1125 Not Leaving Any Path of Survival (1/2)
On that day, the nine prefectures descended into chaos. One after another, the news came, sending shockwaves across the nine prefectures.
”The Capable Earth ancient god is dead without a complete corpse!”
”The Dawn Earth ancient god was killed while he was traveling!”
”The Open Earth ancient god is dead!”
”The White Earth ancient god was beheaded, and his three souls shattered!”
”The Hidden Earth ancient god was killed in his dreams, without any external injuries!”
”The Flood Earth ancient god was killed in his ancestral land!”
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The terrible news seemed like it had wings, flying all over the nine prefectures and the three pillar heavens. The gods of the three pillar heavens sat upright, their expressions solemn.
After they had received the news, they didn't become fidgety like the Deep Earth ancient god. Rather, they immediately gathered together. Only by doing so did they feel more assured that they wouldn't be killed out of the blue.
”From this news, it seems that the ancient gods of the nine prefectures were wiped out.”
The first pillar ancient god had a solemn expression. He looked like a ghost king with his green face and protruding fangs. He said with a low voice, ”Within five days, nine ancient gods from White Earth to Deep Earth were killed. This shows clearly that the fighting wasn't evenly matched. Rather, the killer went around unopposed. Before the other nine prefecture ancient gods received the news, he had snuck into their ancestral lands and killed them.”
The second pillar ancient god, with his red face and protruding fangs, frowned and said, ”We're already not weak. All these years, we've been researching our Dao techniques, and our abilities have become stronger. Broadly speaking, although we aren't on the same level as the ten Celestial Venerables, we should be able to match up to strong practitioners of the Emperor's Throne. How did those ancient gods of the nine prefectures die without any resistance?”
The third pillar ancient god said, ”When I heard the news, I could only deduce one possibility.”
His gaze flickered as he said, ”The top treasure in the world has emerged.”
As soon as he said this, the other two ancient gods fell into shock and revealed incredulous looks.
”To be able to kill our ancient god sworn brothers of the nine prefectures so quickly, that would take the world's top treasure, the Glassy Sky Pagoda. And I know the assassin, it's the rumored number one heavenly master, Dragon Mountain Sanren!”
The third pillar ancient god said, ”I heard a story from the youngest brother of Northern Heaven's Black Deity. Back then, when Black Deity, Son of Heaven Yin, separated from the celestial heavens 600,000 years ago, he went to the celestial palace of North Deity Xuan Wu and met Dragon Mountain Sanren there. Dragon Mountain Sanren used the Glassy Sky Pagoda to defeat the millions of gods and devils of the Celestial River Navy, causing the number one heavenly master back then, Shang Pinying, to vomit blood after three bouts. After that, Shang Pinying was depressed and was unable to recover from this setback for the next 10,000 years. Ultimately, Yue Tingge replaced him.”
He fell into a daze, and his face revealed a terrified look. When he spoke, his voice was a little hoarse. ”At that time, Shang Pinying controlled military powers such as the Celestial River Navy, the two Divine Martial Guards, and the Northern Sect Army. These forces were more than enough to handle Mother Earth. However, Dragon Mountain Sanren, with the help of a few divine arts practitioners, gods, and devils of the Black Tortoise Celestial Palace, killed and destroyed half of these four great armies of gods and devils!”
The other two ancient gods couldn't help but reveal looks of fear.
The more one knew about the strength of the celestial heavens, the more one would hold the celestial heavens in awe and veneration, not daring to resist.
Back then, they were there when the celestial heavens split and knew very well how treacherous the situation was.
The celestial heavens had sent its great armies to prevent the four deities from leaving. However, they were defeated, and Celestial Venerable Huo was seriously injured by South Deity Zhu Que.
However, the most terrifying battle took place on top of the celestial river, where the Black Tortoise Celestial Palace was being intercepted. The military strength of the celestial heavens was severely weakened after that and didn't recover for a number of years.
However, the more impactful matter was the theft of the world's top treasure, the Glassy Sky Pagoda. At that time, there were many different versions of the incident circulating among the masses, but few knew the inside story.
”Back then, after Dragon Mountain Sanren defeated the great army of the celestial heavens, he stole the Glassy Sky Pagoda and disappeared without a trace.”
The third pillar ancient god said, ”Son of Heaven Yin was at the Black Tortoise Celestial Palace at the time and thus had a lot of inside information. I only heard about this when Son of Heaven Yin talked about the matter accidentally.”
There were a total of eight ancient gods of the pillar heavens, which were known as the Eight Pillar Heavens. There were three pillar heavens in Western Heaven, four in Eastern Heaven, and one in Northern Heaven. The ancient god of Northern Heaven's pillar heaven was the youngest.