Chapter 1078 — Old Tales of the Sovereign of Yore

Let me take a look first. .

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" "Don't look!

" Shen Mu, furious, dragged him and walked out.

Luo Xiao was startled and laughed: "Brother Mu, you are the fourth, yet you scold me as though scolding a son. Fine, I won't look.

Why so fierce? " Just then Dahong's voice came: "Heaven Emperor — heh heh — or perhaps I should call you Taichu. When I first dug you out together with the Taichu Origin Stone, I sensed within the egg an incomparably powerful life, a life more ancient than we Creators.

" Luo Xiao was stunned.

Suddenly he shivered several times in succession, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face. "I sensed your power, but your time of birth had not yet come.

If you had remained in the Taichu lode, sooner or later you would have drawn upon the lode's power and become incomparably strong. " Dahong continued, "At that time I even thought of being reborn through your body, but I restrained myself. Having obtained the Origin Stone, I was arrogant and conceited, believing I had no need to fear you at all. I would only grow stronger than you!

So I raised you as though you were my son, and to bring about your birth I even had my clansmen offer sacrifices to you.

" He chuckled: "A pity — I still underestimated you. " Gu Xiao said indifferently, "You had your clansmen sacrifice to me, pulling up the seedling to help it grow — with ill intent, wishing to use the power of those sacrifices to constrain me and cultivate me into your weapon. How could I fail to understand your mind? While I was gestating in the egg, I had already comprehended the various rules of the Great Way and drawn upon the power of the Great Way of heaven and earth; I was holy and enlightened from birth. But you took away the Origin Stone and cut short my growth, so I simply borrowed the power of the Creators to grow and draw sustenance. " Luo Xiao shuddered with dread and involuntarily quickened his steps, heading out of the mining region.

Gu Xiao went on, "Great Emperor, this time you have not come in your true body.

How much power can you have? You have merely been reborn and transformed into a lowly demon. Even if you know the history of the past, even if you see Gong Yun, what can you do?

" "Killing you is enough.

" Dahong said calmly, "Are you not also using a reincarnated body? You reincarnated as a human, and often used this fleshly body to meet Lady Yuanmu in secret, arranging for yourself the post of Heavenly Master of the Nanluo sect. This human body of yours — how much fighting strength can it have?

" Gu Xiao said coldly, "Then what are you still waiting for?

" Shen Mu immediately sensed two exceedingly terrifying throbbings coming from the lode, making one tremble, making one quail. In a fluster he shouted loudly, "I cannot die! If I die here, who the hell.

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" "Understood!

" Dahong's and Gu Xiao's voices came almost at the same time, the two of them roaring in anger.

Behind them, the two dreadful throbbings subsided somewhat. Shen Mu let out a breath of relief and hurriedly said, "Fat Dragon, Yan'er, get on the chariot!

Brother Luo, you too! " Everyone climbed onto the treasure chariot.

Long Qilin cracked the whip, and the Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot raced out of the lode. At the very moment the Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot burst out of the lode, an extraordinarily violent surge of divine arts came rushing from within.

Shen Mu looked back and saw Dahong's hands drawn out from his sleeves! What he drew from his sleeve was a great spear.

Strange to say, the spear was very long, yet his sleeve was barely a foot or so; when the spear came out it was already more than three zhang in length. This great spear was not neat and regular. Ordinary divine spears had perfectly straight shafts, but the shaft of his great spear was crooked and winding, like a dragon-vein.

The great spear was forged from the Ancestral Dragon dragon-vein of the Ancestral Court. Seized in his hand, thrust out in a single strike, it set off in the minds of everyone outside the lode an incomparably resounding dragon's roar!

And the file in Gu Xiao's hand changed as well. The file was shaped like a sword, yet covered densely with tiny dots; when the file revealed its true form, it had already become an Emperor Sword symbolizing the Heaven Emperor's pacification of the four quarters!

The tiny dots on both sides of the blade had also transformed into marks formed of bird-seal and worm script; both sides of the blade were covered with countless marks — those were the steel seals of the Great Way! When Gu Xiao had been filing his nails with that file, no one could have made out the sword's true form, and no one could have known that the neatly arrayed dots upon it were in fact the steel seals of the Great Way!

The steel seals on the sword numbered nearly two thousand kinds, representing the blessings of nearly two thousand Ancient Gods from before history upon the Heaven Emperor, their submission to this emperor of the Ancient Gods! The precious sword met the Ancestral Dragon divine spear.

Sword and spear collided, and in an instant the sound of the Way rang out, as though ten thousand ancient gods chanted in unison, lending the Great Way's blessing to their mightiest emperor!

The eight Ancient God skeletons bore the golden coffin upon their shoulders, and above the golden coffin, two dreadful figures clashed for the first time. The shockwave quickly reached Shen Mu and the others.

Yan'er flashed to the rear of the chariot, her primal spirit merging with her fleshly body, transforming into the Dragon Sparrow Holding Heaven stance to shield the treasure chariot.

Boom — she let out a stifled groan, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth; in an instant her fleshly body and primal spirit were riddled with a thousand wounds, and she was beaten back into her original form, becoming a plump girl. The dreadful shockwave pressed this three-to-five-hundred-catty plump girl flat against the rear of the treasure chariot, pushing her and the chariot forward together.

The six Heavenly Dragons strained with all their might to hold the chariot back, but they too were crushed by the dreadful force, retreating without cease. Because they exerted themselves too greatly, their hide split open from the straining of their great sinews, and dragon blood flowed freely. Shen Mu swept out his hand, and his teleportation art burst forth, forming a great ring behind the treasure chariot that shed off the aftershocks of Dahong's and Gu Xiao's divine arts — though his teleportation art shattered immediately after.

Shen Mu's fingers spun again and again, drawing one great circle after another; from within the circles countless teleportation runes flew out, forming one teleportation art after another, each shattering as the next took over, helping Yan'er withstand the aftershocks of the divine arts.

Luo Xiao at once commanded the void beast to block behind the treasure chariot, but it too was crushed and forced back without cease. At last, after the first wave of impact passed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking into the distance, they saw that the treasure chariot had been pushed out several hundred li. "Dahong is no match for Gu Xiao. " Shen Mu's sage pupils were unmatched; he immediately saw the scene within the lode.

Dahong was already wounded — compared with Gu Xiao he was still a little weaker, for this time he had come in a demon's fleshly body.

Though he was the first demon since the splitting of heaven and earth, facing Gu Xiao and the Emperor Sword with the Great Way's blessing, he had suffered a heavy loss on the very first exchange. Gu Xiao's sword could not be called a sword; it was a weapon of the Great Way.

When the sword moved, nearly two thousand phantom shades of Ancient Gods stood arrayed behind him, great and small, in ordered disorder, among them even the shades of such towering beings as Tubo, Tiangong, and Dimu!