Chapter 1247: A New Generation Surpasses the Old One

The Innate Divine Palace is undoubtedly a grand celestial palace that surpasses even the Spirit Consciousness Divine Palace and the Reincarnation Divine Palace. The benefits it brings to Qin Mu will also exceed those from other divine palaces.

If this divine palace is successfully refined, the improvement to Qin Mu's cultivation and strength would be immeasurable!

However, the strumming of the Dao strings quickly ceased. Qin Mu, observing through this particular string, saw the lotus continent beneath Grand Emperor's feet suddenly shatter, pulverized by the shock!

Grand Emperor was finally completely freed!

Relying solely on his own strength, Grand Emperor would have found it difficult to completely break the restrictions left by Heavenly Venerate Ling and Heavenly Venerate Yun. However, Grand Emperor's first move was aimed at using the power of Heavenly Venerate Hao and the Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate to shatter the cage that imprisoned him!

Although he used borrowed strength to break the restrictions, he was also heavily wounded by Heavenly Venerate Hao, with blood at the corners of his mouth.

"Hahahaha!" Grand Emperor burst into hearty laughter, his legs and feet covered in broken roots. He sternly declared, "I’m finally out! Finally out! What nonsense about Heavenly Venerate Yun and Heavenly Venerate Ling? You schemed against me, but didn't you all die by my hand? And I, I've come back to life!"

The thick roots on his legs had broken off. These roots belonged to the sacred artifacts of various Creator tribes, which were spiritual roots found by the Creator race in the Ancestral Court and nurtured into sacred objects through countless ages of sacrifices.

Some of these sacred artifacts grew into sacrificial gods, while others retained their original form.

In the battle to eliminate Grand Emperor, the Creators in the Great Void almost exhausted their sacred artifacts, using them all to design traps. This allowed them to break through Grand Emperor's physical body, giving Heavenly Venerate Yun and Heavenly Venerate Ling their opportunity.

Now, however, the sacred artifacts that bound Grand Emperor's physical body were also dead.

Grand Emperor's wounds were rapidly healing, leaving no trace of injury.

His divine consciousness was powerful; through his divine consciousness visualization, even if his head were severed, he could easily visualize it back.

For an existence like him, his vital point was not his soul, not his primordial spirit, nor his physical body. His vital point was his divine consciousness; as long as it remained undying, he would not truly perish.

And he had already anchored his divine consciousness in the ultimate void, thus cutting off any possibility of his death.

The strongest physical body in history, as described by the Creators, could finally unleash its full power!

Grand Emperor roared with laughter, an immensely terrifying divine consciousness erupting from him. His divine consciousness was peerless in the world; even before he was fully freed, he could control the entire divine city and even Emperor-level beings like Shang Pingyin.

Although Shang Pingyin was easily controlled due to a flaw in his Dao heart, the ability to effortlessly control an Emperor-level being was still incredible.

However, Grand Emperor's divine consciousness was not merely about controlling others; it was about visualization!

"Heavenly Venerate Hao, let me show you what visualization truly is!"

Grand Emperor's long hair twisted into clumps, many strands tangled together, thick and wild, giving him a frenzied look. At this moment, not only did Heavenly Venerate Hao sense the fluctuations of the Dao contained within his divine consciousness, but even Qin Mu and others far away felt Grand Emperor's divine consciousness transforming into Dao!

Divine consciousness transforming into Dao was a realm Qin Mu had never encountered before!

Grand Emperor wasn't truly transforming his divine consciousness into the Great Dao; instead, he was using the characteristics of divine consciousness to visualize the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!

This already belonged to the level of Void Creation Dao!

"Grand Emperor's abilities truly originate from the same source as Heavenly Emperor Taichu's, both being derivatives of the Grand Beginning Great Dao! Innate One Qi and the Way of Divine Consciousness both belong to the Grand Beginning Great Dao!"

Within the light string, Qin Mu was exceptionally excited, listening to the music played by the surging divine abilities. He suddenly said, "Heavenly Master Bai, can we get a bit closer? Many of the Dao rhythms are too faint; it's hard to grasp them."

Bai Yuqiong hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "If we get any closer, I'm afraid we'll exceed the lantern's limit. At that point, I won't be able to protect you."

Lan Yutian pleaded, "Sister, please, just a little closer?"

