Chapter 1628 — The Decisive Battle of the Netherworld
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The Void Heavenly Venerable followed the sound with her eyes and saw a woman seated in the void, plucking at her zither strings as though no one else in the world existed.
The Void Heavenly Venerable gave a cold snort. Her primordial spirit emerged and went howling forward, snatching for the Book of Life and Death—but the zither music suddenly turned mischievous and light, and within those notes space became large and small, long and short, layer upon layer, leaping up and down, to left and right!
The Void Heavenly Venerable sensed the peril: the Moon Heavenly Venerable's music was like countless blades of space hewing at her primordial spirit, wounding it, all but splitting it into countless fragments!
"Fire!"
The Void Heavenly Venerable shouted in fury. Scarcely had the word left her lips when layer upon layer of space behind the Moon Heavenly Venerable twisted; ring upon ring of Dao fire spun through that space and formed a twenty-eight-layered Heavenly Dao realm, so that the zither music could not break through the writhing flames.
The Fire Heavenly Venerable appeared behind the Moon Heavenly Venerable. The twenty-eight writhing strands of Dao fire became an oval wheel of flame and bound the Moon Heavenly Venerable within it!
At the very instant his form appeared, a hand reached out from the thirty-fifth layer of void, drew the Moon Heavenly Venerable into the thirty-fifth layer of void, and so freed her from the Dao fire.
The wheel of Dao fire spun, annihilating all it contained—but the Moon Heavenly Venerable had already escaped ahead of it, and the Fire Heavenly Venerable's attack struck only empty air.
The Fire Heavenly Venerable whirled about, and there before him stood a cold, aloof woman, the vertical eye upon her brow opening to reveal a Taichu Divine Stone.
The divine stone blazed with light, and the Fire Heavenly Venerable felt a snow-white radiance drown him.
When the light dispersed, he found himself back at the Yaochi Grand Gathering of a million years ago. He stood within the Manhui Corridor Pavilion and saw the Hao Heavenly Venerable, Yin Tianzi, and the Yu Heavenly Venerable.
He saw Yin Tianzi suddenly strike, sealing the Yu Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit with the Dao of Youdu—and at almost the same instant, the Hao Heavenly Venerable's attack fell upon the Yu Heavenly Venerable!
The two of them joining hands, together they slew the wholly unprepared Yu Heavenly Venerable within the Manhui Corridor Pavilion!
The Fire Heavenly Venerable's body suddenly shuddered: "Brother Yu... I must avenge Brother Yu, slay the murderer with my own hands... No! This is Langwan's illusion!"
Suddenly the Hao Heavenly Venerable turned around, as though he had seen him; his face abruptly went cold, and he barked: "Kneel!"
The Fire Heavenly Venerable's knees gave way and he knelt prostrate upon the ground. Then he heard the Moon Heavenly Venerable's zither music at his ear and came to his senses: "This is an illusion! The God-King of the Creators thinks to destroy my Dao heart with an illusion of consciousness—he underestimates me far too much!"
Boom—
The whole Yaochi Grand Gathering burst into flame; everything was consumed by the Dao fire, like a painted scroll burning.
The Fire Heavenly Venerable leaped up and was about to attack Langwan when the scene around him shifted once more, and he saw the Xiaohan Heavenly Court in flames!
He saw another version of himself, together with the Hao Heavenly Venerable, Langxuan, the Ancestral God-King, Ming Fangyu, the Gong Heavenly Venerable, and others, besieging the Cloud Heavenly Venerable!
He saw his own hand thrust into the Cloud Heavenly Venerable's chest, and his own tear-streaked face saying to the Cloud Heavenly Venerable: "Yun, you understand me, don't you?"
The Moon Heavenly Venerable's zither music came again.