Chapter 1590 — Only When the Coffin Is Sealed Comes the Verdict

"Father is worthy indeed of being Father.

But you have already lost to me twice, Father.

You are old, and you will lose a third time! " Xiao Tianzun smiled faintly.

Shen Mu's heart grew wary. He glanced at the two of them and thought, "Both of them are old foxes, hiding their capital so well. But I am no worse off — I too have two great reserves of capital!

" He quietly looked at Kaihuang, a question in his eyes, and Kaihuang nodded silently. Kaihuang was his first great reserve.

So long as Ling Tianzun's Unchanging Divine Art sent them back to the time when Kaihuang achieved the Dao, the Great Luo Heaven of the Sword Dao that Kaihuang had imprinted in the Ultimate Void would be able to sense this place. By then, when the two Great Luo Heavens collided, Kaihuang's Dao Tree and Dao Flower would arrive together, and his cultivation and strength would surely surge!

Ling Tianzun was Shen Mu's second great reserve.

Ling Tianzun, after forty thousand years of cultivation, ought to have made up for the shortcomings in her cultivation; and with her forty thousand years of bitter study of the Hongmeng runes and the Miluo Palace dao patterns, she would surely become the decisive factor in this battle! Moreover, if Kaihuang could sense his own Great Luo Heaven of the Sword Dao, that meant they had already reached the time when they entered the Heavenly River — which likewise meant that Ling Tianzun, forty thousand years later, was almost here!

"This time it is not only our struggle against the Great Emperor, but also our struggle against Hao Tianzun and Xiao Tianzun!

" Shen Mu's heart was somewhat anxious.

Just how great a boon had the Third and Fourth Young Masters of the Miluo Palace given Xiao Tianzun and Hao Tianzun? Could Kaihuang and Ling Tianzun truly win this battle?

Could he save Yun Tianzun?

Everything depended on the outcome of this battle!

On the Golden Ship of Salvation, another figure stirred, and the Great Emperor showed a look of suspicion; but he could not make out who that figure was, and so paid it no mind. "It is time this ended.

" The Great Emperor stood with his hands clasped behind his back, the crown of his head torn open, his brains steaming. He cast a faint glance at the four, then another at the Goddess Taisu, who was still clanging the Tai Bell, and said leisurely, "Forty thousand years have slipped by without my noticing, and the four of you have actually accompanied me for forty thousand years.

The things that happened in those forty thousand years leave me sighing without end.

" Hearing this, the four likewise sighed without end. In those forty thousand years, the Kaihuang Era had risen, fallen, and fled into the Land of No Sorrow.

The Ten Tianzun had seized the reins of government, taken complete control of the Heavenly Court's power, fabricated a false fleshly body of the Great Emperor, and used the Great Emperor to command the lords.

For forty thousand years things had been rather quiet for them — until Shen Mu burst upon the world.

From his escape from the Great Emperor's fleshly body, to the slaying of the Great Emperor's fleshly body and its reduction to ashes. From Kaihuang's emergence from the Land of No Sorrow, to Kaihuang's sword cleaving the false fleshly body of the Great Emperor, splitting the Heavenly Court, and the Ancestral Court revealing itself.

From Shen Mu's creation of the spirit-energy translocation bridges, to the myriad heavens and worlds being joined by those bridges.

From the unification of the Heavenly Court's myriad worlds, to the Heavenly Court's migration to the Ancestral Court. From the alliance of the Ten Tianzun, of one breath and one branch, to the alliance's collapse. From the fall of Hong Tianzun, to the death of Qiang Tianfei, to Yuanmu and the Empress merging and going mad. From Taiyi's appearance, to the successive emergence of Taisu and Taiji.

From the appearance of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, to the Ten Tianzun's visit to the Miluo Palace.

Behind all of it there seemed to be a vast black hand quietly pushing things along; yet Xiao Tianzun and Hao Tianzun had lived through it all, and knew that the black hand behind everything was in fact Shen Mu himself. Shen Mu, whether by intent or by accident, had steered the changes of these hundred-odd years, driving the whole situation of the universe to where it now stood.

This was a cataclysm unseen in a million years, a cataclysm unseen since the birth of this universe — and all of it had arisen because of Shen Mu!

"And now, everything can be settled once the coffin is sealed!

" The Great Emperor gave a long whistle.

Behind him, countless branches of the Dao Tree rose howling, standing straight up in the sky; the Dao Fruit blazed with light, and dao sounds rumbled and shook!

The Great Emperor took one step forward, and the full power of the entire Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness erupted, crushing down upon them all!

At the same moment, behind Xiao Tianzun a great hall floated up into the air — the phantom of the Lingxiao Hall of the Ancestral Court.

This Lingxiao Hall differed from the Lingxiao Halls of others: the hall revolved, and upon it emerged countless dense, intricate dao patterns, complex beyond measure!

His cultivation and dharma power advanced by leaps and bounds, surging all at once to a peak he had never before been able to reach!

In that same instant, behind Hao Tianzun rose a Ten-Thousand-Dao Heaven Wheel, and upon that enormous wheel likewise emerged all manner of intricate patterns, while at the wheel's center stood a Zixiao Hall of the Ancestral Court, radiating a heaven-flooding dao might!

In that single instant the power of the two shot straight upward — in power, they even surpassed Kaihuang's sword dao! At the very moment the two unleashed their respective reserves, in the Ultimate Void a Great Luo Heaven of the Sword Dao thrust in from the side and collided with a thunderous boom against the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness!

The two Great Luo Heavens merged, and the Dao Tree of the Sword Dao appeared behind Kaihuang; upon that Dao Tree of the Sword Dao a single Dao Flower bloomed, and Kaihuang's aura surged mightily!

On the other side, at the source of the Surging River, Ling Tianzun raised her head and saw the sky split open, layer upon layer of void emerging, revealing the supreme Ultimate Void.

She saw the Great Luo Heaven.

"Ling, is that you?

" At that moment, a trembling voice came from behind her.

Ling Tianzun turned back and saw Yue Tianzun, so agitated that he was trembling, walking toward her, his face full of disbelief. Ling Tianzun smiled.