Chapter 1243: Shattering the Void (First Update)
Just then, Bai Yuqiong saw that Hao Tianzun’s celestial palace had suddenly gained an extra one!
Previously, Hao Tianzun had twenty-eight celestial palaces, but now he had as many as twenty-nine!
Not only that, but the artifact Yu Tianzun’s celestial palace had also gained one, also reaching twenty-nine!
Although Qin Mu had long anticipated this outcome, he hadn’t expected that the artifact Yu Tianzun’s celestial palace would also increase by one. Clearly, Hao Tianzun possessed two types of Grand Heavenly Court techniques!
Other Heavenly Venerables had spent considerable time and effort to comprehend just one, yet he had comprehended two—one for himself and one for his artifact Yu Tianzun!
“The Kaishu Emperor lost to him without injustice. The Grand Emperor also lost without injustice.”
With this additional celestial palace, even the Grand Emperor began to feel the pressure.
An extra celestial palace might seem like a mere numerical increase, but for techniques, the improvement was immense.
Cultivating an Imperial Throne technique was already extremely difficult, achievable only by exceptionally talented practitioners. However, cultivating two or three Imperial Throne techniques was far harder—ten or even dozens of times more difficult than a single one!
And merging two or three Imperial Throne techniques raised the difficulty even further.
One was cultivation, the other was fusion; the challenges were incomparable.
Merging eighteen Imperial Throne techniques formed the Grand Heavenly Court technique, and Qin Mu had already reached its edge.
At that stage, adding one more Imperial Throne technique to the fusion was several times, even dozens of times, harder than before!
This was an exponential increase. After fusing more than twenty Imperial Throne techniques, the hardest part was no longer finding new ones, but figuring out how to integrate them into the existing system.
The ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court had spent hundreds of thousands of years, exhausting countless mental energy and wisdom, to reach their current level.
The effort and sweat they had poured in were unimaginable to others.
This was also why they were unwilling to accept reform.
Accepting reform meant that all the hard work and sacrifices they had made in the past would go to waste, forcing them to start over and re-derive their Grand Heavenly Court techniques.
Suddenly, Bai Yuqiong saw Hao Tianzun and the artifact Yu Tianzun gain another celestial palace. Now, the Heavenly Courts of both Hao Tianzun and the artifact Yu Tianzun had reached thirty celestial palaces!
The compositions of these two Heavenly Courts were not identical. Not only were the types of celestial palaces not entirely the same, but their arrangements also differed.
Hao Tianzun’s Heavenly Court was dominated by the Innate Celestial Palace, with other palaces attached to it, forming a Grand Heavenly Court system where the Primordial Qi coordinated the rest.
The artifact Yu Tianzun’s Heavenly Court was dominated by the Guixu Celestial Palace, but the other palaces did not seem to be attached to it; rather, the Guixu Celestial Palace enslaved and devoured their power!
“Hao Tianzun is truly blessed by heaven.”
Bai Yuqiong couldn’t help but admire. In the current world, only Hao Tianzun could achieve this; no other Heavenly Venerable had his talent.
Only he possessed the bloodline of both the Heavenly Emperor Taichu and Lady Yuanmu, and the Innate Celestial Palace and Guixu Celestial Palace were so unique that they could suppress and coordinate the other palaces.
“This is likely why Hao Tianzun’s cultivation and foundation surpass those of the other Heavenly Venerables.”
Just as this thought crossed her mind, another celestial palace emerged behind the heads of Hao Tianzun and the artifact Yu Tianzun, and the Grand Emperor fell completely into a disadvantage!
Under the combined assault of the artifact Yu Tianzun and Hao Tianzun, he had still been able to suppress Hao Tianzun earlier. When Hao Tianzun’s twenty-nine celestial palaces formed a Heavenly Court, he could only match him evenly.
Now, with thirty celestial palaces appearing, he was pushed into a state of suppression.
However, he was still the Grand Emperor. Even in such an unfavorable situation, he managed to hold on.
