pioneering of it. Under all heaven, those who had entered the Dao were exceedingly few, and those who had cultivated a Dao domain were fewer still.

Bai Yuqiong had never seen Kai Huang's sword domain, but she had heard that Kai Huang once swept into the Heavenly Court with sword in hand and, in a single battle with Haotianzun, nearly split the Heavenly Court apart!

As for the two battling in Youdu, one of them had unfurled a Dao domain, its Great Dao vast and boundless, and its feel was exceedingly strange, unlike renowned domains known throughout the world such as the sword domain or the divine sense domain.

This Dao domain encompassed a great many Great Daos, and it shook her to the core of her soul—she could not tell what manner of Dao domain it was. She wanted to enter Taixu Youdu and see for herself, but that was Yin Tianzi's territory; though Yin Tianzi served as an official of the Heavenly Court alongside her, the two of them bore a deep and bitter enmity, and she dared not lightly set foot in his domain.

Within that Dao domain she could see one clear line: it must be the other combatant, driving mana of incomparable might into the Dao domain, barreling straight through it toward the master at its center.

This one's cultivation was so strong that he had broken the Dao domain open—was even wrecking it. At that very moment, the Dao domain abruptly became whole again, closing in upon the intruder to encircle him!

"The other one in this fight, I fear, is in gravest peril! " Clever as she was, Bai Yuqiong read the situation and thought to herself, "Is Yin Tianzi fighting someone?

Has he cultivated a Dao domain?

Impossible—that pretty boy's strength may be high, but his grasp of the Great Dao is not that strong.

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. " Boom—the Dao domain abruptly split along a single line; with a rending crash the ground was torn apart for a thousand li, magnificent mountains and rivers rising on either bank, and at the center a deep canyon!

Within Taixu Youdu, Yu Wufei had charged into Shen Mu's divine treasure domain, barreling straight through it and storming into the Ancestral Court—but the next moment, every power of the Great Dao within Shen Mu's domain erupted!

Yu Wufei knew at once that things had gone ill, and drove her divine abilities with everything she had, meeting Shen Mu head-on. Viewed from the land of Taixu, this clash of divine abilities showed only magnificent mountains and rivers surging up across a thousand li; but the scene as seen from within was extraordinarily terrifying.

Though Yu Wufei was of the Lingxiao Realm, facing an opponent like Shen Mu, who could not be measured by conventional realms, she still felt the great terror that lies between life and death. "But my abilities do not end here!

" Yu Wufei was on the verge of mustering all her strength when, at that very moment, a vast divine sense came rushing straight at her.

Her cultivation art could draw upon the mana of other gods, but in divine sense she could not rival Han Tianjun. Han Tianjun could fuse the divine senses of others into his own and raise his to the point where it rivaled Shen Mu's—Yu Wufei could not.

High as her cultivation was, her understanding of the Dao was not particularly deep. Han Tianjun, however, was the foremost master of the Dao of formations in the Heavenly Court, and in comprehension of the Dao he surpassed Yu Wufei by more than a little.