Chapter 1051

Qing Ning, with the help of the jade pendant, ran extremely fast.

Wu Tie reached out and grabbed a handful in the air, and countless Great Dao chains slowly appeared in the void; among the myriad dense Great Dao chains, a faint spatial trace was clearly visible.

Wu Tie flung down the wine jar in his hand, took a step forward, and chased after Qing Ning along the spatial trace she had left.

Ji Baijie schemed against Gongsun Yao, while the Heavenly Island's chief administrator Qing Ning rushed to rescue her own son…… What a huge bustle, how could one not watch?

The jade teleportation pendant Qing Ning possessed was also forged by a top-tier human expert, its power extremely strong, yet compared to the present Wu Tie, it was merely a firefly beside the bright moon—utterly incomparable.

How much power could such a tiny jade pendant enhance? Wu Tie, however, personally acted in his true form.

In the next instant, Wu Tie closely followed Qing Ning to an extremely chaotic battlefield.

On the ground lay the bodies of human soldiers in disarray, and also many high-ranking human civilians; the corpses of the core Elders who held clan authority lay in pools of blood.

A torrential downpour howled down, thick clouds blocked the heavenly light, and heaven and earth were plunged into utter darkness.

Bolts of lightning crashed down in chaos, and someone had set up a great formation, like a heavenly net sealing the void, further throwing the heavenly and earthly qi into utter confusion. Even if there were divination masters like Li Xuan'gui and Yuan Qilin, they could not clearly sense what was happening on this battlefield.

Layer upon layer of snow‑white floating clouds hovered beneath the thunderstorm's dark clouds, while majestic halls characteristic of the Heavenly Court stood tall upon the clouds; the rainstorm washed those halls spotless, without a trace of blood.

Endlessly, throngs of Heavenly Court soldiers shouted as they rushed out of the halls, forming ranks on the outer fleet.

Detachments of Heavenly Court troops formed battle arrays, letting out low roars, continuously charging from the fleet in a set order, all kinds of weapons pointing at Gongsun Yao trapped at the core.

Within the vast Heavenly Court army, all non‑Heavenly Court humans had been completely purged.

Only Gongsun Yao remained locked in fierce combat!

Moreover, his battle armor had been shattered, his battle clothes likewise torn, leaving only a few ragged strips of cloth hanging from his body. The golden holy sword in his hand had lost its luster, and his internal mana was nearly exhausted.

The great formation that sealed heaven and earth likewise blocked the surge of primal energy between heaven and earth.

Gongsun Yao's mana had been depleted over a dozen times, yet he could not draw even a trace of primal energy from the outside to replenish himself. Fortunately, Qing Ning pitied her son; the miraculous elixirs he carried were enough to supply a small regiment.

Only by consuming vast quantities of pills in a frenzy did Gongsun Yao manage to endure the frantic encirclement.

The golden holy sword let out a piercing cry, a blade‑light shot up to the heavens, cleaving a formation of a hundred thousand Heavenly Court troops that had come charging; a full sixty to seventy thousand Divine Sovereign‑rank Heavenly Court soldiers were sliced to pieces by that single strike.

After the hundred‑thousand‑strong formation was shattered, shouts came from dozens of Thunder God vessels; amid the blaring war horns, one hundred thousand Thunder Division troops, their bodies flickering with lightning, surged forward in formation to continue the assault.

When the last trace of Gongsun Yao's mana was exhausted, he produced a ten‑thousand‑year black jade pill bottle, not even bothering to extract the Great Dao Treasure Pill inside; he shoved the whole bottle into his mouth, bit it to pieces, and swallowed both the shards and the bottle.

The immense medicinal power erupted, but for Gongsun Yao, who had entered the Dao via the Three Thousand Great Dao and possessed an extraordinarily deep foundation, a bottle of Great Dao Treasure Pill could restore less than one percent of his mana.

As the Heavenly Court formation surged forward, Gongsun Yao twisted his face and brandished the holy sword, sending forth heaven‑shaking blade‑lights that swept across the void, blasting several formations into fragments; the sliver of mana he had just recovered was immediately drained away, leaving him almost spent.

The holy sword's power is indeed immense, but its consumption is terrifying.

Such an item, worthy of being called a human race's clan‑protecting treasure, even if reforged from ancient primordial fragments, retains a staggeringly high grade; it was originally prepared for beings of Venerable rank, or even higher.

Even though Gongsun Yao entered the Dao through the Three Thousand Great Dao, he is ultimately only a half‑step Venerable, still fundamentally distant from true Venerable status.

Another pill bottle was shoved into his mouth; Gongsun Yao gulped down the fragments, his muffled roar echoing: 'Ji Baijie, today you will all die! You will all die!'

Around Gongsun Yao, the thousands of corpses of his own clan that had once existed had already been blasted to bits in the successive battles, leaving not a trace of residue.

Many of these Gongsun clansmen were his uncles and aunts, many were his brothers, many were his childhood playmates. Their loyalty to Gongsun Yao was as steadfast as that of his own limbs.

