Chapter 1260: Brother Hao, Please Die (Second Update)
The vajra pestle that Heavenly Lord Xi swung came down upon Heavenly Lord Hao's head, and with a deafening crash it struck his forehead. The pestle suddenly exploded, Heavenly Lord Xi's tiger's mouth split open, and he was involuntarily thrown backward, spitting blood.
Heavenly Lord Hao opened his mouth and let out a great roar. Heavenly Lord Xi's physical body was like white snow meeting the scorching sun—flesh and blood melted away, soon revealing white bones as he was hurled backward through the air.
As Yan Yunxi charged in, she laid down a killing formation. Once the formation activated, it stirred up incomparably terrifying power from heaven and earth, borrowing the great Dao of the universe to shred Heavenly Lord Hao apart!
She had once used formations to ambush Earth Mother Yuanjun and the New Earth Mother Yuanjun, gravely wounding those two terrifying existences. Now her formation's power was only stronger than it had been then, never weaker!
Her formation had just been activated when suddenly, a great hand broke through her killing formation, sliced bloody and raw, and the bloodied palm struck her body in a single blow.
Yan Yunxi's bones snapped and tendons tore, nearly becoming a pile of mush. That hand curled its fingers, about to kill her, when suddenly the Martial Combat Heavenly Master—now with only one arm—arrived. His other hand clenched into a fist and met the blow, but this arm too burst apart on its own.
Xiu Zhong threw a punch at Heavenly Lord Hao's back, but the next moment Heavenly Lord Hao used his hand as a blade and swept it flat across Xiu Zhong's neck. Xiu Zhong's physical body was incomparably tough, surpassing even other Emperor Throne powerhouses, but struck by this hand-blade, his head was instantly severed from his body, flying up into the sky.
For a Creator, this was not yet fatal. The moment his head flew up, his headless body immediately reached out with both arms and tightly embraced Heavenly Lord Hao. His head shouted from midair: "Silkworm Girl!"
Silkworm Girl had already flown over. The Seven Soul Grass in her hand shot out, and with a *shua* sound it drilled into Heavenly Lord Hao's body, destroying his soul.
The Seven Soul Grass flew into Heavenly Lord Hao's body and immediately burrowed into the Divine Sense Great Heaven, stabbing into Heavenly Lord Hao's primordial spirit.
Silkworm Girl let out a piercing shriek, holding a sharp awl, and stabbed toward Heavenly Lord Hao's brain!
At that very moment, Xiu Zhong's headless body exploded with a bang. Heavenly Lord Hao stamped a palm onto Silkworm Girl's face, and her head burst apart. Her headless body turned and fled.
"Hateful Creator!"
Heavenly Lord Hao's eyes shot forth divine light, two beams of divine radiance crossing and shearing—he would cut Silkworm Girl's headless body in two and completely destroy her divine sense!
Just then, Xiu Zhong's head flew over and landed on Silkworm Girl's neck. The two of them merged their divine senses into a single stream, erupting simultaneously!
*Boom!*
The two—one head, one body—flew up together and tumbled outward.
The Woodcutter Sage was furious beyond measure. Hefting his axe, he charged at Heavenly Lord Hao, ready to fight to the death, raging: "I told you all to wait a moment..."
Suddenly the Black Tiger God flew over, shouting: "Master, quickly flee!"
The Woodcutter Sage passed him by, about to swing his axe and attack, when Lü Zheng came rushing head-on. One arm carried the barely-breathing Yan Yunxi, and his other hand reached out, tucking the Woodcutter Sage under his armpit as he sprinted away, shouting: "Great Heavenly Master, your skills are only good enough to fight a nagging old hen—aren't you just throwing your life away by charging forward?"
The Woodcutter Sage was squeezed so tightly he couldn't breathe, unable to move a muscle.
On the other side, Niu Sanduo hoisted the Martial Combat Heavenly Master onto his shoulder and frantically charged outward. Red Emperor Qi Xiayu and Xi Muhong, Heavenly Lord Xi—they had no mounts and could only grit their teeth and flee with their injuries.
The crowd fled in panic, and in an instant the space around Heavenly Lord Hao emptied, leaving only a few corpses.
Heavenly Lord Hao started to give chase, but suddenly a series of *bang bang bang* explosions came from within his body. His form kept bursting open, his vital blood and qi surging wildly, escaping from his flesh!
