Chapter 1107 — The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, the Dragon Sparrow Lurks Behind
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Yin Tianzi's heart pounded wildly. He pressed down the surge within him and made the effigy spread its arms, and Crown Prince Youming within the hall spread his arms likewise and embraced the Azure Sky Canopy of Colored Glass.
After a moment Crown Prince Youming came staggering out, the Azure Sky Canopy of Colored Glass borne on his shoulder.
Yin Tianzi was wild with joy, his heart all but leaping into his throat.
Crown Prince Youming drew nearer and nearer to him, and just then, suddenly, he sensed two auras racing close.
Yin Tianzi was startled, and before he could react two figures slammed into him from left and right and crushed him hard between them, and he could not keep from spitting out a mouthful of blood.
On his left was none other than that fat girl of three or four hundred catties who called herself a princess of the Southern Emperor's house, and on his right was Longshan the Wanderer—though this Longshan the Wanderer had six heavenly dragons clinging to his body.
The two were plainly beings of the Lingxiao realm, and the fat girl's cultivation was likely the higher; she had sent Longshan the Wanderer and Yin Tianzi flying together.
Yin Tianzi himself now stood at the very peak of the Lingxiao realm, a man of many arts, yet to attain the Throne of Emperor was a thing of immense difficulty, and so he remained trapped at Lingxiao.
The Dragon Han Era had endured four hundred thousand years down to the present, and in the six hundred thousand years since the Heavenly Venerable Yu first opened the Heavenly Palace realm, fewer than ten mighty ones had attained the Throne of Emperor. Yin Tianzi was not among them.
Even so, he should not have fallen to a sneak attack by two, but his wounds had never healed. Though a measure of his cultivation had returned, the injuries remained.
And beyond that, his whole mind and body had been given over to the paper effigy art that held Crown Prince Youming in thrall, so that he had suffered a grievous loss.
Moreover, even had his wounds been healed, even had he ears for every quarter, he could never have been Yan'er's match.
Yan'er bore the bloodline of the Azure Dragon and the Vermilion Bird, and she was the Heavenly Venerable Yue's serving maid. She had cultivated at the Heavenly Venerable Yue's side and had learned too the Daoist arts and divine powers of the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, so that her powers were exceedingly high.
It was only that Yan'er had little liking for cultivation, nor had she fathomed the Daoist arts and divine powers with her whole heart, and so she long failed to break through and attain the Throne of Emperor.
Yet she was, after all, a fearsome being who had once devoured an ancient god, and having digested that god, her strength was fiercer and more savage than before.
As Yin Tianzi was sent flying through the air, he saw the fat girl come at him like a whirlwind, and the space around him turned to mirrors, and he could not help but shudder.
All about him space was like mirror upon mirror, each reflecting his figure; then the mirrors began to crack, and the him within them began to break apart.
Yin Tianzi had seen the Heavenly Venerable Yue plot against the Heavenly Emperor's reincarnated body, Chuxiao; even the Emperor's reincarnation, beneath the Heavenly Venerable Yue's Way of Space, had been torn into pieces in an instant.
This fat girl's spatial divine power seemed even a shade superior to the Heavenly Venerable Yue's. Yin Tianzi felt his fleshly body and primal spirit all but shatter with the mirrors, his soul on the verge of scattering utterly.
"Longshan the Wanderer! I swear I will make you adulterers pay!"
Yin Tianzi cried out, and his body suddenly sank, plummeting toward the ground. The ground rolled with demonic qi, like a dark demon flower pushing up out of the soil, its bud opening outward.
Yin Tianzi's body, torn into four and five pieces, fell into the surging demonic qi.