Chapter 1438: Heavenly Balefulness Cuts Down Heavenly Aegis (First Update)
On Emperor Qing's face, only terror remained as he looked up at that indescribably huge hand pressing down on mouthful after mouthful of Heavenly Dao Armaments, bearing down upon Tianfang City.
Within Tianfang City, whether Sun Guardians, Moon Guardians, Star Lords, or the city's common folk, women, and children, all could only stand dumbly, lifting their heads to gaze at this palm that blotted out the entire sky.
The palm drew closer and closer to them, the scene it created like the arrival of doomsday, causing the ground of Tianfang City to split apart continuously, buildings to collapse, and one life after another to be crushed into powder under the immense pressure.
This indestructible divine city had already begun to crack under this overwhelming might, like a shattered piece of porcelain.
This power was ferociously unparalleled. Although it possessed a heaven-shaking momentum, giving one an irresistible feeling of the Great Way serving as a celestial aegis, this power was also so exquisitely subtle, like a spring breeze transforming into rain, precisely grasping the weakness of each Heavenly Dao Armament and suppressing them one by one.
When had the Heavenly Court gained such an understanding of the Heavenly Dao?
The Heavenly Court had never perfectly mapped the Heavenly Duke's physical form, nor had it perfectly transformed the Heavenly Dao into mathematical runes. Even the Heavenly Duke's son, the Progenitor God King, could not possibly grasp all the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao!
Terror filled Emperor Qing's heart. Who was this Hong Tianzun?
Even if Hong Tianzun possessed the most profound magical power in the world, he could not possibly accurately grasp the weaknesses of the Heavenly Dao Armaments and easily shatter the forty-nine Heavenly Dao Armaments!
"Emperor Qing! Take them and leave!"
Someone shouted loudly to him: "Guard these seedlings of Xuan Du, send them away!"
Emperor Qing looked dazedly toward the person who had spoken, seeing two or three hundred Sun Guardians manifesting their primordial spirits, protecting the many citizens of Tianfang City, resisting the immense pressure descending from above.
"What are you standing there for?"
Those Sun Guardians, spitting blood from the pressure, shouted: "Send them away!"
The terrified citizens of Tianfang City looked at him with fearful yet hopeful eyes. Emperor Qing opened his mouth but made no sound.
Leave?
Leave for where?
With Hong Tianzun making his move, where could they possibly flee?
Bang—
A Sun Guardian's primordial spirit exploded, flames blazing over his body, quickly burning him to ashes. More Sun Guardians spat blood, their primordial spirits igniting, yet they stubbornly held firm against the pressure.
Emperor Qing finally came to his senses, charged down from above, and rushed toward those Sun Guardians who could no longer hold on.
"Do you feel the baleful energy?"
As Emperor Qing rushed toward them, he suddenly saw Tian Shu and the four masked individuals pass by him. These five people ignored him completely, instead using a strange footwork to soar into the sky, charging toward the descending giant hand.
They were not led by Tian Shu, the Nether Capital Heavenly King. Instead, the leader was that masked young man who had clashed with Emperor Qing. Around that young man, a unique domain had formed. A vast ancestral court burst forth, the Four Extremes Heavens emerged, and layer upon layer of heavenly palaces formed the Heavenly Court!
As Emperor Qing passed by them, he saw majestic mountains and rivers rising from the ancestral court, Xuan Du ascending, You Du sinking, and the Yuan World's World Tree climbing higher and higher, supporting the myriad heavens and realms—a truly dazzling sight.
The one speaking was also that young man. Hong Tianzun's attack had caused countless deaths in Xuan Du, and the baleful energy released by these dying people was incredibly dense.
The planets around Tianfang City were destroyed, and the resentment of the people who died on those planets merged with Xuan Du's Heavenly Dao, forming a Heavenly Dao that did not exist among the forty-nine!
Heavenly Balefulness!
Emperor Qing turned back to look at that masked young man, who remained calm and composed, forming a strange formation with Tian Shu and the other three. He said in a deep voice: "Heavenly Balefulness is also a Heavenly Dao—the fiftieth kind. Gathering balefulness into a blade, absorbing the baleful energy from Tianfang City, can elevate our Blade Dao's power to rival the Thirty-First Heaven. Combined with the power the Heavenly Dao bestows upon us, our Blade Dao can reach the level of the Thirty-Second Heaven, even the Thirty-Third Heaven."
