Chapter 1307: Omnipotent (Third Update)
"The Void Mother Beast has condensed its body to such a small size, far more powerful than the one I encountered when I first entered the Ancestral Court!"
Qin Mu stared at the mother beast leaping out of the void, his heart trembling slightly. The Grand Emperor's move this time was likely aimed at taking the lives of one or two Heavenly Venerables, clearing obstacles for his future return to rule the heavens and the earth!
For the current Ten Heavenly Venerables, the ancient gods were still their greatest enemy, but for the Grand Emperor, the ancient gods were of little concern; the Ten Heavenly Venerables were the greatest threat!
As the ruler of the ancient era, he had plenty of ways to deal with ancient gods like the Heavenly Lord and the Earth Lord, but he lacked such confidence when it came to the Ten Heavenly Venerables.
The current strength and influence of the Ten Heavenly Venerables far surpassed those of the ancient gods. The reason they remained inactive was that forcibly eliminating the ancient gods would also result in heavy casualties. The Ten Heavenly Venerables were united in name only, and none of them wanted to be the one to suffer those losses.
Whoosh—
The moment the Void Mother Beast leaped out of the void, its figure vanished, like a transparent piece of glass gliding across the sky.
Its body passed through the divine abilities of three Heavenly Venerable-level beings and arrived directly behind Ancestral God King. Ancestral God King was just about to strike down at the Grand Emperor when he suddenly became alert. His cape billowed and swept around, transforming into a Xuan Du world.
When the Void Mother Beast passed through the Xuan Du world, he immediately pinpointed its exact location.
His Xuan Du world was refined from the Heavenly Dao, mixed with various other great Daos, akin to a domain. Even the Heavenly Lord had to admit that this rebellious son was formidable.
Sensing the mother beast, he instantly erupted with his primordial spirit. A heavenly court burst forth, with his primordial spirit standing tall in the Lingxiao Hall within it. He turned his hand and pressed down with a seal!
At that moment, the Grand Emperor suddenly burst into loud laughter, shedding his previous weakness. He withstood a blow from Lang Xuan Divine Emperor and closed in on Ancestral God King.
The Heavenly Dao treasure in Ancestral God King's hand transformed into a heavenly lance and crashed down. The Grand Emperor neither dodged nor evaded, taking the blow directly on his forehead. His Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven erupted and surged into Ancestral God King's heavenly court!
Caught in a pincer attack, Ancestral God King's physical body suddenly turned into a streak of light, absorbed by his primordial spirit into the heavenly court. His body and primordial spirit merged into one.
At the same time, his Heavenly Dao supreme treasure flew back, splitting apart with a clang into forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures to guard the heavenly court, simultaneously withstanding the attacks of the Void Mother Beast and the Grand Emperor.
Boom—
The Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven descended from the sky, colliding with the forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures. This was an attack imbued with the Grand Emperor's Divine Sense Dao Fruit, enough to trap even Hao Tian Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit!
The forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures were scattered in all directions, fragments of broken treasures everywhere. Ancestral God King's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth all spewed blood, a look of shock on his face. His physical body and primordial spirit trembled violently, nearly separating!
The Grand Emperor's Dao Fruit strike was incredibly powerful, instantly severely wounding him!
"Dao Realm... Is this the ultimate Dao Realm that Kai Huang spoke of?"
He had once looked down on the Dao Realm pioneered by Kai Huang, believing that Kai Huang's path had gone astray and narrowed. However, the Grand Emperor's strike containing the Dao Fruit showed him the power and terror of the Dao Realm system.
The Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system was a step-by-step improvement, each advancement traceable. The increase in cultivation and strength from realm upgrades could be predicted and followed.
But the terror of the Dao Realm lay in its difficulty to enter the Dao in the early stages, and its cultivation and strength were not necessarily higher than the Heavenly Palace system, taking more time. However, in the later stages, each improvement brought immense benefits. Reaching the peak of the Dao Realm and cultivating a Dao Fruit made one as terrifying as the Grand Emperor.
Moreover, the current Grand Emperor was not complete!
The present Grand Emperor had only his physical body and divine sense, no primordial spirit!
Even so, he was already strong enough to crush him.
Although Ancestral God King realized the terror of the Dao Realm, the Grand Emperor's Dao Realm was different from Kai Huang's. The Grand Emperor's cultivation relied on external things, reaching this level through the worship of the Creator ancestors.
Kai Huang's Dao Realm, on the other hand, was a step-by-step elevation of the self, deepening his understanding and enlightenment of the Dao, creating his own path, and finally forging the Sword Dao Dao Fruit.
It could be said that the Grand Emperor had crippled himself through his cultivation.
Yet Ancestral God King was also formidable. He quickly stabilized his stance, thinking that as long as he could withstand this blow, Lang Xuan Divine Emperor could hold off the Grand Emperor, and then the outcome would be uncertain!
Just then, the mother beast pounced, passing through Ancestral God King's body. The giant beast instantly turned from virtual to real, its massive body swelling Ancestral God King continuously.
