Chapter 1594 — Walking Into a Dead End

I am deeply ashamed. " Hao Tianzun was also relieved. Had Langxuan Divine Emperor truly refined Shen Mu to death with the Dao Fruit, then he would have had no choice but to move against Langxuan as well.

Gong Tianzun stepped forward. "I have a supreme secret realm of divine consciousness.

It can throw his Dao heart into disorder, draw him into the secret realm, make him lose himself and lose his cultivation—and he will simply die of it. " Hao Tianzun said with delight, "Fellow Daoist Gong, by all means make the attempt! " Gong Tianzun's divine consciousness erupted, transforming into layer upon layer of secret realms that poured into the Wheel of Myriad Daos.

Illusion after illusion unfolded, drawing Shen Mu within.

A long while later, Gong Tianzun's expression shifted slightly. She felt that Shen Mu's divine consciousness matched her illusory realms in attack and defense, and that her illusion arts could gain no advantage!

In the attainment of divine consciousness, Shen Mu had advanced by leaps and bounds, and was very nearly catching up to her! What was more, his methods were wondrous beyond compare, surpassing even the Grand Emperor's!

She did not know that this was the Dao-completing method Yun Tianzun had perfected after obtaining the Grand Emperor's Dao arts and divine powers, and passed on to Shen Mu—naturally far surpassing the Grand Emperor's own arts of divine consciousness!

Gong Tianzun held out another two days, but could not touch Shen Mu in the least; instead she had raised his divine consciousness by a whole grade.

Ashamed at heart, she too stepped back. Hao Tianzun looked around the assembly, and the many Heavenly Venerables had all run out of ideas.

The Seven Lords, the Four Ministers, the Three Preceptors, the Two Aides, and the Five Emperor Seats and Five Inner Emperor Seats—the whole host of the Heavenly Court's civil and military grandees—came forward one after another, bowing low: "We are willing to serve with the toil of horse and hound, and refine the Mu barbarian! " Hao Tianzun said warmly, "You are all Emperor Seat powerhouses, your Dao arts and divine powers surpassing others; perhaps one of you has the means.

" The Seven Lords, the Four Ministers, and the other powerhouses came forward.

They were the backbone of the Heavenly Court; over a million years the Heavenly Court had gathered the finest talents under heaven, and Emperor Seat powerhouses were not few. Power and position were granted them, and they were bound to the court. These twenty-six Emperor Seat powerhouses sat cross-legged on the ground around the Wheel of Myriad Daos, each sending his primordial spirit out of his body to stand in the heavenly palace, urging their Dao arts and divine powers into the wheel.

More than a month passed. The crowd was worn out and could not continue, yet Shen Mu remained as lively as a dragon in the Wheel of Myriad Daos.

Hao Tianzun frowned deeply. Gong Tianzun said, "Only if Yin Tianzi takes action can the thief Mu be destroyed. " The Ancestral God King clapped his hands and laughed.

"Yin Tianzi's peerless art of reincarnation is the very nemesis of the thief Mu! And now that we Ten Heavenly Venerables have lost several, perhaps Yin Tianzi might become Yin Tianzun!

" Huo Tianzun opposed it flatly, snorting coldly, "Yin Tianzi—what virtue, what ability has he? How could he sit in the same hall as us?

" "If he can rid us of the thief Mu, what harm is there in his sitting in the same hall as us?

" Hao Tianzun said carelessly, and sent men to the Origin Realm to summon Yin Tianzi. More than ten days later, Yin Tianzi hurried over from the front lines pursuing the Land of No Sorrow and paid his respects to them all.

Hao Tianzun said warmly, "Chao Jin, I and my fellow Daoists think highly of you. If you can refine Mu Tianzun to death, we will recommend you as Yin Tianzun!

" Yin Tianzi was startled and overjoyed. Huo Tianzun gave an angry snort.

Yin Tianzi went at once to the side of the Wheel of Myriad Daos and activated his art of reincarnation.

But no sooner had his art of reincarnation entered the Wheel of Myriad Daos, before it had even touched Shen Mu, than Yin Tianzi gave a sudden muffled groan and fell straight over backward, unconscious. The crowd rushed to save him, and only then dragged him back from Shen Mu's art of reincarnation.

They looked at one another.

The Taisu Goddess sneered. "A pack of good-for-nothings! If my supreme treasure were at its full strength, refining him would be a trifling matter!

Hao'er, hand this villain to me, and I will settle him for you!

" Hao Tianzun waved his hand, dismissing Yin Tianzi, and said, "Aunt, your divine powers are unmatched, but I fear even you can do nothing with him.

The safest way to destroy him is still to sink him in the river—sink him into the Long River of Chaos in the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, and watch him turn bit by bit into chaotic qi. Only then will I be at ease. " The Taisu Goddess said no more.

Her purpose had been to make contact with Shen Mu. She had once believed she could control Hao Tianzun, but after the battle in the Daluo Heaven of Divine Consciousness, she had found that she could no longer control him; rather, it was she who was controlled by him, sinking deeper and deeper. Her purpose in making contact with Shen Mu was this: she remembered what "Taiyi" had said when last they met, and she wished to find a way out for herself. Hao Tianzun rose and stood at the edge of the Heavenly Court, looking down, the vast rivers and mountains of the Ancestral Court all taken in at a glance.

He gazed at the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court for a moment, then shook his head.

"Kaihuang Shen Ye—an old thief.

And now he waits for me in the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court! " The Heavenly Venerables all looked, and their expressions changed: in the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, sword light crisscrossed. That ancient, ancient divine city had been sealed by the joined hands of many Heavenly Venerables, but a seal could bar other men—it could not bar Kaihuang Shen Ye, who had already achieved the Dao!

Kaihuang Shen Ye plainly knew too that Hao Tianzun would very likely escort Shen Mu there and sink him in the river, and so he had come to the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court ahead of them! Hao Tianzun gave a cold laugh and said to the assembly, "That beast Shen Ye is a greater danger even than the thief Mu.

But in my eyes he is nothing to fear.

From my battle in the Daluo Heaven of Divine Consciousness, I have gained full confidence that I can achieve the Dao through force, and brand my Dao upon the Ultimate Void. Let him be!

I will rest and recover, then go to the Ultimate Void and complete my own Dao Tree! " Huo Tianzun said hesitantly, "Then the thief Mu. . .

? " Hao Tianzun thought for a moment.

"The thief Mu is hard to kill, but there is still a place in this world where he can be dealt with. Fellow Daoist Gong, take my Wheel of Myriad Daos to Guixu, and use the thief Mu to fill the Sea Eye. Borrow the great abyss of Guixu to grind him to death! That Sea Eye devours all things; even if he does not die, he will never escape it. " Gong Tianzun assented and took the Wheel of Myriad Daos.

Huo Tianzun said, "I will go with Fellow Daoist Gong.

" Hao Tianzun shook his head. "The villains of the Land of No Sorrow are hurrying to the Origin Realm, hoping to gain a foothold there. Brother Huo, you and yours go to the Origin Realm and block them. The Land of No Sorrow should be pacified as well.

And the matter of the Tubo of Youdu should be settled too.

This world has but one sovereign, and that sovereign can only be me.

" The Taisu Goddess's eyes shifted, and she smiled. "Hao'er, I will go with Gong Tianzun, lest something go wrong on the way. " Hao Tianzun said politely, "With Aunt going, Hao'er is at ease. I will trouble you, Aunt.