Chapter 1730 — Ten Steps to Slay a God
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After that would come the Lord of the Beast Realm, the Dragon Qilin, and finally the Void-Born Flower beneath the World Tree of the Ancestral Court!
What Shen Mu had to do was reach all these places in the shortest possible time and slay the Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall's ancient god avatars!
The Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall was a being who had achieved the Dao across four lifetimes: three lifetimes of Dao Fruit, one lifetime of Dao Flower. He cultivated both the Dao Realm system of the Miluo Palace and the system of achieving the Dao through force, attaining the Dao through four great paths.
His physical body was divided into thirty parts, transforming into thirty of the most powerful ancient gods, each comparable in strength to a top-tier Heavenly Venerable!
The techniques he had cultivated were surely beyond counting; the great paths he had walked were multifarious. The Dao arts and divine powers mastered by his thirty ancient god avatars would surely not repeat one another!
Neither Cloud Heavenly Venerable nor Lord Shang could hope to discern, in the shortest possible time, the great paths and divine powers each avatar commanded, and slay them.
The fastest being in this world was the ancient god Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, who held the Ancestral Ground of Dao Fire. But the Southern Emperor was no longer an ancient god, and the Ancestral Ground of Dao Fire had fallen into Jingping's grasp.
Moon Heavenly Venerable's Ultimate Void was not speed itself, but the folding of space, giving the illusion of supreme velocity.
Third in speed was the Lame Elder, whose speed had reached the point of ignoring space altogether.
Then came teleportation divine powers, and the spiritual energy resonance between different worlds.
And Shen Mu was the only being who combined the strengths of several schools—even the spiritual energy resonance had been pioneered by him and the Black Tiger God in his youth.
Therefore he was the only one who might possibly intercept and slay the Palace Master of the Lingguan Hall's thirty ancient god avatars. Even so, there was still a great chance the rescue would fail.
Cloud Heavenly Venerable looked toward the battlefields surrounding the Land of No Sorrow. Across those fields, there were several brief, urgent, and incomparably fierce fluctuations of divine power—eight in total!
Eight brief fluctuations of divine power might not stand out across the vast, boundless battlefield, but the shock they delivered to a Heavenly Venerable was unparalleled. Even those at the Emperor Throne level could not sense how terrifying the power hidden within those eight brief fluctuations was—but to a Heavenly Venerable, it was utterly horrifying!
Moon Heavenly Venerable, Lang Wan, You Heavenly Venerable, Taishi, and Lan Yutian all felt their hearts tremble. They roused themselves and peered into the battlefield. At the same moment, on the Heavenly Court's side, the two Taiji Ancient Gods, the Ancestral God King, Void Heavenly Venerable, Lady Yuanmu, and even Emperor Hao and Taichu could not help but change expression, all gazing toward the battlefield.
Emperor Hao even directly transformed into a woman, taken over by the Second Young Master, gazing from afar at the situation on the battlefield.
The eight divine power fluctuations came from different directions, belonging to seven war zones plus Taihuang Heaven, where Wen Tiange oversaw the overall battle. The intervals between the eight were very short—only a single breath's span!
Eight locations, eight breaths, and then the dust settled!
Cloud Heavenly Venerable gazed toward those eight locations from afar. Eight ancient gods of exceedingly strange appearance lay dead across the battlefield. The one before Wen Tiange had not yet fallen—its corpse was tilting, about to hit the ground.