Chapter 1483 — My Will Is the Will of Heaven

In Xuandu, Venerable Huo stood upon the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire; the Dao Fire blazed fiercely, burning the air, melting all things away.

Such a mighty Dao Fire, yet the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor, held it in hand without knowing its true nature; only he could bring the power of the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground to its utmost!

Standing upon the Dao Fire altar, he was like a sovereign ruling heaven and earth; with the altar at its center, the whole universe became the altar's ninefold heaven.

With a single pointing finger he could sever layer upon layer of space, leaving Venerable Yue struggling to cope!

His mana was vast and mighty, surpassing Venerable Yue's as well; yet now he was in no hurry to take Venerable Yue's life, but guarded instead against Venerable You and the Divine King Langwan — especially Divine King Langwan, who posed a great threat to him.

The Dao Fire Ancestral Ground twisted space, but the void alone it could not twist, and Divine King Langwan's attacks came precisely from the void!

And his more important target was the Lord of Heaven. The death of the Lord of Heaven would be a splendid opportunity to carve up the spoils; whether he could advance another step rested upon this single move!

In the very instant he let his attention stray to look upon the Lord of Heaven and to guard against Langwan and Venerable You, a divine blade came hurtling from the thirty layers of the void and struck him savagely in the face, blood spraying!

Venerable Huo was startled.

To him the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground was his ground of invincibility: standing here, apart from the immense enhancement the Innate Dao Fire gave him, the Ancestral Ground also let him perceive every attack!

Except the void. Only the void could not be twisted and melted by the Dao Fire.

And this blade had come from the depths of the void, slashing across his face! The cut was vicious, almost splitting from the midline of his face into his skull!

No one in this world had ever dared launch an assault on him at such close range, for the power of the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground was too great; the raging Dao Fire that burned all things was enough to melt anything — even Venerable Yue could not come near.

Venerable Huo flew into a rage.

He saw the figures of Shen Mu and the others in the void; the wheel of flame behind his head spun, and the enormous flame wheel sliced into the thirty layers of void.

Within the flame wheel the Dao Fire blazed; palace after heavenly palace shook and thundered, and projections of his primordial spirit appeared in each of them, each raising a hand, dreadful divine powers about to erupt and burn the five in the void to ashes!

At that moment the figure of Divine King Langwan appeared behind Shen Mu and the others, and the figure of Venerable You appeared behind Divine King Langwan. The lamp shone forth; Venerable Huo's many primordial spirit projections shuddered violently, struck by the lamplight, and were blasted out of their respective palaces, projection after projection annihilated!

Even his primary primordial spirit was battered into retreat after retreat, driven off the Emperor's Throne, blasted out of the Lingxiao Hall! Blade lights flashed and appeared upon the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground; the five of them — Shen Mu and his companions — whirled around Venerable Huo's tall, imposing frame, above and below! Venerable Huo raised a hand to block, but Divine King Langwan's spiritual consciousness came crashing in; he was blasted into a daze, and then Venerable You's divine power struck again. With a thunderous boom, his primordial spirit was blasted clean out of his body and sent flying backward.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

In that single instant his mortal body took several hundred cuts, drenched in blood!

Venerable You raised a hand to form a seal, about to blast him from Xuandu into Youdu, when suddenly a vast and mighty spiritual consciousness came surging at him.

Before Venerable You's eyes appeared layer upon layer of illusions, and there he saw his own mother walking toward him. Tears fell from Venerable You like rain, and he could not bring his hand down.

At that moment Divine King Langwan gave a shout, and Venerable You was instantly freed from the illusion.

He looked up, and his heart chilled: Venerable Gong had come into Xuandu and stood gazing at Divine King Langwan from afar.

The two women locked eyes; during that span, Shen Mu and Zai Fu and the others joined forces, five tiny figures circling Venerable Huo and striking again and again with their blades, hacking him into a mass of wounds. Venerable Huo's primordial spirit flew back, but suddenly a note of Venerable Yue's zither rang out and shifted his mortal body away.

Venerable Huo's eyes split with fury as his primordial spirit rushed off in pursuit of his body.

The next moment space split open; the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground fell into that riven space, and no one knew where Venerable Yue had sent it. At this, Venerable Gong smiled faintly; her spiritual consciousness burst forth and rushed at Divine King Langwan, whose spiritual consciousness rippled in answer.

The two women's consciousness powers were about to collide! Spiritual consciousness held endless information within it; the moment their consciousnesses clashed, they would know each other's thoughts without needing to speak a word!

Shen Mu's figure appeared between the two of them; his spiritual consciousness burst forth and transformed into a great Daluo Heaven, and he laughed aloud: "You two were born of the same root — why must you fight to the death? "