Chapter 1080: A Name That Shakes the Ages (Second Update!)
The Netherworld Emperor sneered coldly, waiting to see Long Qilin make a fool of himself.
How terrifying was the formation of the Heavenly River Navy?
This naval force was vast in number, with a thousand ships and ten thousand vessels. Their formation was designed by formation masters within the Heavenly Court, based on the physical structures and runic principles of ancient gods.
Even a powerhouse like the Netherworld Emperor would be shattered and utterly helpless against the might of the Heavenly River Navy’s formation.
This fellow named Long, with a Qilin head, was recklessly setting up formations—he was definitely in for a rude awakening!
Although Long Qilin had boasted boldly, he too felt a bit uneasy inside.
He wasn’t very skilled in troop deployment and formation tactics. He had learned many things from Qin Mu, but Qin Mu’s knowledge was vast and scattered. While Qin Mu could master everything, Long Qilin could not.
“Chief, what should we do?” he secretly asked Qin Mu, who was hidden within the halo of light.
Qin Mu roused himself and used his remaining divine consciousness to teach him how to deploy the experts within the palace, maximizing the power of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy.
Though Long Qilin knew little about the principles of formation changes, he followed the pattern like copying a gourd. He deployed the Feathered Serpent Deities and Black Tortoise Deities within the palace, ordering them to enter the twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy and form various formations to guard the different divine treasures within.
Their formations happened to be perfectly suited to unleash the full power of these treasures while maintaining a solid defense.
The most critical point was that the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy contained a vast array of treasures. Long Qilin’s formations were even able to adapt to local conditions, arranging different formations based on the attributes of each treasure!
Within this canopy were thousands of divine treasures from the Ancestral Court, and Long Qilin had managed to form thousands of distinct formations!
You Ming Crown Prince was already utterly awestruck. Even though the Netherworld Emperor was deeply displeased with Long Qilin, seeing his skill in troop deployment forced him to admire the man’s talent.
The principles and structures of these formations were so profound that even he couldn’t understand them—he was completely in the dark.
Just as Long Qilin was setting up the formations, the Heavenly River Navy launched its attack.
However, no matter which direction the navy attacked from, Long Qilin casually deployed troops, sending some deities from the palace to form formations, easily repelling the Heavenly River Navy.
The power of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy was incredibly formidable. Although the people within the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace were far from a match for the Heavenly River Navy, when the navy’s warships charged into the palace and broke through layer after layer of heavens, they saw those terrifyingly powerful treasures emitting waves of runic patterns, blasting toward the ships!
The dreadful tremors reached the warships, shattering them into pieces. The gods aboard died miserably, with none surviving!
The Heavenly River Navy attacked several times, suffering losses in both troops and generals, and failed to breach the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace.
The navy commander immediately adjusted the formation and launched another assault. Long Qilin was thrown into a fluster, unsure how to handle it.
“Pi, divide the twenty-eight heavenly canopies of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, each into three hundred and sixty degrees of celestial rotation.”
Qin Mu’s divine consciousness transmitted, guiding him: “Rotate the first heaven by eight degrees, reverse the second heaven by three degrees, rotate the third heaven by sixty-two degrees…”
Long Qilin hurried to the pillar of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, bowed deeply, and saw the layers of azure heavens within the canopy begin to rotate. The various divine treasures inside, along with the Feathered Serpent Goddesses and Black Tortoise Deities guarding them, shifted positions, moving in different directions!
The Heavenly River Navy commander’s formation was aimed at the guardian formations of each treasure, but now the formations changed and the treasures swapped places, throwing the navy into chaos and causing heavy casualties.
The commander personally attacked, and Long Qilin dispatched You Ming Crown Prince to face him.
Though You Ming Crown Prince was honest and simple, his cultivation realm was a rare Emperor Seat powerhouse among the world. Combined with the bloodline of Emperor Xuan and Emperor Wu, his combat power was astonishing. In just a few exchanges, he severely wounded the navy commander.