Thousands of them, right before Gongsun Yao's eyes, were drowned by the overwhelming Heavenly Court army; Gongsun Yao felt heart‑rending pain, pain to the utmost degree.

Ji Baijie smiled, standing on the prow of a Thunder God vessel, looking down at the blood‑soaked Gongsun Yao: 'Hehe, absurd… haven't you yet grasped the profundity of my Heavenly Court? To slay us? Do you have that power?'

Purple‑golden qi emanated from Ji Baijie's head, slowly rising; a massive crystal stone stele floated up, its grand inscription shining brightly. With a light wave of his hand, countless tiny characters appeared in the inscription—clearly a list of personal names.

Upon the floating clouds, within the countless halls, the waters of innumerable Pools of Celestial Transformation suddenly vanished halfway, as if sucked away.

Strands of primal energy, refined and transmuted to utmost purity by a special Great Dao law, transformed into golden light that fell from the void.

The golden light infused the bodies of the Heavenly Court soldiers besieging Gongsun Yao, and immediately came the sound of dragon‑like roars; their strength instantly rose several heavenly layers, the weakest soldiers jumping from the first tier of Divine Sovereign to possessing at least the fifth tier.

Three formations of a hundred thousand each simultaneously spewed forth lightning, blazing flames, and profound ice.

Just a single strike, and Gongsun Yao was caught off guard by the suddenly empowered Heavenly Court troops; a tremendous boom rang out as lightning exploded, hurling him dozens of li away, his head smashing into a bronze cauldron used merely as decoration.

The cauldron shattered on impact; Gongsun Yao's chest, back, and hips were blasted apart, flesh and blood flying everywhere—his chest flickered with lightning, his back congealed with profound ice, and his hips burned with raging flames that made the flesh sizzle 'squeak‑squeak'.

'Kill!' A dozen or so Heavenly Court Heavenly Kings, whose cultivation was already at the half‑step Venerable level, after receiving the golden boost, in a short time possessed strength comparable to a first‑tier Venerable, all surged toward Gongsun Yao.

Their polearms and spears thrust out, emitting a piercing metallic screech, piercing straight through Gongsun Yao's body.

Gongsun Yao cried out in pain and fury; a bronze bell a hundred zhang high appeared above his head, its toll rang up to the heavens, and all of his mana instantly vanished; the rolling bell toll transformed into a visible burst of spiritual light, blasting the dozen Heavenly Kings into vomiting blood and flying backward.

Five of the Heavenly Kings, as they retreated, had their bodies directly explode into drifting motes of spiritual light.

'I just hate you lucky ones born with good status.' Ji Baijie stood with his hands behind his back, coldly eyeing the blood‑drenched Gongsun Yao, whose wounds kept spurting blood: 'The human holy sword, and this ancient bell… they are fine treasures indeed. We ordinary folk have never even heard of such things, yet you lot flaunt them wherever you please.'

Ji Baijie clenched his fists, muttering to himself: 'If all these fine treasures were in my hands… I would have long led humanity to sweep away demons and restore ancient glory.'

'Hehe, the legacy of our human ancestors—how dare you, how could you, privately distribute these treasures? Just because you were born well? Just because you drew a good lot? Just because your parents are noble?'

'But you must see, you… in every way you fall short of me. Fall short of me… these treasures ought to be mine, absolutely ought to be mine!'

Ji Baijie gritted his teeth and drew the sword at his waist.

He lowered his gaze to look at the sword at his waist—it too was a rare innate spirit weapon, yet compared to Gongsun Yao's human holy sword, its aura was weaker by a hundredfold or more, and its actual killing power differed vastly.

'Heh!'

A cold chuckle escaped him as Ji Baijie tossed his side‑sword to the ground, even undoing its scabbard and flinging it onto the deck.

His eyes blazing with fervor fixed on Gongsun Yao, Ji Baijie murmured: 'It's all mine, all mine… once you're dead, these treasures will all be mine!'

'Boom!' A tremendous roar sounded as dozens of furious thunderbolts hammered the Heavenly Court army's great formation that sealed heaven and earth.

'Clang!' A great ringing resounded as hundreds of layers of heavenly nets flashed into existence from the void; thick‑as‑water‑jar golden chains linked together to form a massive net, and the furious thunderbolts striking it sent sparks flying from the golden chains.

Nearly a hundred layers of the net were shattered by the thunderbolts, yet these golden chains were not solid; they were condensations of heavenly‑earthly law blended with the Heavenly Court's special attribute power. When the chains in the net broke, they instantly regenerated from the void, continually re‑forming new nets.

Qing Ning flickered into being from the void, gazing through the golden net at her son being frenziedly besieged by the Heavenly Court army; her pupils instantly turned blood‑red, and black vapors continually rose from her body.

'You, what audacity!' Qing Ning shouted hoarsely: 'You, you have slain so many human Elders—are you plotting rebellion?'

Ji Baijie lifted his head, gazing at Qing Ning outside the net, and exclaimed in astonishment: 'Oh? There's actually someone rushing to throw away their life? Don't talk nonsense—how could our Heavenly Court be human traitors?'

