Chapter 1305: Divine Origin Finger (First Update)
Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian felt a sudden clarity of mind and bowed to the white-haired elder to express their thanks.
The white-haired elder raised his walking stick and gently tapped it. The Chaos Sea split open, revealing a path. The two quickly led the three thousand divine beings and giant beasts into the Chaos Sea. On either side, the chaotic energy stood like sheer cliffs, extremely steep and terrifying.
If that chaotic energy were to press down on them, they would be crushed to dust and assimilated into the chaos!
As they walked into the sea, the white-haired elder thrust his walking stick into the ground and said, "My place here is rather shabby. I used to have a dwelling, but later, when Mu Tianzun arrived, it collapsed."
Xu Shenghua asked in surprise, "Sect Leader Qin has been here? He tore down your place?"
The white-haired elder sighed helplessly. "Isn't that the case? He saw me storing eggshells here and thought I had discarded them, so he took them away. What he didn't know was that I left those eggshells to stabilize this mine vein. After he took them, the place collapsed and turned into the Chaos Sea."
Lan Yutian chuckled. "That sounds like my brother. How should we address you, elder?"
"People call me Tai Yi."
The white-haired elder smiled. "The battle of the Heavenly Venerables is about to begin."
Xu Shenghua felt a chill in his heart. Anyone with the prefix "Tai" in their name was an extraordinary ancient monster. Tai Di and Tai Chu were figures who had existed since the primordial era!
Others, even the most ancient of the old gods, did not have "Tai" in their names—Tu Bo, Tian Gong, Di Mu—none of them had it.
This elder, calling himself Tai Yi, was likely a contemporary of Tai Chu and Tai Di, perhaps even more ancient!
Lan Yutian, however, didn't dwell on such thoughts. They looked up and saw Langxuan Divine Emperor's divine consciousness surging toward the mother beast, heavily guarded by countless void beasts. The void beasts all rolled their eyelids upward, revealing ferocious maws, and emitted piercing screeches to assault his divine consciousness!
But how formidable was Langxuan Divine Emperor's divine consciousness?
His consciousness swept out in all directions, vast and overwhelming. Countless void beasts instantly lost their wits and fell from the sky like rain!
Langxuan Divine Emperor, worthy of being a Heavenly Venerable, had only used his divine consciousness without resorting to his magical power, rendering the bizarre abilities of these mighty void beasts completely useless.
His divine consciousness reached the void mother beast directly, surging like an abyss or an ocean, flooding into the mother beast's brain.
Langxuan Divine Emperor smiled. "Little one, last time you were lucky to escape. Now, you have no way out."
"Is that so?"
The terrifying divine consciousness hidden within the void mother beast's brain erupted, shattering Langxuan Divine Emperor's consciousness in an instant. The next moment, this consciousness burst forth from the mother beast's mind, surging back toward Langxuan Divine Emperor!
Langxuan Divine Emperor's face changed drastically. The intensity of the incoming consciousness surpassed even his own, making him immediately realize who the mother beast's master truly was!
"This mother beast has been taken over by Tai Di! When I encountered her last time, her master was Mu Tianzun's mount, but now it's Tai Di!"
His reaction was swift. He immediately formed a defensive formation with his consciousness. At the same time, a series of heavenly palaces emerged behind him, connecting into a single heavenly court!
He mobilized his magical power, which transformed into defensive runes, which then formed Dao patterns that coiled around his body.
"Primordial One Qi!"
His bloodline, inherited from Heavenly Emperor Tai Chu, erupted. The Primordial One Qi coordinated all the Dao hidden within his heavenly palaces, forming a unified whole, greatly enhancing his defensive power!
In terms of bloodline, he possessed the best in the world, simultaneously carrying the bloodlines of the Creator God King and Heavenly Emperor Tai Chu. He combined both the path of divine consciousness and the Primordial One Qi from Tai Chu's Dao!
Compared to Hao Tianzun, he was more perfect!
