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Chapter 910 Helpless, Invading the Heavenly Court

Why start the fight now?

A few days ago, Sun Wukong, Erlang Shen, and others, who had just come out of the underworld, asked Hu Xiuwu this question.

Now, neither side has the advantage of favorable timing nor popular support. With the underworld in hand, they can interfere with the Heavenly Court, but they have only barely managed to take away the Heavenly Court's geographical advantage. In terms of geographical advantage, neither side will receive the protection or difficulties from the Heavenly Dao.

However, overall, Huaguo Mountain is still weaker than the Heavenly Court in terms of general strength and high-level capabilities. Why should they start a war when they are not ready?

At the very least, Hu Xiuwu had not yet visited the head of the Earth Immortals at Wuzhuang Temple, did not know his views on the Heavenly Court, and had not tried to win him over to his side.

He also did not return to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain to see if any of his fellow disciples, including Sun Wukong, wanted to leave Lingshan to pursue their ambitions.

If we could get Subhuti out of Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, that would be even better.

There's also Lingji Bodhisattva of Yellow Wind Ridge, the Mighty Bull Demon King of Flaming Mountain, and the Four Dragon Kings of the Seas...
There are still many forces and neutral figures that Hu Xiuwu has not yet come into contact with or assessed. There are still many forces in the world worth exploring.

As a result, Hu Xiuwu suddenly decided to attack the Heavenly Court.

"Why?" Inside the Water Curtain Cave of Flower Fruit Mountain, Hu Xiuwu, sitting at the head of the table, heard everyone's question and looked helpless.

"Of course I had no other choice but to do this."

Hu Xiuwu was well aware of their concerns, but he was truly at his wit's end.

Hu Xiuwu was a Great Luo Golden Immortal, and he had even fought with another Great Luo Golden Immortal. He knew the abilities of Great Luo Golden Immortals best.

Laozi and the Jade Emperor were wary of him, but Hu Xiuwu was also on guard against them.

Hu Xiuwu sat in meditation on Flower Fruit Mountain for a long time, but he still couldn't think of any way or strategy to evade the eyes of Laozi and the Jade Emperor, gain the upper hand, and take the initiative.

Hu Xiuwu sighed and said, "Besides, time is not on our side."

"The Heavenly Court has begun its aggressive military campaigns."

A few days ago, Hu Xiuwu had already discovered that the Heavenly Court no longer used the previous leek field, but instead used incense and faith to continuously harvest incense offerings from the mortal world.

They started digging up the roots.

The Jade Emperor and Laozi no longer cared about the losses caused by a one-time harvest, and began to use the method of "fishing by the pond" to extract spiritual energy from the mortal world.

The Heavenly Court uses the Fallen Immortal Well to draw in the spiritual essence and energy of the mortal realm.

It's still early now, but if we wait any longer, the rivers will dry up, the earth will crack, the winds will stop and the rains will cease, the vegetation will wither, and all animals will disappear.

Earthly resources will gradually wither away, the land will no longer be able to grow plants, and the arid land will continue to spread.

In the end, natural disasters and calamities will never cease, and the tragedy of cannibalism will inevitably occur, reducing humanity to beasts.

Until the four continents became barren lands, devoid of any living creature, not even rats and cockroaches could survive on such a desolate land.

Upon hearing Hu Xiuwu's discovery, everyone from Huaguo Mountain fell silent. Hu Xiuwu stroked the table and said with a wry smile:

"I don't think any of you here could do something so ruthless. So the longer this drags on, the worse it will be for us."

The people of Huaguo Mountain are all divine helpers that Hu Xiuwu found from the outside world, or immortals and gods who can still maintain their kind nature and remain untainted by the mud in the world of Black Mythology.

Who could do something so horrific?

Even if Flower Fruit Mountain can stop the Heavenly Court from absorbing it this time, the Heavenly Court will find other ways to destroy the mortal realm in order to obtain spiritual essence.

Since ancient times, it has always been difficult to guard against thieves even after a thousand days. If Flower Fruit Mountain wastes most of its energy on preventing sabotage by the Heavenly Court, it will only dilute its strength and resources, giving the Heavenly Court a handle to exploit and defeat it piecemeal. 'I never imagined that one day, his overly high standards would lead to a strategic disadvantage.'

Hu Xiuwu scoffed at himself inwardly, then decisively said, "So we can't wait any longer. We can't win a protracted war against the Heavenly Court. Our only chance of victory is today—"

"One battle will decide the outcome!"

