Chapter 1207 — The Primordial Qi of the Grand Beginning
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As their divine powers collided, Gao Huaitong felt as if he had been thrown into a vast, sweeping cataclysm. The divine power he had released became part of the other's collapsing heaven and earth, turning into fuel that swelled his opponent's technique. The First Ancestor's Heaven-Earth Heart-Sage Art was exactly such a martial art and divine power.
In that age, when he was young and weak, he could only harness the great might of heaven and earth's destruction to fight his enemies. Any attack from an enemy would become a part of his own strength. This art grew stronger in battle, fiercer with every exchange!
But Gao Huaitong was, after all, an existence at the Imperial Throne Realm.
Realizing what was happening, he changed his divine power without delay and let out a long roar. "Innate Primordial Qi!
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His divine power shifted drastically, giving the impression of ten thousand Daos merging into a single stream that drove straight in, leaving the First Ancestor nothing to borrow.
Shen Mu's expression flickered, and his gaze went to Yan Qiling. Yan Qiling had once executed a similar divine power—one that should have been derived from the Heavenly Emperor's own Dao. This Innate Primordial Qi gave Shen Mu the feeling that it was the Heavenly Emperor's genuine skill.
But how could the Heavenly Emperor have transmitted his genuine skill to Gao Huaitong and Yan Qiling? "What the Xiao Heavenly Venerate taught them must be a fragment," Shen Mu thought. "But even a fragment is not to be underestimated.
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He grew solemn.
If the Xiao Heavenly Venerate himself were to unleash the Innate Primordial Qi, the might.
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A chill of awe ran through his heart.
The Xiao Heavenly Venerate might very well be one of the most formidable among the Ten Heavenly Venerates! Gao Huaitong's divine power was overwhelmingly domineering, breaking the First Ancestor's technique in an instant.
At the same time, however, the First Ancestor's divine power changed—it no longer borrowed the might of heaven and earth's collapse.
Instead, it became a Dao heart like fire fed with boiling oil, a single spark setting the plain ablaze.
His Dao heart transformed, and his divine power transformed with it.
He excelled at hand seals, and had already entered the Dao during the Kaihuang Cataclysm twenty thousand years ago.
Now his attainment in the Dao was deeper.
Yet unlike the Dao-entering divine power he had comprehended in that great catastrophe, his present divine power revealed a spirit of bold enterprise and world-transforming ambition—something that smashed all obstacles, meeting Gao Huaitong head-on with sheer hardness. Gao Huaitong's divine power was like a long wind cleaving waves: one gust, ten thousand sprays, ten thousand crests. Its reach was immense, its might vast.
The First Ancestor's hand seals were more restrained, their effective range no more than a few inches, but when the power erupted, it was horrifying.
This was the style of the Kaihuang Era.
Divine powers of that era were always restrained—not seeking size, but seeking compactness, unleashing one's might to the extreme within the smallest space. Shen Mu watched with delight, his eyebrows dancing. He was rather curious about the First Ancestor's present strength.
He had not seen the First Ancestor for many years. Back then, the First Ancestor was already at the Jade Capital Realm.
Though his realm was not considered high in a place like the Heaven Court, his strength was very great. The fastest period of his cultivation and strength had been at the end of the Kaihuang Era, when he led countless races and the human race in flight, fleeing to Jingping.
In that time, he had leapt from an obscure prince to an expert of the God-Slaying Terrace Realm, establishing the Dao with his divine power.
His combat strength was fearsome, and he was honored as the Human Sovereign, with limitless prospects. For the following twenty thousand years, his cultivation had stagnated.