Chapter 1269 — The Shattering of the Void
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At that very moment, Bai Yuqiong saw another heavenly palace suddenly spring forth behind Hao Heavenly Venerable!
Before he had held twenty-eight heavenly palaces, and now their number had swelled to twenty-nine!
Nor was that all, for the palaces of the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable had also gained one, likewise reaching twenty-nine!
Although Shen Mu had long foreseen such an outcome, he had not expected the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable to gain one as well, which could only mean that Hao Heavenly Venerable commanded two kinds of Great Heavenly Court technique! For the other Heavenly Venerables to comprehend even one had already cost them grievous time and labor, yet he had comprehended two, one for himself and one for his Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable!
"For Kaihuang to lose at his hands was no injustice.
For Tai Di to lose was no injustice either.
" With the appearance of this palace, Tai Di at once felt the pressure.
An additional palace might seem a mere increase in number, but for a cultivation technique the advancement was immense.
To cultivate an Imperial Throne technique was already hard, impossible unless one was a practitioner of surpassing talent, yet to cultivate two or three Imperial Throne techniques was harder still, well-nigh ten or dozens of times harder than a single one! And to fuse two or three Imperial Throne techniques raised the difficulty far higher again.
Cultivation was one thing, fusion quite another, and the difficulties of the two could not be spoken of in the same breath.
To fuse eighteen Imperial Throne techniques was to form a Great Heavenly Court technique, and Shen Mu had already come to the very edge of such a technique.
Once arrived at that stage, to fuse even one more Imperial Throne technique became several or even dozens of times harder than before!
It was an exponential ascent, and after fusing more than twenty Imperial Throne techniques, the hardest part was in truth no longer finding a new Imperial Throne technique, but discovering how the new technique could be woven into the whole.
The Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court had each spent hundreds of thousands of years, exhausting boundless spirit and wisdom, to walk to their present step. The toil and sweat they had paid was beyond what others could imagine.
That was also why they would not accept reform.
To accept reform meant that all the bitter effort they had once expended would be cast to the winds, that they must begin anew and deduce and evolve their Great Heavenly Court techniques all over again.
Suddenly Bai Yuqiong saw yet another heavenly palace leap out behind Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable, so that the courts of Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable now each numbered fully thirty palaces!
The composition of these two courts was not identical, for apart from the kinds of palaces not wholly matching, their arrangements also differed.
Hao Heavenly Venerable's court took the Innate Heavenly Palace as its sovereign, with the other palaces subordinate to it, forming one great courtly system in which the innate primordial qi marshaled all the rest. The court of the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable took the Guixu Heavenly Palace as its sovereign, yet the other palaces did not so much cling to Guixu as Guixu enslaved and devoured the strength of the other palaces!
"Hao Heavenly Venerable is truly blessed by heaven.
" Bai Yuqiong could not help but sigh in admiration, for in all the present world only Hao Heavenly Venerable could have achieved this step, and none of the other Heavenly Venerables possessed his endowment.
Only he bore in his veins the blood of Celestial Emperor Taichu and Lady Yuanmu, while the Innate Heavenly Palace and the Guixu Heavenly Palace were so singular that they could suppress and marshal all other palaces.