Chapter 1314: Unstoppable

“The Void Beast has condensed its body to such a small size, making it far more powerful than the Void Beast I first encountered when I entered the Ancestral Court!”

Qin Mu watched the Void Beast leap out of the void, his heart slightly shaken. Emperor Tai’s move this time was likely intended to end the lives of one or two Celestials, clearing obstacles for his future rule over heaven and earth! For the current Ten Celestials, the Ancient Gods were still their biggest enemies. But for Emperor Tai, the Ancient Gods were not a concern; the Ten Celestials were the greatest enemies! As a ruler from the primordial era, he had many means to deal with ancient gods like Heavenly Duke and Earth Count, but he wasn’t confident in dealing with the Ten Celestials.

The current strength and influence of the Ten Celestials far surpassed those of the Ancient Gods. The reason they remained inactive was that forcefully eliminating the Ancient Gods would incur significant casualties for themselves. The Ten Celestials were united in appearance but not in heart; no one wanted to be the one to suffer losses.

Whoosh—

The moment the Void Beast leaped out of the void, its figure vanished, like a transparent glaze moving across the sky. Its body passed through the divine arts of three Celestial-level beings, directly appearing behind Ancestral God King. Ancestral God King was in the middle of a powerful attack against Emperor Tai when he suddenly became alert. His cape flared out behind him, swirling into a Xuantu world.

As the Void Beast passed through his Xuantu world, he immediately detected its precise location. His Xuantu world was forged by the Heavenly Dao, infused with various other Great Daos, similar to a domain. Even Heavenly Duke would have to praise his rebellious son’s power upon seeing it. Sensing the Void Beast, his primordial spirit instantly erupted. A Heavenly Court dramatically leaped out, his primordial spirit standing in the Hall of Azure Heavens within the Heavenly Court, stamping down with a backhand seal!

At this moment, Emperor Tai suddenly burst into laughter, shaking off his previous decline. He forcefully withstood an attack from God Emperor Lang Xuan and swiftly moved in front of Ancestral God King. The Heavenly Dao Treasure in Ancestral God King’s hand transformed into a Heavenly Spear and slammed down. Emperor Tai did not dodge or evade; he met the blow head-on with 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 transformed into a stream of light, absorbed by his primordial spirit into the Heavenly Court. His physical body and primordial spirit merged, becoming one. At the same time, his supreme Heavenly Dao Treasure flew back, clanging apart into forty-nine Heavenly Dao Treasures, guarding the Heavenly Court and simultaneously enduring the attacks from both the Void Beast and Emperor Tai.

Boom—

The Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven came crashing down from the sky, colliding with the forty-nine Heavenly Dao Treasures. This was a strike imbued with Emperor Tai’s divine sense Dao fruit; even Celestial Venerable Hao would have his primordial spirit trapped if he encountered this attack! The forty-nine Heavenly Dao Treasures were scattered and shattered, fragments flying everywhere. Ancestral God King’s eyes, ears, nose, and mouth simultaneously spurted blood, revealing a look of astonishment. His physical body and primordial spirit trembled violently at the same time, almost separating.

Emperor Tai’s Dao fruit strike was incredibly powerful, instantly inflicting heavy damage upon him!

“Dao Realm, is this the ultimate Dao Realm that Founding Emperor spoke of?”

He had previously looked down on the Dao Realm system created by Founding Emperor, believing that Founding Emperor had gone astray and taken a narrow path. However, Emperor Tai’s Dao fruit strike revealed the power and terrifying nature of the Dao Realm system to him.

The Divine Treasure Heavenly Palace system progressed step by step; each advancement was traceable, and the increase in cultivation strength from each realm’s promotion was predictable and trackable. However, the terrifying aspect of the Dao Realm lay in its difficulty in the early stages, where cultivation strength might not even surpass that of the Heavenly Palace system, and it took a long time. But in the later stages, each advancement brought immense benefits. At the peak of the Dao Realm, cultivating a Dao fruit made one as formidable as Emperor Tai.

Furthermore, the current Emperor Tai was not the complete Emperor Tai! The present Emperor Tai possessed only a physical body and divine sense, without a primordial spirit! Even so, he was already powerful enough to utterly crush Ancestral God King.

Although Ancestral God King realized the terror of the Dao Realm, Emperor Tai’s Dao Realm was still different from Founding Emperor’s. Emperor Tai’s cultivation relied on external objects, reaching his current stage through the sacrifices of the Creator’s ancient people. In contrast, Founding Emperor’s Dao Realm involved gradually improving himself, enhancing his comprehension and understanding of the Dao, creating his own Dao, and ultimately refining the Dao fruit of the sword. One could say that Emperor Tai had crippled himself through his cultivation method.

Ancestral God King, however, was also formidable. He immediately stabilized his stance, knowing that if he could just withstand this attack, God Emperor Lang Xuan could keep Emperor Tai occupied. Then, it would be uncertain who would emerge victorious! Just then, the Void Beast attacked, passing through Ancestral God King’s body. The colossal beast instantly materialized from its ethereal state, its massive body causing Ancestral God King to continuously swell.

