"The Heavenly Lord said: 'I uphold the will of heaven, subdue the disobedient, and punish the unfaithful. What does it have to do with the beings in the Three Realms?'"
Mother Golden Phoenix was angered: "Subdue the disobedient? How innocent is Li Ping? What law has he transgressed that this tragedy should befall him?"
"Hoarding rebels and disregarding the sovereign, his crime deserves death!"
Mother Golden Phoenix said with each word: "My disciples of Jie Fa only have teachers and a master, we do not have a ruler!"
The Lüxiān Sword hanging at his waist shivered continuously. This killing weapon craved blood and bloodshed. The more ferocious the killing, the better.
Mother Goldeness of the Jin school had no desire to engage in a battle with the Emperor of Heaven on the Eastern Sea. She had no chance of winning, yet she couldn't retreat at this moment.
Who cares about the heavenly laws and regulations! As the senior master of Jie school, she mustering her courage to face this challenge head-on.
The Emperor of Heaven thought more comprehensively. There were too many disciples from the Jie school in the heavens, and the Jie school remained a great sect in Hongsan. With four close disciples and three outer door disciples, their strength was formidable. He must take this opportunity to suppress the Jie school forcefully.
The Golden Holy Mother did not retreat a single step, which gave him the space to further expand on his plan.
"I will let you see today what it means to be a ruler!"
The Emperor of Heaven, even without showing anger, exuded a sense of authority. With a thought, in an instant, the winds and clouds changed, the stars shifted their positions, and the essence of the primordial universe solidified along with it.
The original essence of the spiritual energy was gentle, possessing the characteristic of benefiting all the people. Now, the spiritual energy has become domineering, as if it were eliminating the unfaithful.
He just needed to lift his finger, and the majestic tower of the Heavenly Lord, standing at a height of 49 floors, suddenly appeared. The wind chimes on the tower made a series of crisp sounds, and the Golden Holy Mother felt her mind was disrupted. The spell in her hand vanished instantly. She was dazed for a moment, then quickly came to her senses. She raised her head and saw the base of the Heavenly Lord's Tower like a black hole, pressing down upon herself.
The Heavenly Tower seemed majestic and imposing, but it was unexpected to have the effect of unsettling the soul. This was something Mother Goldeness did not anticipate. However, she was also a powerful immortal who had transcended to sainthood. She once again raised a spell with her hands, instantly transported herself to her own Si Xiang (Four Symbols) Tower, where the Four Spirits—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—circled outside the tower.
The Heavenly Tower collided directly with the Si Xiang Tower.
The Azure Dragon's ghostly figure roared with anger. The winds and clouds in the sky, which were just beginning to converge, were instantly suppressed by an endless sea of divine power. The Black Tortoise's ghostly figure enhanced its abilities onto the Si Xiang Tower, covering the tower with its menacing scales. The Vermilion Bird's and White Tiger's ghostly figures spat out a raging inferno that mixed with a large amount of Western refined gold, eventually transforming into countless celestial fire meteors that rained down densely upon the Heavenly Tower.
The Heavenly Lord let out a cold laugh, and there appeared at the top of the Heavenly Tower a mirror that supervised the Three Realms - the Heavenly Mirror.
The mirror surface flashed white light, and everything - the fire, the refined gold - vanished instantly. Following that, the Heavenly Tower smashed heavily against the Si Xiang Tower.
The defensive technique of the Black Tortoise's ghostly figure was instantly broken. From top to bottom, the body of the Si Xiang Tower was torn apart by three huge cracks, and the spiritual nature of the treasure was greatly reduced.
"Dare to destroy my treasure? Come at me!" Mother Goldeness emerged from the tower, charging out with her golden sword, aiming directly for the Emperor of Heaven's face.
"This is the Supreme Sword Technique of the Jie School? Go back and train for two more years." The Emperor of Heaven swiftly drew his sword, the 4-foot-long Heavenly Sword bearing the authority of the emperor, slicing down at the flying golden sword.
"Rise!" Mother Goldeness used a feigned attack, and with ease retrieved the somewhat damaged Si Xiang Tower. The flying golden sword curved around, making a very clever return. Just as she saw a faint smile on her face, the mirror surface of the Heavenly Mirror shifted to an angle, and the bright light directly hit the flying golden sword. She felt as if she was separated from the countless years of cultivation of her sword by a mist, and the flying golden sword suddenly lost control.
