Chapter 1686 — Jingping's World-Suppressing Artifact
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" Emperor Yiyue nodded in silence. Suddenly she caught sight of a familiar mighty vessel and exclaimed under her breath: "The Creation Artifact? " It was a divine artifact much like the Creation Artifact of the Zaofu Palace of the Celestial Court, though somewhat smaller — and vastly different. Five supports shaped like mountain ranges held eight round wheels at the center; those five supports looked like five mineral lodes, stamped all over with runic marks of every kind, a construction fundamentally different from the Creation Artifact of old.
"This Creation Artifact was improved by the Celestial Venerable Mu and the Celestial Venerable Ling," said Emperor Yanfeng.
"It can be used to forge the divine artifact known as the Imperial Celestial Venerable. Lan Yutian came here not long ago, and Dao Lord Lin Xuan has led a host of Daoists to measure and sketch him; they are most likely nearly done.
Kaihuang, pray look over there. " Emperor Yiyue flew after him and hurried to the spot. Another foundry, she saw, was building a giant vessel whose scale was in no way inferior to the Othershore Ark.
The marvel of this giant vessel lay in its power to split at any moment into countless ships and strike in separate directions.
The ships were like so many modules, ready at any time to be joined together into a single peerless giant. "This one was designed by the old Patriarch Wei Suifeng," said Emperor Yanfeng.
"It is the Heavenly River Pagoda, meant to counter the navy of the Heavenly River; five are to be built, and the first is already nearly complete. " A gleam stirred in Emperor Yiyue's eyes. "Lend two of them to my Wuyou Township," she said.
"Naturally," Emperor Yanfeng said with a laugh.
"This way, please. " Emperor Yiyue then saw row upon row of Vermilion Bird war-chariots, built to counter the Sun Warden of Xuandu; she saw that even the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, was present here, helping the foundries' master craftsmen design the chariots. Beyond these, she also saw Northern Emperor divine weapons in numbers.
Unlike the traditional Northern Emperor divine weapons — which housed the Five Great Cloud Thunders in a certain gourd of the ancestral court — the ones forged in Jingping's foundries were made from divine metals and divine ores, aided by runes, and cast into the shape of gourds. The same foundries were also forging Azure Dragon divine weapons, treasures shaped like pagodas, and White Tiger divine weapons, treasures shaped like war-horns. They came next to the Yongjiang Foundry, hard by the Tiansheng Academy and the Yongjiang Academy — a holy ground of formation arts and divine abilities.
The Yongjiang Foundry was building colossal formation diagrams.
"The diagrams were designed by the Divine Spear at the head of Jingping's formation masters," said Emperor Yanfeng. "Every diagram carries with it a skill of the Celestial Palace grade; if one's magical power is sufficient, one can unleash the might of an expert of the Imperial Throne.
" He went on: "Diagrams of this kind, however, require an army of gods and demons to enter the formation and pool their strength before their might can burst forth, so control of the formation is of the utmost importance.
The Divine Spear and Jingping's formation masters have already designed more than two hundred formation diagrams of the Celestial Palace grade.
What matters even more is that these two hundred-odd diagrams can be assembled into different Grand Celestial Courts.
" Emperor Yiyue let out a long breath and murmured: "If the armies of gods and demons were plentiful enough, could they reproduce the battle-power of a Celestial Venerable? " "So it is in theory," said Emperor Yanfeng, a shadow falling across his face. "But I fear Jingping's numbers of gods and demons are not enough to bring out the might of every diagram.