Chapter 777 — The Old Fox and the Little Fox
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
The Emperor Throne is the Emperor Throne, after all; any being who has cultivated to the Emperor Throne realm is no small matter, and not so easily killed.
And the Yin Son of Heaven was moreover an old monster who had lived a million years, an old Yin bastard; though Shen Mu had dealt him one treacherous stroke, it was still a long road from taking his life.
At the same time, the Mingdu's Heavenly Gate was spewing the Nether Sea outward, that vast sea surging in from Mingdu — the Yin Son of Heaven must have been roused to true wrath and meant to try conclusions with the god-child of Youdu!
"Perhaps we can pick up a bargain while they maul each other half to death. . .
" Lu Li slowed, about to stop and watch the fight, when suddenly she saw the Slaughter Cauldron that followed behind Shen Mu fly forward; demonic qi gushed from the great cauldron, sweeping over the Nether Sea and swallowing near half of it in one go!
Even the ghostly light flying at Shen Mu was seized and torn at by the Slaughter Cauldron, and fell helplessly into it.
Lu Li shivered with dread, and at once hurried on faster, fleeing in confusion.
Behind them a violent surge came, tossing the four Military Commissioners high; the four hastily made use of it to flee for their lives at still greater speed. Lu Li looked back once more, and saw countless fists, palms, fingers and hooks the size of mountain peaks appear before the Jade Lock Pass, suddenly gathering into a single move that hammered savagely upon the Yin Son of Heaven.
The Yin Son of Heaven was hurled backward and, with a thunderous crash, struck into the Mingdu's Heavenly Gate and made his escape from Youdu. And his ghostly light, like a lizard casting off its tail to live, broke half of itself away of its own accord; the other half tore free of the Slaughter Cauldron and followed the Yin Son of Heaven in his flight into Youdu.
That god-devil of three heads and six arms had its six arms clamped on the frame of the Mingdu's Heavenly Gate and was struggling to squeeze its way into Mingdu — savage beyond all words.
"Little darling! " Lu Li and the others heard a babe's clear voice call out: "Stop hiding.
Come out quickly.
" Boom.
Another dreadful tremor came, and the god-child of Youdu was sent tumbling head over heels, pitched backward.
And the Mingdu's Heavenly Gate, torn to tatters by his six arms, suddenly sank and vanished. "The Yin Son of Heaven's Mingdu Heavenly Gate seems to lack the power of legend — it appears not so mighty as the tales say.
" Lu Li was briefly taken aback.
The Yin Son of Heaven's Mingdu Heavenly Gate held within it the power of Creation, exceedingly mighty, able to bring the Yin Son of Heaven back from death, even to transform and turn the wheel of rebirth — marvelous beyond fathoming.
Yet this Mingdu Heavenly Gate seemed a mere showpiece, wholly lacking the might of a supreme treasure of the Emperor Throne.
She did not know that the Yin Son of Heaven's Mingdu Heavenly Gate had been seized by Di Yiyue, and that the present gate was merely a reforged one, not yet fully refined, no match for the supreme treasure of the Emperor Throne it had once been.
Scarcely had she thought this when she saw the god-child of Youdu roll to his feet, pounce upon the place where the gate had vanished, and pound away in every direction; but he could not find the Yin Son of Heaven, and his three heads peered all around.
Lu Li was aghast; the four hastened to press themselves against the continent upon Tubo's body, hiding their forms and groaning inwardly.
A dazzling gaze, like a pillar of light, swept to the place where they had just been; the four Military Commissioners were terrified beyond measure, and using the demonic qi of Youdu to mask their forms, they slipped away in secret.
Boom.