Book 08 Chapter 023: Crisis All Around
Everyone around the world had their attention fixed on the poison fog around Borderless Heavenly Capital. Few noticed that individuals were heading towards Ji Dihong’s base, Xuanyuan City.
Hou Yi and Xingtian, both in the consummation of the Upper Heavenly Palace Realm, were among these individuals.
Back when Chiyou was alive, they had fought their way to Xuanyuan City with him.
At that time, Ji Dihong had driven the power of the Huang Nation to fend them off.
Now, the pair returned. What did the Huang Heavenly Dynasty have left to defend with?
Ji Dihong had disappeared into the void, while Ao Ying, Xiong You, Limu, Fengbo, and the other consummate Upper Heavenly Palace Realm cultivators were trapped in the eighteen layers of h.e.l.l. Even Cangjie was occupied by the Unborn Man.
In the eyes of Hou Yi and Xingtian, Xuanyuan City was now an empty sh.e.l.l.
How would this sh.e.l.l withstand two individuals at the consummation of the Upper Heavenly Palace Realm?
Unlike others, Cangjie had noticed the impending crisis when he saw Ba, Hou Yi, and Xingtian leaving Great Desolation City and flying towards Xuanyuan City.
“Mister Cangjie, what’s wrong?” Emperor Kong asked, utterly confused.
“Princess Bing Ji, prepare your defenses!” Cangjie ordered.
Boom!
A nearby door of the Ice Deity Palace flung open, and out came Bing Ji dressed in white ceremonial robes, emanating an icy aura, like an iceberg. She looked skyward.
Bing Ji’s eyes were peculiar: her left iris was blue, exuding a never-melting, frosty chill, while her right iris shone golden, radiating an ancient, intense heat. These two conflicting forces strangely coexisted within her eyes.
However, both eyes gave off an impression of emotionless detachment.
“Mister Nangong, activate the lifespan ritual array and let Bing Ji control it!” Cangjie instructed a short man in a white robe.
“Yes, Mister Cangjie!” the white-robed Lifespan Nangong responded.
“Bing Ji, control Xuanyuan City’s Ice Fire Divine Ritual Array! Hurry and defend!” Cangjie shouted.
Upon hearing Cangjie’s words, Bing Ji gave him a respectful bow. “Yes, sir.”
Her voice was devoid of emotion, much like a dutiful servant’s.
Buzz!
Lifespan Nangong’s activation of the lifespan ritual array set up a ma.s.sive barrier of icy fire around Xuanyuan City.
The barrier was unique. Its alternating ice-blue and fiery-red sections, each appearing like a pool of fire or ice, gave it a semblance of the black-and-white soccer ball of Earth.
Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+
Xingtian and Hou Yi arrived at the outskirts of Xuanyuan City in no time.
Xingtian smirked upon seeing the preparations. “Oh? They’ve set up defenses? Haha! It’s that little girl again!”
“What good is a spent force’s defense?” Hou Yi scoffed.
Suddenly, Bing Ji extended her arms, waving them as a strange energy flooded the Ice Fire Divine Ritual Array.
Caw! Caw! Caw!
Ma.s.sive three-legged golden crows sprang forth from the array. They flapped their wings and flew towards Hou Yi and Xingtian.
“Again? However, there are a lot more three-legged golden crows this time. Hahaha!” Xingtian laughed, swinging his ax at the incoming crows.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Xingtian’s ma.s.sive ax immediately struck down many golden crows.
Meanwhile, Bing Ji clenched her fists, and three-legged blue crows took flight from the icy pools. Just like the golden crows, they swooped towards the two men.
Caw! Caw! Caw!
“Huh? Three-legged blue crows? Do they really exist?” Xingtian said, taken aback.
Boom!
He struck one with his axe in disbelief, instantly shattering it.
“Haha, not so tough after all!” he scoffed.
“Xingtian, watch out!” Hou Yi shouted suddenly.
A three-legged golden crow and a three-legged blue crow rus.h.i.+ng towards Xingtian collided.
A golden crow and a blue crow collided?
Boom!
An explosion shattered s.p.a.ce and blew Xingtian away, rendering his hair disheveled and his clothes tattered. However, he had protected himself with his s.h.i.+eld, sparing him severe injury. The collision of the golden and blue crows left him startled.
“Did the collision of the golden crow and the blue crow cause that explosion? To think it is so powerful?” Xingtian marveled aloud.
Caw! Caw!
More golden and blue crows swooped towards them.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
This created a tempestuous scene of destruction outside Xuanyuan City. The surrounding experts were taken aback and fled the vicinity.
Spies from various territories quickly spread the news after evading the violent explosions.
Meanwhile, countless sovereigns and sect masters around the world were monitoring Borderless Heavenly Capital. Just as they were discussing Ji Dihong’s many hidden moves, convinced that Borderless Heavenly Capital was doomed, news arrived about a crisis in Xuanyuan City.
