Chapter 2422 - Breaking into the Divine Martial! (1/2)
Chapter 2422: Breaking into the Divine Martial!
A back-up plan!
All seven of those people were dead, but they had all left behind a back-up plan.
Heaven had been fooled by their joint scheme!
“Heaven, you finally understand!”
In Heaven’s mind, a figure suddenly appeared.
His face was blurred, but the dragon robe that he wore marked him as the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty.
“I was no match for you and couldn’t stop you from taking my Stone of Destiny, but after several hundred years, someone has come to deal with you.”
“Ant, you dare act impudently before Us!”
Heaven’s face turned red in anger. Among all the holders of the Stone of Destiny, this one was the weakest, his Stone of Destiny the easiest to obtain. Heaven hadn’t even needed to personally intervene to kill him and seize his Stone of Destiny.
“Is that so? Differences in strength are relative. Heaven, did you really think We could not see through those tricks of yours?”
A sovereign with a kingly aura emerged from another Stone of Destiny.
“From the moment you conspired against Us and killed Huo Qubing, We began to plan on how to deal with you.”
This figure’s royal aura was on par with the Qin First Emperor’s. If Wang Chong had seen this, he would have immediately recognized this man as the expansionist ruler of the Central Plains, Emperor Wu of Han.
“With just you lot?”
Heaven angrily laughed, his eyes brimming with killing intent.
“A bunch of dead people, only wisps of their souls left, and you think We can’t deal with you? We will now wipe out the last vestiges of your souls and ensure that all of you are truly nothing but dust!”
As Heaven spoke, he unleashed all his energy to wipe away the traces these seven had left on their Stones of Destiny.
“Haha, Heaven, you truly are too arrogant and conceited. You overestimate yourself, and you have underestimated all of us!” Another figure emerged from a Stone of Destiny, his aura even stronger than Emperor Wu’s.
“Long before, we all predicted this day would come, and we each left behind a plan. The remnant souls we left behind are naturally not enough to stop you, but in concert with all the other arrangements we left on the continent, things are naturally different!”
Buzz!
The mention of these ‘other arrangements’ made Heaven’s heart run cold, and his eyes twitched several times.
How could that be?
How could they have other arrangements?
How could he not know?
“No, We will never lose to you!”
Heaven’s eyes spewed flames of anger. A vast Psychic Energy blasted toward the seven Stones of Destiny, hoping to wipe away the mental traces the seven of them had left, but it was too late.
Rumble!
The world trembled, and far away, in the distant Nine Provinces…
The Jing Province, the Yan Province, the Yong Province, the Qing Province, the Ji Province, the Xu Province, the You Province, the Yang Province, and the Liang Province—these were the ancient Nine Provinces of the Central Plains, and at this moment, all nine of them were shaking as stones of varying size were drawn up into the air by an invisible force.
And in the center of these various shards of stone were massive rocks, each one weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds. If one looked carefully, one would realize that each large rock had a mysterious character carved into it.
There were nine of these massive rocks, and nine different symbols.
As those rocks floated into the air, massive formations began to emerge from them, the smallest covering a range of nearly seven hundred thousand feet.
Powerful energies emerged from the giant rocks, and seven of them shared energies that were an exact match for the Stones of Destiny in Heaven’s possession. The other two belonged to the Sage Emperor and Xuanyuan.
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
Heaven’s face was stricken with disbelief. The others were one thing, but Xuanyuan and Li Taiyi were entirely another.
Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan had willingly been lured into the Celestial Palace. Immortality and the throne of the Celestial Emperor had been extremely tempting to Xuanyuan. In Xuanyuan’s youth, Heaven had intentionally revealed these things to him, and Xuanyuan should have known nothing about the truth before entering the Celestial Palace. How could he have left behind this formation despite knowing nothing?
As for Li Taiyi, from a certain perspective, he had ‘died of old age’. He had died within the Imperial Palace, and the last of his strength had gone to the Xiangliu Formation, while all of his property had been given to Wang Chong. When had he had time to lay down this formation in the Nine Provinces?
Had he known about something early on, leading him to make these arrangements?
“Persisting in evil brings about self-destruction. Heaven, you were too arrogant, ensuring your failure!”
Another figure emerged in front of Heaven, none other than Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.
This was a projection from the Stone of Destiny he had left with Wang Chong.
“Heaven, we never had a chance to meet, and in the end, we had no opportunity to have a proper fight. But in the end, you still lost!”
Another light appeared, and Sage Emperor Li Taiyi walked out.