Chapter 1651 — Still as at First Sight
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The Tianyin Realm.
Yin Tianzi glanced to his left and right, only to find Di Yiyue and Lady Tianyin closing in from either side, trapping him between them.
Even he could not help a flutter of panic.
With no Nether Sea left and no Heavenly Gate of Mingdu, he might not have held his own against Di Yiyue alone, the very woman who had helped him perfect that gate and his Dao of Reincarnation, let alone against a resurrected Lady Tianyin as well. The hatred these two women bore him needed no telling.
Yin Tianzi forced a smile.
"Yiyue, how I have missed you. Even when I killed you by order of the Haotian Emperor, I did not destroy your flesh.
You must understand my heart.
My love for you was true. . .
" Boom! Di Yiyue and Lady Tianyin struck from left and right at once, each unleashing her mightiest divine art.
Di Yiyue was the more ruthless. Since her resurrection her cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, her Emperor Throne technique already cultivated to a Lesser Celestial Court, ten Heavenly Palaces joined into a lesser court.
She had been Kaihuang's most valued genius, deemed the greatest talent of the Jingping era, a rare Duling physique, cut down by Yin Tianzi on her wedding night and robbed of more than twenty thousand years. Yet after Shen Mu brought her back, she absorbed the fruits of the Jingping reforms and her power soared once more, tempered further by the wars in the Grand Void.
Her strength had long since surpassed Yin Tianzi's. Lady Tianyin, for her part, had been the weakest of the Dao-born ancient gods and one of the earliest to die, and for that very reason she had slipped the shackles of godhood.
To destroy her, Yin Tianzi first won her trust, then schemed against her and gravely wounded her, then let the starved ghosts of the Tianyin Realm devour her flesh and soul entire, leaving only a skin. In the end the ghosts seized Lady Tianyin's skin, while Yin Tianzi took what he wanted: the Tianyin Realm, the Tianyin runes, and the Nether Sea refined from the soul black sand of that realm.
It was by slaying Lady Tianyin that Yin Tianzi earned his name as the Black Emperor of Mingdu.
Reshaped in soul by Shen Mu and resurrected, Lady Tianyin was no longer bound as an ancient god, and could instead cultivate and comprehend all other Daos. In these years her power had long outstripped what it once was.
The two women pressed their pincer attack, holding nothing back, and at the sight a vicious resolve rose in Yin Tianzi.
"I killed them once and felt guilt, and so I have yielded to them and avoided them ever since. To achieve great things one must not be soft-hearted! I am now Yin Tianzun, and which Tianzun has not blood on his hands? " He drove his magic power with all his might, and five Heavenly Palaces rose behind his head.
Once he could move only four, needing the Heavenly Gate of Mingdu to forge eight. But in these years of the Jingping reforms he too had gained, and at last completed his fifth palace. Had the gate still stood, he could have wielded the nine-palace Lesser Celestial Court and still had strength to fight.
But with the gate destroyed, his arts clashed once with theirs and then his Dao and divine powers unraveled.
Blood喷 from Yin Tianzi's mouth as he was sent flying, when suddenly a ribbon darted out, coiled about his neck, and dragged him back.
"Since you are cruel and merciless, blame me not for being heartless!
" Fierce light blazed in Yin Tianzi's eyes as he urged the divine art of Reincarnation, thinking, "At worst we perish together!
I will drag you into reincarnation and make you sink forever! " Of this he was confident.
Even with the gate ruined, his great Dao of Reincarnation remained, a path transcending the Dao of Youdu, his greatest capital.
His present cultivation might fall short of Di Yiyue's and Lady Tianyin's, but to pull them into the wheel, wash away their memories, and strike them down to mortality would be no hard task. He drew ever nearer to them.