A single mistake led her to fall into a disadvantageous position.
The Emperor of Heaven's control over the Great Dao was far superior to hers. Unspoken and unseen, the battlefield was already under the control of the Emperor of Heaven.
The more she fought, the more she felt her mind was being shaken. She seemed to be in the inner hall of the Azure Heavenly Palace, where the other party stood high above her, like a creator deity, and she could only kneel down and await the judgment of fate.
She forced herself to gather her strength and shards of her essence glowed with a thousand beams of golden light representing her essence.
She quickly scanned her surroundings and found that her magical power had decreased by twenty percent, her control over artifacts was slower by more than ten percent, and her spiritual awareness was confined within her body. Her confidence was already low, and now she felt as if defeat was inevitable.
The difference between defeating one corpse of a Virtuous Saint and two corpse of a Virtuous Saint was significant. Her fighting spirit decreased significantly, and it was only a matter of time before she was defeated.
Mother Goldeness wanted to pull out the Lüxiān Sword several times, but she restrained herself. She was not Dao Ren Lü, who had a limited understanding of the Jushienshan Four Swords. She feared she could not control this celestial killer from the era of Hongwu.
After thirty moves, Mother Goldeness could no longer hold out. Another ten moves and she would be defeated.
"The Supreme Lord is overbearing to a fault!" Yun Xiao finally arrived from the Three Immortal Islands. With one stroke of her sword, she broke through the array that the Heavenly Lord had set up outside to hinder their reinforcements, accompanied by Qiong Xiao and Bixiao.
If there were other matters where I could keep my sister trapped on the island, now it was for the Jie School. Both of my sisters were also part of the Jie School, so I cannot back down at this moment.
Yun Xiao had a hundred times more combat experience than Mother Goldeness, who was like a pig farmer at home. While talking with her mouth, she never stopped moving with her hands.
She was setting up her formation while simultaneously drawing her sword.
When the Heavenly Lord turned to look, the Hùn Yuán Jīn Dǒu had already spewed out torrents of yellow sand. The emperor's Dao of the Great Sage was breached, and Mother Goldeness immediately recovered from that low fighting spirit state, somewhat disheveledly landing next to Yun Xiao.
"Thank you, younger sister, for helping me."
"The senior sister of our Jie school is fighting for the cause. Although we, the three of us, are unworthy, we are willing to serve our senior sister as needed." Yun Xiao's words were very poetic. Even though there may be reasons such as gender, personality, cultivation level, appearance, and so on that do not see eye to eye between the two parties, at this moment, a sense of unity against an enemy could be found.
Qiong Xiao and Bixiao usually did not like being considered pretentious by Mother Goldeness, but at this moment, it was necessary to unite against the outside.
Qiong Xiao took out a section of the yuèguī (moonbloom) branch, which was a harvest from the ancient Yuanxiao Palace's primordial yuèguī tree. After several rituals by the sisters, it was considered a decent piece of spiritual treasure.
Bixiao held the Jin Jiǎnjīn (Golden Dragon Scissors) in her hand and glared at the Heavenly Lord, ready to sever his neck.
More and more disciples of the Jie School gathered nearby, with Luoxuan, Shiji, and Yu Yuan all arriving. Finally, even Zhao Gongming, whose face was glowing red with the obvious effect of having drunk a fair amount of immortal wine, showed up.
For a moment, the East Sea was filled with celestial energies as countless immortals flew out of their caves and abodes. The Penglai Island was even left deserted, with both Jie disciples and those not affiliated with the sect gathered to lend their support at this critical moment.
The Jia Ziya and Pi Gan on the side of the Heavenly Lord also commanded numerous heavenly armies and generals to form their ranks. Wen Zhong, who is responsible for training the Zhou Tian Xing Dou (Week Heavenly Array) in his free time, did not mean that others could not set up this array if he was not present. The wife of Dou Rong, Wu Qu Xing Jun, and Chen Di Xianzhen repeatedly waved their flags. One was Yin while the other was Yang, and 73,000 heavenly soldiers formed two compatible Zhou Tian Xing Dou arrays.
