As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life Chapter 1639 - 431: Among the Ten Fiends, the Dragon God’s Painting Overturns the Sea; Nine Infants, All Eyes on the Ghost Emperor’s Grand Entrance, Heaven and Earth Refuse...

Crack! Crack——!!!

Heavy clouds churned wildly, while snow whipped through the air with fury.

Lightning twisted together, forming a trap straight from the heavens!

Hand-sized snowflakes drifted slowly from the stormy clouds amid the fearsome rumbles of thunder.

Beyond the walls of Qianyuan Taoist City, the air grew utterly frigid!

The Underworld made its move.

The dark, tiger-like Gate of Fengdu from the Underworld emerged, shaking all those caught in this fierce conflict!

Commander Xie Yushen got dragged into the Underworld, as it always aims to seize the leader before the followers!

The sudden vanishing of their commander struck the court forces hard, plunging them into confusion, anxiety, and doubt about pressing on with the fight.

Sect Master Ning Caisen of the Seven Treasures Divine Sect felt his right eyelid flicker nonstop, his heart surging up into his mouth.

That sensation returned!

Yet another dire turn of events!

Ning Caisen had joined forces with Gu Cheng and Huang Mei to battle Fang Hanshu, yet now he pulled back on instinct, reluctant to keep clashing.

He needed to verify if Xie Yushen could emerge alive from that Fengdu of the Underworld, or else.

If the commander who guided the court army against the sects and mountains fell, what purpose would this imperial campaign hold?

None whatsoever.

Ning Caisen saw no reason to keep throwing his life into this fray.

Boom——!!!

The Vast River surged forward from Fang Hanshu, his fist tightened, the teaching whip striking like a massive blade amid thunderous booms, warping space a bit, as his power built higher and higher.

Bam——!!

Grandmaster Huang Mei let out a bellow, his Golden Buddha form whipped harshly, covered in fissures, on the verge of crumbling apart.

"This guy's powerful, watch yourselves, both of you!"

Huang Mei bellowed out!

Ning Caisen and Gu Cheng felt a chill in their chests, for Fang Hanshu was truly formidable, drawing on the Vast River to reach Half-step Divine Tribulation levels, a strength that's bound to be extraordinary...

Together, they could scarcely hold off Fang Hanshu's fierce attacks.

The Dragon God Crown Prince and the Three Dragon Sons got pulled into the Underworld, along with Zhao Beidou and Xie Yushen...

The Old Dragon God plunged headlong into the Underworld Fengdu without hesitation.

Nobody could tell what unfolded within Fengdu.

Yet outside, the battlefield shifted dramatically because of these vanishings, turning the tide in an unexpected way.

Boom——!!!

Gu Qianchi slashed with his blade, unleashing a storm of sword beams, avoiding the disaster's force for the moment since Lv Taibai was pushing for Divine Tribulation breakthrough—using such power would invite doom.

Grandmaster Qian Yuan Lv Qiankun unleashed his own sword glow too, for sword cultivation thrives on destruction, and those fearsome beams collided and burst like dazzling bursts of fireworks high in the sky!

Lv Qiankun positioned himself in front of the plaque, where the swirling vortex of Qiankun Small Cave Heaven kept rotating endlessly above.

His brows knitted tight, his eyes now and then drifting to the dark gateway suspended in the air.

The inscription Fengdu dangled on the portal against the pitch-black city walls, radiating a chilling aura of mortality that spread outward.

Underworld...

A faint ease settled in Lv Qiankun's mind.

Absent the Underworld's aid, Qian Yuan Divine Sect... might not have endured this disaster at all.

Various Great Divine Sects harbored their own schemes; Da Jing had birthed a Xie Yushen, whose masterful tactics divided the Great Divine Sects, leading some like the Heavenly Pill Divine Sect and others to yield to the Grand Prospect Dynasty's court, likely lured by vows to redistribute lands after shattering mountains and wiping out sects, sharing the world's Qi Fortune.

Under that kind of incentive, the once-united Great Divine Sects fractured with ease.

Boom——

Gu Qianchi pulled back, as the pair of Divine Tribulation Cultivators avoided a fight to the death.

Lv Qiankun chose not to press too hard, since Lv Taibai was on the cusp of breakthrough, and going all out would draw the Heaven and Earth Will's disaster lock, harming Lv Taibai's progress.

Meanwhile, Gu Qianchi preferred to await news from the clash inside Underworld Fengdu, checking if the Old Dragon God, Zhao Beidou, National Master Xie Yushen, and the rest could come back alive, then decide next steps.

If not, battling Qian Yuan Divine Sect to the bitter end held no point; these fights... served as spectacles for the court's elite, but with the National Master yanked into the Underworld, the act turned pointless.

Gu Qianchi fell back to Gu Cheng's position, spotting how Gu Cheng, Ning Caisen, and Huang Mei were faltering against Fang Hanshu.

A Half-step Divine Tribulation powerhouse outmatched even the peak of three supreme Great Gods.

At that sight, Fang Hanshu whipped his Vast River-formed lash suddenly, but Gu Qianchi countered with a sweep of sword light, shattering the Vast River whip.

Fang Hanshu's toes touched the empty void, wrapped in the Vast River's flow, darting away quickly to perch on the walls of Qianyuan Taoist City.

On the opposite front.

The standoff between Feng Zhiqi, Zhao Fangzhou, Tang Xiejia, and fellow Martial Saints and Divine Fetuses wrapped up too, with everyone withdrawing to the city walls in a tense deadlock.

Still, the tremendous surges of energy kept spilling out from the clash of powerhouses on both sides, resembling clashing ocean swells.

The timeless city walls rose sky-high like towering peaks, imposing, vast, and unyielding.

Beyond the walls, warships loomed threateningly as massive beasts, casting eerie glows, akin to prowling wolves in the wild eyeing their quarry, ready to strike at the right instant!

A dark gateway lingered overhead for all to see.

Inky black, as if swallowing all light without end, profoundly abyssal, resembling the infernal door bearing doom.