Chapter 1494 — A Standoff Between Two Venerables
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Above the Ancestral Court, the Heavenly Court pressed down upon the Ancestral Court's fortune. Not long had passed since the battle of Xuandu ended: Celestial Venerable Hong was dead, Celestial Venerable Xiao had been exiled, and only Celestial Venerable Xu was left to stand guard over the Heavenly Court. Yet Celestial Venerable Xu had not remained inside it.
She had stood the whole while upon the surface of the Heavenly Sea, gazing down at the water, which was like a mirror, mirroring the fighting in Xuandu. Only when the battle of Xuandu had finally settled did she shift her gaze away and return to the Heavenly Court. Before she even arrived, she heard an uproar within, and saw the countless heavenly soldiers and generals who guarded the place searching and questioning in every direction.
Celestial Venerable Xu went up to ask, and a divine official reported in a fluster, "Grave news!
The Heavenly Court has been robbed. Thieves have come! " "What is missing? " Celestial Venerable Xu demanded at once.
"Someone broke into Jade Capital City and went into the inner palace to steal treasures!
" At that, Celestial Venerable Xu's heart tightened.
"Can it be that Celestial Venerable Mu has come to steal the Heavenly Duke's eggshell? " The divine official went on: ".
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They stole a divine hall! We were on patrol just now when we found that Pixiang Hall had vanished into thin air! " When Celestial Venerable Xu heard that it was not Shen Mu come to steal the Heavenly Duke's eggshell, she let out a breath of relief. But the news that Pixiang Hall had been stolen made her heart clench again. She thought, "Pixiang Hall stolen! Pixiang Hall is said to be the place where the souls of many remarkable gods and devils are suppressed. Celestial Venerable Hao and the others are close-mouthed as the grave about that hall; they never so much as mentioned to me what is imprisoned inside, only asked me to help add seals. Celestial Venerable Huo even used that hall to take away the Southern Emperor's souls, so that Celestial Venerable Mu could not revive the Southern Emperor, and broke his reputation as the Great Master of the Undying Ten Thousand Kalpas. Could Celestial Venerable Mu be the thief?
" Then doubt crept in again. Shen Mu had taken part in the battle of Xuandu; however swift he might be, he could not have raced to the Heavenly Court so soon to steal treasures.
What was more, had Shen Mu come to thieve, he would surely have gone to the altar of the Heavenly Duke Taichu's birth and made off with Taichu's eggshell. Yet this thief had left the Heavenly Duke's eggshell untouched and stolen Pixiang Hall instead, which was most peculiar.
She did not know that between Xuandu and the Yuan Realm there ran a shortcut, the Tianyin Realm. Through the Tianyin Realm one could speed from Xuandu back to the Yuan Realm, and from the Yuan Realm's Spirit-Energy Translocation Bridge set out and reach the Heavenly Court of the Ancestral Court in the shortest possible time.
Pixiang Hall had little to do with her, so Celestial Venerable Xu was not greatly alarmed. She ordered the Divine Constabulary to search rigorously, saying, "Pixiang Hall is immense. It vanished in an instant and you noticed at once, so the thief cannot have had time to leave; he must be hiding in the Heavenly Court by way of the Dao of transformation. So long as he has not left the Heavenly Court, there is no fearing his escape.
I have the Soul-Summoning Mirror here. However he transforms, one look from my mirror will force him back into his true form! " Armed with the Soul-Summoning Mirror, the Divine Constabulary searched and questioned everywhere. Celestial Venerable Xu settled in to keep watch, thinking, "They stay behind in Xuandu carving up the spoils, and I get no share of it. . . Yes.
Thieves have come to the Heavenly Court and stolen Pixiang Hall.