Chapter 1462: Dao Heart Decay (Second Update!)
Fire Heavenly Venerate’s divine power was overwhelming. Having absorbed the power of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, his strength became unmatched, and his comprehension of Dao Fire soared to the twenty-fourth level of the Heavenly Dao realm!
With this strike, he was determined to burn Blue Yutian, Qin Mu, and Langwan Spirit King to ashes, ensuring their utter annihilation with no place to die!
He could not tolerate Qin Mu’s desecration, nor could he tolerate Langwan Spirit King using divine consciousness illusions to peel open his heart, exposing his ugly and sinful side nakedly before Blue Yutian.
Even more unbearable was Blue Yutian witnessing his betrayal with his own eyes, watching him kill the Imperial Heavenly Venerate within the illusion!
Killing these three would not make him taller or more majestic, nor would it bring him any benefit, but it would ease his conscience.
If Qin Mu died, Blue Yutian died, and Langwan Spirit King died, the world would never know his secrets, never know his inner self.
To him, baring his heart for others to see was an unbearable thing!
Just as his palm was about to crush the three beneath it, suddenly a series of heavenly palaces swayed behind Langwan Spirit King’s head. Divine consciousness erupted, and her immense power pierced through thirty-five layers of void with Qin Mu and the others!
Her divine ability burst forth, not aimed at Fire Heavenly Venerate, but striking forward!
The moment her divine consciousness surged ahead, Qin Mu’s physical form expanded wildly, his spirit embryo divine storage domain swelling outward. The Xuan Du soared into the sky, the You Du sank into the earth, the Four Extremes stood at the four directions, and the Yuan Du, the Ancestral Court, and the myriad heavens and realms all emerged!
In an instant, he transformed into his four-faced form, with every direction becoming his front.
His palm flattened, and Langwan Spirit King stood in his palm, enveloped by his divine storage domain.
As this domain spread out, Langwan Spirit King instantly faced Fire Heavenly Venerate. The divine ability she had launched forward immediately became an attack aimed at Fire Heavenly Venerate!
Fire Heavenly Venerate’s massive palm, layer after layer, tore through void after void, melting the emptiness with blazing Dao Fire. Yet reaching Qin Mu and the others in such a short time was no easy feat.
But Langwan’s divine ability arrived at his chest in an instant, burrowing into his body.
This ability was divine consciousness—formless and intangible. Combined with Langwan Spirit King attacking forward, her body blocking the technique, Fire Heavenly Venerate had no time to defend before the divine consciousness ability surged into him!
Seeing a divine ability from the front versus from the back were two completely different things. If Langwan Spirit King had faced Fire Heavenly Venerate directly and used her divine consciousness ability, all its mysteries would have been grasped by him in an instant.
Destroying Langwan’s ability would have been easy for Fire Heavenly Venerate.
But since Langwan’s ability was launched forward while she had her back to him, by the time he reacted, it had already reached his chest.
Divine consciousness erupted within Fire Heavenly Venerate. Langwan visualized the Four Extreme Heavenly Emperors—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—forming rapidly inside his body. The dragon roared, the tiger howled, the Vermilion Bird cried out, and the Black Tortoise and Flying Serpent began wreaking havoc from within!
Without Qin Mu’s divine storage domain, Langwan could not have achieved this. At best, she could have fled into the thirty-fifth layer of void, but Fire Heavenly Venerate’s immense power and overwhelming divine energy could have pursued her there and killed her.
With Qin Mu’s help, however, she gained wings, elevating her divine ability and Dao techniques to a whole new level!
From the moment he encountered Blue Yutian, Fire Heavenly Venerate’s Dao heart had been deeply shaken. Langwan Spirit King’s illusion had peeled away his heart, causing his Dao heart cultivation to plummet and his reactions to slow.
Boom—
A violent tremor erupted from within Fire Heavenly Venerate. The Vermilion Bird visualized by Langwan Spirit King was the first to tear through his chest, bringing forth seas of fire as it spread its wings and soared!
