Chapter 1483 — My Will Is the Will of Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The Goddess Taisu smiled, then gradually faded and vanished away.
In Xuandu, Venerable Huo stood upon the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire; the Dao Fire blazed fiercely, burning the air, melting all things away.
Such a mighty Dao Fire, yet the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor, held it in hand without knowing its true nature; only he could bring the power of the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground to its utmost!
Standing upon the Dao Fire altar, he was like a sovereign ruling heaven and earth; with the altar at its center, the whole universe became the altar's ninefold heaven.
With a single pointing finger he could sever layer upon layer of space, leaving Venerable Yue struggling to cope!
His mana was vast and mighty, surpassing Venerable Yue's as well; yet now he was in no hurry to take Venerable Yue's life, but guarded instead against Venerable You and the Divine King Langwan — especially Divine King Langwan, who posed a great threat to him.
The Dao Fire Ancestral Ground twisted space, but the void alone it could not twist, and Divine King Langwan's attacks came precisely from the void!
And his more important target was the Lord of Heaven. The death of the Lord of Heaven would be a splendid opportunity to carve up the spoils; whether he could advance another step rested upon this single move!
In the very instant he let his attention stray to look upon the Lord of Heaven and to guard against Langwan and Venerable You, a divine blade came hurtling from the thirty layers of the void and struck him savagely in the face, blood spraying!
Venerable Huo was startled.
To him the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground was his ground of invincibility: standing here, apart from the immense enhancement the Innate Dao Fire gave him, the Ancestral Ground also let him perceive every attack!
Except the void. Only the void could not be twisted and melted by the Dao Fire.
And this blade had come from the depths of the void, slashing across his face! The cut was vicious, almost splitting from the midline of his face into his skull!
No one in this world had ever dared launch an assault on him at such close range, for the power of the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground was too great; the raging Dao Fire that burned all things was enough to melt anything — even Venerable Yue could not come near.
Venerable Huo flew into a rage.
He saw the figures of Shen Mu and the others in the void; the wheel of flame behind his head spun, and the enormous flame wheel sliced into the thirty layers of void.
Within the flame wheel the Dao Fire blazed; palace after heavenly palace shook and thundered, and projections of his primordial spirit appeared in each of them, each raising a hand, dreadful divine powers about to erupt and burn the five in the void to ashes!
At that moment the figure of Divine King Langwan appeared behind Shen Mu and the others, and the figure of Venerable You appeared behind Divine King Langwan. The lamp shone forth; Venerable Huo's many primordial spirit projections shuddered violently, struck by the lamplight, and were blasted out of their respective palaces, projection after projection annihilated!
Even his primary primordial spirit was battered into retreat after retreat, driven off the Emperor's Throne, blasted out of the Lingxiao Hall! Blade lights flashed and appeared upon the Dao Fire Ancestral Ground; the five of them — Shen Mu and his companions — whirled around Venerable Huo's tall, imposing frame, above and below! Venerable Huo raised a hand to block, but Divine King Langwan's spiritual consciousness came crashing in; he was blasted into a daze, and then Venerable You's divine power struck again. With a thunderous boom, his primordial spirit was blasted clean out of his body and sent flying backward.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
In that single instant his mortal body took several hundred cuts, drenched in blood!