“Hao Tianzun, let me show you the thirty-sixth heaven of the Divine Sense Path! The Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven!”
The Grand Emperor’s divine sense erupted once more. As the Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven appeared, the light strings thousands of miles away emitted an incredibly subtle musical rhythm. The Dao tones sounded, becoming exceptionally beautiful.
Everyone within the light strings fell silent, immersed in that enchanting melody.
Looking through the light strings, the Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven appeared as a supreme realm composed of pure Dao, entirely cast like jade, resembling a Jade Capital formed by the Dao.
Within the Da Luo Heaven, a divine tree formed from the Divine Sense Dao stood, dazzling and radiant, bearing Dao flowers that bloomed and bore fruit.
Qin Mu’s primordial spirit looked from afar. The divine tree in the Grand Emperor’s Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven had already formed, the Dao flowers had bloomed, but the Dao fruit had not yet ripened.
“The Grand Emperor’s Da Luo Divine Sense Dao fruit is not yet complete. Is it because he borrowed the sacrificial power of other creators during his cultivation?”
Thinking this, Qin Mu felt a lingering fear.
Back when the Kaishu Emperor had slain the Grand Emperor’s other identity, the Eleventh Heavenly Venerable Ming Fangyu, Qin Mu, Langwo, and Shujun had recklessly attempted to capture and refine the Grand Emperor’s divine sense.
They had split the Grand Emperor’s divine sense into three parts, each taking one.
Langwo used her share to strengthen her divine sense, Shujun used his to strengthen his physical body, while Qin Mu did not use his portion.
In truth, he had always wanted to use that divine sense to boost his own cultivation and strength, but he had a vague feeling that doing so would leave a hidden flaw.
Now, it seemed that the Grand Emperor’s divine sense was a potent poison. It might strengthen one’s power in the early stages, but in the later stages, it would certainly prevent one from reaching the highest realm of the Dao!
“Back then, when the Grand Emperor’s divine sense attacked us from the Da Luo Heaven but failed to harm us, was it deliberately spreading poison?”
Qin Mu shuddered. However, he also saw how powerful the Kaishu Emperor’s Dao path was. The Grand Emperor had not cultivated this path and could not form a Dao fruit, but if the Kaishu Emperor continued his cultivation, he would surely forge the Sword Dao Da Luo Heaven and form a Sword Dao fruit!
Hao Tianzun remained composed. As the Grand Emperor revealed the Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven, another celestial palace emerged from his Heavenly Court, further elevating his cultivation and strength!
Soon, his celestial palace count reached thirty-three, matching the Grand Emperor’s Divine Sense Da Luo Heaven without any inferiority!
Not only that, but the artifact Yu Tianzun also reached thirty-three celestial palaces!
The combat power of these three giants was so immense that even the world of Taixu could not withstand it.
Earlier, the void here had merely collapsed, forming a disorder of divine sense in the void. Now, it directly evolved into the complete annihilation of the void!
Bai Yuqiong’s face changed drastically. She quickly retreated with her lantern. Although Qin Mu, hidden within the light strings, was not affected by the shattered void or the residual waves of their techniques, he could clearly see that the Taixu region was being drawn closer!
This was because the void was being destroyed!
The power of the Grand Emperor, Hao Tianzun, and the artifact Yu Tianzun was so great that it caused the collapsed void to completely disintegrate. Where they fought, a large section of the void directly vanished!
Not only that, but he also saw the void passages painstakingly built by the Heavenly Court’s divine demon army beginning to disappear!
Soon, the Southern Emperor artifact and the Western Emperor artifact, used to suppress the collapsed void, appeared before their eyes!
Not only that, but Qin Mu, looking into the distance, even saw the Eastern Emperor artifact and the entrance to Taixu!
Looking back, he saw the Northern Emperor artifact and the Taixu region!
The void of Taixu had been annihilated by one-third due to the battle of these three powerhouses!
At that moment, behind Hao Tianzun, radiant light burst from his Heavenly Court, and the thirty-fourth celestial palace emerged!