Chapter 1240: A New Generation Surpasses the Old (Second Update)
The Primordial Heavenly Palace was undoubtedly a grand celestial palace that surpassed the Divine Sense Heavenly Palace and even the Reincarnation Heavenly Palace. The benefits it brought to Qin Mu also exceeded those brought by the other palaces.
If this palace were successfully refined, the improvement to Qin Mu's cultivation and strength would be incalculable!
However, the strings of the Dao soon stopped playing. Looking through this string of light, Qin Mu saw that the lotus continent beneath the Imperial Emperor's feet had shattered, crushed into powder!
The Imperial Emperor had finally completely broken free!
Relying on his own strength alone, it would have been very difficult for the Imperial Emperor to fully break the restrictions left by Ling Tianzun and Yun Tianzun. But the purpose of the Imperial Emperor's first move was precisely to borrow the power of Heavenly Lord Hao and the artifact Imperial Emperor to break the cage that imprisoned him!
Although he had borrowed power to break the restrictions, he was also severely wounded by Heavenly Lord Hao, with blood at the corners of his mouth.
"Hahahaha!"
The Imperial Emperor laughed heartily, broken root tendrils hanging from his legs. He said fiercely, "Finally out, finally out! Damn Yun Tianzun and Ling Tianzun, you plotted against me, but aren't you both dead by my hand? And I have come back to life!"
The thick root tendrils on his legs snapped. These root tendrils were the roots of the sacred objects of the various Creator races. These sacred objects were spiritual roots that the Creator race had found in the Ancestral Court, nurtured into sacred objects through countless years of worship.
Some of these sacred objects grew into sacrificial gods, while others retained their original form as sacred objects.
In the battle to eliminate the Imperial Emperor, the Creators in the Grand Emptiness had used up almost all of their sacred objects, setting traps that finally breached the Imperial Emperor's physical body, giving Yun Tianzun, Ling Tianzun, and the others an opportunity.
But now, the sacred objects that had bound the Imperial Emperor's body were also dead.
The Imperial Emperor's wounds healed rapidly, leaving no trace.
His divine sense was incredibly powerful. Under the visualization of his divine sense, even a severed head could be easily visualized back into existence.
For an existence like him, his vital weakness was not his soul, not his primordial spirit, nor his physical body. His vital weakness was his divine sense. As long as his divine sense was not extinguished, he would not truly die.
And he had already entrusted his divine sense to the Ultimate Void, cutting off any possibility of death.
The strongest physical body in history, as the Creators called it, was finally able to unleash its full power!
The Imperial Emperor laughed loudly, and his terrifyingly powerful divine sense exploded forth. His divine sense was unmatched in the world. Even before he had fully broken free, he could influence the entire Divine City and even an Imperial Seat existence like Shang Pingyin.
Although Shang Pingyin was so easily controlled because of a flaw in his Dao heart, being able to easily control an Imperial Seat was still an incredible ability.
However, the Imperial Emperor's divine sense was not merely about controlling others; it was about visualization!
"Heavenly Lord Hao, let me show you what true visualization is!"
The Imperial Emperor's long hair twisted into clumps, many strands tangled together, thick and wild. At this moment, not only did Heavenly Lord Hao sense the fluctuations of the Dao within his divine sense, but even Qin Mu and the others, who were far away, could feel the Imperial Emperor's divine sense transforming into the Dao!
Divine sense transforming into the Dao was a realm Qin Mu had never encountered before!
The Imperial Emperor wasn't truly turning his divine sense into the Great Dao; he was using the characteristics of his divine sense to visualize the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!
This already belonged to the level of creating the Dao from the Void!
"The Imperial Emperor's abilities are indeed of the same origin as the Heavenly Emperor Taichu's abilities, both being derivatives of the Primordial Dao! Primordial Qi and the Dao of Divine Sense both belong to the Primordial Dao!"
Within the string of light, Qin Mu was extremely excited, listening to the musical notes played by the fluctuations of divine abilities. Suddenly, he said, "Daylight Master, can we get a little closer? Many of the Dao principles are too faint to capture easily."
Bai Yuqiong hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "If we get any closer, I'm afraid it will exceed the limit this lantern can withstand. At that point, I won't be able to protect you either."
Lan Yutian pleaded, "Sister, just a little closer?"
Bai Yuqiong looked at the two of them, her heart softening. She gritted her teeth and said, "Alright, just a little closer. But not too close, or I won't be able to escape in time."