The Vermilion Bird cried out, devouring Dao Fire, its claws reaching out to strike at Fire Heavenly Venerate’s eyes.
Fire Heavenly Venerate’s back exploded, and the White Tiger’s head emerged from his back, roaring once before its claws tore through his spine.
At the same time, the Flying Serpent slithered out of his mouth, its thousand wings fluttering, wrapping around his neck in a flash, nearly decapitating him!
The Black Tortoise, immensely heavy, swelled in his belly, pressing down on his physical form!
A dragon’s roar rang out as the Azure Dragon burst through his skull and rose into the sky!
Langwan Spirit King’s divine consciousness creations were truly terrifying!
Of course, much of the credit for this went to Eternal Peace.
The Dao Ancestor, leading the Heavenly Court’s Dao Sect, had derived the great Dao of the Four Ancient Emperors from beginning to end using macro-mathematics, establishing the ancient god mathematical rune system. Meanwhile, Eternal Peace’s Dao Sect leader, Lin Xuan, along with Xu Shenghua and others, led Eternal Peace’s mathematical experts in re-deriving the ancient god great Dao runes using micro-mathematics. Thus, the great Dao rune system became perfect.
Even the Dao Ancestor had to study in Eternal Peace to refine his own Dao techniques and divine abilities.
Langwan Spirit King was more open-minded than other creators, including Palace Heavenly Venerate, because she had early exposure to the cultivation system of Carefree Village, including divine storage, heavenly palaces, and Dao techniques. She had also absorbed the results of the Opening Emperor’s reforms, integrating them into the creators’ divine consciousness cultivation system.
Now, all creators in the Other Shore Void cultivated the divine storage and heavenly palace system, converting divine consciousness abilities into rune-based great Dao techniques.
Her even greater openness was that she had embraced the results of Eternal Peace’s reforms earlier than the Ten Heavenly Venerates, adopting whatever benefited the creator race.
She had learned Eternal Peace’s great Dao rune system to enhance the power of her divine consciousness Dao techniques.
In the past, creators visualized by striving to depict their subjects as vividly as possible, without considering the perspective of the great Dao. But with Eternal Peace’s great Dao rune system, their divine ability power soared, growing stronger and stronger!
For an existence like Langwan Spirit King, her immense divine consciousness mastery allowed her to gather terrifying power in an instant and visualize the Four Ancient Emperors!
“I am no match for him.”
Langwan Spirit King’s strike succeeded, severely wounding Fire Heavenly Venerate, but her gaze was not on him. Instead, it fell on his massive hand, which was tearing through layers of void and hurtling toward them. She shook her head and said, “With this strike, we will all die.”
Fire Heavenly Venerate’s palm grew larger and larger, its power not diminishing but increasing under the control of his overwhelming divine energy!
His divine energy was inferior to Hong Heavenly Venerate’s, who could shatter thirty-five layers of void with a single strike and severely wound enemies there. Fire Heavenly Venerate was not far behind.
“We won’t die.”
Qin Mu moved his feet, activating the Other Shore Divine Boat Crossing. He soared through the void, shifting sideways. Fire Heavenly Venerate’s palm struck, causing the thirty-five layers of void to tremble violently, but the Other Shore Divine Boat carried the three of them, narrowly escaping from between his fingers.
Whoosh—
The Other Shore Divine Boat burst out of the thirty-fifth layer of void, appearing on the surface of the Heavenly Sea. In the distance, Fire Heavenly Venerate groaned, his halo of fire spinning behind his head, shredding the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger into nothing. He leaped into the sky, transforming into a streak of fire and fleeing into the distance.
“Why didn’t he kill us?” Blue Yutian watched Fire Heavenly Venerate disappear, puzzled.
“His Dao heart has decayed.”
Qin Mu’s eyes flickered. “Having missed his strike, he has lost confidence. Add to that his injuries, and he dares not risk getting hurt. He fears that if he is wounded, the other Heavenly Venerates will seize the chance to take his life.”
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