Chapter 1590 — Only When the Coffin Is Sealed Comes the Verdict
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
— Only the Goddess Taisu had failed to board the ship, and having no domain, she stood alone outside it, ceaselessly shaking the Tai Bell in an attempt to disrupt the Great Emperor. Yet the Great Emperor paid her no heed at all.
The Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness quaked; the Great Emperor's Dao Tree swayed, and dazzling light burst from his Dao Fruit, quelling the residual force of every divine art!
Shen Mu, Kaihuang, and the rest roared, and in an instant all manner of divine arts came forth, striking at the Great Emperor. The Great Emperor, grand and sweeping, stood with his Dao Tree behind him; this time even he was forced to bring out every means at his disposal, driving even his Dao Tree and Dao Fruit, hurling blow after blow at the four of them! The five fought until their eyes ran red.
Shen Mu, with his Divine Treasury domain, served as the foundation that sustained them all: however grievously they were wounded, his Divine Treasury domain would heal them in an instant! Nor was that all.
Standing within his domain, no matter from which direction the Great Emperor's divine arts came, they would turn to face them head-on, so that they could respond at the first instant!
Yet even so, the four were again and again in peril!
The Great Emperor was simply too overbearing.
With his Dao Fruit driven, he could even freeze the combined domains of the four of them!
Shen Mu especially — the Great Emperor hated him to the bone and gave him special attention. Not only did he drive his Dao Fruit, sending its various dao patterns flying out to completely suppress Shen Mu's domain, he also drove his Dao Tree, whose branches and leaves whirled in profusion, leaf after leaf dancing amid the divine arts, drawing ever closer to Shen Mu. And the branches, like sharp arrows, now swift now slow, now long now short, now soft now hard, stabbed madly at Shen Mu!
Hao Tianzun, Xiao Tianzun, and Kaihuang, to protect Shen Mu, were wounded again and again — all to keep Shen Mu alive, so that Shen Mu might drive his Divine Treasury domain and keep them alive. Boom!
The Great Emperor landed on the prow of the golden ship, and the faces of the four aboard turned pale, a faint despair rising in their hearts. Had the Great Emperor not boarded the ship, they would still have had the strength for a battle; Shen Mu could drive the golden ship and use it as a heavy weapon to ram the Great Emperor, which would at least ease their peril.
But with the Great Emperor aboard, the golden ship lost the effect it should have had as a heavy weapon.
Aboard the golden ship, the atmosphere was one of panic; the eyes of the four were fixed tightly on the Great Emperor before them.
The Great Emperor's face was grim. Behind him, the Dao Tree waved its branches and roots, rising slowly from beneath the ship like a monster grown all over with tentacles. The Great Emperor's Dao Fruit grew brighter and brighter, holier and holier; the great dao within the Dao Fruit seemed to revive completely.
To this moment, the Dao Tree and Dao Fruit had not suffered the slightest damage!
The only thing damaged was the fleshly body of the Ancient God, the Great Emperor. The sight was enough to drive one to despair!
"Hao'er, isn't it time you brought out your full strength?
" Xiao Tianzun suddenly looked at Hao Tianzun and said mildly, "In the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, you nearly killed me — surely that was not the limit of your power.
" Hao Tianzun gave a cold snort and said mildly, "Father, and what of you? You entered the Lingxiao Hall of the Ancestral Court — surely that Young Master of the Lingxiao Hall did more than heal your wounds?
Things have come to this, and you still hide and hoard.
That is hardly the bearing of a Great Emperor; you have become a petty schemer.
" Xiao Tianzun's gaze locked tightly on Taiyi at the prow of the ship, and he laughed.
"Worthy indeed of being my good son.