Chapter 899 — The Dharma Lord Eternal Through Ten Thousand Kalpas

(There was a bug in the previous chapter — the Heavenly Emperor's soul ought to have been suppressed within the Emperor's Coffin; I misremembered, and it has been corrected. The plot from here on follows the revised version.

) Though those eight Heavenly Emperors were all born of Mother Earth, each belonged to a different race. One demigod emperor was conceived when the Primordial Sovereign of Mother Earth resonated with the ancestral dragon vein of the Yuan Realm continent; she bore a son with a dragon's head and a human body, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Longxi.

Another was conceived when the Primordial Sovereign resonated with the qi of the sky; she bore a daughter with a phoenix's head, a human body, and a pair of wings, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Fengyou.

Another was conceived when the Primordial Sovereign resonated with the Heavenly River; she bore a son with a turtle's back and a human body, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Heluo.

Another was conceived when Mother Earth resonated with Mount Sumeru, the mightiest peak of the Yuan Realm; she bore a son whose body was like a boulder, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Jiamo.

Another was conceived when she resonated with Youdu; she bore a son with an ox's head, a human body, and three eyes, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Yebo.

Another was conceived when she resonated with Xuandu; she bore a daughter whose whole body was snow-white, whose eyes had no pupils but shone with white light, honored as the Heavenly Emperor Xuannü.

The Heavenly Emperor Yuanjun was born when Mother Earth resonated with Guixu; his body was black, its surface patterned with whorls.

Only Mother Earth's eldest daughter, the Heavenly Emperor Meiying, was transformed from a fruit of the earthly dao she bore, which fell away and took form upon landing.

Apart from these Heavenly Emperors and the corpse of the one Feng Qiuyun had brought into the Ghost Ship, the others had died out in the world, their souls scattered; there were even rumors that several Heavenly Emperors had been picked up by others and refined into treasures. These Heavenly Emperors were mighty by nature.

Though born of Mother Earth, because the heaven-and-earth qi she resonated with differed in each case, their appearances were vastly different, and each was born with divine abilities of his or her own. Their divine abilities were bound to Mother Earth and to the heaven-and-earth qi she resonated with, but they had no blood relation to the Lord of Heaven or the Earth Lord.

The age of the Heavenly Emperors was a wild age.

These Heavenly Emperors cultivated to incomparable strength; when they soared into the sky to confront the Celestial Venerable Yu, the heavenly palaces streaming behind the eight Heavenly Emperors were battered and torn, yet utterly unrestrained. Their mighty bodies twisted space.

The Heavenly Emperor Xuannü reached out and seized the heavens floating in the sky, plucking sun, moon, and stars from them; her terrifying power delved into a sun, gouged out its star core, and forged it on the spot into a weapon, which she hurled at the Celestial Venerable Yu. Star after star was like a plaything in her hands. These were true stars; primordial magnetism and starlight burst forth, and the planets even burned.

The Heavenly Emperor Heluo severed a stretch of the Heavenly River outright and forged it into a weapon.

The immeasurably long Heavenly River was like the most gorgeous whip in the sky, and like the mightiest divine dragon. The Heavenly Emperor Yebo waved a hand, and countless demigods within a radius of hundreds of thousands of li exploded into flesh and blood; in one breath he swallowed all their blood qi into his belly, boosting his own battle power.

His blood qi lit up his two horns; the curved ox horns burned red, like two streams of the Yellow Springs of the Nine Hells descending from the sky, and where his ox hooves trod, a sea of the netherworld sprang forth. The Heavenly Emperor Jiamo was like a Buddha, standing there as though the center of heaven and earth.

His Buddha dharma surged; outwardly compassionate, yet filled with endless great wrath, like a great Buddha whose fury would destroy the world. The Heavenly Emperor Fengyou was clad in iridescent wings; as they fluttered, they became a radiance ten thousand li long, the sharpest blade and the hottest fire of the age of the Heavenly Emperors.

In that age, nothing could withstand its cut, and even ordinary Emperor Throne powerhouses could scarcely face its edge. The Heavenly Emperor Longxi was renowned for transformation; his body swelled until it was no smaller than the Celestial Venerable Yu's own, and a heaven materialized behind him, countless azure thunderbolts surging within it.

He made thunder his sword and brought down world-destroying thunder tribulation; a sea of thunder poured toward his palm and became the sharpest sword of the age of the Heavenly Emperors. Above the Heavenly Emperor Yuanjun's head appeared a vast whirlpool that devoured all things.

In the age of the Heavenly Emperors, he could shred any divine ability and any divine weapon of his foes. The Heavenly Emperor Meiying was like a little Primordial Sovereign of Mother Earth, commanding the most majestic power of the Yuan Realm's earth. Her bloodline was the most orthodox, and thus her understanding of primordial magnetism was the purest of all.

The eight Heavenly Emperors each unleashed their divine abilities; in an instant heaven collapsed and earth split, the sky was crushed by their powers, and one after another, space fractures ten thousand li long appeared, shocking to behold. The Celestial Venerable Yu laughed.

"Ants. " Primordial magnetic divine light burst from his whole body; his palm met the Heavenly Emperor Meiying, and the next moment, this Emperor Throne powerhouse — said to possess the mightiest physical strength of all — was crushed bodily by him, smashed from the sky to the ground, bones broken and sinews snapped, smashed down onto her knees.

The Heavenly Emperor Meiying was struggling to rise when a great foot stomped down, crushing her to nothing, not a trace left. The Celestial Venerable Yu's other palm met the Heavenly Emperor Yebo.

That was Youdu divine ability — Youdu ability against Youdu ability.

The Heavenly Emperor Yebo's Yellow Springs ox horns shattered, the underworld sea beneath his feet evaporated, and he was slapped flat against the earth by the Celestial Venerable Yu's palm, his body nearly disintegrating. "Not having obtained the Earth Lord's great dao runes, you escaped this tribulation. " The Celestial Venerable Yu laughed heartily and did not pursue the Heavenly Emperor Yebo; but in the instant he turned, his hair flew up, and thousands of strands, like the finest swords, flashed through the Heavenly Emperor Yebo's body as though meeting no obstruction at all.

The Heavenly Emperor Yebo stared blankly; in an instant his body and primal spirit were sliced into thousands of pieces, neat and even, each of precisely the same thickness.

"From this day forth, the Emperor Throne is no longer an invincible realm!

" The Celestial Venerable Yu's hair withdrew, and his palm met the Heavenly Emperor Longxi's world-destroying thunder tribulation sword.

The divine sword said to cut all things was severed by his palm; Longxi's head came off his neck and went spinning away, thick bolts of lightning crackling in all directions from his eyes.

The Celestial Venerable Yu's eyes blazed; his gaze shot straight into Yuanjun's divine ability, the great abyss of Guixu, pierced it through, and burst two bloody holes in Yuanjun's forehead. The Heavenly River lashed over, striking the Celestial Venerable Yu's body so hard that blood was drawn, and then coiled around him. But the next instant, the long whip into which the Heavenly River had transformed exploded, and the Heavenly Emperor Heluo's palm was blasted into a mangled mess of flesh and blood.