“What? Xingtian and Hou Yi attacked Xuanyuan City? Is this another one of Gu Hai’s contingency plans?” a powerhouse exclaimed in surprise.
People who initially thought the battle between the Huang Nation and the Han Nation was complicated enough were shocked by another surprise move.
They had only just thought that Borderless Heavenly Capital was doomed when it suddenly became Xuanyuan City’s turn to be doomed?
The world’s attention s.h.i.+fted swiftly to Xuanyuan City.
Outside Xuanyuan City:
Xingtian and Hou Yi were indeed troubled by the golden and blue crows but not fatally so. Xingtian gradually adapted to the rhythm.
Meanwhile, Hou Yi was adept at shooting down multiple crows with a single arrow.
Nevertheless, a seemingly endless number of golden and blue crows continued to emerge from the Ice Fire Divine Ritual Array.
Officials across Xuanyuan City collectively sighed in relief.
“Fortunately, we have Princess Bing Ji!” Emperor Kong said with a smirk.
On the other hand, Cangjie sighed, “No! Although skilled, Princess Bing Ji is lacking in cultivation. Otherwise, this lifespan ritual array would pack a greater punch.”
Meanwhile, Hou Yi prepared his next shot, a cold glint in his eye.
“Fire!”
With breathtaking speed, his arrow struck the juncture of some fire and ice pools, carrying tremendous force.
Boom!
Spreading from the impact point, eight enormous cracks appeared in the ritual array, the whole barrier threatening to shatter at any moment.
“What a st.u.r.dy ritual array! However, let’s see how many of my arrows it can withstand,” Hou Yi said with a chilling gaze as he readied another divine arrow.
Meanwhile, Emperor Kong and other officials appeared fl.u.s.tered. “Mister Cangjie, what do we do now?”
A crisis had befallen Xuanyuan City. Would they be able to withstand this trial?
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Borderless Heavenly Capital:
The Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon flooded Borderless Heavenly Capital with roiling black poison gas, confident in his ability to corrode the city completely.
He was a master of poison, even surpa.s.sing the Divine Scorpion Heavenly Demon. However, would Chen Xianer fear him in the field of poison?
Among the five main lines of inheritance of the ancient shaman race was the divine blood replication, which created the divine blood poison ant that contained every conceivable toxin. How could it be weaker than the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon?
The divine blood poison ant existed to forge a body, a perfect body of poison, containing a complete set of laws, the poison laws corresponding to the poison Great Dao.
No one could have a more perfect or comprehensive mastery in the field of poison than Chen Xianer. She could drive the poison Great Dao, manipulating every poison in the world.
Chen Xianer could never meet her match in a battle of poisons, regardless of the extreme potency of the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon’s poison.
“Is this pathetic centipede’s poison the best you can do? Stop embarra.s.sing yourself before me,” she jeered.
As she spoke, she emitted a faint green light that looked like threads. Then a magnificent tree appeared out of nowhere, emanating a soul-shaking might.
This tree shook slightly and drew the black gas enveloping Borderless Heavenly Capital into its leaves.
In an instant, the despair-inducing poison engulfing the city vanished. It simply vanished?
“What just happened?” many powerful experts gasped in shock.
What happened in Borderless Heavenly Capital? I focused on Xuanyuan City for just a moment, only to find the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon’s poisonous cloud over Borderless Heavenly Capital gone when I looked back. Furthermore, it was resolved so thoroughly?
Were we wrong? Borderless Heavenly Capital is not that defenseless after all?
Many goggled, regretting missing the action.
Among the most stunned was the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon.
The Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon stared at the towering tree in Borderless Heavenly Capital in wide-eyed shock.
“You can drive the poison Great Dao?” he said in astonishment.
Chen Xianer only smiled coldly. “Bring out your best move. Your earlier poison was laughable.”
Instead of getting angry, the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon let out an excited laugh.
A surging green light appeared behind him, which brought forth a ma.s.sive tree identical to Chen Xianer’s.
“Well, well, well. What a woman! To think you can drive the poison Great Dao. I want you from this day forth!” the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon stated, his face s.h.i.+ning with covetousness.
“Insolent!”
“Audacious!”
“How dare you disrespect the empress?!”
…
Numerous officials in Borderless Heavenly Capital raised an outcry in anger.
“Ever since I accessed the poison Great Dao, I’ve been unable to touch a woman without her dissolving into a pool of blood, so I’ve been searching for a woman like me; that way, I won’t have to worry about killing her with poison. Chen Xianer, right? I’ll spare your life. I want you to return with me and be my peak mistress,” the Bellowing Griever Heavenly Demon declared amid his laughter.
The officials immediately glared and denounced him furiously.
Chen Xianer simply scoffed, “The moment you touch a woman, she dies from poison? This shows you can’t control the poison Great Dao. Incompetent! You want to s.n.a.t.c.h me away? Shameless! Also, you lack rational control over your desires at your level of cultivation? Brainless! Do you think someone as incompetent, shameless, and brainless as you can take me away?”