Chapter 1761 — The First Battle for Supremacy
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 6
The various armies of the Heavenly Court immediately set out. Huang Tianxi took the lead, leading his troops charging forward, crying loudly: "Destroy Carefree Land, capture Mu Tianzun alive!
" The soldiers under his command were flushed red with excitement, shouting at the top of their voices: "Capture Mu Tianzun alive—" The Woodcutter Wen Tiange activated his primordial spirit guide and simultaneously sent orders to the various armies of Carefree Land. The formations of Carefree Land's armies shifted, and they all soared into the air, landing upon Shen Mu's World Tree.
The branches and leaves of the World Tree swayed, each situated in a different void. The Woodcutter laid out his formation and suddenly bellowed: "Bear the coffin, advance!
" Those divine-power strongmen heaved the coffin up and stepped forward to meet Huang Tianxi's army.
Before the two armies had even come to close combat, the air had already become a battlefield of colliding divine powers. The divine powers of the Heavenly Court and Carefree Land clashed in the air, divine weapons collided with divine weapons, brilliant beyond measure, dazzling to the eye! The divine-power strongmen bore the coffin forward with all their strength, aftershocks of divine powers and fragments of divine weapons whistling around them, some passing through their bodies, some piercing their primordial spirits, and strongman after strongman fell. Each time this happened, a giant of Carefree Land would step down from the World Tree to replace the dead strongman and continue bearing the coffin forward.
The soldiers of Carefree Land, occupying the advantage of the Divine Treasury Domain, broke apart the enemy's divine powers and divine weapons, and moreover the divine powers and divine weapons of the various army commanders slew out from behind the enemy's curtain of divine powers, cutting down enemy generals, causing heavy casualties among the Eastern Heavenly King's army! Yet the Eastern Heavenly King's army was truly too numerous, and held the advantage in cultivation realm; still many divine powers broke through, and upon the Thirty-Three Heavens of the World Tree, the corpses of Carefree Land soldiers fell without cease. The two armies drew ever closer.
Upon the leaves of the World Tree, Yan Yunxi's mount, the Donkey Demon King Lü Zheng, transformed into a demon god with a donkey's head and human body, and said with a heh-heh laugh: "Little Black Cat, Fish, and Old Ox, don't be afraid. With me here, I'll surely protect you all!
" One of his eyes was already blind, wounded by the enemy during the battle of Carefree Land. The Black Tiger God gripped two great axes and gave a snort.
A deep scar ran across his face, from his right forehead all the way to his left jaw, also left behind in the battle of Carefree Land.
The two little red fish transformed into a husband and wife in bright red robes, their bodies also covered in wounds. Niu Sanduo stood upright, snorting smoke from his nostrils: "Lü Zheng, you'd better worry about yourself.
I was personally enfeoffed as a Golden Guard by Taichu himself back in the day, an existence that rampaged through the Heavenly River and fought the Ancient Gods! " Boom!
The Carefree Land army collided with the Eastern Heavenly King's army. The coffin-bearing strongmen bore the brunt, and in a single instant more than half were killed or wounded. The strongmen in front were slain and fell, and the strongmen behind immediately bore the full weight of the Dao-Burial Divine Coffin, crushed until blood spurted from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, their shoulder bones shattered to powder, yet they still held on, refusing to fall.
But then the World Tree tilted, the path forward was blocked, and all the soldiers on the World Tree lost their footing. The Woodcutter's voice came: "Lü Zheng, Niu Sanduo, go bear the coffin forward.
You must hold the coffin, carry Mu Tianzun to the Heavenly Court's main camp!