Ancestral God King inflated like a balloon, growing taller and fatter, soon becoming a giant god ten thousand miles high, still expanding, a terrifying sight.
The mother beast frantically devoured his blood and qi within him, intending to refine all his blood and qi and completely consume this Heavenly Venerable!
"Hahaha!"
Ancestral God King's face twisted, but he laughed wildly: "The Heavenly Lord has his limitations, but as his son, inheriting the bloodline of the Heavenly Lord, the Du Ling Body is omnipotent! I don't have all those restrictions and rules of his—"
His body suddenly transformed. A moment ago, he was a sacred and solemn divine king, but now he seemed to turn into a demon king committing all evils in the Netherworld!
Within him, it seemed to transform into the Netherworld world—gloomy, terrifying, with the eerie and unpredictable power of the Netherworld bursting forth. Great Daos like soul-hooking chains tightly bound the Void Mother Beast!
The chains pierced through the mother beast's body, hooking its soul!
Ancestral God King actually planned to refine the mother beast in return!
"Damn it!"
The Grand Emperor's heart sank: "I might have kicked a hard rock! The true abilities of the Ten Heavenly Venerables are all deeply hidden! But if he uses all his strength to refine the mother beast, he won't be able to block my Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven! This strike will be enough to kill him!"
He didn't want to reveal Qiang Tianfei's identity, so he once again used the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven, ready to send Ancestral God King on his way. However, Lang Xuan Divine Emperor attacked from behind, striking with a Divine Essence Finger that pierced through the back of his head and shot out from his forehead!
Ding.
A crisp sound rang out. The Grand Emperor's Primordial Chaos Origin Stone on his brow exploded, shattering into pieces that flew in all directions.
Lang Xuan Divine Emperor was overjoyed. Ignoring the rescue of Ancestral God King, who was about to fall into the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven, he quickly flew to grab the fragments of the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone.
Because the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone had shattered, the Grand Emperor's Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven also suffered a significant loss of power. Ancestral God King's head had already entered the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven, his skull beginning to crack, his skin peeling off like paper, his face soon a bloody mess, revealing white bones.
The power of the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven was truly formidable. Even though the Grand Emperor couldn't exert his full strength at this moment, the Heavenly Venerable's physical body couldn't withstand it.
Qin Mu, high up in the twenty-ninth layer of the void, immediately surged his Yuan Qi, activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Art, and raced down from the void. His divine abilities flowed freely as he stepped on the Ark of the Other Shore, turning into streaks of light as he passed through layers of void, intending to seize the flying Primordial Chaos Origin Stone.
At the same time, in the Chaos Sea, the elderly Tai Yi said calmly, "Two fellow Daoists, you'll soon see an anomaly occur."
Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua were already watching with great excitement. Hearing that there was more to come, they asked in confusion, "Daoist brother, what other anomaly could there be?"
The elderly Tai Yi did not speak.
Lang Xuan Divine Emperor shook his sleeve, about to gather all the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone fragments into it, when suddenly a purple light blazed forth, the Purple Mansion and Azure Sky descending, as if the heavenly court had suddenly collapsed.
"Yun Heavenly Venerable—" Lang Xuan Divine Emperor's heart jolted, his voice hoarse as he cried out.
He had already been struck, spitting blood as he lunged forward. Pieces of the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone flew past him.
He turned around in midair, but what he saw was not Yun Heavenly Venerable, but Xiao Heavenly Venerable, smiling broadly as he reached out to grab the scattered fragments of the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone.
Xiao Heavenly Venerable had just gathered all the fragments in his hand when his expression changed drastically the next moment. The hand holding the fragments was severed at the wrist, falling from the air.
What had cut off his hand was a hairpin, extremely sharp, its contained power clearly belonging to the Guixu Great Dao!
In the distance, Yan Tianfei retrieved her hairpin, tucking it back into her bun. She raised her hand and shook it, causing the Four Directions Cauldron that had suppressed the Tai Shi vein to soar into the sky. Four light curtains swept down with a whoosh, trapping Xiao Heavenly Venerable!
A lotus flower appeared beneath Xiao Heavenly Venerable's feet. He stomped heavily, and the lotus fell into the Four Directions Cauldron, the lotus and the cauldron descending together.
Below them was the Chaos Sea!
Beneath the lotus and the cauldron was Xiao Heavenly Venerable's right hand, still clutching the Primordial Chaos Origin Stone tightly!
The earth around the Chaos Sea suddenly churned, and massive roots shot up like thousands of tentacles, crisscrossing and intertwining, reaching for Xiao Heavenly Venerable's right hand.
This series of changes left the people hiding in the Chaos Sea dumbfounded, mouths agape, unable to speak.
At the same time, Qin Mu was still on his way by boat. Mu Heavenly Venerable stood at the bow, his face dark, muttering, "Woke up early, but arrived late for the gathering. Bad luck!"