Chapter 709: Chapter 375 Your Majesty, a Master Has Made a Move
The Capital City of Da Yue Country was under high alert, with numerous True King Heavenly Venerables patrolling in all directions. The vast city was filled with Martial Artists whose expressions were solemn, ready to respond to a potential great battle that might ensue.
Within the Capital City, there was an aura aligned with the Domain, as if it governed the piece of Domain where the Capital City was located. Any enemy attempting to invade the Capital City would not escape the owner of this aura.
To invade the Capital City, one would have to defeat the powerful being who controlled this piece of the Domain.
Although the strong being in charge of this part of the Domain of the Capital City seemed somewhat weakened, he was still an Immortal Heavenly Venerable. Even in weakness, he was not someone that Martial Artists below the Immortal Heavenly Venerables could afford to offend.
On the watchtowers of the Capital City, a group of grim-faced soldiers clad in armor watched intently at the four great mountains that encircled the city a hundred miles away.
Each of those great mountains was originally guarded by an Immortal Heavenly Venerable. However, one of them, during a battle with a Xuezhi from the Heavenly Cave, suffered a sneak attack by the master of Blood Shadow Tower and was heavily wounded, retreating back to the Capital City.
This was now the Immortal Heavenly Venerable who controlled this part of the Domain of the Capital City.
The original commander of the internal guards of the Capital City, Sui Hongwu, had launched an offense to pursue the master of Blood Shadow Tower.
This meant that there was one less Immortal Heavenly Venerable guarding the original four mountains. The grand invasion from the Heavenly Cave forced Emperor Da Yue, the strongest in Da Yue, to personally take action and guard the Heavenly Cave.
The situation in the Heavenly Cave was not yet clear.
Moreover, the incident in Qi Yun County had cast a shadow over everyone's hearts.
The situation in Da Yue Country was chaotic, almost to the point of collapse, and the Capital City seemed calm only because it had an Immortal Heavenly Venerable presiding over it.
And if the Heavenly Cave could not be held, the Capital City would be the first to be hit.
The Da Yue Abyss was one of the three great Netherworld Caves in the Qinghua state, and the Da Yue Country Capital City was built here to guard this particular cave.
The four great mountains surrounded the middle, where the Da Yue Abyss was located.
Looking down from the mountains, the entrance of the Heavenly Cave stretched for a thousand miles, and Heaven and Earth Laws, like chains, circled the mouth of the cave, preventing it from expanding further.
The entrance to the murky Heavenly Cave, which originally showed a faint blood-red light, was now engulfed in a sky full of blood light, with an aura of bloodthirstiness filling the air.
Emperor Da Yue, dressed in golden armor and wielding a Long Spear, seemed to merge with the Domain, taking control of this part of the Domain of the Heavenly Cave Entrance.
He faced off against a soft-looking young man with a pale face and seven blood-colored lines on his forehead.
In the hands of the young man, there was a crimson Long Spear, its aura cold and bloodthirsty, soaring into the sky, clashing constantly with Emperor Da Yue's momentum.
The two were locked in a stalemate.
At the Heavenly Cave Entrance, three Immortal Heavenly Venerables in armor with overbearing auras were locked in fierce combat with three bloody figures, neither side giving way or being able to overwhelm the other.
However, the sound of fighting at the entrance of the Heavenly Cave was incessant, with squads of armored Martial Artists forming military formations under the lead of various True King Heavenly Venerables, fighting against the onslaught of Blood Disciples and Blood Slaves.
The battlefield was extremely brutal, with constant casualties on both sides and endless slaying of Blood Disciples and Blood Slaves.
Blood stained the entrance of the Heavenly Cave, even turning into a rain of blood that sprinkled down into the cave.
Moreover, a force led by a peak True King Heavenly Venerable, composed entirely of Condensation Law Heavenly Venerables, had torn through the Blood Slave Army and had already penetrated into the entrance of the Heavenly Cave.
This great battle had been going on for a very long time.
The scale of this invasion by the Heavenly Cave surpassed all previous ones, and its duration was the longest. Even with the soldiers taking turns to resist, each one felt exhausted.
What worried Emperor Da Yue even more was the current situation within Da Yue Country, especially the incident in Qi Yun County, but he could not afford to address it.
The Nine Mountain Realm was also facing an onslaught from the Heavenly Cave and was temporarily unable to provide more powerful reinforcements. They could only hope that Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu would be able to contain Xuezhi Tuo and the master of Blood Shadow Tower.
Otherwise, the situation was dire!
Moreover, Emperor Da Yue could now only hope that the Myriad Thunder Sect and the Tianwu Sect would be able to spare forces to aid them.
"Xuezhi Ji, will you continue?" Emperor Da Yue asked, his gaze coldly fixed on his old foe, Xuezhi Ji!
As the strongest in the Da Yue Abyss, one could tell by the number of blood lines on his forehead that his status among the Xuezhi was not low.
Moreover, the Blood Path Method practiced by Xuezhi Ji was, it seemed, somewhat stronger.
Xuezhi Ji looked back indifferently, his voice light and laughing, "Is Da Yue in chaos? Is your heart in chaos too, Emperor Da Yue?"
Emperor Da Yue was silent.
"Emperor Da Yue, should you surrender to my Netherworld, your life may be spared. I value you highly, Xuezhi Ji. To tell you the truth, you can't hold Qinghua state," Xuezhi Ji continued.
Emperor Da Yue's expression darkened, and he let out a cold laugh, "Just with you? Xuezhi Ji, you're still lacking a little."
Boom!
With a thrust of his spear, it was as though the Heaven and Earth Laws were transformed into the spear itself, with Domain Power pouring into it. The space in this part of the Domain rippled with waves.
Boom!
Xuezhi Ji also thrust his spear, emitting an incisive blood light, the spear's glow a crimson red.
Their attacks clashed, and neither was willing to back down any longer.
Both Emperor Da Yue and Xuezhi Ji knew each other's strength very well; neither could do anything to the other.
"Emperor Da Yue, this operation was initiated by an ancient Blood Spirit. The Qinghua state, this time, you can't defend it. Don't count on any strong reinforcements, be it the Nine Mountains Realm or any other domain, they're all in chaos at the moment.
"To tell you the truth, Qinghua state is one entry point, the real entry point to invade your Domain."