Chapter 1486 — The Brat Churns the River, Startling the Fish to Leap

The Nether Heavenly Venerable's Youdu heavens, by contrast, were comprehended directly from the sixty-four Daos of Youdu. From the very beginning, the Nether Heavenly Venerable had cultivated the Great Dao of Youdu; to revive his mother, he had studied it more bitterly and more earnestly than anyone alive.

Compared with Kai Huang, he had one enormous advantage: Kai Huang had conjured the sword dao out of nothing, which was incomparably difficult, whereas he had Tubo at his side — whatever he did not understand, he had only to ask Tubo.

And of course, if Tubo did not understand something, Tubo could come and ask him.

He had remained in Youdu for a million years, and in a million years his mastery of the Dao of Youdu had grown deep enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Tubo's. The only thing he lacked beside Tubo was a body as mighty as Tubo's.

Beside a primal god like Tubo, his own flesh was weak beyond all measure.

"So that is it. Kai Huang could disregard my illusory realm of divine consciousness because his dao heart is too strong — his dao heart and dao realm have already been cultivated to the thirty-fifth heaven."

Palace Heavenly Venerable gritted her teeth and did not retreat. She poured all her strength into the spear and still thrust it onward at the Nether Heavenly Venerable, thinking: "But even the Shepherd Heavenly Venerable could not escape my illusory realm of divine consciousness, while the Nether Heavenly Venerable did. That shows his dao heart stands above even the Shepherd Heavenly Venerable's..."

Yet clearly the Nether Heavenly Venerable was meeting the dao realm for the first time, and had not labored hard at it. Even now, this was the first time he had raised his own dao realm, and so the dao realm opened slowly.

After all, not many years had passed since Kai Huang disseminated the system of dao realm cultivation; even the ten Heavenly Venerables had attained no great mastery in it.

The Nether Heavenly Venerable was, in effect, comprehending the dao and raising his dao realm in the midst of battle, without any preparation beforehand — and this gave Palace Heavenly Venerable hope.

Hummm, hummm, hummm!

By the time Palace Heavenly Venerable's spear reached the Nether Heavenly Venerable, the worlds of Youdu behind his primordial spirit's head had multiplied to eighteen.

A great hand of the primordial spirit reached out and smote down upon her spear. Palace Heavenly Venerable gave a muffled grunt; the great spear in her hand was bent down, and her body was bent down with it!

Dharma power — the dharma power she was so proud of, the dharma power stored in her thirty-five heavenly palaces — was still inferior to the dharma power stored in that incomparably titanic primordial spirit of the Nether Heavenly Venerable.

Her legs buckled, and the horns of the Heavenly Court blared long, lifting her blood and qi once more!

Palace Heavenly Venerable straightened her body, and the great spear became a long whip. Swish, swish, swish — it coiled around the arm of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit, while she flew up with both feet, kicking at the head of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's true body!

Hummm—

Another wave of vibration came, and a nineteenth crease appeared on Palace Heavenly Venerable's face, like that of an old crone.

Her flesh was aging, her vitality draining away, and she could not help but start — yet her strength did not diminish in the least. Her legs were full of terrifying explosive power; so long as she kicked the Nether Heavenly Venerable's head, in a single instant she could burst his skull!

And at that moment, behind the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit, the nineteenth world of Youdu slowly opened.

The long whip was coiled about the primordial spirit's palm, and it gave a fierce shake. Palace Heavenly Venerable was flung out helplessly, then, with a whoosh, hauled back again!

There to meet her was the other arm of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit — a massive fist that smashed savagely into her body!

Boom!

A terrible tremor burst out in all directions. Snow-white blades of light formed a ring that swelled with furious speed, making every star in all Xuandu throb with a hum!

Palace Heavenly Venerable's form flew backward. She retracted the long whip, her two feet found purchase, and her body almost lay flat against the starry sky, leaving two rifts in space behind her.

She halted her backward flight. Blood spilled from the corner of her mouth as the long whip coiled, swish, swish, swish, around her right hand.

Her Heavenly Court sent forth an even more resonant blast of horns, lifting her blood and qi still higher. Palace Heavenly Venerable strode as if flying, like a raging tiger descending the mountain, pouncing viciously — her will to fight even fiercer!

Hummm—

Another tremor rushed at her face, and another crease appeared upon it, the twentieth.

And behind the head of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit, the twentieth world of Youdu slowly opened.

Palace Heavenly Venerable rushed before him, the long whip dancing like a dragon, thrusting and striking, and all manner of divine arts flew out from her fluttering sleeves, flew out from between her brows, and now and again the long whip itself flew out from her sleeve — impossible to guard against.

The Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit whirled its two hands and blocked every one of her attacks, so that she could not pierce the primordial spirit's defenses at all to strike his true body.

The Nether Heavenly Venerable had weaknesses, had flaws — but she could not seize that weakness, that flaw!

Hummm!

Hummm, hummm!

Twenty-three creases had already appeared on Palace Heavenly Venerable's face. Her flesh had begun to show age, and a head of glossy black hair had turned grizzled.

Yet the power of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit only grew fiercer and mightier, beating her until she vomited blood again and again.

Boom!

A fist smashed Palace Heavenly Venerable flat. She clambered up, swaying, and was smashed flat again by another fist.

Palace Heavenly Venerable rose once more, swaying, and the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit raised its fist again. Palace Heavenly Venerable's knees gave way, and she crumpled abruptly to the ground.

"I do not like speaking with you lot."

Beneath the feet of the titanic primordial spirit, the Nether Heavenly Venerable looked at her, as though he had returned to the frame of mind of that fish-blasting boy of old, and there was pride in his tone: "Because you are all very stupid."