Qin Mu glanced at Lan Yutian, a trace of sadness welling up in his heart: "I guess I'm past my prime and can no longer play the innocent card. Imperial Emperor Yutian can still get away with it. This time, Bai Yuqiong agreed to move the string of light because of him..."
As a youth who had come out of the Village of the Crippled, trained under Medicine Master, he had once had a devastating charm with girls. But that was in the past.
Now, people were more likely to think that Mu Tianzun was cunning, sly, and calculating. Even if he tried to act cute, the girls wouldn't believe him anymore.
Bai Yuqiong moved the lantern, and the string of light also moved forward. She said to the two, "Lan Di, although I am a disciple of Moon Master, what I have learned is only what she knew hundreds of thousands of years ago. Moon Master pioneered the Dao of Space, and she could go anywhere in the world. I cannot do that. I would very much like to become her disciple again, but I also have some hesitations..."
Lan Yutian blinked his big eyes, curious. "What hesitations?"
Bai Yuqiong turned her head to look at Qin Mu but said nothing.
Qin Mu, however, understood. Bai Yuqiong was worried that the friendship between Moon Master and the Southern Emperor Zhuque would cause her to be targeted again, awakening the Southern Emperor's divine soul within her.
Bai Yuqiong also had her own selfish motives and her own considerations. This couldn't be blamed on her.
Bai Yuqiong sensed that the lantern was about to reach its limit, and the sound of the strings had become much clearer. She stopped and said, "We can't go any further... I've always been cautious by nature. How is it that when I meet you two brothers, I dare to take such a great risk?"
She found it both amusing and frustrating.
Qin Mu, while observing the battle between the Imperial Emperor, Heavenly Lord Hao, and the artifact Imperial Emperor from a distance, listened to the Dao principles conveyed by the strings, comparing them with his own insights and realizations. His understanding of Primordial Qi deepened.
The Imperial Emperor's divine sense transformed into the Dao. With a single thought from his divine sense, the Dao proliferated. Not only that, but his Dao permeated his entire body, making his physical form reach an incredibly terrifying level. Even when Heavenly Lord Hao controlled the artifact Imperial Emperor to face his iron fists, he couldn't withstand the power unleashed by the eruption of the Dao!
Boom—
A terrifying wave of force came, shaking the string of light. At the center of the battle, every move the Imperial Emperor made was perfectly in tune with the Dao. The artifact Imperial Emperor was forced back repeatedly under his pressure.
His sinewy body was ferocious, like the oldest mineral veins and the hardest mountains in the Ancestral Court of the ancient era, forging a body of iron fists and bronze bones.
With one punch, the Dao resonated in unison, its power concentrated in the center of his fist. As the punch was thrown, the Dao's might exploded, and even the artifact Imperial Emperor's flesh burst open, staggering backward.
Qin Mu finally understood why the Creators said the Imperial Emperor possessed the strongest physical body in history. Such power could overturn heaven and earth, and no one could match him!
However, he could also see that the Imperial Emperor of the ancient era must not have been this powerful.
The reason the Imperial Emperor had become so strong was mainly because he had lived until now in the guise of Qiang Tianfei, absorbing the Dao techniques and divine abilities of the past million years.
Most crucially, the Dao Ancestor had mapped out the Dao runes of all the ancient gods!
The Imperial Emperor's divine sense, combined with the Dao runes of all the ancient gods, had given his physical combat power and divine sense combat power an astonishing boost!
"In other words, Qiang Tianfei has already made contact with the Imperial Emperor's physical body and passed on her cultivation insights from these years to him." Qin Mu thought to himself.
Heavenly Lord Hao used the artifact Imperial Emperor to confront the Imperial Emperor head-on, while his true body dared not engage in direct conflict. Instead, he chose to circle around, bombarding the Imperial Emperor's physical body with divine abilities.
However, for the Imperial Emperor, this was like scratching an itch through a boot.
The Dao around the Imperial Emperor condensed wildly, even forming a materialization of the Dao around his body. These Great Daos of Heaven and Earth, within the various apertures of his body, transformed into ancient gods of the Dao with actual physical forms!
From the Mystic Capital to the Nether Capital, from the Eastern Extreme to the Western Extreme, from the Origin Realm to the Return to Nothingness, ancient gods stood within the hundred apertures of his body!
Even in the center of his brow, the Dao formed the form of the ancient god Heavenly Emperor!
—Last night I had insomnia and only slept for two hours. I humbly ask for advice from my versatile readers on how to fall asleep and how to avoid waking up with a stiff neck. Boohoo~