Chapter 1761 — The First Battle for Supremacy

This Heavenly Gate was the North Heavenly Gate, a sacred site within the Ancestral Court, brought directly by the Heavenly Court to serve as a divine weapon to suppress all things, set against the World Tree, attempting to use the North Heavenly Gate to crush Shen Mu's Divine Treasury and halt Carefree Land's advance.

At the same time, the Heavenly Court soldiers who had fought their way to the base of the World Tree climbed madly up the tree, already killing their way onto leaf after leaf of the World Tree. And the coffin-bearing Lü Zheng, Niu Sanduo, and the others were in even more peril.

Lü Zheng used his back to bear the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin, freeing both hands to fight.

Niu Sanduo bore the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin on his shoulder, also freeing his hands.

They felt enemies on all sides, divine weapons and sharp blades attacking from everywhere, an endless slaughter, an impossible defense, not knowing when this battle would ever end. Suddenly, the Heavenly Court army around the North Heavenly Gate—countless gods and demons—fell in whole swaths, without the slightest warning.

The Heavenly Court's Pillar Historian, holding the Heaven-Piercing Pillar, had no idea what had happened.

He seemed to sense something, his expression changing drastically, and he roared: "Enemy attack! From the Nether Capital, burrowing into our life-and-death divine treasury! Beware enemies assassinating our primordial spirits!

" His heavenly palace appeared with a boom, and a Imperial Gate Divine Blade swept past his Lingxiao Hall, slaying his primordial spirit!

The Nether Capital Heavenly King Tian Shu shook the Imperial Gate Divine Blade, its blade light dazzling.

As the blade light vibrated, the stone steles of the Realm of the Living and the Dead emerged. The King of Fengdu led the ghosts and gods of Fengdu, killing from the Nether Capital into the life-and-death divine treasuries of the Heavenly Court's gods and demons. Tian Shu's body grew larger and larger, his legs spreading apart as he stood upon the peaks of the two mountain ranges flanking the North Heavenly Gate, and he cried fiercely: "Advance—" Lü Zheng, Niu Sanduo, the Red Kun husband and wife, the Black Tiger God, and the others heaved the coffin forward with all their strength.

Around them countless Heavenly Court soldiers surged in, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The battles along this road were beyond counting, and the casualties of Carefree Land's soldiers were beyond counting as well. Finally, they arrived before the Heavenly Court's main camp. From above, countless divine powers and divine weapons smashed down. The Carefree Land soldiers struggled to hold them off, and one after another was killed, falling from the World Tree.

The camp walls were thick and heavy. Lü Zheng cried: "I'll bear the coffin—Old Ox, you go break the gate! " Niu Sanduo charged out, roaring again and again, his body growing larger and larger, his muscles bulging hideously. His twin fists smashed against the gate, and the gate and gate tower shook with a thunderous rumble.

Heavenly Court soldiers leaped down from the gate tower to fight, their numbers growing greater and greater, while at the same time countless Heavenly Court soldiers from all directions surged in.

Lü Zheng, bearing the coffin on his back, cried fiercely: "Little Cat, Fish, I'll hold them off—you protect Old Ox! " The Black Tiger God and the Red Kun husband and wife immediately stopped bearing the coffin and fought with all their might, protecting Niu Sanduo so he could work in safety. Niu Sanduo smashed madly at the gate, but the gate would not break.

Suddenly he roared without cease, lowered his head, and rammed into the gate.

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering boom rang out. The gate shattered into four or five pieces, the gate tower collapsed.

Both of Niu Sanduo's horns broke off, his head was split and bleeding, yet he revealed a smile and cried loudly: "Donkey, the gate is broken, the gate is broken! Bear the coffin into the city! " Lü Zheng, bearing the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin on his back, hunched over, did not move.

His body was covered with all manner of divine weapons.

"Donkey! " The Black Tiger God killed back the Heavenly Court soldiers surging up and rushed forward, only to see Lü Zheng's single eye wide open, already dead.

At the corner of his mouth, the ginseng doll had only a radish head left, still barely breathing. Radish Head was Lü Zheng's good friend.

Though he often ate radish heads, nibbling a bite whenever he had nothing better to do, he could not bear to eat Radish Head, for that would cost his friend his life.

"Bear the coffin into the city!

" The Black Tiger God wiped away his tears and roared at the Red Kun husband and wife.

Only the three of them remained to bear the coffin. The Dao-Burial Divine Coffin was too heavy; the three were crushed until they vomited blood.

Niu Sanduo cleared the way ahead, using his body to block the attacks of countless surging gods and demons, carving out a bloody path for the Black Tiger God and the other two.

Finally, they arrived within the city.

In the distance, upon the divine city of Jingping, Ling Yuxiu saw the World Tree enter the Heavenly Court's main camp. The arm she had raised finally fell, like a sword cutting down.

The various armies of Jingping surged forth with a boom, marching in mighty array to kill toward the Heavenly Court's main camp!