Chapter 1310 — Fallen from the Sky
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The might of the lantern in Yan'er's hands began to erupt, a string of light parting to left and right.
The lantern slipped from her grasp and hung floating in midair, while Yan'er shook herself and turned into a Dragon Sparrow, her sharp talons seizing the light-string as she beat her wings and flew backward, leaving the lantern fixed where it was.
Twang!
The light-string shot forward, and at the same moment a clear zither note rang out, shaking the whole valley.
In the instant the string sounded, the snap of a bowstring answered on its own, and a shaft of arrow-light flew from the cliff wall, swift as rainbow and lightning, piercing straight through the lantern.
The sun within the lantern burst apart at once, raging flames turning the lantern to ash in an instant, utterly annihilating the spatial divine power hidden in Moon Tianzun's treasure.
As the fireball burst outward, the light-string sliced through the flames and came to rest beneath the throat of that withered body.
The gaunt figure's eyes blazed, shooting forth two beams like twin sharp arrows, one striking the exact center of the light-string. The string split in two and flashed past on either side of his neck, leaving two bloody gashes that nearly severed his head.
The other divine gleam from his eyes chased straight after the Dragon Sparrow that was Yan'er, arriving behind her.
The Dragon Sparrow beat its wings to rise, yet had no time to dodge.
At that very moment the twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Blue Sky Banner swelled and drew the Dragon Sparrow into the first heaven.
Long Qilin drove the heavens with all his strength, desperately shifting the order of the great heavens to move the Dragon Sparrow again and again, evading that terrible arrow-light.
Thud, thud, thud! The arrow-light pierced heaven after heaven, howling through the air, blasting through all twenty-eight heavens in succession and shooting beyond the sky, tracing a brilliant trail across the dark night before vanishing.
Long Qilin breathed a sigh of relief, cold sweat rolling down his forehead.
At the same time he had shifted the twenty-eight heavens to bring the First Ancestor Human Emperor, Jiang Yunjian, and the others down upon the great treasures, each of them unleashing their last remaining magic power to drive the mighty treasures one by one. Within the Glazed Blue Sky Banner, many treasures gradually brightened, glittering like a host of stars.
As the foremost supreme treasure in the world, the Glazed Blue Sky Banner had now lost the wish-granting Taisu Egg, yet after recasting and redesign by the Blind Old Man and the Silent Craftsman, its formations were even more exquisite than before.
Only the redesign and recasting of such a treasure demanded an exceedingly long time, and the Blind Old Man and the Silent Craftsman had not yet finished. Moreover, there were not many gods and men in the Great Black Wood, and their cultivation could hardly bring the treasure's power to its utmost, and that was its greatest flaw.
Shen Mu too was swept up by the Glazed Blue Sky Banner and landed upon one treasure, drawing the divine bow, but the bow leapt uncontrollably in his hands, struggling to fly free and return to its master.
Shen Mu was startled and suppressed the divine bow with all his might.
"At last I have freed myself from that ruined universe! " The armless gaunt figure lifted his head to the sky, his vast thought shaking time and space so that all present understood his mind with perfect clarity.
"Fresh air, fresh heaven and earth, fresh life, without that aura of age and death!
" He was fearfully thin, like a man wholly drained of water, with no blood flowing beneath his withered skin, only wind-dried muscle clinging to bone.
When he moved, his body gave cracking sounds, like sinews snapping.
"My age is too ancient, so ancient it has lost all vitality.