Chapter 718 — Ambush on the Netherworld Supreme
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
This person's aim was not to stop the descending tribulation, nor to crush Lou Yunqu and his two companions. His true target was Yin Tianzi himself! To think so little of a small target like Lou Yunqu and fix his eyes instead on a being of the Imperial Throne's caliber — how audacious was this man?
By the same token, this person must once have stood in the highest station; only one who stood high enough could see far enough to set his sights on a being like him. Had it been men of Shen Mu's or the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping's standing, their aim would at most have been Lou Yunqu, at most to prevent the calamity from unfolding. But the one who had laid this scheme was different.
He must be a figure of the very highest rank in Kaihuang's Heavenly Court, to dare set his target upon him! Who this person was, was all but spoken aloud!
Yin Tianzi's heart burned with shock and fury: "I have been matched by one who planned while I did not.
This man — it can only be the Woodcutter, first of the Four Great Celestial Masters of the false court!
Yes — if I were he, and I meant to scheme against a master like myself, I would make certain of it beyond any doubt. I would never set only King Yama and Tian Shu against me.
If I meant to strike, I would gather every master who bears me a grudge.
And the one who hates me deepest is Lady Tianyin. .
. " He had barely thought this far when demon-gods came flying from every quarter of the Dark Capital to aid him.
Yin Tianzi's blood ran cold, and he waved his hand in frantic haste, crying, "Do not come near—" The space of the Dark Capital split open with a sudden crack, and Lady Tianyin's figure appeared in another world, looking at Yin Tianzi with a smile. Yin Tianzi's heart sank: "All these years hunting geese, and now a sparrow has pecked out my eye.
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" Lady Tianyin held in her hand a flaw — the Heavenly Dipper, the very treasure Yin Tianzi had refined — and working her art across the boundary of worlds, she set the underworld sea suddenly churning; the whole ocean of black soul-sand turned upside down, sea above and men below, and came crashing down upon them all!
Yin Tianzi himself had nothing to fear, but the demon-gods of the Dark Capital could not withstand it! Yin Tianzi's face went ashen. The Heavenly Dipper was a treasure of his own refining, made to control the black soul-sand and the starved ghosts of the Tianyin Realm — and now, in the end, it had been turned against him! "Yin Tianzi, is this not retribution exact and unfailing? " Lady Tianyin's laughter carried to him, and the underworld sea came crashing down.
Countless demon-gods of the Dark Capital were crushed to the sea floor; the black soul-sand battered them, and innumerable demon-gods had their primal spirits shattered by the wash of it! These skeletal demon-gods varied in strength.
Some were mighty and did not perish in that first wave, but their primal spirits were gravely wounded all the same.
Lady Tianyin smiled, and the Heavenly Dipper flipped over once more; the underworld sea rose into the air again, and again came smashing down!
She was like a child tossing a little toy, flipping the Heavenly Dipper this way and that, the underworld sea floating up and crashing down again and again, until countless skeletal demon-gods of the Dark Capital were pounded to powder and their primal spirits shattered into sand! Yin Tianzi was truly enraged — never in his life had he been so enraged. From childhood he had known nothing but smooth sailing, and never had he suffered such losses, such grievous losses!
Tian Shu and King Yama joined forces and attacked him with frenzy.
His mind wavered, and the wounds on his body multiplied. Just then, a portal rose slowly out of the underworld sea, standing tall upon the surface of the waters.
The Dark Capital Heavenly Gate.