Chapter 1513 — We Are One Family, After All
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Within the Jade Capital, wave after wave of heart-stopping fluctuations erupted as the nine great Heavenly Lords—Hao, Fire, Langxuan, Gong, Qiang, the Ancestral God King, Yan, Shi, and Void—broke into all-out combat. The heavenly palaces of these lords joined into the Grand Heavenly Court, and the might of their divine abilities had reached, it could be said, the very pinnacle of divine power! Having slain the Heavenly Duke and refined Xuandu's Heavenly Dao, the nine lords had all reaped enormous benefits; their strength had once again soared. The reason they fought was nothing else: they were after the Dao tree, the Dao flower, and the Dao fruits of the Primordial Sage of the Miluo Palace. With the Primordial Sage slain, what remained was the Sage's wealth! The Dao tree, the Dao flower, and the Dao fruit were a realm they had never touched, a state they had never reached—whatever the cost, they had to possess them. Slaying the Heavenly Duke had increased their strength, but slaying the Primordial Sage of the Miluo Palace and gaining the Dao tree, flower, and fruit might elevate their realm! The free-for-all began abruptly, but it also ended quickly. At the first instant of battle, Heavenly Lord Hao, Heavenly Lord Fire, Heavenly Lord Gong, the Ancestral God King, and Heavenly Lord Void all attacked Consort Qiang at once. Consort Qiang, for all her possession of the God-Slaying Platform of the Ancestral Court and her two Mystic God-Slaying Blades—blades of incomparably terrifying offensive power—could still barely cope before the assault of five Heavenly Lords. She wrapped the two blades around her, and they spun about her with a shrieking roar like two great dragons of blood. Yet when Heavenly Lord Gong appeared before her, she dared not strike to kill, and an instant later she was gravely wounded by the five lords, whereupon she mounted a dragon and fled! Shi Qiluo opened her treasure casket, and with boom after boom, Artifact Heavenly Lords descended. Three Artifact Heavenly Lords screened her as she made straight for the Dao fruits beneath the tree. She had only just seized the two Dao fruits in her hands when greed surged in her heart and she was about to grab the Dao flower as well—when suddenly four Artifact Heavenly Lords flew out from behind Heavenly Lord Hao. Four of them, no less! Three engaged her own Artifact Heavenly Lords, while the fourth came straight at her to kill. "How can Heavenly Lord Hao have so many Artifact Heavenly Lords?" Shi Qiluo did not stop to think; she split her spirit to control this Artifact Heavenly Lord. Artifact Heavenly Lords were weapons she had made, and in each one she had left countless hidden trapdoors, through which she could spy on the divine abilities and techniques of the various Heavenly Lords. She could even, when doing battle with a Heavenly Lord, forcibly seize the other's Artifact Heavenly Lord and turn it into a weapon to slay its owner. But no sooner had her split-off spirit entered this Artifact Heavenly Lord than she felt something was wrong: there were no hidden trapdoors inside this Artifact Heavenly Lord at all! "This is not an Artifact Heavenly Lord I made!" Shi Qiluo was chilled to the bone. The split-off soul she had sent out was shaken to pieces, and her whole soul almost shattered. She hastily withdrew her soul, but the Artifact Heavenly Lord's attack had already landed on her; the terrifying force nearly crushed her heavenly palace along with her! This was an Artifact Heavenly Lord refined after Taisu's innate companion treasure had transformed into a Creation Artifact—in no way a weapon made by Shi Qiluo. In her rashness, she suffered a great loss. Since his injury, Heavenly Lord Hao had been underestimated by everyone, but in this Battle of Xuandu he shone brilliantly and became the great winner among the Ten Heavenly Lords. He subjugated Heavenly Lord Gong and the Ancestral God King, and with the aid of Heavenly Lord Fire and Heavenly Lord Void, he was like a