Chapter 1489 — The Azure Heaven Falls, Part One
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Not only that, but he also sensed that every time he was wounded by Lord Heaven's hand, his cultivation strength was being weakened. This weakening came from his own Dao heart—there was a massive Dao heart prison that locked down the ceiling of his cultivation. Every wound pressed that ceiling lower!
Though he still possessed earth-shaking power at this moment, the repeated weakening inevitably threw his Dao heart into greater chaos, made him more panicked.
The intense stabbing pain transmitted from his Dao heart further intensified his panic, intensified the pain.
Unconsciously, his body began to distort—first his face. What had been kindly and benevolent features now gradually grew savage and hideous!
Even Shi Qiluo and Emperor Langxuan could not help but feel a chill of dread at the sight.
"Lord Heaven must die!" Venerable Hong's hideous face roared at them.
Langxuan and Shi Qiluo both knitted their brows tightly. This was utterly different from the Venerable Hong of ordinary days—light and unruffled, elegant and unrestrained, the very image of a transcendent sage.
"Venerable Hong's Dao heart has utterly collapsed."
Shi Qiluo blinked, then promptly divided out a replica of the divine artifact Yukong Venerable, and said with a smile: "Venerable Hong, your strength is greater—you use this divine artifact!"
In ordinary times, Venerable Hong would certainly have refused, for he had already seen that Shi Qiluo had tampered with the divine artifact Yukong Venerable. But now he directly piloted it with vast and boundless mana!
Boom, boom, boom—
Behind the divine artifact Yukong Venerable's head, wheel after wheel of radiance spun and danced; Heavenly Palaces emerged one after another, forming a Great Heavenly Court!
The aura of this divine artifact was savage and violent. Its cultivation strength and power grew almost explosively, its combat might leaping again and again!
The magnitude of the enhancement, the intensity of the rise in strength, gave even Emperor Langxuan a feeling of his primordial spirit trembling!
Shi Qiluo, meanwhile, was exultant, overjoyed beyond measure. Now, at last, he could capture the operational trajectory of Venerable Hong's cultivation method!
Among the Venerables, he was the weakest apart from Shen Mu—because his cultivation time was short, and he was the master of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace, a relatively low position with few resources, so his own strength could never match the Ten Venerables'.
He could only take a different path: peering into other Venerables' cultivation methods through the divine artifact Yukong Venerable. So long as other Venerables piloted the divine artifact Yukong Venerable, he could seize the opportunity to spy on their methods.
At present, he had already obtained the cultivation methods of Venerable Hao, Consort Qiang, and Venerable Fire. Venerable Hao, Qiang, and Fire each had their special strengths, and thoroughly mastering their methods to transform them into his own Great Heavenly Court cultivation method was no easy task.
But for Shi Qiluo, using others' methods—the more the better.
He immediately sensed the operational pathways of Venerable Hong's cultivation method, and was both delighted and astonished.
"This takes the Heavenly Dao dharma gate as its theme, fusing various other Imperial Throne cultivation methods, among which are also the achievements of the Kaihuang Reform era—various acquired Great Daos, even Kaihuang's sword Dao! Kaihuang's cultivation method is in there too. Though it isn't comprehensive, it's still remarkable!"