"Ugh—"
Heavenly Lord Hao lowered his head and spat blood. The moment he lowered his head, pieces of spatial mirror surfaces silently appeared all around him. Countless spatial runes lit up within the mirrors, forming a spatial killing formation.
"Another disciple of Moon Heavenly Lord?"
Heavenly Lord Hao sneered, forcibly suppressing his injuries. The power that he had painstakingly accumulated by devouring and refining the Heart Demon, Heavenly Lord Mu, had already been largely spent, but the remaining power was still enough to kill this opponent.
He let out a furious roar, and at the same time the spatial killing formation's power erupted. Heavenly Lord Hao was drenched in blood, and the spatial formation shattered into pieces under his roar!
Just as the mirror surfaces exploded, Heavenly Lord Hao's pupils suddenly contracted. He saw, floating before him, a lantern.
Within that lantern, light converged, forming a single line—a string of a zither stretching a thousand miles long!
A pale, fair hand plucked this string, pulling it back!
By the time he broke through the spatial killing formation, the string had already been released.
A note of zither music came, melodious and far-reaching.
Though the sound was distant, its speed was swift—the spatial light string flew to him in an instant!
Heavenly Lord Hao roared, raising his hand to strike forward. The space ahead exploded, and a great hand met the light string, punching straight through the sky above the Dark Canyon. The palm chased straight toward the master who had plucked the string.
When his hand passed through the light string, four fingers were severed clean at the root, cut off by that beam of light. Only one finger remained on the palm as it struck the sky a thousand miles away.
That stretch of sky shattered with a crash. Hidden there, Baiyu Qiong spat blood and tumbled out of the void, concealing her form and fleeing in panic.
The light string arrived before Heavenly Lord Hao's neck and flashed past.
Heavenly Lord Hao covered his neck with his other hand—a line of blood appeared on it.
A line of blood also appeared on the back of his neck!
"You dare kill me... you traitorous rebels..."
Before his fury could subside, suddenly another series of rumbling explosions came from within his body. A surge of violent vital blood suddenly blasted his head up into midair.
That zither string was Moon Heavenly Lord's treasure, and it had indeed severed his head.
"Return!"
Heavenly Lord Hao's head shouted loudly, and the blood plasma that had sprayed out *shua* flew back into his body. His head also fell back down, landing on his neck.
"Not one of you will escape!"
The explosions within his body continued without end, yet he strode outward. As one of the most powerful existences in history, he believed that even if the Heavenly Emperor were reborn, he would not be much stronger than himself. And now, he had been wounded to this degree by a few petty thieves!
A dignified Heavenly Lord, one who had achieved fame and glory since the Longhan Era, the foremost of the Ten Heavenly Lords, the one with the greatest hope of becoming Heavenly Emperor in the future—this matter was a supreme humiliation to him, utterly unbearable!
Just as he stepped out of the nest, his footsteps suddenly halted. He did not continue the pursuit.
A trace of fear appeared in his eyes.
Before him stood thousands upon thousands of neatly arrayed Heart Demon Heavenly Lord Mu clones!
These Heart Demon Heavenly Lord Mus stood in perfect formation, their ranks undisturbed, as if they were a fierce and mighty army awaiting review by their general.
"Heavenly Lord Mu, is that you?"
Heavenly Lord Hao exhaled a turbid breath, his gaze sweeping over the myriad Heart Demon Heavenly Lord Mus. He sneered: "I know you're here. Only you could control so many heart demons. Heh heh, Heavenly Lord Mu, do you only dare to hide among them?"
"It's not hiding."
Suddenly, Qin Mu's voice came from the center of the Heart Demon Heavenly Lord Mu formation, unhurriedly: "It is facing you head-on."
The sneer on Heavenly Lord Hao's face grew even thicker. He was about to speak when suddenly Qin Mu's voice came: "Divine Treasury Domain, open!"
As his voice fell, the Divine Treasury Domain bloomed!
The myriad Heart Demon Heavenly Lord Mus either flew up or sank down—some transformed into Heavenly Duke, some into Earth Bo, some into the Four Emperors of the Four Extremes Heaven, some into countless radiant ancient gods!
Qin Mu stood at the very center of the domain, beneath the Great Black Tree of the Ancestral Court continent, gazing at Heavenly Lord Hao: "Brother Hao, please die."