Chapter 1589 — The End of the Road
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"Still—there seemed to be someone else aboard Mu Tianzun's golden ship!"
Yun Tianzun was startled. A moment ago he had caught an inadvertent glimpse of a figure stirring on the golden ship besides Shen Mu, though he had not made out who it was.
But now Shen Mu had already sailed off to join the siege of the Great Emperor, and there was no time to ask; he could only stifle the question in his heart.
"Perhaps Mu Tianzun truly has the means to defeat the Great Emperor and set me free." For the first time, a feeling of hope rose in his heart.
He had been trapped here far too long, and the Great Emperor was far too powerful.
Kaihuang, Xiao Tianzun, Hao Tianzun and the Goddess Taisu were locked in a melee with the Great Emperor. Within a few short exchanges the four were once more covered in wounds; Taisu's companion supreme treasure was crushed again and again, yet each time it gathered itself anew.
Xiao Tianzun too found himself in peril time and again. The Great Emperor's thoughts dwelt on him ceaselessly, obsessed with obtaining him, devouring and refining him.
Against so powerful an opponent, even he stood on the brink of ruin.
Suddenly the Great Emperor flicked his fingers in rapid succession, sending Kaihuang's oncoming sword light recoiling backward; he threw his body sideways in a charge that snapped Hao Tianzun's bones and tendons, and with a single roar blasted the Goddess Taisu away!
Taisu, still in midair, was shattered to pieces by the impact of his sound waves!
He raised his palm, and beneath it the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness froze Xiao Tianzun in place!
Xiao Tianzun felt as though he had sunk into mire. He saw Kaihuang's sword light falling like rain outside, swifter by countless times than in ordinary days; Hao Tianzun's speed had grown faster as well, and the attacks of both the Goddess Taisu and the Great Emperor had become impossibly quick!
He looked up and saw the Great Emperor's palm like the blue sky, towering and boundless, pressing him down beneath the heavens.
His heart sank. He knew he had fallen into the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain at the center of the Great Emperor's palm, and that within that domain he was as small as an ant.
The Great Emperor's Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain was overbearingly tyrannical. This domain bore the words "supreme" for a reason—it was the highest, the unsurpassed. In the years of the Great Emperor's full glory, when his primordial spirit and his fleshly body still remained, it was by this Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain that he had galloped and thundered across the ancient age!
Within his Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, everyone felt the passage of time slow to an unbearable crawl while time outside flowed with extreme swiftness—one slow, one fast—so that every movement, every attack, every divine art of one's own became utterly laughable.
The Great Emperor, meanwhile, could seize the moment to strike and slay a powerful foe outright, while the enemy trapped in the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain had no time at all to mount any resistance.
Earlier, the reason the Great Emperor had not dared to employ the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain was that Ling Tianzun was present. Now Ling Tianzun had departed, and he had no scruples left at all!
Xiao Tianzun saw the Great Emperor's finger descend. That finger leapt and danced at inconceivable speed, every strike exquisitely precise.
In former days Xiao Tianzun could have blocked it, could have broken the move apart; but now, though he desperately roused his own mana and strained to move his body, his body had no time to react!
"The Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain is nothing but a domain. I am a being who attained the Dao through force—with my power running through it, there is no domain I cannot break open!"