Chapter 1267 — The Rulers of Old
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
This was his shortcut, one that others could only envy. His fleshly body slept, but his primordial spirit kept its eyes open, watching with that spirit the battle between the Great Emperor and Hao Heavenly Venerable, studying the divine arts of these two supreme beings—neglecting neither.
Bai Yuqiong looked from one to the other, her sandalwood-scented little mouth agape, unable to speak. After a moment she gave a faint, plaintive sigh.
"It took me nearly two hundred lifetimes of experience to win my present standing, while Mu Heavenly Venerable and Brother Lan were born with their talent and cleverness. One deduces through arts and divine abilities; the other enters the Way outright.
Compare one person with another.
. .
" She shook her head.
She too could hear much of the wonder of the great Way in the qin's melody, but to comprehend it thoroughly would take her an unknowable span of time.
By comparison, her wisdom and methods fell short of Shen Mu's, and in natural endowment she stood a hundred thousand li behind Yu Heavenly Venerable. "Diligence makes up for dullness! " Watching those little Shen Mus in his dreams, toiling away like so many little bees, she gave a stifled snort.
"But I am not as diligent as they are either. .
.
What if I awakened the soul of the Southern Emperor?
What if I became the Southern Emperor. . .
" She suddenly shuddered and hastily wiped away that dreadful thought.
In the distance, Hao Heavenly Venerable had also driven the might of the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable to its utmost. This colossal divine artifact, like the Great Emperor, seemed to house an ancient deity in every one of its apertures, commanding the myriad Ways beneath the heavens, its battle power surging to the sky. Yet compared with the Great Emperor, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable was still a notch inferior.
In fleshly body, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable could not match the Great Emperor.
Its body had been engendered through the Way of Creation; even with the great Way's empowerment, the Great Emperor had the great Way's empowerment as well, and moreover had been sacrificed to and refined day and night by the Creators of prehistoric times. In vital qi, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable's vital qi far surpassed the Great Emperor's. But the Great Emperor's cultivation lay in consciousness, and his consciousness had grown so mighty that it could brand the Ultimate Void itself!
If measured by vital qi, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable had never reached such a step either. Under the Great Emperor's assault, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable retreated again and again, its skin split and flesh torn, the patterns of the great Way upon its body shattered, the light of the ancient gods' Way in one aperture after another within it winking out.
The divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable was a giant that could destroy heaven and earth and suppress all worlds, yet before the Great Emperor he was like a little brother, fit only to take a beating.
Just then, heavenly palaces suddenly leaped forth behind Hao Heavenly Venerable, and at the same time heavenly palaces leaped forth behind the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable as well, sending their dharma power soaring! Two Heavenly Courts emerged, each of a different structure.
Different combinations of heavenly palaces could transform into different Great Heavenly Court arts, and different Great Heavenly Court arts possessed different powers. With the two Heavenly Courts manifest, the might of their divine abilities and arts shot up in a straight line!
Hao Heavenly Venerable had been enduring all along, like a venomous snake fixed upon its prey, waiting for the moment to strike a single killing blow. And now at last he need endure no longer, and unleashed his true skill outright!