751 Devil Mask (2/2)
”Mingdu Heavenly Gate!”
Lu Li and the rest of the gods cried out. The power of the Mingdu Heavenly Gate suppressed downwards, and everyone's primordial spirits sank to the ground. They got pressed down and couldn't move.
Di Yiyue floated up and stood barefoot on the Mingdu Heavenly Gate. She raised her head and had a smile that was yet not a smile on her face. ”Husband, why didn't you come with your true body? Why have you only projected yourself with your divine art? I would like to hear your sweet talk again.”
In the dark sky above, Son of Heaven Yin's faces were twitching non-stop. Suddenly, all of the faces gathered together and transformed into one. This face was also slowly fading away and vanishing.
”Di Yiyue, I have indeed let you down, therefore, I won't fight with you, it's not because I'm afraid of you.”
His voice moved further and further away. ”However, my mission is accomplished. The reason why I sliced open Fengdu isn't because I want to stop you personally, I am just allowing the power of Youdu to come in. Mingdu Heavenly King, you will have to settle your grudge with Earth Count for severing his horn to construct Fengdu! Now, I can retreat after my success...”
Di Yiyue's heart jumped, and she hurriedly looked towards the River of Helplessness.
The River of Helplessness was deadly silent.
The monsters and devil gods pouring out from the river stopped fighting and were motionless. The four great provincial governors were guarding in front of the Youdu devil gods' army and waiting.
From the River of Helplessness, a paper boat floated out and the lantern the paper boat was like a pillar of light that lit up Fengdu.
On the bow of the ship, an elder whose face couldn't be seen clearly raised his hand to take down the lantern. He had no expression on his face.
Next, more paper boats floated out one after another. Countless paper boats flew out from the River of Helplessness, and on every paper boat was an elder whose face couldn't be seen clearly. They all had a lantern that could tear through the darkness!
Countless paper boats floated into the sky, and the light from the lanterns was shining in all directions. The sky trembled, warped, and shrunk. The ground was also rumbling and shrinking continuously. Mountains in the darkness were shrinking back into the land, and they turned back into flat ground!
The space that Di Yiyue, Heavenly King Tian Shu, and King Yama had worked together to open up was smacked back to its original form by Elder Messenger of Death in an instant!
”Sand Border Celestial Palace!”
King Yama bellowed, and the ground trembled non-stop. God cities appeared in the darkness, and the pitch-black city walls looked as though they were forged by black iron. They stood tall in the depths of Fengdu, and that was Sand Border Celestial Palace, one of the thirty-six celestial palaces of Founding Emperor Celestial Heavens.
”Heroes of Founding Emperor that died in battle!”
King Yama stared at the paper boats that filled the sky and raised his sword high up. ”Skeletons of Founding Emperor that died in battle! I beg you, fight for Founding Emperor once more!”
Rumble, rumble.
Terrifying rumbles came from the black iron forged god cities, and from the cities, huge skeletons slowly stood up and grabbed their worn-out weapons, standing there silently. Ghostly blue flames burned in their eye sockets.
Those were the gods that had died in the battle when the Founding Emperor Era was eradicated. Their bones were all buried in Fengdu, and now that they had heard King Yama's call, they had woken up from death.
Suddenly, the gates of a black iron god city opened up, and a strange three-headed beast came sprinting out. It carried a skeleton god to ran forward, and the clacking of its hooves was really fast.
That skeleton god was still carrying a tattered flag, and the flag unfurled in the wind. The word 'Yue' could still be seen.
On the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, Di Yiyue looked at that 'Yue' word flag in a daze and tears suddenly flowed out from her eyes.
That was her flag.
As the number one heavenly king, she also possessed her own god army. However, before the disasters happened, she left to marry Son of Heaven Yin.
Now, she had seen her own flag again, but her subordinates had all become skeletons.
Even though they had become skeletons, they still carried her military flag!
The skeleton god rushed over, and the strange beast under him suddenly stopped. With a heavy slam, that god stabbed the flag under Mingdu Heavenly Gate and raised his head in pride.
Behind him, countless skeleton gods came clattering over, and they stopped behind him in a neat formation.
The gates of the black iron god cities opened up, and more skeleton gods came pouring out. They lined up in their formations and stood across from the paper boats in the sky silently.
The elders on the paper boats shook their sleeves, and countless paper humans and paper horses flew out from their sleeves, transforming into countless gods.
Both sides didn't make a sound and just stood on the spot silently.
”Severing the horn of Earth Count comes with a price.”
On one of the paper boats, Elder Messenger of Death raised his lantern and said calmly, ”The rules of Youdu can't be broken. If you return Fengdu today, no lives will be harmed, if you don't, not even a blade of grass will survive.”
Di Yiyue and the rest felt apprehensive. Tian Shu carried his wine jar and drowned himself with wine furiously. He shouted, ”Official Sovereign, I was the one who severed Earth Count's horn, if you have the guts, just find trouble with me!”
”You are drunk again.”
That elder on the paper took a glance at him and said indifferently, ”Don't try to defend, over millions of years, countless worlds have been destroyed trying to fight against me. As long as Youdu's rules are touched, there will be no innocent.”
Di Yiyue sneered and said, ”Mingdu is also the horn of Earth Count! Why doesn't Official Sovereign go wipe out Mingdu? Why have you come to bully us instead? Youdu's rules are bullshit, whoever is stronger than you guys can just play around with your bullshit rules as they like!”
Elder Messenger of Death frowned and stopped speaking.
The light from the lanterns was still shining, and Fengdu was about to be smacked back into its original form.
King Yama gritted his teeth and gripped his sword tightly. He said solemnly, ”Prepare to fight to the death!”
Elder Messenger of Death sighed. ”Stubborn.”
Suddenly, on the bridge of Between Life and Death, Qin Mu carved a mask and threw it down to a paper boat below the bridge.
Elder Messenger of Death lowered his head to look at the mask. That was a familiar devil mask that had two streaks of tears.
Elder Messenger of Death looked up the bridge, and Qin Mu said softly, ”I understand now, I'm back.”
Elder Messenger of Death's body trembled violently and the paper boats that filled the sky suddenly collided with one another. Countless Elder Messenger of Death merged together and transformed into one person. He bent over and picked up that mask.
This elder gazed at the mask for a moment before wearing it on the back of his head.
”Mu.”
He raised his head to look at the youth. ”You are back. Do you know how many years have passed?”