Chapter 1135 — Invincible in Attack, Unconquered in War
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Six months later, the Four Imperial Artifacts were escorted to Tai Xu and entered the Collapsed Void.
The most fearsome part of Tai Xu was the stretch of star road leading from the entrance to the Tai Xu lands; the gods and demons of the Heavenly Court had named that road the Collapsed Void. Here, what one conceives is what one obtains; whatever the heart harbors becomes reality.
But this power of thought applies only to the heart demon: so long as any fear stirs within, it becomes real, the heart demon takes substance and comes slaying out of the void.
The void here is filled with ownerless divine senses, turbulent and tangled, all because the Great Emperor had once fought his way into Tai Xu.
Tai Xu was a world created by the ancient Creators through their contemplative visions; when that world collapsed, no one knew how many Creators perished, and the heavens, earth, and stars they had envisioned were destroyed with it, leaving the void in ruin. An outsider entering here will have his heart demon seized by those ownerless divine senses and turned into reality; this was why the Heavenly Court had so often lost troops and generals. But the Four Imperial Artifacts had no thoughts and no heart demons, and so they could suppress the eerie wonders of the Tai Xu lands.
The armies of the four great sects of the Heavenly Court escorted the Four Imperial Artifacts into the Collapsed Void.
At first the journey went smoothly: the might of the great artifacts fixed the chaotic divine senses all around, and the four artifacts each guarded a stretch of the void, allowing the Heavenly Court's host to advance unopposed from the entrance all the way to the Tai Xu lands.
Yet once the Four Imperial Artifacts had been properly set, a catastrophe no one could have foreseen erupted.
The Western Emperor Artifact suddenly lost control and massacred the army of the Westfall Sect, throwing everything into immense turmoil! Daoist Bai Yu and Monk Lingyue stood upon the shoulders of the Western Emperor Artifact, their primordial spirits jointly controlling this deity as they slaughtered on a grand scale. The Western Emperor Artifact was a weapon forged in imitation of the Western Emperor's body; although it could not match the Imperial Heaven Venerable artifact, it was still no ordinary object.
The two men drove it with their own supernatural powers, as if commanding an ancient god of war! What the Western Emperor Artifact displayed was their own divine abilities: sword-light crisscrossed the vast Collapsed Void in every direction, while countless golden dragons thousands of li long soared and dove, weaving up and down, smashing war chariots and butchering the gods and demons aboard until blood flowed in rivers and corpses strewed the void.
That entire stretch of the Collapsed Void was utterly beyond control; the Westfall Sect collapsed in defeat, heart demons sprang up in the gods and demons of its army, and countless heart demons surged out of the void.
"Break the Westfall Sect first, then the Southfall Sect and the Eastfall Sect, and seize the Southern and Eastern Emperor artifacts," Daoist Bai Yu said calmly. "After that, break the Northfall Sect and seize the Northern Emperor Artifact, and we can enter the Tai Xu lands to join forces with the strong of the Carefree Realm.
" Monk Lingyue frowned. "Even with abilities that can reach through heaven and earth, we two cannot fight against the sect armies. Any one of those sect armies can withstand three or five Imperial Throne experts.
And they serve the four Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Court; among the Heavenly Masters' disciples there are countless strategists.
We will find it hard to gain the advantage.
" "Your Majesty, in war, speed is paramount.
With the prepared, strike the unprepared; attack, and you will surely take; fight, and you will surely win. We must catch them completely off guard! " Daoist Bai Yu said decisively.
"Besides, we are not fighting alone—we have an endless army.