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"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The newly recruited heavenly soldiers and generals in front of the South Heavenly Gate were clearly not fully prepared. Although the Heavenly Court had been on edge recently, it still failed to react in time to the sudden breach of the Heavenly Gate.

They could only barely send out a signal to inform the immortals and gods in the Thirty-Six Heavens that they had been attacked today.

These heavenly soldiers and generals alone were certainly no match for the powerful and fierce army of Flower Fruit Mountain.

Led by Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen, who were familiar with the Heavenly Court's structure, the army of Huaguo Mountain marched straight in.

Wherever it went, it needed no hiding. Relying solely on the Zhou Tian Star Array, it was able to crush the arrays and immortals in the previous heavens. It fought its way up to the Jade Palace Golden Heaven Realm, the highest level of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and only encountered resistance outside the main gate of the Lingxiao Palace.

In the previous wars, the Heavenly Court suffered considerable losses, but it still had a significant number of Taiyi Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals.

Among the Four Emperors, there is still the Great Emperor of Longevity of the South Pole, the Supreme Sage Heavenly Venerable, who leads the Supreme Thunderclap Heavenly Venerable and the Immortal Elder of the South Pole to guard the South Pole of the Heavenly Court.

Among the officials of the Heavenly Court, there are also the Thunder Gods from the Nine Departments and Three Provinces: the Jade Palace Judge, the Jade Palace Left and Right Attendants, the Jade Palace Left and Right Servants, the Heavenly Thunder Minister, the Jade Pivot Envoy, the Dipper Pivot Minister, the Jade Palace Right Minister of the Upper Clarity, the Five Thunder Court Envoy, and the Thunder Capital Yuanming True Lord.

There are also the Jade Emperor's Golden Boy and Jade Girl, Thunder God, Kitchen God, Thunder Goddess, Wind Goddess, Cloud Lord, Wandering Spirit Official, Venus, Barefoot Immortal, Fairy Heng'e, Fairy of a Hundred Flowers, Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady, Heavenly Granddaughter Weaver Girl, Huaguang Heavenly King Ma Lingyao, Left and Right Assistants, and Purple Sun True Man Zhang Boduan.

In addition, the Great Sun Star Lord, the last Great Golden Crow, and the Moon Fairy Chang'e are also in the formation.

This doesn't even include the many scattered immortals and heavenly soldiers among the divine generals, and the mountain gods, river gods, and the four sea dragon kings who still haven't been cleared off the ground; if we're talking about sheer strength on paper...

The Heavenly Court is also located on Flower Fruit Mountain.

Therefore, Hu Xiuwu was always extremely cautious when dealing with the Heavenly Court.

However, now that his ingenious schemes are exhausted, Hu Xiuwu is not lacking in the courage and determination to fight a fair and square battle.

The Zhou Tian Star Array reached the thirty-third heaven, outside the Lingxiao Palace, while Hu Xiuwu, after breaking through the Heavenly Court's gate, rushed into the thirty-sixth heaven and faced the Supreme Lord Laozi directly.

Hu Xiuwu wore the [Kangjin Chainmail], with the divine light of the sun emanating from his body. He was bound by countless karmas and bound by cause and effect. In his hand, he held the divine sword [Chunzi]. When the sword was raised, it could support the heavens and protect the world; when the blade was lowered, it could destroy all living beings and annihilate the six realms.

Above Hu Xiuwu's head, there was a nine-story exquisite pagoda, the [Innate Demon Refining Pagoda], which descended with a protective divine light that was impervious to all magic.

He was already standing in front of the gate of the Tushita Palace.

This time, the Tushita Palace revealed its hidden ferocity to him.

The pair of stone lions at the entrance stood up from their jade thrones, as tall as mountains, and leaned out to Hu Xiuwu from the left and right, their fangs exposed and their sharp claws digging at the ground.

The door studs of the Tushita Palace gate exuded sharp sword energy, and the layers of green tiles resembled the reverse scales of a giant dragon, ready to unleash their power. The dragon sons crouching on the roof ridge of the gate tower, and the nine dragons and phoenixes carved on the walls, all looked like man-eating beasts, struggling on the roof ridge and walls to break free from their restraints and tear at Hu Xiuwu's flesh.

However, no matter how ferocious these guards and protectors may be, they are nothing more than paper tigers.

A vicious dog on a chain always barks and howls, but if you actually tear off the chain, it will fall silent.

Hu Xiuwu, fully armed, stood before the Tushita Palace and shouted towards the mountain gate:

"Hu Xiuwu, I've come to visit again—"

"Laozi!"