Chapter 1761 — The First Battle for Supremacy

" The soldiers under his command were flushed red with excitement, shouting at the top of their voices: "Capture Mu Tianzun alive—" The Woodcutter Wen Tiange activated his primordial spirit guide and simultaneously sent orders to the various armies of Carefree Land. The formations of Carefree Land's armies shifted, and they all soared into the air, landing upon Shen Mu's World Tree.

The branches and leaves of the World Tree swayed, each situated in a different void. The Woodcutter laid out his formation and suddenly bellowed: "Bear the coffin, advance!

" Those divine-power strongmen heaved the coffin up and stepped forward to meet Huang Tianxi's army.

Before the two armies had even come to close combat, the air had already become a battlefield of colliding divine powers. The divine powers of the Heavenly Court and Carefree Land clashed in the air, divine weapons collided with divine weapons, brilliant beyond measure, dazzling to the eye! The divine-power strongmen bore the coffin forward with all their strength, aftershocks of divine powers and fragments of divine weapons whistling around them, some passing through their bodies, some piercing their primordial spirits, and strongman after strongman fell. Each time this happened, a giant of Carefree Land would step down from the World Tree to replace the dead strongman and continue bearing the coffin forward.

The soldiers of Carefree Land, occupying the advantage of the Divine Treasury Domain, broke apart the enemy's divine powers and divine weapons, and moreover the divine powers and divine weapons of the various army commanders slew out from behind the enemy's curtain of divine powers, cutting down enemy generals, causing heavy casualties among the Eastern Heavenly King's army! Yet the Eastern Heavenly King's army was truly too numerous, and held the advantage in cultivation realm; still many divine powers broke through, and upon the Thirty-Three Heavens of the World Tree, the corpses of Carefree Land soldiers fell without cease. The two armies drew ever closer.

Upon the leaves of the World Tree, Yan Yunxi's mount, the Donkey Demon King Lü Zheng, transformed into a demon god with a donkey's head and human body, and said with a heh-heh laugh: "Little Black Cat, Fish, and Old Ox, don't be afraid. With me here, I'll surely protect you all!

" One of his eyes was already blind, wounded by the enemy during the battle of Carefree Land. The Black Tiger God gripped two great axes and gave a snort.

A deep scar ran across his face, from his right forehead all the way to his left jaw, also left behind in the battle of Carefree Land.

The two little red fish transformed into a husband and wife in bright red robes, their bodies also covered in wounds. Niu Sanduo stood upright, snorting smoke from his nostrils: "Lü Zheng, you'd better worry about yourself.

I was personally enfeoffed as a Golden Guard by Taichu himself back in the day, an existence that rampaged through the Heavenly River and fought the Ancient Gods! " Boom!

The Carefree Land army collided with the Eastern Heavenly King's army. The coffin-bearing strongmen bore the brunt, and in a single instant more than half were killed or wounded. The strongmen in front were slain and fell, and the strongmen behind immediately bore the full weight of the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin, crushed until blood spurted from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, their shoulder bones shattered to powder, yet they still held on, refusing to fall.

But then the World Tree tilted, the path forward was blocked, and all the soldiers on the World Tree lost their footing. The Woodcutter's voice came: "Lü Zheng, Niu Sanduo, go bear the coffin forward.

You must hold the coffin, carry Mu Tianzun to the Heavenly Court's main camp!

" Five men immediately rushed down from the tree. Lü Zheng chuckled: "Brothers, I'll protect you.

Your cultivation is weak, not as good as mine. I'll block the front.

Don't worry about me—I have Radish! " The five lifted the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin. Lü Zheng roared, his muscles bulging, hunching his back as he blocked the very front, bearing the coffin forward.

Countless gods and demons of the Eastern Heavenly King came to kill.

Di Yiyue immediately flew down, meeting Huang Tianxi head-on. To capture the bandit, first capture their king—she had to slay Huang Tianxi in the shortest time possible and rout the Eastern Heavenly King's army, for only then might she preserve the other soldiers of Carefree Land!

"Di Yiyue, you think you're fit to be a Kaihuang?

" Huang Tianxi laughed loudly, utterly unafraid. Behind his head, heavenly palaces appeared one after another, forming a small Heavenly Court: "You are three and a half realms below me—you are no match for me!

You were the most talented person of the Kaihuang era, and a demigod besides.

Why would you help the human race? " "So you too know I was the most talented person in forty thousand years! " Di Yiyue shouted fiercely.

The two's divine powers clashed head-on, their figures crossing past each other.

In the instant they crossed, Di Yiyue's left arm was severed, cut off by Huang Tianxi. At the same time, behind Di Yiyue appeared a vast Ancestral Court.

The Four Great Heavenly Gates stood upright and inverted, the Jade Pool and Jade Terrace held profound dao rhythms, the God-Slaying Platform seethed with killing intent, the Heavenly Sea was like a mirror without a ripple, and the Nine Hells Platform was deep as an abyss! Within her Ancestral Court, the phantom images of four great mineral veins had already appeared—only the Taiyi Vein had not manifested.

From the four great mineral veins, the radiant light of four great daos rose slowly.

Di Yiyue's primordial spirit gathered the radiant light and moved counter to her body. In a single instant it broke through Huang Tianxi's small Heavenly Court, and with a shua sound pierced straight through Huang Tianxi's Lingxiao Treasure Hall! Within the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, Huang Tianxi's primordial spirit exploded with a thunderous boom, reduced to powder.

Huang Tianxi's corpse fell face-down to the ground, immediately swallowed by the chaotic army.

Di Yiyue did not go to retrieve her severed left arm. She stanched the bleeding and charged forward, killing into the enemy ranks. By the time she broke through the Eastern Heavenly King's army, she saw the various armies of the Heavenly Court surging toward her from the front.

"In this battle, we must break through the Heavenly Court's main camp and place Mu Tianzun's coffin within the Heavenly Court's main camp!

" Di Yiyue held her sword in her single arm, her primordial spirit floating within the four great mineral veins, watching the Heavenly Court's armies surge forward: "Only when the World Tree stands within the Heavenly Court's main camp will Carefree Land be the sharp blade that pierces the Heavenly Court's spirit! " Boom!

Another army of the Heavenly Court surged forth, drowning her. Di Yiyue's figure was like a lone boat on a surging sea, appearing and disappearing amid the towering waves, never swallowed by the great billows.

Boom! Another army surged forth, then a third army surged forth. On the World Tree, at a single command from Wen Tiange, Yan Yunxi, Emperor Shitian, the Martial Dao Heavenly Master, and others all killed their way down to support Di Yiyue. The group forged ahead through waves of blood, countless enemy corpses tumbling in the bloody surf.

"Raise the North Heavenly Gate!

" A great shout came from the enemy camp.

A Heavenly Gate rose up, cold wind howling, blowing toward the world, freezing everything.

The coffin-bearing Lü Zheng and the others could not help but shiver, their heads and faces covered in ice crystals.