Chapter 770 — The Life-Devouring Cauldron, the Heaven-Net of a Chaotic Age
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Yan Jiuxi snorted, his voice like thunder: "Lu Li, don't imagine I don't know what you are scheming.
Last time you invited all the gods of Youdu far and wide to make war on the Divine Son of Youdu, and you lost soldiers and generals, and took grave hurt yourself.
Later you gathered our strength to forge the God-Suppressing Chaos-Heaven Net, saying you would capture the Divine Son of Youdu and hand him over to us for disposal. But once the God-Suppressing Chaos-Heaven Net was forged, you kept delaying and never struck.
Ambitious as you are, you want nothing more than to be another Tu Bo! " Lu Li was all meekness and submission: "In the world of the living I have never once had the chance. Nor is the God-Suppressing Chaos-Heaven Net certain to finish him. " Then she went on to yet another camp and smiled: "Lady Xuan Wuji! " Lady Wuji glanced at her and said flatly: "There is no need for words. The Divine Son of Youdu and I are enemies down to the bone; we cannot live beneath the same sky.
But you, Lu Li, are no good person either. Had you not been unable to beat the Divine Son of Youdu, and begged my son to go lend you a hand, would my son have been eaten by him?
" Lu Li said gravely: "The Divine Son of Youdu is drenched in sin, the chief villain of Youdu.
Your ladyship, as His Majesty's consort of war, famed for the art of battle, has sworn to repay the Heavenly Court and to die only when that debt is paid. Lu Li has always revered you. How could I have sent the prince to his death on purpose?
" She came to another camp, bowed, and said: "Great Sun Star Lord. " That was a three-hun primordial spirit, born divine; the ancient gods had no seven po, only three hun. The Great Sun Star Lord of the Heavenly Court had been a power of the Shanghuang era, but this primordial spirit of Youdu was the true Great Sun Star Lord.
Like a great bird it was, standing on three legs, wings folded close against its body without a single feather out of place, and it said: "Rest easy, Military Commissioner.
In this battle, the Divine Son of Youdu will not escape us again.
" "The Great Sun Star Lord's speed is unmatched under heaven. He will surely leave him no road to the sky and no door into the earth.
" Lu Li walked on, paying her respects to one magnate of Youdu after another; some had even turned their own flesh into heavenly palaces, seating themselves upon the imperial thrones within, majestic and martial. These magnates were all powers of the Imperial Throne and Lingxiao realms who had died in battle over the past million years; some demigods had died earlier still, of old age, before the divine storehouse cultivation system and the heavenly palace cultivation system had ever appeared.
Yet their fighting strength was terrifying.
Though they had no realm to speak of, their cultivation was not much inferior to that of powers in the Lingxiao and Imperial Throne realms. Lu Li paid her respects all the way down the line, to a hundred and ten magnates, before she came at last to her own demon-god encampment.
In that camp there were but a hundred-odd Youdu demon-gods, and a few thousand monsters. In the last assault on Fengdu, the old Yin Envoy had slipped away in the blink of an eye, forcing her to abandon her army and flee back to Youdu in a panic, so that her subordinates were all but slaughtered. Juehuang, Xuanming, and Hanlei came up to meet her.
These hundred-odd demon-gods and several thousand monsters were the entire strength of the four Military Commissioners. Xuanming was full of worry.
He frowned and said: "Last time there were just as many powers gathered, and did he not still cut them down till they flung away their armor?
Can we take him this time?
" Lu Li was full of confidence. She smiled: "This time is different.
Last time those magnates were all cocksure, each certain he could beat him, and mostly they fought him one to one, seldom ganging up on him. So they came off badly.