Chapter 1706 — The Battle of the Five Chariots

This was carpet bombing, flying-sword style! Countless sword rains fell from the heavens, piercing the bodies of the Five Chariots Army's gods and demons, piercing their primordial spirits, piercing the precious carriages one after another, and in an instant men and chariots were overturned!

Once a carriage's pill furnace was pierced, waves of dread power surged forth and the furnace exploded; shattered carriages and the severed limbs of the gods and demons aboard went whirling into the sky. In the sky the flying chariots wove and crossed; the flying swords that had fallen shrieked back up into the air, there knitting again into sword pills that, under the control of the soldiers on Carefree Village's flying chariots, flew forward and kept washing the ground, and wherever they passed, the Heavenly Court's Five Chariots formation fell into chaos.

Left Junior Chancellor Yan Sheng, presiding over the central army, wore a cold expression.

At a single shouted order, the doors of five Celestial Arsenal Towers opened all at once, and what drove out of them was nothing but Broad Chariots. These Broad Chariots were larger than ordinary Broad Chariots, their wheels higher, their walls thicker, yet they had no pill furnaces; as they slid from the towers, the Heavenly Court soldiers and generals within urged their summoning divine abilities, and the sky split open with crack after crack!

Behind those cracks was revealed the vast and boundless world of the Beast Realm.

One after another enormous beasts, fully harnessed, leapt into the air and into the cracks, descending from the Beast Realm!

These giant beasts were the primordial titans of the Beast Realm, their frames immeasurably vast. Leaping into the Primordial Realm, they roared, and were then caught by chains flying out from the Broad Chariots, which locked onto the clasps at their necks.

The giant beasts galloped, hauling the huge Broad Chariots in reckless charges; others spread feathered wings and hauled the chariots up into the sky, while the gods and demons within urged their divine weapons through the carriage bars, attacking Carefree Village's flying chariots! These primordial titans did not fear flying swords; even when a divine sword struck their bodies it was blocked by their hard hides.

In a moment, who knew how many flying chariots were smashed and fell from the sky.

And the giant beasts running along the ground roared without cease, dragging Broad Chariots in a charge at Linguan City. Linguan City was the first divine city on the cliff adjoining Taihuang Heaven.

Vast was that city, and its soldiers had long been prepared; yet seeing the giant beasts surge forward like a tide, the soldiers could not help but turn ashen.

The Fisherman Hantang saw this and rose at once.

"Three senior brothers," he said, "it is my turn to go to war! " The Woodcutter Sage said, "Long Xiao, lord of the Beast Realm, is not to be trusted.

The man cowers before power, and you must beware of him turning on us. " The Fisherman Heavenly Master departed swiftly, his voice carrying from far off: "I know it well!

I administer the livestock husbandry of the Kaihuang Heavenly Court, and the beast-taming arts I founded need not be inferior to those of Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao! " He led his own troops out from Taihuang Heaven.

He was the Heavenly Master charged with husbandry in the Kaihuang Heavenly Court, and the divine soldiers and generals under him were all masters of the herdsman's way; one after another they urged their summoning divine abilities, and the sky split open again as primordial titans of the Beast Realm descended from the heavens.

The Fisherman Heavenly Master and his officers all rose into the air, mounting the backs of the giant beasts one by one, and came before Linguan City to await the charge of the Five Chariots Army! Seeing this, Left Junior Chancellor Yan Sheng's cold sternness vanished; he laughed aloud and sprang to his feet: "The bandit Hantang has finally lost his patience!

In this battle, Hantang must die!

" He raised both arms, and two more arms grew from beneath them.

Four arms reached toward the central army of the Five Chariots Army, stretching dreadfully long, and seized four Celestial Arsenal Towers. His primordial spirit rose from behind him and took its seat in his own celestial palace; it reached out a hand, seized the fifth Celestial Arsenal Tower, and hurled it forward with all its force!

The five towers spun and flew forward, over the Heavenly Court's Five Chariots Army, and with five thunderous booms crashed down upon Hantang's army before Linguan City! The Fisherman Hantang shouted his commands, and with his divine soldiers and generals he threw all his strength into controlling those primordial titans. Man and beast became one in essence, qi, and spirit, swelling their own essence, qi, and spirit; they formed their battle arrays and moved to block the five Celestial Arsenal Towers.

The five towers landed, and five kinds of precious carriages poured from them, killing into the army.

From the fish basket on Hantang's back, two little red fish flew out and became two great kun, which opened vast mouths and swallowed those precious carriages whale-fashion. The soldiers under Hantang also opened the cloth bags on their persons, and all manner of strange beasts flew out, killing toward the enemy.

Those war carriages and precious conveyances cared only to charge forward, charging at Linguan City; they blocked what attacks they could and died where they could not, and for a time their casualties were grievous. Yet the Fisherman Hantang did not relax for an instant.

Suddenly he cried in a loud voice, "Beware the charge of the beast army!

" The primordial titans, hauling Broad Chariots, came crashing in!

Beast collided with beast; the earth shook and the mountains swayed. The Fisherman Hantang rose into the air and landed on one of the red kun, crying loudly: "At my command, call up the beast-taming talismans!

" His officers all clapped their cloth bags, and countless talismans flew up, pasting themselves upon the brows of the enemy's giant beasts.

Hantang and the others urged their arts, and one after another the giant beasts submitted. But at that very moment Left Junior Chancellor Yan Sheng arrived in a flying leap and urged his mana: a huge dragon scale flew out with a shriek and floated in midair, and from the scale came the faint, hidden sound of a dragon's cry!

The primordial titans had only just been subdued; at the sight of this dragon scale, the talismans on their brows burned one after another, and in an instant they ran wild!

"Hantang, this is the dragon scale of Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao!

" Left Junior Chancellor's robes flapped loudly as he landed atop one of the Celestial Arsenal Towers and laughed.

"With Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's dragon scale brought out, your Beast-Taming Scripture is utterly useless!

Today is the day you die!

" At the same moment, the Heavenly River Navy came out in full and formed battle arrays. The Heavenly Master Zhu Shaoping came in person before the front and waved the great banner, and as the banner waved, the course of the Heavenly River changed at once!

That vast river parted to either side of the Other Shore Ark and surged toward Taihuang Heaven; tower ship after tower ship, great vessel after great vessel, poured cannon light like a curtain of radiance onto Taihuang Heaven, battering that vast heaven thinner and thinner at tremendous speed, until it was about to snap in two at the waist!