Bai Yuqiong looked at the two, her heart softening. Biting her pearly teeth, she said, "Alright, then, a little closer. But not too close, or I won’t even have time to escape."

Qin Mu glanced at Lan Yutian, a hint of sadness rising in his heart. "I suppose I’m past my prime now; I can no longer pretend to be young and innocent. Sovereign Heavenly Venerate, however, can still keep up the act. This time, Bai Yuqiong only agreed to move the light string out of consideration for him…"

As a youth who came out of Disabled Elder Village and studied under the Apothecary, he once had immense appeal to girls. But that was in the past.

Now, people considered Heavenly Venerate Mu cunning and calculating, and even if he tried to look cute, girls wouldn’t believe him anymore.

Bai Yuqiong moved the lantern, and the light string moved forward as well. She said to the two, "Brother Lan, though I am Master Moon's disciple, I only learned her skills from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Master Moon pioneered the Way of Space, allowing her to go anywhere in the world, but I cannot do that. I really want to formally apprentice under her again, but I also have many hesitations…"

Lan Yutian blinked his large eyes and curiously asked, "What hesitations?"

Bai Yuqiong glanced back at Qin Mu, but said nothing.

Qin Mu, however, understood. Bai Yuqiong was worried that the friendship between Heavenly Venerate Moon and Southern Emperor Vermillion Bird would lead her to repeat the past, causing the Southern Emperor's divine soul within her to awaken.

Bai Yuqiong also had her own selfish concerns and considerations. She couldn't be blamed for that.

Bai Yuqiong sensed that the lantern was about to reach its limit, and the music had also become much clearer. She immediately stopped and said, "We cannot go any further… I've always been cautious by nature, yet meeting you two brothers has made me dare to take such enormous risks?"

She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Qin Mu watched the battle between Grand Emperor, Heavenly Venerate Hao, and the Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate from afar, while listening to the Dao rhythms emanating from the music. As he compared them with his own insights, his understanding of Innate One Qi deepened even further.

Grand Emperor's divine consciousness transformed into Dao. With a single thought of his divine consciousness, the Great Dao proliferated. Moreover, his Great Dao permeated his entire body, bringing his physical body to an incredibly terrifying state. Even Heavenly Venerate Hao, controlling the Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate, when facing Grand Emperor's iron fists, couldn't withstand the power unleashed by the Great Dao's eruption!

Boom— Terrifying fluctuations erupted, shaking the light string. At the center of the battle, every move of Grand Emperor was naturally imbued with the Great Dao. The Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate was forced to retreat repeatedly under his pressure.

His physique was formidable, like the most ancient ore veins and the hardest mountains in the Ancestral Court from the primordial era, forging a body of iron fists and bronze bones.

With one punch, the Great Dao resonated, power concentrated in his fist. As he struck, Dao might erupted, causing the Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate's flesh to explode and forcing him to stagger backward.

Qin Mu finally understood why the Creators called Grand Emperor the strongest physical body in history. Such strength could overturn heaven and earth; no one could rival him!

However, he could also tell that Grand Emperor in the primordial era certainly wasn't this powerful.

The main reason Grand Emperor became so strong was that he had lived until now under the guise of Consort Qiang, absorbing the Dao arts and divine abilities of the past million years.

Most crucially, Dao Ancestor had charted the Great Dao runes of all ancient gods!

Grand Emperor's divine consciousness, combined with the Great Dao runes of all ancient gods, had once again brought about an astonishing increase in his physical combat power and divine consciousness combat power!

"In other words," Qin Mu thought to himself, "Consort Qiang had already made contact with Grand Emperor's physical body and passed on her cultivation insights from over the years to him."

Heavenly Venerate Hao used the Divine Weapon Sovereign Heavenly Venerate to directly confront Grand Emperor, while his true body dared not directly clash with Grand Emperor. Instead, he chose to circle around, using divine abilities to bombard Grand Emperor's physical body.

However, for Grand Emperor, it was merely scratching an itch through a boot.

The Great Dao around Grand Emperor furiously condensed, actually solidifying into the Dao around his body. The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth within his various bodily apertures transformed into Great Dao Ancient Gods with physical forms!

From Xuandu to Youdu, from the East Pole to the West Pole, from the Primordial Realm to the Return to Ruins, ancient gods stood tall within his hundred apertures!

Even at his glabella, the Great Dao formed the appearance of an ancient god Heavenly Emperor!