Chapter 1709 — The Grand Scheme of All Under Heaven

In the sky, the stars were in chaos — an anomaly wrought by the Western Emperor summoning his ancestral land, dragging it forth from the Western Pole Heaven! Should the Western Emperor descend together with his ancestral land, his battle power would likely rival that of a Heavenly Venerate!

Suddenly, a sacred relic flew out from the Spirit Energy Teleportation Bridge: a golden war horn of terrifying length.

Before the Western Emperor had even descended, the sacred weapon of the Western Pole Heaven had already appeared. The horn sounded of its own accord, and with a single long, resonant blast, the massive war horn was blown.

Yue Tingge and the assembled generals and soldiers of the Western Land felt their qi and blood surge, their vitality abruptly swelling more than tenfold; the power of their divine abilities and divine weapons alike shot upward in a straight line! The horn's call stirred the will to battle in their hearts, spurring them to fight the enemy in decisive combat, filling them with a conviction of invincibility, of certain triumph over any foe! The White Emperor was startled. The sound of the Western Pole Heaven's sacred horn caused the Heavenly Court army he led to wither rapidly in qi and blood, and involuntarily planted in their hearts the thought that the enemy could not be vanquished!

The Western Emperor White Tiger was an ancient god of war from the primordial era, the master of war! The Western Emperor had not yet emerged, but the horn had arrived first, seizing the initiative; combined with the surging army of the Western Pole Heaven, this battle would likely end in more defeat than victory for him!

"We must seize the divine weapon! " The White Emperor activated the Azure Blood Rusted Banner Scripture.

At once the rusted banner shrouded the army, and he cried aloud, "Sacrifice to the Heaven Gate!

" Rumble! The Ancestral Court's Western Heaven Gate rose slowly, golden light radiating in all directions.

The White Emperor drove the Rusted Banner Scripture, and from between the two great mountains of the Western Heaven Gate, streaks of golden light flew out in every direction, like countless golden swords sweeping toward the soldiers of the Western Land!

Yue Tingge immediately shifted his formation, placing mountain after mountain of divine giants in front to block the dao might of the Western Heaven Gate.

At that very moment, an iron-blood rusted banner flew out from the golden gate, bearing the surging golden qi of the Ancestral Court's Western Heaven Gate, sweeping toward the Western Emperor's horn.

The White Emperor, his robes flapping, stood upon the iron-blood rusted banner, intent on seizing this treasure. Yue Tingge at once rose to his full height, landing on the golden horn a step ahead of him. The slovenly Daoist, magnificent in momentum, unleashed his divine abilities and met the White Emperor!

The two collided once.

The White Emperor's momentum waned, and he landed upon the long tip of the horn. With a sweep of his great banner, a heavenly palace leaped out from its surface. He said coldly, "Master Yue!

I never thought a Daoist like you would betray the Heavenly Court! " Yue Tingge laughed heartily, his Daoist robes tattered, and said leisurely, "Our Daoist sect has never submitted to the Heavenly Court.

How could there be any betrayal? We Daoists only seek to study the arts of divination and perceive the mysteries of the universe. In our hearts there is no right or wrong, no good or evil.

" The White Emperor's expression darkened. He knew Yue Tingge's capabilities. The strategy that had shattered the Kaihuang Heavenly Court in those years had come from Yue Tingge's hand. The Kaihuang Heavenly Court had the support of the ancient gods Tiangong and Tubo, as well as the Four Emperors.

Kaihuang Shen Ye was at the zenith of his power, the Kaihuang era flourishing, the reforms in full swing. Yue Tingge, then the Heavenly Court's First Heavenly Master, had personally taken charge, dismantling the Kaihuang Heavenly Court, directly destroying the Kaihuang era in the midst of its reform.

He had driven Kaihuang Shen Ye far away to the Carefree Land, the Four Great Heavenly Kings either defeated or fled, and the Four Great Heavenly Masters one by one lost their will to fight! Not only that, Yue Tingge was also a prodigy of cultivation.

Among the Heavenly Court's Four Great Heavenly Masters, his cultivation was the highest, surpassing even Shang Pingyin, Bai Yuqiong, and Zhu Shaoping! The Four Emperors ranked above the Four Heavenly Masters in martial power, but facing such an existence, the White Emperor had no certainty of victory. "But fortunately, there is the Western Heaven Gate! " Whoosh — The Ancestral Court's Western Heaven Gate flew over and stood behind the White Emperor.

Its dao resonance grew ever more majestic, boundless golden qi shooting out in all directions. The White Emperor's momentum surged.

He strode forward, racing along the curved golden horn, his palms transforming in a thousand ways, various divine abilities erupting as he charged at Yue Tingge! Yue Tingge shed his usual slovenly, unrestrained image.

His expression turned grave.

His eyes fixed on the White Emperor's charging figure.

His ten fingers danced, countless runes around him evolving madly, calculating frantically, deducing every transformation of the White Emperor's divine abilities, searching for a flaw! Boom!

The two collided in an instant. With the Ancestral Court's Western Heaven Gate empowering him, the White Emperor's mana was overwhelming, his divine abilities immeasurable.

He sent Yue Tingge flying heavily, blood spewing from his mouth in midair! The White Emperor won a great victory. Standing at the tail end of the horn, he was about to press his advantage and kill him.

Although he had also been struck by several of Yue Tingge's divine abilities, he was unharmed.

Suddenly, the sound of the horn rang out at that very moment. The White Emperor's expression changed drastically.

The moment the horn sounded, he felt the primal qi within his body thrown into chaos, his qi and blood reversing, all his blood converging toward his heart, while at the same time the heavenly palace pressed down upon his divine treasury!

Those seemingly harmless divine abilities of Yue Tingge, linked with the sound of the horn, formed a lethal move to take a life! Crack! His heart burst. The heavenly palace was about to crush his divine treasury!

The White Emperor spat blood, retreating rapidly. He flashed into the Western Heaven Gate and flew away, crying sternly, "Retreat to the Upper Heaven!

Yue Tingge, we shall fight another day!

" Yue Tingge let out a breath of relief, steadied himself, and vomited several more mouthfuls of blood.

The First Heavenly Master, after all, was not renowned for his battle power. His injuries were extremely severe.

Shuofang City, Northern Frontier.

The gods and demons of the Black Tortoise Divine Race had already filed out from the Spirit Energy Teleportation Bridge.

The Black Tortoise Divine Race was divided into the Xuan Clan and the Wu Clan, mainly by bloodline.

Those primarily of the Xuan Emperor's bloodline were the Xuan Clan; those primarily of the Wu Emperor's bloodline were the Wu Clan. And strangely, the Xuan Clan were all male, born with the black tortoise's shell, dragon head, human body, and turtle back; the Wu Clan were all female, soaring serpents with a thousand wings. The men and women of the Black Tortoise Divine Race — some carried the Northern Emperor's divine weapons on their backs, some carried bamboo tubes containing formation diagrams, some carried sword cases.

Their numbers were immense. Wei Suifeng wept with joy.

In this short time, he and the soldiers of Shuofang had nearly fallen into a hopeless situation! The Jingping army of Shuofang was besieged by forty army marquises.