Chapter 1390 — Two Kings and One Emperor
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
His frame was immeasurably vast, no less than such beings as the Heavenly Duke and Tubo, and only a place like the back of the Ancestral Court could contain his body. Countless giant beasts lived upon his body, breeding and multiplying there. Some never descended in all their lives; from birth to adulthood, to mating, to death, to rotting into white bone, all of it took place upon his body.
Suddenly Long Xiao's heart prickled with alarm. He opened his eyes and raised his heads; the eyes of his nine heads opened, and the back of the Ancestral Court was flooded with dazzling light, as though eighteen suns had appeared in the sky at once! He had sensed the descent of an incomparably mighty being, come into his domain!
Just then, thousands of giant beasts in the back of the Ancestral Court were dragged into the air, and there, helpless, they formed a strange formation in the sky! Their divine consciousness was forcibly torn from their minds by a power transmitted from another world; the consciousness assembled of itself and became runes.
Countless runes, like the most delicate components of a colossal machine, assembled of themselves into chains of the Dao!
The chains of the Dao threaded through one another and formed an altar! It was the reverse summoning art!
Long Xiao was filled with doubt and alarm. When Shu Jun and the others had descended last time, there had been no such commotion; now thousands of giant beasts were being dragged into place to form a summoning altar!
At that very moment, countless more giant beasts were hauled into the sky, assembling of themselves into another altar!
One after another, gods and devils surged forth, appearing in the back of the Ancestral Court!
"Heh heh, so the so-called Celestial Venerables have come?
Courting death! " Long Xiao rose to his feet and shook his body, and countless giant beasts tumbled from him.
He was the god of the Creators, the Beast God whom the Creators had hoped would restrain the ancient gods and chastise them.
He possessed boundless power and the most robust of bodies.
It had been a very long time since he had truly struck a blow!
When he opened his eyes, it was day; when he closed them, it was night.
When he moved, the whole back of the Ancestral Court would be riven with thunder and swept by hurricanes! Now at last he would display his power!
Whoosh — The power of the first reverse summoning art bloomed in full, and Shen Mu and Consort Qiang appeared in the back of the Ancestral Court.
Consort Qiang's lovely eyes roved, first alighting on the colossal creature slowly rising to its feet, then turning to the distant place where another reverse summoning art had erupted. "So Divine Emperor Langxuan came after all.
" Consort Qiang frowned and sneered, "Taichu wants to snatch everything of mine — power, station, women — and even his son wants to snatch everything of mine!
They truly do not know the height of the heavens and the depth of the earth!
" Shen Mu stepped back and said mildly, "Divine Emperor Langxuan is the bastard son of Divine King Gongyun and Celestial Emperor Taichu. From the moment he was born he possessed boundless glory, blessed by the Celestial Emperor, blessed by the ancient gods, becoming the first demigod and the leader of all demigods. And now he is a Celestial Venerable besides.
If the son of Gongyun and the Grand Emperor were still alive, he should be no less than Langxuan, no?
" At that moment the reverse summoning art burst forth with incomparably intense light, and Divine Emperor Langxuan descended, bringing Earth Mother Yuanjun with him! "What is Taichu worth?