He shook his head, Ji Baijie pointed at the countless human corpses on the ground, and said calmly: 'They are the martyrs of humanity; in a previous battle, countless demons and monsters assaulted our Heavenly Court army, these martyrs fought bloody battles to the death, and we ultimately prevailed.'

With a single sentence he brushed aside the deaths of those human soldiers as if they were nothing; Ji Baijie pointed at Gongsun Yao, once again surrounded by the Heavenly Court formation, his body drenched in blood gushing like a spring, and said calmly: 'The one we are attacking is a body‑possessing fiend that has devoured the primordial spirit of the Heavenly Court's Great Heavenly Venerable…'

He sighed, and Ji Bai Jie, with a worried expression, said softly: "This demon's vicious blaze rages to the heavens; we must not let him escape this place, otherwise our human race is doomed!"

Qing Ning stared at Ji Bai Jie with bloodshot eyes and shouted harshly: "Fart!"

She trembled all over and shouted hoarsely: "Yao'er's primordial spirit is protected by the Star Bell taken by Grandmother from Xi Gu; this is an ancient remnant treasure, refined by generations of human ancestors, worshipped by countless people in the human holy land, gathering the faith power of billions of humans, its might comparable to the original ancient divine artifact!"

"What kind of demon could devour Yao'er's primordial spirit?"

Beneath Qing Ning's fair skin, blue veins bulged; she was so angry she was nearly going mad.

Ji Bai Jie sighed, looked at Qing Ning regretfully, and said: "You don't believe me? Well, I can't help it… Anyway, the fact is as such; all the billions of Heavenly Court members present can prove my words—I'm not talking nonsense!"

He clapped his hands, and Ji Bai Jie roared loudly: "Lads, give it your all… subduing demons and eliminating evil, upholding the righteous path of our human race—today is the day!"

Dozens of Heavenly Court kings who had received golden light empowerment, their strength simultaneously soaring to sovereign-level combat power, glanced provocatively at Qing Ning; their weapons in hand flew up simultaneously, turning into long rainbows that wildly hacked at Gong Sun Yao.

Gong Sun Yao had also cultivated top-tier body-refining methods such as the Nine Revolutions Mystic Skill, but facing the frenzied assault of dozens of sovereign-level combatants, his tempered divine body let out a deafening roar, and then deep wounds reaching the bone were continually hacked out.

Qing Ning let out a long whistle, and blood trickled from the corner of the mouth.

She used the power of her jade pendant to teleport to the battlefield where her son was besieged, but the vast battlefield was sealed by a special formation of the Heavenly Court, and she found she could not teleport inside.

Seeing Gong Sun Yao's wounds worsening, Qing Ning waved a hand, and an ancient-looking, vast primordial aura round mirror appeared above her head.

This round mirror was about a thousand zhang in diameter, ten zhang thick, its entire body wrapped in clear radiance, as if it could illuminate heaven and earth.

Qing Ning gave a soft shout, and half of her black hair instantly turned silver-white; though she had been kept like a young maiden of sixteen, countless wrinkles suddenly appeared at the corners of her eyes and brows, as if she had aged thirty years or more in an instant.

She spat a mouthful of blood onto the treasure mirror, and a booming sound came, as if heaven and earth shuddered.

The huge treasure mirror spewed forth a clear, bright divine light, like a heavenly river gushing forth; with a 'whoosh' it slammed into the Heavenly Court's heavenly net laid below. Hundreds of layers of nets were instantly shattered to pieces, and on countless Heavenly Court warships, tens of millions of formation soldiers simultaneously spat blood.

The divine light fell onto the battlefield, great streams of it surged outward, and wherever the light passed, vast numbers of Heavenly Court troops turned directly into wisps of green smoke.

Only Gong Sun Yao let out a long whistle as the divine light surged into his body; his mana rapidly recovered, reaching fullness in a snap of the fingers. Moreover, a tremendous surge of life force continually poured into his physique, his wounds healed quickly, and in a moment he returned to peak condition.

"Damn it!" Ji Bai Jie's eyes twitched with rage as he shouted hoarsely: "You… these human pests, these human treasures, how dare you use them so lightly?!"

Qing Ning glanced sideways at Ji Bai Jie and sneered: "Lowly bastard, what right do you have to discuss human affairs? In the name of Wa Island I declare that you are all traitors to the human race—you shall all die!"

Gritting his teeth, Qing Ning shouted furiously: "Not only you, but everyone present here—you shall all be exterminated, your clans wiped out!"

On the huge treasure mirror, the divine light spun once, instantly sweeping across the entire battlefield.

Anyone present who belonged to the Heavenly Court had their likeness flash rapidly on the mirror; obviously, this mirror of boundless power and miraculous wonder had already recorded the data of everyone there.

Ji Bai Jie was slightly startled, then he sneered: "If not done, then not rested; today I will see this through to the end!"

Wu Tie burst forth from beside Qing Ning, curiously looking at Ji Bai Jie and saying: "Great Heavenly Sovereign, how do you plan to see this through to the end?"