Chapter 1489 — The Azure Heaven Falls, Part One
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"In the early years of the Longhan era, Venerable You was a troubled youth—solitary, perverse, paying no heed to anyone, caring little for anything. The only thing that could stir him was seeing his mother. The reason he pioneered the Life and Death Divine Treasury was also to see his mother."
Consort Yan released her Heavenly Palace in full, assembling the Great Heavenly Court, and watched with frantic anxiety as Venerable You—his mortal body crumbling yet his momentum ever rising—and thought to herself: "The only thing that holds him back is also his mother. He lay dormant in Youdu for a million years, keeping his mother's soul company, never once coming to the mortal realm to stir up trouble. Because of that, he missed the Heavenly Court's power struggles, and the authority of the Ten Venerables held no share for him. If he were to lose that bond..."
She could not help but shudder several times. Glancing at Venerable Gong, who was gravely wounded, she thought: "When the time comes, a fellow Daoist must be sacrificed! After all, it wasn't I who damaged the mask—it was Venerable Gong..."
To die herself or to let a fellow Daoist die—for Consort Yan this had never been a question of choice.
Naturally, in Venerable Gong's heart this too was no question of choice.
She had barely finished the thought when suddenly Venerable You raised his head. Behind him, his spirit primordial yuan shen surged explosively, carrying the unique dark quality of Youdu, and layer upon layer of Youdu worlds rapidly expanded outward, encroaching upon Xuandu!
And beneath his feet, Youdu worlds piled one upon another, forming a vast Youdu Domain!
The Youdu Domain had actually begun to border upon the true Youdu!
The sight was utterly terrifying. When the Youdu Domain came into contact with the true Youdu, Consort Yan and Venerable Gong watched in horror as two long ox horns, nine times twisted and eighteen times bent, rose slowly from within Youdu.
Those two ox horns were immense beyond measure, like rivers formed from the magma beneath countless heavens and worlds, blazing fiercely, winding and meandering downward around the horns.
Yet the flow of those magma rivers was by no means slow—on the contrary, they poured and surged, like waterfalls crashing down from the highest heavens, roaring, thundering!
"Venerable You has called his family's elder here—the cheat... What on earth is the Heavenly Dao doing? To actually permit Youdu's invasion—truly unconscionable!" Consort Yan laughed in fury.
This battle could no longer be fought.
This was the most ancient invasion between worlds, and Venerable You was the bridge for that invasion.
By rights, the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao of Youdu stood in opposition, mutually restraining, mutually annihilating; the two worlds should never meet, never come into contact.
Even if Venerable You employed heaven-defying divine powers, these two worlds should never intersect.
Yet this impossible thing had been broken precisely because Xuandu had been invaded by the Ten Venerables.
In ordinary times, the Heavenly Dao would certainly resist Youdu's invasion. Even if Venerable You cultivated the Youdu Domain, it would be ground away by Xuandu's Heavenly Dao, utterly unable to unfold!
Moreover, an existence like Venerable You could never set foot in Xuandu at all—Xuandu's Heavenly Dao would treat him as an invader and eliminate him at the first instant.
But now, Xuandu's Heavenly Dao was entirely gathered within Lord Heaven's body, doing all in its power to protect Lord Heaven's life. There was simply no Heavenly Dao left to resist Youdu's invasion.
These various factors meant the Heavenly Dao no longer suppressed Venerable You's power, nor had any means to resist the Youdu Domain and Youdu's invasion.
This was a scene unprecedented since the opening of the cosmos and the formation of Xuandu and Youdu—yet now it appeared, and appeared as though perfectly natural, catching everyone utterly off guard!