Fantasy: Unparalleled Prince, Conquering the Heavens!-Chapter 618 - 592: The Path Shuts its Eyes_1
"My beloved ministers, lend me your aid!"
Qin Wudao’s solemn voice reverberated across the battlefield. Transforming into a streak of golden light, he soared towards the nearest puppet.
Floating in midair, he unsheathed his mythic sword and imbued it with the power of the Heavenly Dao.
With a single slash, a 10,000-foot-long Sword Qi materialized. It morphed into a golden dragon and, with unparalleled sharpness, severed the puppet’s arm.
Huh!?
At the mountain’s peak, ’Robbery’, who had been brimming with confidence, saw his expression flicker slightly, but he remained composed.
Qin Wudao alone cannot reverse the tide of this battle!
"My fellow colleagues, let us act as well!"
Scholars such as Guo Jia, Li Bai, Dong Zhongshu, and Wang Yangming also launched their attacks. Their spectacular talents blazed, as dazzling as numerous suns illuminating eternity.
Boundless scholarly energy surged skyward, and an indomitable righteous aura stretched to the horizons, forming an endless sea of literary power.
"Though destiny may be preordained, masterful strategy can yet shape our fate!" Guo Jia’s figure flickered, appearing in the sky with an ancient tome floating above his head. Golden light cascaded down like a divine spirit’s descent, sacred and supreme.
Sorcery—Spoken Incantations!
A mysterious energy enveloped a radius of 10,000 miles, disrupting the natural order with literary dominance.
Instantly, the puppets within this zone slowed by half, as if crushed by an immense force.
Meanwhile, the generals battling the puppets seemed to gain insight into the laws of wind. Their speed more than doubled, leaving countless afterimages in the sky that even the strongest Great Emperors struggled to follow.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Sparks flew. The puppets, who had just held the upper hand, were suddenly at a disadvantage.
A sorcerer of the Great Emperor Realm of Grand Primordial Chaos!
’Robbery’s’ expression shifted repeatedly, growing increasingly solemn.
"The methods of a sorcerer are truly extraordinary!" numerous onlookers exclaimed in awe.
To alter the laws of heaven and earth and construct a literary domain through mere words and actions—such Divine Skills, though not wielded by true Immortals, allowed them to perform Immortal-like feats.
"Have you not seen the Yellow River’s waters descending from the heavens!" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
Not far off, Li Bai, clad in a white robe and holding a wine gourd, stood upon a cyan lotus, drinking and reciting poetry.
As his words fell, the waters of the Yellow River seemed to surge from the distant horizon, like a celestial river bursting its banks and pouring into the mortal realm—a magnificent and overwhelming spectacle.
As the Yellow River’s waters drew nearer, the sight became even more shocking.
This Yellow River was composed entirely of minuscule Sword Qi, each as fine as a strand of hair, innumerable and converging into a torrential flow.
Every wisp of Sword Qi contained the full-powered strike of a Supreme Emperor.
If so many Sword Qi were to fall simultaneously, how devastating would the resulting destruction be?
It was unimaginable! Truly difficult to fathom!
BOOM!
Heaven and earth seemed to shatter!
Innumerable terrifying Sword Qi instantly engulfed the puppets...
"Unify the world!"
Further away, Dong Zhongshu, dressed in a Confucian robe with a bamboo hairpin securing his topknot, stood upon a cloud of scholarly aura, his entire being suffused with an upright and noble spirit.
As he spoke, the winds and clouds stirred!
Above the continent, an illusory land manifested—a land where royal power was weak, the nation fractured, the central authority a mere facade, and war rampant, leaving its people displaced and suffering.
It was a land shrouded in utter darkness and despair.
Then, a group of scholars emerged. They bolstered the failing royal authority, unified the land, established the supremacy of imperial power, and centralized control.
BOOM!
The unified illusory continent, bearing down with infinite pressure, suppressed a puppet, rendering it immobile.
"Enlightenment at Longchang!"
Even further off, Wang Yangming, hands clasped behind his back, uttered a soft incantation.
As if performing a sacred invocation, a clawless dragon condensed from scholarly aura flew from his body, transforming into a mystical ’Dao’ that struck the puppet before him.