Emperor Qing saw rolling waves of baleful energy howling toward them. Under the cover of Hong Tianzun's descending hand, streams of baleful energy, like blood dragons, frantically drilled into the bodies of those five.
"Hong Tianzun's hand covering the sky is precisely the moment it blocks his own line of sight."
The masked young man said: "We only have one strike. You all just exert your strength; I will deliver the blade. One strike to sever the hand, and we take the Heavenly Aegis Armament. As for the other Heavenly Dao Armaments, collect what we can. If we cannot, we leave immediately—no lingering!"
Emperor Qing's form crossed paths with theirs, and confusion filled his heart: "That young man… who is he?"
He had no time to think further. He arrived beside those Sun Guardians, unleashed his magical power to protect the citizens of Tianfang City, let out a fierce shout, and exerted his full strength!
Tianfang City collapsed with a thunderous roar. A massive piece of land within the divine city, driven by his magical power, separated from the city and flew downward at tremendous speed!
"Hong Tianzun ordered the Heavenly Court army to open a gap. That is our chance to escape—our only chance!"
Emperor Qing said rapidly: "We leave Xuan Du and go to the Yuan World…"
At that moment, a clanging, heaven-shaking sound of a blade rang out. Emperor Qing turned back and was stunned. In the sky, those five tiny figures now radiated an incomparably dazzling light!
It was a blade light, bursting forth from the depths of the void, blindingly brilliant, resonating with Xuan Du's Heavenly Dao. A blade light spanning heaven and earth slashed toward Hong Tianzun's giant hand!
He saw this blade light of immeasurable length, and then a black line appeared in his eyes, and he could no longer see the blade light—because it had left a deep wound in Xuan Du's space, severing space itself, severing layer after layer of the void.
The Way of the Blade roared and trembled, cutting into Hong Tianzun's palm at the wrist.
Heavenly Balefulness Cuts Down Heavenly Aegis!
Emperor Qing blinked, still unable to see the blade light, but he saw Hong Tianzun's enormous hand severed at the wrist. Even Hong Tianzun's face, which covered half the sky, showed surprise and anger.
The continent raced forward, heading for the only gap in the Heavenly Court army. The Heavenly Court's troops immediately mobilized, converging on the gap, and countless gods and demons swarmed toward this broken, ruined land.
On the land, the ruins of Tianfang Divine City continued to collapse.
Emperor Qing hurriedly turned his head back. In this brief glance, he saw that although those five figures had severed Hong Tianzun's hand, they were shaken apart, their bodies exploding with bangs, turning into blood mist.
Those five figures' forms interwove and dashed under Hong Tianzun's hand, quickly returning to their peak state, whistling away close to Hong Tianzun's falling palm.
Hong Tianzun's enormous hand was still falling, and below it was Tianfang Divine City.
Their target was the Heavenly Dao Armaments pressed beneath the palm. However, Hong Tianzun's hand still contained immense power, crushing the Heavenly Dao Armaments along with it as it smashed toward the ruined Tianfang City, about to cover them all within the city and destroy everything together with the divine city!
"Chief!"
Zhe Huali stared at the rapidly approaching ground of the divine city and shouted fiercely: "If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!"
Qin Mu led them, racing close to Hong Tianzun's palm. Suddenly, his divine storage domain reversed, and the five of them felt a spatial dislocation. They realized they had instantly flipped from head-up, feet-down to head-down, feet-up, now running madly along the palm lines of Hong Tianzun's hand!
Ahead of them were mouthful after mouthful of Heavenly Dao Armaments, radiating shocking heavenly might!
The Butcher, Luo Wushuang, Tian Shu, and Qin Mu each reached out, grabbing for the various Heavenly Dao Armaments. Zhe Huali gritted his teeth, ignoring the imminent collision with Tianfang City, and also reached out to grab one of the Heavenly Dao Armaments!
Boom—
Hong Tianzun's palm slammed together with Tianfang City. The entire divine city instantly turned to powder, and then the powder shattered into chaos. Countless gods and common folk evaporated in an instant—bodies and souls alike, wiped from existence!