Chapter 1084 — An Upheaval Unseen Since Time Immemorial
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The ancient gods of the Twenty-Seven Constellations at last could hold back no longer and showed themselves, going out to meet Tubo. "Tubo, they were only joking with you. Why take it so seriously?"
Kuimu Lang laughed at the fleeing demigods. "Will you not come and beg pardon?"
On that day the ancient gods of the Twenty-Eight Constellations who guarded the Four Extremes Heavens among the ancient gods fell, and became face after face within the Slaughter Cauldron.
Achou, bearing endless fury, came to the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court.
The Heavenly Court's army of gods and demons received the order and charged out, driving toward this demon god who grew ever taller and vaster yet whose face bore a desolate grief. At the same time Shen Mu's Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot, seizing the chaos, rushed into the Heavenly Court, making straight for the heavenly palace of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird.
He looked back, and saw that countless hosts of the Heavenly Court's gods and demons, before they could even reach Achou's side, turned one after another into corpses.
That day was like the doom of the gods. Even ancient gods of inconceivable power, even demigods possessed of boundless strength, had only to touch Achou's power and their souls scattered on the wind!
The Heavenly Court's strength suffered a blow that was all but fatal.
That ugly man, wrapped round in the shackles of the Great Way, dragged a heaven-world turned to darkness and rushed into the Heavenly Court; the heaven-world beneath his feet was woven of magma and demonic qi, floating lava everywhere.
Hastily Shen Mu saw Achou's enormous fist come smashing toward the Southern Heavenly Gate; where the fist passed, the Southern Heavenly Gate collapsed.
Ahead, countless hosts of the Heavenly Court's gods and demons surged toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, making it hard for the Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot to advance. But the next moment, the spatial storm raised by Tubo's fist flung all of them up together with countless palaces!
Countless people were torn to fragments in the spatial storm; their primal spirits dissolved, their souls falling toward that most baleful weapon under heaven!
The might of the Slaughter Cauldron grew ever more terrifying!
The Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot too was flung up, sailing over the Vermilion Bird Heavenly Palace, flying toward Jade Capital City.
Yan'er gave a clear cry, rousing her divine power to shield the chariot. The six heavenly dragons each unleashed their magic, resisting with all their might, and the lantern hanging upon the chariot looked ready to go out at any moment.
Shen Mu hurriedly reached out to shield the lantern.
Endless darkness poured into the Heavenly Court, like a vast dark tide drowning all it passed. Even the lanterns the Heavenly Court had refined from the sun and the pearls refined from the moon winked out the moment they met this dark demonic qi.
This demonic qi and demonic nature were too ferocious by far: all whom the darkness swallowed were in an instant invaded by demonic qi, assimilated into demonic nature, and then devoured by the Slaughter Cauldron, becoming face after face within it.
Into Shen Mu's ears too came a roar freighted with endless fury: the roar of Achou.
The Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot fell, crashing into Jade Capital City, and careened a hundred-odd li before it finally came to a stop.
Shen Mu was about to turn the chariot around and return to the Vermilion Bird Heavenly Palace, but saw that the darkness had already drowned it, and his heart went cold. Were he to charge into the darkness now, the lantern Wei Suifeng had refined would surely fail against Achou's demonic nature, and would certainly be extinguished.
And then he would never be able to see the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird at all!
The darkness, like an enraged ocean, swept in and swallowed everything, already rushing to the edge of Jade Capital City and crashing against it with a roar.