As if immobilized by a spell, the puppet, which had been gathering a terrifying attack, froze.
The Qin Dynasty generals swarmed forward.
In the far distance, manifestations of zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting filled the air, shifting and changing.
Yu Boya, Yan Ziqing, Wang Xizhi, and Wu Daozi—the four sages—occupied the four cardinal directions, deploying the ’Four Exquisites Saintly Formation’ to stall another puppet.
"Damn it!"
With several puppets suppressed, ’Robbery’s’ expression turned completely grim.
"Master, shall we intervene?" The Soul Emperor’s expression also turned grim.
He had initially believed the ’Eight-Gui Array’ could keep the Qin Dynasty’s experts at bay. He never imagined that, even without deploying a Demi Immortal, the combined might of the Qin Dynasty’s Saint’s Court civil and military officials could actually suppress eight Great Emperor Realm puppets.
These eight puppets were the core of the ’Eight-Gui Array’. Once destroyed, the Formation would be compromised.
By then... the consequences would be unimaginable!
"No!" ’Robbery’ shook his head. The Qin Dynasty had not yet dispatched a Demi Immortal. If they intervened now, it would prematurely trigger a Semi-Saint war.
Their mission was to delay, not to directly confront the Qin Dynasty’s Saint’s Court.
"Relay my command! The ten Grand Elders, the Supreme Elder, and the lords of all branch temples are to enter the battle immediately!"
After a moment’s hesitation, ’Robbery’ commanded in a cold voice.
The Void behind him suddenly tore open, spewing forth a dense black mist. Dozens of figures emerged, each wielding a black chain, their ferocious auras surging as they charged towards the battlefield.
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
After flying out from the giant mountain, they simultaneously flung their chains, which pierced through the Voidness, sealing Heaven and Earth.
The Qin Dynasty experts, embroiled in the chaotic battle, merely glanced over before refocusing on their fights, appearing as if they hadn’t even seen the fatal chains.
Something is wrong! ’Robbery’ frowned. Why aren’t the people from the Qin Dynasty’s Saint’s Court on guard? Could it be... Does the Qin Dynasty have another plan?
"Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry, charge!"
Just then, a cold and resonant voice cut through ’Robbery’s’ thoughts.
Looking up, he saw eighteen figures hovering above the battlefield, their presence previously unknown. Each exuded the aura of the Great Emperor Realm, clad in black armor, faces obscured by black veils, each wielding a scimitar.
Cunning Qin Wudao! ’Robbery’ cursed inwardly.
He sensed a faint power of the Heavenly Dao from the Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry.
It was clear they had been on the battlefield all along, their presence concealed by Qin Wudao using the Heavenly Dao, which was why he hadn’t detected them.
BOOM!
The thunder of hooves filled the air!
The Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry, empowered by their formation, brandished their scimitars. The cold glint of their blades flashed like a sea of steel, sweeping aside all the incoming chains.
"Kill!"
Without hesitation, the leader of the Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry shouted again. He pulled the reins, and his warhorse surged forward, transforming into a phantom and vanishing into the Void.
From beyond the Ninth Heaven, a crescent moon appeared.
Sun and moon shone together!
The Grand Elder at the very front was struck by a Saber Qi and cleaved in two before he could even react.
Such... such speed!
Even as death claimed him, the Grand Elder couldn’t comprehend how he had died, nor from where that Saber Qi had come.
THUD! THUD! THUD...
Across the mottled Void, the heavy thud of hooves echoed like a death knell in the ears of the Eternal Temple experts.
Yet, search as they might, they could find no trace of the Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry.
Only the intermittent flash of a blade,
Reaping one life after another.
Like a band of Reapers, they wielded their scythes of death, slaughtering across the mortal realm.
「Meanwhile.」
Deep within the ’Endless Cliff’, the Eye of the Dao hung suspended in the sky. It glanced at the battlefield outside before two beams of murderous light shot forth.
Qin Wudao, your doom is near...
Then, the Eye of the Dao, which had never before closed, shut its eyes, much like an ordinary Martial Artist entering seclusion.
The Great Dao! It had closed Its eyes!
