Chapter 653 — The Heavenly Lord Trapped in the Seal
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Its feet bore dragon scales; its wings were black phoenix wings, folded against its body like a long black robe hanging down to its feet.
This deity was immense, yet beside the Heavenly Lord it seemed utterly insignificant. Raising its head to look at the Heavenly Lord's eye, it said in a loud voice, "Heavenly Lord above, may I ask whether a ship has passed this way?"
The Heavenly Lord in Xuandu was very busy, overseeing the movements of the stars in all the worlds. After a long while, a mass of starlight suddenly welled up and became a figure of light whose face could not be made out, its voice rolling like thunder: "I oversee the stars and constellations of all the heavens, and I have not seen it. Upon the many stars of my Xuandu there are soldiers and generals of the Heavenly Court; go and ask them."
The Great Sun Star Lord begged pardon: "I have disturbed the Heavenly Lord. Forgive me." With that he beat his wings and departed.
The figure of light likewise dispersed.
Not long after, all at once the stars upon the Heavenly Lord's body blazed with light, and tens of thousands of gods and demons flew out from those suns. The many suns seemed strung into lines by the divine light given off by the gods in flight, as they searched in every direction for the tower-ship's whereabouts.
"Caw — caw — caw —"
That was a sky-blotting host of fire-crow god-men: crow heads on human bodies, fiery red crow wings sprouting from their backs, each carrying a quiver of arrows, each gripping a great vermilion gourd in his hands, three bird claws clutching great bows — and their speed was extraordinary.