Ancestral God King rapidly grew taller and fatter as if being inflated, quickly transforming into a gigantic god tens of thousands of miles tall, and still continuously expanding, appearing incredibly frightening. Inside him, the Void Beast frantically devoured his vital energy, intending to refine all his qi and blood and completely consume this Celestial.

“Hahahaha!”

Ancestral God King’s face was twisted, but he laughed maniacally: “Heavenly Duke has his limits, but as his son, inheriting the Heavenly Duke’s bloodline and possessing the Dutian Spirit Body, I am omnipotent! I am free from his restrictive rules—” His body suddenly changed. A moment ago, he was a sacred and solemn God King, but now he seemed to transform into an evil Demon King from Youdu!

His body seemed to transform into the Youdu world, sinister and terrifying. The eerie and unpredictable power of Youdu burst forth, and Great Daos, like soul-reaping chains, tightly bound the Void Beast! The chains passed through the Void Beast’s body, ensnaring its soul! Ancestral God King, astonishingly, intended to refine the Void Beast instead!

“Oh no!”

Emperor Tai was startled, thinking: “I might have kicked a hard rock! The true abilities of each of the Ten Celestials are deeply hidden! However, if he uses all his strength to refine the Void Beast, he won’t be able to block my Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven! This strike will be enough to take his life!” He did not want to expose Consort Qiang Tian’s identity, so he once again unleashed Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven, preparing to finish off Ancestral God King. However, God Emperor Lang Xuan attacked from behind him with a single Divine Essence Finger, which pierced through the back of Emperor Tai’s head and exited from his forehead!

A sharp crack echoed as the Primordial Stone on Emperor Tai’s forehead instantly exploded, shattering into fragments that scattered in all directions. God Emperor Lang Xuan was overjoyed. Disregarding the imminent fate of Ancestral God King, who was about to fall into the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven, he swiftly flew to snatch the fragments of the Primordial Stone. Due to the explosion of the Primordial Stone, the power of Emperor Tai’s Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven was also greatly diminished. Ancestral God King’s head had already fallen into the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven; his skull began to crack, and his skin flew off like paper fragments, breaking apart. His face quickly became a bloody mess, revealing ghastly white bones.

The power of the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven was truly immense; even with Emperor Tai unable to unleash his full might at this moment, a Celestial’s physical body could not withstand it. Qin Mu, positioned high in the twenty-ninth void, immediately surged his vital energy, activated the Hegemon Body Three Elixir Art, and sped down from the void. He unleashed divine arts, his feet on the Divine Ark of the Other Shore, transforming into streaks of phantom light as he swept through layers of void, intending to snatch the flying Primordial Stone.

At the same time, in the Sea of Chaos, the elderly Grand Beginning calmly said, “Fellow Daoists, an anomaly will soon occur.” Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua were already watching with excitement. Hearing that more anomalies were coming, they couldn’t help but wonder, “Brother Dao, what other anomalies could there be?” The elderly Grand Beginning did not speak.

God Emperor Lang Xuan flicked his sleeve, about to gather all the Primordial Stones into it, when suddenly, a brilliant purple light burst forth, like purple clouds falling from the sky, as if the Heavenly Court had suddenly collapsed.

“Celestial Venerable Yun—” God Emperor Lang Xuan cried out in a hoarse voice, his heart startled. He had already been hit, spitting blood as he stumbled forward, while fragments of the Primordial Stone flew past him. He turned around in the air, but what he saw was not Celestial Venerable Yun, but Celestial Venerable Xiao, extending a hand with a smile, reaching for the scattered Primordial Stone fragments.

Just as Celestial Venerable Xiao grabbed all the Primordial Stone fragments, his expression drastically changed the next moment. The hand holding the stones suddenly severed at the wrist, and the palm fell from the sky. What had cut off his hand was a hairpin, incredibly sharp and containing the terrifying power of the Great Dao of the Return to the Ruins!

From a distance, Consort Yan Tian retracted her hairpin, tucking it into her hair bun. With a raise and shake of her hand, the Four-Direction Cauldron, which had been suppressing the Grand Beginning ore vein, shot skyward. Four light screens instantly swept out, engulfing Celestial Venerable Xiao! Suddenly, a lotus flower appeared beneath Celestial Venerable Xiao’s feet. He heavily stomped on it, and the lotus plunged into the Four-Direction Cauldron. The lotus and the cauldron fell downwards together.

And below lay the Sea of Chaos! Below the lotus and the cauldron was Celestial Venerable Xiao’s right hand, still clutching the Primordial Stone tightly! The ground around the Sea of Chaos suddenly surged, and incredibly thick roots shot skyward, like thousands of tentacles, bustling and intertwining, wrapping themselves around Celestial Venerable Xiao’s right hand.

This series of rapid changes left everyone hiding in the Sea of Chaos wide-eyed and speechless, their mouths agape.

At the same time, Qin Mu was still on his way by boat. Celestial Venerable Mu stood at the bow, his expression grim: “Woke up early only to miss the market! What bad luck!”