Chapter 1426 — Ground That Every Strategist Must Contest
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" Divine Emperor Langxuan roared with laughter and boarded the tower ship with him. Demon King Dutian stood behind Shen Mu, looking this way and that, and after a while could not help saying, "Celestial Venerable, on this trip to the Ancestral Court, the Heaven Alliance's tower ships and great vessels are mighty indeed, but I fear they will be hard to move about? A ship this big cannot enter a spirit-energy translocation bridge. " Langxuan glanced at him and smiled. "You have some insight. But you underestimate the Heaven Alliance's wealth.
This time the Heaven Alliance means to migrate to the Ancestral Court wholesale. If the Heaven Alliance simply flew there, who knows how many gods and demons would die of exhaustion on the way. So these past days the Heaven Alliance's Daoist sects have gone on ahead to the Ancestral Court to design and build an entirely new spirit-energy translocation bridge there.
It is a great bridge.
" He could not help a note of pride. "This great bridge requires eleven grand spirit-energy translocation bridges.
We eleven Celestial Venerables each put up the money and each build one.
Mine is nearly finished; it stands on the Heavenly River outside the South Heavenly Gate.
" One after another the tower ships and great vessels slowly set sail, heading beyond the South Heavenly Gate. The fleet had not gone far when they saw countless folk of the Heavenly Artisan god race bustling to and fro, with Shi Qiluo of Zaofu Heavenly Palace presiding in person, directing and dispatching. And above the Heavenly River stood an altar of unimaginable size!
This pyramid-shaped altar, its base occupied the entire Heavenly River! The narrowest stretch of the Heavenly River is at Jingping, where it is called the Surging River, and even there it is eight hundred li wide; by the time the Heavenly River reaches the Heaven Alliance, its width is even more terrifying, ten thousand li, green waves like a sea!
This altar was the foundation of the spirit-energy translocation bridge, so vast, so magnificent, that Shen Mu's heart quailed to see it! From the day the Heaven Alliance resolved to open the Ancestral Court, eight months had passed, and in so short a time the Heaven Alliance's Zaofu Heavenly Palace had built so magnificent a structure!
The spirit-energy translocation bridge had been designed by Shen Mu and the Black Tiger God; he knew every figure of it perfectly. Those figures were all of a piece: touch one, and the whole was set in motion; change one, and all must change, all must be recalculated.
Zaofu Heavenly Palace had enlarged the spirit-energy translocation bridge a thousandfold. The mere alteration of the figures was an immense undertaking, and yet they had calculated it out and built it in so short a time.
The Heaven Alliance's reserves were truly unfathomable! When Divine Emperor Langxuan's fleet came before the grand spirit-energy translocation bridge, it happened to be the moment the eleventh Celestial Venerable, Shi Qiluo, opened the bridge. Countless runes lit up on the altar, and the whole pyramid seemed to come alive, its tiers beginning to rotate in different directions, clack-clack, clack-clack! Countless runes on the altar's surface and within it came to life, a sight to make one gasp in wonder!
Around the altar, gods and demons still drove their divine abilities and Daoist arts, drawing the waters of the Heavenly River to cool the giant structure. The altar Zaofu Heavenly Palace had built was too large; when the runes turned, the heat could not disperse, and so the Heavenly River had to be used to cool it, lest the altar, built at such pains, be burned to ruin. At last, with a thunderous boom, from the top of the pyramid altar a pillar of incomparably brilliant light shot into the sky, a pillar so thick it pierced the void, pierced the starry sky, and vanished. Boom, another violent tremor came, and another pillar of light shone in from the other end of space.