The navy’s ships swarmed in, desperately holding off You Ming Crown Prince to rescue their commander.
Long Qilin sighed inwardly, thinking, “If the Chief were personally controlling the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, he could probably annihilate this entire Heavenly River Navy with ease!”
Qin Mu’s guidance on formation deployment had still been a step too slow.
You Ming Crown Prince returned victorious, overjoyed, and laughed, “Brother Long, you truly possess knowledge that rivals heaven and man! This skill of yours truly shakes the world! You’d even qualify to be a Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Court!”
Long Qilin quickly humbled himself, saying, “The Heavenly River Navy won’t take this defeat lying down. Right now, only the navy is blocking our northward advance. The other armies of the Heavenly Court haven’t arrived yet—we can’t afford to be careless.”
You Ming Crown Prince praised him endlessly. The Netherworld Emperor, hearing this, felt quite displeased but had to admit that this Qilin-headed fellow’s skill was indeed extraordinary.
“A disciple of the Eastern Emperor? Strange, I’ve never seen him before.”
The Netherworld Emperor’s eyes flickered as he thought, “I know all of the Eastern Emperor’s influential princes and princesses, and I have good relations with them, but I’ve never met this guy. With such high skill, he shouldn’t be unknown in the Azure Dragon Heavenly Palace, yet he has no reputation. The Eastern Emperor seems to be a cunning old fox as well…”
With Long Qilin here controlling the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, the Netherworld Emperor had no role to play, which made him grind his teeth in frustration. He had no chance to trick the canopy away.
That was the very purpose of his visit.
You Ming Crown Prince was a man without guile. The Black Tortoise Northern Emperor’s treasure was rarely shown to outsiders, but You Ming Crown Prince had brought many of his friends to view it several times, so it was no surprise that Yin Chaojin and Wei Suifeng had set their sights on it.
The Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace continued northward, but the Heavenly River Navy outside remained close, though they didn’t attack again. Only some navy generals kept calling out, urging You Ming Crown Prince to stop and return to the Heavenly Court.
Suddenly, the navy formation parted, and another army cut through, crossing the navy’s warship formation to the front. A group of extremely powerful gods and demons sized up the formation of the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy.
You Ming Crown Prince’s face changed drastically, and he exclaimed, “The Heavenly Court’s Divine and Martial Guards!”
Long Qilin’s confidence also wavered. The Heavenly Court had ten guards: the Left and Right Feather Forest, Divine and Martial, Dragon and Martial, Divine Strategy, and Divine Might. These ten guards were filled with the most outstanding talents selected from all races, with a minimum cultivation realm of the Jade Capital realm!
They were the Celestial Emperor’s imperial guard. Wei Suifeng had once been the commander of the Feather Forest Guard, but only the Right Feather Forest Guard!
Even just the Right Feather Forest Guard was enough to wipe out a major nation like the Longbo Kingdom from the Longhan era!
Now the Divine and Martial Guards had arrived—their combat power was likely even greater than the Heavenly River Navy!
Suddenly, war drums sounded again. Another army cut through the Heavenly River Navy’s formation, stopped at the front, and raised their banners.
You Ming Crown Prince looked into the distance and exclaimed, “The Northern Fallen Gate! The army commanded by the First Heavenly Master! The First Heavenly Master is formidable—a true master of formations!”
Long Qilin’s heart pounded wildly, and he secretly glanced at the halo behind Yan’er’s head.
Seeing this, the Netherworld Emperor’s heart stirred, and he also looked at the halo behind Yan’er’s head, but he only saw an ancient tree within the glow, nothing else.
Qin Mu’s divine consciousness rippled, saying, “Long Pi, you can rest assured. Today’s battle will only serve to establish your eternal fame!”
Long Qilin’s mind steadied, and he said to You Ming Crown Prince, “I see the Divine and Martial Guards and the Northern Fallen Gate as clearly as observing fire in a cave or patterns on a palm. To me, the Divine and Martial Guards and the Northern Fallen Gate are nothing but weeds to be sold and heads to be marked—easily broken!”