Chapter 1199 — Two Dreams Linked
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Shen Mu crossed the Nether Sea and walked into the Ninth Divine City of Fengdu, coming to stand beneath the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital and lifting his head to survey this colossal thing.
This Nether Capital Heavenly Gate had been forged jointly by Yin Tianzi and Di Yiyue, and Di Yiyue possessed a Du Ling physique with the blood of the Heavenly Duke in her veins, making her one of the mightiest spirit bodies in the world today. The power of the Du Ling physique lay in this, that no matter what system of Dao techniques and divine arts such a spirit body studied, it could master them swiftly with scarcely any hindrance.
Yin Tianzi's Emperor's Throne treasure was precisely the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate, which he had begun refining since the mid-Longhan era, yet it had been shattered several times and he had never brought the work to completion.
By the Kaihuang era Yin Tianzi had cultivated to the perfected state of the Imperial Throne realm, and knowing that he had reached his utter limit and could hardly advance further, he began striving to press toward the techniques of the Heavenly Court.
Yet after all he was not one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables, and when he tried to take the Youdu Great Dao he himself cultivated as foundation and cultivate the techniques of other systems upon it, he met with immense difficulty. When he sought to fuse the other techniques he cultivated with his own original techniques, he suffered frustration again and again.
And when he sought to complete the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate and borrow it to fuse the other techniques, he likewise failed time and again. It was just then that Di Yiyue rose to fame, gradually winning great renown among the heavens.
At that time the Kaihuang Heavenly Court was upheld by the ancient gods, who wished to raise the Kaihuang era to an exceedingly powerful state and push Kaihuang forth to stand against the Ten Heavenly Venerables.
Therefore the Kaihuang Heavenly Court stood on excellent terms with the Heavenly Duke and Earth Count and with the Four Emperors of the ancient gods.
Kaihuang sent Di Yiyue to the Four Emperors of the ancient gods to cultivate, making her take the Four Emperors as masters, and it was then that Di Yiyue's power was revealed without reserve.
Di Yiyue at that time learned the Dao arts and divine powers of the Four Emperors with ease, mastered them through and through, and cultivated the four Heavenly Palaces in one stroke, shaking the world.
Nor was that all, for she also fused the techniques of other Imperial Thrones and vied with Kaihuang himself, contending for the imperial throne, and though she was defeated, Kaihuang prized her all the more for it, and it was a fair tale for a time.
It was then that Yin Tianzi made contact with Di Yiyue and asked her counsel on how to refine the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate, and with one exchange leading to another, added to Yin Tianzi's handsome looks and his deliberate courting, the two fell in love.
Di Yiyue was forceful by nature, yet toward Yin Tianzi she gave her whole heart, aiding him in fusing Imperial Throne techniques and aiding him in refining the Nether Capital Heavenly Gate, holding nothing back, it may be said.
When Di Yiyue meant to marry Yin Tianzi, it was also the end of the Kaihuang era, when the winds and clouds turned treacherous and Kaihuang secretly ordered Heavenly King Shakra, Li Youran, to build Worry-Free Village, in truth to forge the Worry-Free Sword and the Thirty-Three Heavens.