Chapter 1085 — Three Tianzuns Rob the Treasure Hall by Night

Just then, the lantern-light ahead blazed bright, countless threads of light shot wildly in every direction, and in a single breath every palace lantern in the Zhaoyang Hall was stirred into action. Hundreds of millions of threads of light flooded the place, until there was almost nowhere left to hide!

Whether it was Hao Tianzun or Yun Tianzun who had touched off the lanterns sealing the treasures, a chain reaction had begun, and in that flash all three who had entered the hall were cast into peril! Shen Mu shrank violently, turning into a mote of dust, darting back and forth over the sphere to dodge the threads of light; then a curtain of light shot from his brow and swept over the nearby lanterns, drawing one of them into the Shen Continent.

Light blazed from Shen Mu's brow, shining without cease, and the lanterns around him were swept clean, opening a pocket of stable space. In the distance, the shock of erupted divine power reached his senses, and one palace lantern after another was snuffed out. Shen Mu's heart stirred: "In this age, Yun Tianzun is already of the Imperial Throne Realm, and Hao Tianzun is a being of the Cloud-Soaring Realm.

Their strength already stands above mine — these lanterns can do nothing to them.

" Soon, every lantern in the hall was extinguished, leaving only the treasure-light shed by the various treasures of the Zhaoyang Hall.

Light blazed from Shen Mu's brow, and he drew the great egg of the suspected ancient god into his brow, then flew toward another treasure. It was a treasure mountain.

Shen Mu's brow light flickered — before he had even reached the mountain, he had taken it away.

The mountain was like jade throughout, yet its substance was something he had never seen before; still, anything that could be kept in the Heavenly Emperor's treasury must have no ordinary origin.

"Could this be treasure the ancient god Heavenly Emperor plundered from the Ancestral Court?

" He also took a winding river, which had been refined down to a mere five or six zhang, but was incomparably dense and weighty; even after it was put away into the Shen Continent, Shen Mu felt his brow dip with a sudden heaviness.

"What river is this?

" He felt the pupil of his vertical eye pressed downward without cease, and his heart shook. But he had no time to dwell on it — soon the Heavenly Emperor would smite Achou into the Netherworld, and he had only this interval to plunder treasures to his heart's content.

Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun harbored the same intention, and the treasures in the Zhaoyang Hall kept dwindling.

In haste, Shen Mu glimpsed Hao Tianzun taking out a snakeskin pouch and stuffing treasures into it — plainly, that snakeskin pouch was itself an extraordinary treasure of no small account.

Yun Tianzun, too, held a sack, but it was not like an ordinary sack; Shen Mu sensed upon it the aura of a Taotie, and it must have been a treasure refined from Taotie hide. Within the hall, the treasure-light died away ceaselessly and gradually grew dark.

Shen Mu stepped up his plundering, until suddenly he saw, far away, a pillar of jade of blinding brilliance, and could not help freezing — he nearly cried out. That jade pillar was the very pillar of the Hidden Archive of the Patriarch of the Way, the one that could brand the marks of all kinds of ancient gods and could even shape forth the form of Yu Tianzun! "Could that pillar also be a peerless treasure?

" He charged forward, only to see Hao Tianzun appear before the pillar a step ahead of him and stuff the pillar into the snakeskin pouch. The two men's eyes crossed.

Shen Mu turned his hand — and Hao Tianzun rose higher and higher, his body swelling larger and larger.

It was the divine power of Shen Mu's enlightenment: Gathering the Circle Whole in the Great Luo Heaven!

In the same breath, the white banner in Hao Tianzun's hand gave a flick — Shen Mu's body swayed slightly — and the banner was utterly useless. Hao Tianzun's primordial qi erupted, and a celestial palace boomed into existence, forcibly bursting through Shen Mu's divine power.

Shen Mu silently lamented the missed opportunity.

The Hao Tianzun of this moment was far inferior to him in divine power, but far surpassed him in the depth of his cultivation, and his physical body was extremely powerful — it seemed he was nearly of age.

The two went, one east, one west, no longer crossing blows, but burying their heads in the search for treasures. Time was too tight; Hao Tianzun sensed that taking Shen Mu would not be easy, and Shen Mu likewise felt he could not take the Hao Tianzun of today, so they simply stopped entangling.

Darker and darker grew the Zhaoyang Hall, until only scattered strands of light remained.

And at that moment, Shen Mu's eyes abruptly lit up, and he was almost moved to tears of joy.

He saw broken fragments of Primal Stones! Primal Stones!

The treasure of the Tai Emperor — who would have thought the Heavenly Emperor had gathered them away here!

Shen Mu at once flew at full speed, his form turning into a beam of divine light; in the same breath, he saw two other beams of divine light racing toward this very spot — Hao Tianzun and Yun Tianzun! But then he realized the targets of Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun were different from his own.

Following the direction of the two men's gazes, his heart quaked slightly — Yun Tianzun's target was an altar of no great size, while Hao Tianzun's target was a great seal!

"The Tai Emperor's Seal, and the Tai Emperor's Altar!

" Shen Mu's divine sense flew out and lashed toward the Primal Stones.

The moment he rolled up the Primal Stones, his divine sense split in two and lashed separately toward the Tai Emperor's Seal and the Tai Emperor's Altar.

At the same instant, the divine powers of Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun came at him almost simultaneously.

Shen Mu's scalp went numb. Without a second thought, he drew out the round egg of the suspected ancient god and held it before him as a shield; the two divine powers erupted and blasted Shen Mu, egg and all, flying.

It was then that Yun Tianzun caught sight of Shen Mu's face, and his mind suddenly reeled: "Luo Xiao!

Were you not already dead? " His heart shook; in a moment of inattention, a single move from Hao Tianzun sent him flying.

Hao Tianzun laughed aloud, reached out, and seized the Tai Emperor's Seal.

With the seal in hand, he at once charged at the Tai Emperor's Altar. Yun Tianzun gave chase — one step behind in time, but swifter in speed — and the two men's hands seized the Tai Emperor's Altar at almost the same moment.

All at once, the Tai Emperor's Altar vanished!

Both men's hearts jolted; then Hao Tianzun cried out in alarm — the Tai Emperor's Seal held fast in his hand had also vanished without a trace! "Is it haunted?

" The same thought rose in both minds at once.

And at that very moment, a dreadful tremor came from outside the Zhaoyang Hall — the Heavenly Emperor had moved against Achou. Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun made their decision on the instant, turned on their heels, and burst out toward the exit.

If they did not leave now, it would be too late — Achou, the reincarnated body of Tubo, could never be a match for the Heavenly Emperor; he would surely be subdued in one move.

When that happened, if they were bottled up inside the Zhaoyang Hall, they would die with no place even to be buried.

Both men cherished great ambitions; neither could allow himself to fall in this place.

In the flash of an instant as the two rushed for the door, Shen Mu also steadied himself and flew at top speed toward the spot where the Tai Emperor's Seal and Altar had vanished — in his hands he held a Tai Emperor's Seal and a Tai Emperor's Altar.

When he put the seal and altar in his hands into his brow, the Tai Emperor's Seal and Altar in the Zhaoyang Hall abruptly materialized once more.

Shen Mu seized these two treasures and at once wheeled around and charged out of the hall.