Chapter 470 — Palaces in Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
"Among the many daughters of my Xiong family who died, many were also with child."
Xiong Xiyu's eyes showed a hatred incomparably dense; she snatched the Black Tortoise Pearl from the Palace Lord's hand, then took the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl from Xiong Qi'er, and said in a lowered voice: "Did you ever pity them?"
Bathed in the light of the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl, the Palace Lord of the True Heaven Palace tried to struggle, but her body and her primal spirit were at once turned to wood, becoming a wooden statue frozen in the pose of one trying to flee.
Xiong Xiyu let out a breath of foul air, and led Xiong Qi'er into the True Heaven Palace, saying coldly: "I will not kill you, but neither will I spare you because you are with child. You shall become a wooden statue before the palace gate, kneeling here forever!"
Behind them, the women of the great families poured into the True Heaven Palace, killing toward the remnant Yu family divine-power wielders within.
Shen Mu also came to the True Heaven Palace. This palace complex was exceedingly vast, with many streets and lanes within; remnants of the Yu family's power still lurked in the True Heaven Palace, hidden among the halls and alleys.
Some Yu family experts had mastered the Vermilion Bird Pearl and the White Tiger Pearl and were still resisting. The might of the Vermilion Bird Pearl and the White Tiger Pearl was tremendous; even if the cultivation of those who wielded these two spirit treasures was not very high, they could still unleash terrifying power.
Shen Mu followed the crowd in killing his way into the palace, thinking: "Ban Gongcuo should still be in the palace, should he not? This time, no matter what, I cannot let him escape!"
Suddenly a sheet of golden light spilled down. A woman held a golden yet utterly transparent pearl, within which was a white tiger spirit soul; golden light burst from the pearl, and wherever it passed, everyone was instantly torn to pieces!
Shen Mu hurriedly urged his sword pellet; eight thousand swords circled his body, flying swiftly around him. He heard only a dense, unending din of ding-ding-ding, and the golden light sent him, swords and all, flying.
Shen Mu tumbled over and over, and at last steadied himself, only to find he had been knocked dozens of zhang away.
"The White Tiger Pearl!"
He dodged behind a great hall. Golden light surged like a tide from both sides of the palace. Shen Mu peered intently: where the golden light shone, countless strands of golden qi seemed to dart wildly within the radiance. Those women who had just died beneath the golden light had been slain by the incomparably sharp golden qi within the light!
He hugged one of the great pillars of the hall, put strength into his waist, and meant to lift the whole hall and smash it down on the Yu family expert controlling the White Tiger Pearl.
The pillar did not stir in the slightest.
Shen Mu grunted, exerted himself again; the pillar still did not stir.
"Sect Master Shen, this is the True Heaven Palace."
Suddenly Liu Zhenqing's voice came. Shen Mu was slightly startled, and saw a host of black coffins escorting a golden divine coffin as they flew over. Mother and daughter of the Liu family each sat on the lid of their own coffin. That little girl Liu Zhenqing put down her candied hawthorn and laughed: "True, Heaven, Palace! A true heavenly palace!"
Shen Mu was astonished and blurted out: "You mean...?"
"This heavenly palace fell from the heavens. It is not a fake."
Liu Zhenqing jumped down from the coffin lid, stuck her candied hawthorn into a crack in the coffin, climbed onto the golden coffin, and peeled off talisman after talisman, saying: "Hurry and move it over, the old thing is coming out! Take up the chains!"
Even as she spoke, the golden divine coffin burst open with a boom, a divine might erupted, and from within the coffin came a soul-seizing roar; a towering figure charged toward the golden light.
Boom—