Chapter 424 — Defying the Azure Heaven
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"Truly the finest saber art under heaven!
The Heaven Saber lives up to its name! " Lord Huo's body grew larger and larger; a vertical eye grew from between his brows; like a giant with a green dragon coiled about him, a great sun leaped out behind his head, wind and thunder roaring: "Kuafu Chases the Sun, Wind and Thunder Hasten!
" "Aba!
" The Silent Artisan set down his wooden box and gave Lord Huo a thumbs-up; the box opened, and a boxful of silver pellets flowed, shifting from moment to moment. From the Pill Master's herb basket poison creatures crawled out one after another, spreading from beneath his feet like a tide in every direction; suddenly some spiders were bouncing from peak to peak, spinning webs.
Gradually those spiders leaped into the air and wove their webs there.
Behind Grandmother Zhu the star chart of the Great Luo Heaven suddenly appeared; the chart grew smaller and smaller, contracting swiftly, then fell into her palm. The Lame Elder, by contrast, looked panicked, glancing east and west, ready to flee at any moment. "Let us burn a patch of earth-fire!
" Tu Xingfeng laughed heartily, and the Divine Severance Mountains beneath his feet erupted in volcanic fire; Tu Xingfeng swung his hammer down, and the volcano grew higher and higher, growing of itself.
The Kun King laughed aloud, "Three-Inch Nail still brims with heroic spirit!
Watch my Water Severs the Starry Sky!
" Behind him a monstrous flood surged suddenly up to heaven, like a sea stood upright between heaven and earth.
"Kun King, lend me an arm!
" Xuan Shengwu laughed, revealed his true body, and leaped into the sea, like a turtle-shell ship sailing upon a sea surface perpendicular to the ground.
The Winged King stretched out an arm and gave it a sudden shake; feathers grew from the arm and became a wing; the wing rang with a clang and turned into a peng-feather blade.
And the Five Immortals of the Demon Race: the Willow Immortal held a whip; the White Immortal hugged a ball of thread; the Fox Immortal cradled a pipa; the Gray Immortal and the Yellow Immortal each bore a sack upon his back, one gray, one yellow. "They are coming!
" the Butcher said in a loud voice.
"They mean to force the pass by main strength!
Take care — we must hold them, we cannot let them cross the Divine Severance Mountains!
" The starlights came faster and faster, larger and larger, joined into a single straight line, like eighteen comets crashing toward the sea surface the Kun King had raised, and it seemed they would pierce clean through this great sea standing in the air.
The Butcher's saber-light moved; countless saber-lights shone upon the sea surface, and in an instant the saber-light was reflected back, rising to meet those starlights. Ding, ding, ding — a sound dense beyond measure; the Butcher withstood the first starlight; the second starlight came on its heels, shattering The Sun Shines on the Eastern Sea's Thousandfold Waves; the Butcher could not help but grunt, and was smashed down into the deep sea, where he used the Kun King's strength to dissolve the blow.
The second starlight had scarce crashed into the sea when it was bound by threads of silk spat from the rumps of spiders racing toward it; that starlight, trailing strand after strand of spider silk, crashed upon the sea surface, and was madly dragged by great spiders, until at last the starlight was hauled to a halt.
The third starlight and the fourth followed close behind, crashing one after another into the sea; but the sea surface suddenly split open, revealing behind it a vast ocean of blood. One Sword Opens the Emperor, Bloody Ocean!
Those two starlights had no time to stop, and could only brace themselves and charge into the bloody ocean, striving to break the move. Boom, boom.