Chapter 1662 — The Talkative Giant Dragon Shall Not Be Enslaved

Seeing the herd of oxen charging toward them, with the fierce and malevolent great red kun pursuing behind, they hastily flapped their wings and fled in panic. Just at that moment, the opening of heaven and earth ended, and everything fell silent.

The great red kun, the herd of oxen, and the flock of chickens each stopped and looked back, and saw floating all around them Xuandu, Youdu, the Ancestral Court, all the heavens and myriad worlds, and a sky full of ancient gods and deities, only shrunk countless times over. A chicken pecked at a glowing sun, swallowed it with its head tilted back, and not long after swallowing this sun, it laid an egg with a pop. "Cluck-cluck-cluck," it cried in delight.

Suddenly, the newly opened universe violently contracted. The great red kun, the herd of oxen, and the flock of chickens could not keep their footing, and went flying backward with a howl.

The Great Abyss of Guixu emerged, devouring everything, and all the heavens and myriad worlds were twisted and distorted, falling into that bottomless pit, everything destroyed!

Chickens flew, oxen bellowed, fish swam, all struggling, yet powerless against this world-destroying, heaven-annihilating force. Whoosh— They were swept into Guixu, quickly perishing, transforming into chaos.

A dead silence.

Only a large radish in the distance poked its head out from the soil, watching this scene in panic. After a moment, there came again a tremendous sound of the opening of heaven and earth.

The chaos around Shen Mu opened, evolving once more. The radish crawled out from the soil and took to its heels.

Yet though its speed was great, this torrent of the opening of heaven and earth quickly caught up to it. All the heavens and myriad worlds were born from the void, and the radish grew madly, yet fell into Youdu. There in Youdu, several dead Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons appeared, lonely and helpless, with only their souls remaining, staring helplessly as the radish flew past them, dancing and gesticulating.

The radish also saw several Kui oxen in soul form, and the two great red kun, now become incomparably gigantic, opening their great mouths and swimming about devouring everything.

They promptly joined forces, striving to swim out of Youdu. Suddenly, behind them, a monster was born with a bull's head, a human body, and a tiger's face, its physique terrifyingly large, with two long horns atop its head, nine bends and eighteen turns, flowing down like a long river of lava.

This bull-headed deity had Shen Mu's face, and held the River of the Underworld in his hand, using it as a whip. Noticing them struggling within Youdu, a look of surprise appeared in his three eyes.

Crack— The River of the Underworld lashed out, rolling up these few "little things.

" These few "little things," dancing and gesticulating, were sent out of Youdu. Thump thump thump— They fell to the ground, tumbling head over heels. The Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons, the Kui oxen, the great red kun, and the carrot stood up, and saw that they had landed before the gates of the Heavenly Palace.

Looking back, they saw that newly born universe collapsing and being destroyed once again, and could not help but feel a lingering fear.

"Cluck-cluck-cluck.

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" One Crested Fire Pheasant Dragon embraced its egg, kissing it and hopping about in delight.

One Kui dragon hastily felt its own body, discovering that it was actually intact, its physical body returned, and could not help but weep toward the sky. "We have survived a great calamity; surely blessings will follow!

" One Kui dragon opened its mouth, and suddenly startled itself, crying out, "Moo! I can speak?

I've become a demon? " A group of Kui dragons rejoiced, mooing without cease, and that Kui dragon cried out, "Let us swear a blood oath and become sworn brothers and sisters, and from now on be the overlords of the Heavenly River!

" The carrot and the two great red kun flying in the air each opened their mouths and spoke in human speech, saying, "Having survived a great calamity, surely blessings will follow. Let us become sworn brothers and sisters!

What do you think? " They looked toward those few Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons.

The Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons blinked their small eyes and looked at them, crying out, "Cluck-cluck? " The carrot said suspiciously, "They seem not to have awakened their spiritual intelligence.

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For our blood oath, do we need to kill a chicken as a sacrifice?

Why not just.

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" After a moment, the surviving Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons were trembling in a corner of the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Palace, watching in panic as their companions had become roast chickens.

"How did these few Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons come to hide here? " Granny Zhu's voice came from within the palace: "Blind Elder, what shall we eat for lunch today?

" "The two fish from Shen'er's household are quite good.

" The Blind Elder's voice came: "Add some carrot and beef as well.

" Whoosh— The Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons, along with the sworn carrot, great red kun, and Kui dragons, hastily scattered in all directions. That night, in the black forest outside the Heavenly Palace, a dozen or so Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons built a bonfire, spitting out a dragon of fire to light it.

They circled a simple altar built of dry firewood, stepping and revolving around the altar while crying out in low voices, cluck-cluck-cluck, conducting a mysterious sacrifice. After an unknown length of time, suddenly the Crested Fire Pheasant Dragon egg at the center of the altar gave a light crack, and the egg split open along a line.

A small Crested Fire Pheasant Dragon, with the eggshell atop its head, stood up from the egg, its left wing pointing to heaven, its right wing pointing to earth, and let out the first cry of its descent into the world!

"Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons shall never be slaves! Cluck-cluck—" Shen Mu, through his own cultivation, evolved the birth and destruction of the universe of his spirit treasury.

With each birth and destruction, not only did his comprehension of the Dao of Guixu grow deeper, but the World Tree within his spirit treasury also grew ceaselessly. The Guixu lotus seed transformed into twin lotuses on a single stem, finally resolving the great circulatory system of his cultivation method!

After an unknown length of time, Shen Mu opened his eyes.

The vertical eye at the center of his brow was a vast expanse of chaos.

He activated his cultivation method, and saw the World Tree behind him swaying its branches and leaves, a Great Heavenly Court emerging.

Within Jade Capital City, chaos surged, and faintly there sat a precious hall, existing between illusion and reality.

At Star-Plucking Peak of Wendao Academy, Xing An received the invitation sent by Ling Yuxiu's messenger, looked it over, his gaze flickering, and said to Xiangzi, "This is why I wanted Cult Master Shen's brain.

He has only one brain, yet he found what I could not find.

" He stood up and said, "Pack up your things.

We are going to the Heavenly Court. " Xiangzi hastily rummaged all around the palace, stuffing everything that could be taken into his own body, and quickly packed up all the treasures in Xing An's palace, then with a snap closed his lid over himself and followed Xing An with light, quick steps.

"Palace Master Zaofu, Heavenly Venerable Xing An?

" Xing An closed the palace gate and walked toward the spirit-energy translocation bridge of the capital of Jingping, saying in a low voice, "Not interested. I only want to see what in the Heavenly Court is worth collecting.

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. " That's right, the Ten Heavenly Venerables are not ten.

What was announced yesterday was the combat power and battle record of the Twelfth Heavenly Venerable among the Ten Heavenly Venerables.

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