Chapter 1502 — The Sage of the Celestial Palace Appears

That strike came with boundless grandeur. Since the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner had been reforged, this once foremost treasure under heaven was entering battle for the first time, and when its might erupted it truly shook heaven and earth!

Shen Mu's muscles swelled and leapt and throbbed, his mana and vital energy pouring madly into the Twenty-Eight Heavens and urging every mighty treasure to its utmost!

The might of the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner yielded nothing even to a Heavenly Venerable treasure, surpassing Lan Yutian's arrows just now by countlessfold!

Boom!

The Glazed Blue Heaven Banner swept across that wall, blasting the surface apart and hurling even that schoolmaster into the painting.

The painting, having lost its support, drifted in midair and suddenly swelled violently, and a fragment of the Great Luo Heaven flew out!

The Dao tree before Shen Mu's eyes at once grew incomparably towering, and though the blow landed upon it, it failed to harm that Dao tree in the slightest.

Beneath the ancient tree, the scholar looked up toward him.

The scholar rose and strode forward, his form faint and insubstantial, as if he possessed no true flesh at all.

Shen Mu started in alarm and hastily fell back, whirling the Blue Heaven Banner in his hands, drawing everyone into the Twenty-Eight Heavens as he sought to flee this place.

The scholar reached the edge of the Great Luo Heaven fragment and could step no farther, and Shen Mu had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a Dao fruit upon the ancient tree split open, and from it dropped a schoolmaster headfirst, who righted himself to head-up and feet-down as he freed himself from the fruit. Another Dao fruit split, and another schoolmaster walked out.

Upon the Dao tree, Dao flowers bloomed, and within them too was a schoolmaster!

The three schoolmasters each strode forth, leaving the Great Luo Heaven fragment and invading the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner.

Shen Mu retreated swiftly with the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner and shouted in a deep voice, "Gentlemen, the crisis is upon us, will you not yet awaken?

" His voice rumbled and reverberated back and forth through the Twenty-Eight Heavens of the Blue Heaven Banner, and the souls of the many ancient gods and Creators and the Southern Emperor Zhuque and the Ming Emperor and the others whom he had gathered into the Twenty-Eight Heavens awoke one by one, looking about in astonishment.

The Lame Elder and Lan Yutian also came to themselves, only to see the three schoolmasters killing their way through layer upon layer of heavens toward them. "Brother Mu!

" the Southern Emperor Zhuque cried in surprise at the sight of Shen Mu.

"Mu Qing!

" Yu Tianzun also saw Shen Mu and exclaimed.

The Ming Emperor, left with only his primordial spirit and no flesh, shouted loudly, "This place is uncanny beyond measure, gentlemen, follow me into battle!

" Worthy indeed of the emperor of the Chiming Era, he charged forward first to meet one schoolmaster, and though only a primordial spirit remained, his strength was by no means small, using primordial spirit as flesh and fighting wide open and headlong as if in close combat of the body! The Southern Emperor Zhuque gave a shrill cry and transformed into the Vermilion Bird, meeting another schoolmaster and unleashing every killing move!

On the other side, the Lame Elder and Lan Yutian sped forward, while the other Creator ancient gods surrounded the third schoolmaster and fought him in a ring, with the Lame Elder and Lan Yutian loosing cold arrows from the side.

Shen Mu mobilized the power of each mighty treasure within the Blue Heaven Banner, treasures reforged by the Blind Old Man and the Mute Artisan and matchlessly powerful, bombarding the three schoolmasters without cease. Chaos filled the Twenty-Eight Heavens, men constantly caught by the cane, and once struck they grew muddle-headed, fought no longer, but loudly chanted the scriptures.

The canes of the three schoolmasters seemed able to pierce all divine powers and Dao arts, each fall striking a man unerringly and leaving no escape.

And once hit, the Dao heart shattered and they obeyed the schoolmasters' command.

In the blink of an eye, many ancient gods and Creators fell victim, leaving only the Ming Emperor, the Southern Emperor, and Lan Yutian still holding on, while the Lame Elder, in mid-dash, was suddenly rapped on the head and went off chanting too.

Suddenly the Ming Emperor cried out, knocked to the ground by the cane, then the Southern Emperor was felled, and Lan Yutian unleashed his Dao-entry divine power, only to take a lash as he sought to repeat the move once his forms were spent.

When he awoke, he saw the Ming Emperor, the Lame Elder, and the others gathered together, the private school somehow restored around them, and themselves seated once more reading within it! "Strange!

" Lan Yutian thought with a secret start, glancing at his other self, only to see that Yu Tianzun also seated there reading, and his heart died within him. "My other self has been suppressed here for a million years without escape, it seems I cannot escape either.

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" Shen Mu darted away through the air, and with a thought summoned the divine bow flying to him, then turned, drew, and loosed, and with whistling shots sent the three schoolmasters flying.

The three at once pursued, attacking him from three different directions, and as Shen Mu could not outrun them, he urged forth his primordial embryo divine treasury domain, so that from whatever direction the three schoolmasters attacked, they struck only his front.

Three canes flew up and down, and Shen Mu tossed the divine bow aside while his primordial spirit rose slowly behind him to seize the bow and shoot, while he himself gripped the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner with both hands and fought the three schoolmasters!

The three schoolmasters darted up and down in ceaseless assault, until suddenly Shen Mu failed to guard and took a cane across the forehead. Shen Mu shook his head and smashed that schoolmaster flying with a blow, and with a bang the schoolmaster burst apart.

Crack, crack, two more cane blows landed on his head, and Shen Mu swung the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner crosswise, sweeping the other two schoolmasters flying, their bodies shattering in midair! Shen Mu breathed relief and planted the Blue Heaven Banner, only to see several more schoolmasters descending from the Great Luo Heaven fragment, and his heart chilled.

Yet the three schoolmasters did not attack him again, and one of them waved his sleeve and said, "You bear a lofty one's Dao tree leaf, we cannot do anything to you, enough, you may go.

" Shen Mu touched the willow leaf between his brows and relaxed.

"Luckily before this journey I had Yan'er drag Lan Yutian to shamelessly beg a leaf from Tai Yi, otherwise even I would have fallen here.

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. " The skill of these schoolmasters was uncannily strange, for once Shen Mu unfolded his primordial embryo divine treasury domain he was all but invincible, and unless crushed by vast mana none could break into his defensive circle.

Such a domain was more perfect even than the Ming Emperor's three heads and six arms, yet these schoolmasters had broken it with ease, and had their canes carried any great force Shen Mu's skull would long since have been shattered. The private school he had smashed was now restored as before, clear reading sounds drifting from within.

Shen Mu spat out a breath of foul air, leaned upon the Glazed Blue Heaven Banner, and walked toward the school again, saying in a deep voice, "Brother Dao, you are an existence who has attained the Dao, why make things hard for us worldly men? Can it be that beings of the last universe epoch are all bullies of the weak?