Chapter 1358 — I Alone Win

" With a whoosh his body burst apart, countless peach blossoms and leaves and branches filling the sky, then those blossoms and branches and leaves were shattered in the music, while the divine consciousness of Divine Emperor Langxuan drove straight in, charging into Shen Mu's divine treasure domain! At the same time the forty-nine gods struck together, in an instant forming the Xuandu World to enclose Shen Mu's divine treasure domain within!

The music swelled, the ten thousand li of peach forest seemed to boil, within the music countless cross-sections of space wove and crossed, Heavenly Venerable Yue stroked the zither, every kind of tone bursting forth at the same moment, the five notes and twelve pitches, Gong and Shang and Jiao and Zhi and Yu, Huangzhong and Dalu and Taicu and Jiazhong, bursting together!

The Xuandu World formed by the gods shattered at once, god after god flew up, then were hewn to pieces within the music! Countless severed limbs filled the sky, and the voice of the Ancestral God King was heard howling in rage, "Heavenly Venerable Xiao, you bastard--" His broken Heavenly Way rose to the sky like seven-colored streams of light, rushed out of the peach forest, leapt among the stars in the sky, and swiftly vanished.

And the divine consciousness of Divine Emperor Langxuan charged into the divine treasure domain, heading straight for the brow of Heavenly Venerable Yue, yet charge as he might, what faced him was ever Shen Mu.

He drew nearer and nearer to Shen Mu, yet what met his consciousness was Shen Mu's palm.

Shen Mu spread his five fingers, and Tai Di's divine art emerged in his palm, the Great Luo supreme divine consciousness. Divine Emperor Langxuan's consciousness surged and broke through one Great Luo Heaven, but behind it lay a second Great Luo Heaven.

He pressed onward, breaking through one Great Luo Heaven after another, smashing through a hundred and more in succession, until at last Shen Mu seemed unprepared, yet at that moment he saw Shen Mu holding a hairpin between his fingers.

A peachwood hairpin.

The utterly ordinary hairpin that Heavenly Venerable Yue, lover of peach blossoms, had made for Heavenly Venerable Ling. "Langxuan, your divine consciousness can break Heavenly Venerable Yue's Way of Space, but Heavenly Venerable Ling's Immutable divine art can break your divine consciousness.

" Shen Mu shook the peachwood hairpin, and the divine consciousness of Divine Emperor Langxuan crumbled to earth and fell to pieces!

In the very instant his consciousness collapsed, he heard the cry of the Ancestral God King, and wondered in confusion, "Why did that fellow Heavenly Venerable Xiao never strike? " Shen Mu put away the hairpin, in that brief instant the Ancestral God King and Divine Emperor Langxuan had each suffered greatly, one losing his forty-nine gods to the blade, the other having his consciousness pared away.

They would not return here in a short time.

Now only one man remained.

Shen Mu looked into the peach forest, where Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu stood towering and still, leaning upon the Yuanmu without moving.

Heavenly Venerable Yue's music surged, string after string of light turned to strings of space leaping about him, yet all were blocked by the Yuanmu.

Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu's gaze was幽 deep, flames seeming to dance in his eyes as he watched Shen Mu and Heavenly Venerable Yue.

He seemed able to see through Shen Mu's divine treasure domain, seizing precisely upon the flaws of Shen Mu and Heavenly Venerable Yue.

"Heavenly Venerable Hao's dao wound is healed!

" The Alchemist's voice came, then again, "Heavenly Venerable Fire's dao wound is also erased! In a little longer the wounds left by Heavenly Venerable Xiao and Divine Emperor Langxuan will heal as well!

" Among Shen Mu's eighteen Celestial Palaces, the Creation God King within the Creation Celestial Palace at once acted, remaking Heavenly Venerable Yue's countenance.

Heavenly Venerable Yue's spirit rose greatly, she felt the dao wounds that bound her cultivation losing their power little by little, her cultivation and strength returning point by point to the peak!

And at that moment a footstep came from beyond the peach forest, drawing gradually near.

"The reason I have never struck is that I already command the whole game, holding the life and death of you three in my hand.

" From the darkness a figure passed through the tangled strings of light, as if without substance, those strings of space irresistible, yet cutting across his body without harming him in the least.

He was like a mass of qi, qi without flesh!

"I do not speak from arrogance, it is simply that the Yuanmu is in my hand.

" That figure drew nearer and nearer, his voice growing ever clearer, "Earth Mother Yuanjun is an incompetent, but her flesh is the supreme treasure born of the heaven and earth of the Ancestral Court, only she herself never knew how to use it.

The roots of this Yuanmu are sunk in Yuandu, its feelers spread through the depths of the earth, its branches and leaves uphold the heavens in the sky.

Thus even if your ten thousand li of peach forest joins all the heavens, to me it is of no use, easily broken.

" At the word 'break', the Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu gripping the Yuanmu suddenly roared and urged forth the might of the Yuanmu!

Heavenly Venerable Yue's face changed faintly, then she felt the ten thousand li of peach forest that joined all the heavens and myriad worlds crumbling and dissolving without cease, tract after tract of peach forest turning to powder, the peach forest she had toiled more than forty thousand years to build destroyed in a single day!

With the forest ruined, the roots of the Yuanmu like tentacle after tentacle snuffed out one lantern after another.

Back then when Heavenly Venerable Hao invaded the Yuan World, the newly revived Earth Mother Yuanjun went to bar him, and because Heavenly Venerable Xiao stood by, Heavenly Venerable Hao wished neither to be hurt nor to reveal his true strength, and so after grievously wounding Earth Mother Yuanjun he departed on his own.

But Earth Mother Yuanjun was slain by Heavenly Venerable Xiao, roots and Yuanmu together falling into his hands, and the Yuan World falling under his control.

Heavenly Venerable Xiao became the great winner, planting the Yuanmu, building Celestial Palaces, leaving behind Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu.

At that time even Shen Mu fell into his reckoning, summoning his soul for him, yet unable to stop the eruption of the Jingping Calamity, in the end forced to cast off his identity as the divine son of Youdu, to dig out his third eye, and become a man without a soul.

Heavenly Venerable Xiao was from first to last the great winner, save for that once when, transformed as Chuxiao, he was assassinated at his wedding by Heavenly Venerable Yun and Heavenly Venerable Hao and Heavenly Venerable Yue and the others.

Having done all this, Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu stood towering and still once more. And at that moment that figure walked to the front of Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu, beside that giant his body was not tall, Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu was a colossus, while he looked but of ordinary human height.

That figure was none other than Heavenly Venerable Xiao.

He was clear-browed and bright-eyed, neat and fresh, and his hands were whole, plainly he had indeed cultivated the Creation Profound Art as improved by Jingping, able to restore his flesh.

"Heavenly Venerable Xiao's sword wound is already removed! " The Alchemist's voice came, joy in his voice. Heavenly Venerable Xiao raised a brow lightly, looked toward the Alchemist wearing the bronze mask, and smiled, "So it is Jingping's Jade-Faced Langjun, the Medicine King God, when you lectured in Jingping I once went to listen. " The Alchemist's face changed greatly, his heart silently crying woe.