However, the path of divine consciousness and the Primordial One Qi were not unified within him. If he could achieve unity, forming a complete Tai Chu Dao, he would surpass Hao Tianzun and become the leader of the Ten Heavenly Venerables!
But in reality, Hao Tianzun was the foremost among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, the orthodox ruler of the Heavenly Court, enjoying more resources. Ancestral God King, on the other hand, was merely one of the Ten, rarely showing his true strength.
Nevertheless, the gap between the Ten Heavenly Venerables was not significant.
At this moment, he erupted with full force. The number of heavenly palaces behind him increased, rising from eighteen to thirty-four, forming a grand heavenly court!
But before his momentum could reach its peak, Tai Di's fist had already slammed into his face.
Tai Di's attack was simple and brutal. In the primordial era, he was the strongest emperor. He had no need for flashy divine consciousness techniques; his fists were the most powerful weapons!
Langxuan Divine Emperor's face twisted and burst open. His head snapped backward, and his body bent like a piece of paper folded at a right angle.
With the Tai Chu Primordial Stone in his possession, Tai Di's power was unimaginable. Even a being as fearsome as Langxuan Divine Emperor was no match for him in physical combat!
Just as Langxuan Divine Emperor's body bent, the grand heavenly court technique erupted. The Primordial One Qi, carrying terrifying divine consciousness, struck the suddenly appearing Tai Di.
That was his Primordial Spirit One Qi Art!
His lifelong insights were all condensed into the Primordial Spirit One Qi Art.
To all demigods, he was indeed the Primordial Spirit—the first demigod, the most ancient Primordial Spirit!
The Primordial Spirit One Qi Art unified thirty-four types of Emperor Throne techniques, possessing supreme power, strength, and ferocity. He deeply understood the principle of striking where the enemy must defend. Tai Di had seized the initiative, and any attempt to block would put him at a disadvantage, gradually diminishing his advantage until he was defeated and killed.
The best approach was to strike where Tai Di must defend, forcing him into a passive position and turning the tide.
Tai Di's massive body blocked half the sky, a mocking smile on his face. The Tai Chu Primordial Stone embedded in his forehead blazed with light as he allowed Langxuan Divine Emperor's attack to land on him.
His physical body was even stronger than when he fought Hao Tianzun. Under Langxuan Divine Emperor's assault, his body merely swayed. The next moment, his hand chopped down on Langxuan Divine Emperor's raised neck.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's neck split open from the blow, his head nearly severed!
At that moment, Langxuan Divine Emperor's Primordial Spirit rose from the grand heavenly court, seated within it, and extended a finger.
That finger shot out like a streak of light, gathering all the innate Dao contained within the thirty-four heavenly palaces. The light bursting from its tip was millions of times brighter than the sun!
This finger came so suddenly that even Tai Di was caught off guard. With a crisp *ding*, it struck Tai Di's forehead, right where the Tai Chu Primordial Stone was embedded!
Tai Di's mind suddenly became dazed, and the stone cracked from the blow.
There was no visible damage on Tai Di's forehead, but the back of his head exploded open, a dazzling light carrying a trail of blood illuminating the sky!
"You've merged the Dao of Divine Emperor Gong Yun and Tai Di? Worthy of being their son."
Tai Di gathered the shattered stone, which reformed intact and remained embedded in his brow. He praised, "If the son of Gong Yun and I were still alive, he would surely be no less than you. You only know this one move, don't you, Langxuan? So now, you can die."
In the Chaos Sea, Tai Yi remained calm and explained to the bewildered crowd, "Gong Yun was Tai Di's wife. Tai Di killed her clan, so to take revenge, she had an affair with Heavenly Emperor Tai Chu and gave birth to Langxuan Divine Emperor."
Everyone was stunned.
Tai Yi continued unhurriedly, "At that time, Tai Chu was not yet the Heavenly Emperor. Nominally, he was Tai Di's adopted son. An adopted son having an affair with his adoptive mother was a scandal even in the primordial era. That's why Tai Chu later killed Gong Yun—to prevent his dark past from being exposed."