Chapter 1318 — The Sneer of the Mighty

Boyang's mount Long Xiao was a colossal creature even vaster and more terrifying than a grown Void Mother Beast, and its descent set the void where Shen Mu hid shaking so violently that he could scarcely keep his footing! It was an unimaginable titan, one that in the primordial age would have been worshipped as a god even by the Creators!

"There cannot be so powerful a creature.

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. no, there can!

" Shen Mu stared upward in a daze at this Long Xiao and murmured: "So long as the Creators sacrifice to Long Xiao as they sacrificed to Taidi, they can make a titan like Long Xiao this mighty.

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" At that very moment, far away in the Great Black Wood within the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains, God King Shujun felt a sudden stirring in his heart, looked up at the sky, and showed shock. "Boyang's mount, or rather the guardian god of the Wujia Clan, Long Xiao.

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" he murmured: "The primordial creature second only to Taidi, was it not already dead?

" That was the beast he had dreamed of taming in the primordial age, yet among the three primordial kings he ranked third, Boyang first, for Boyang was the most ancient and the first to discover the wondrous use of the Taichu God Stone. Gongyun came second, and God King Gongyun's Nuxin Clan was a dominant race, and though Gongyun's strength might not surpass Shujun's, she was the heroine among the women of the Creators.

That Shujun ranked third was only natural.

Though Shujun was strong, in power and influence he could not match those two, and though he often boasted before Shen Mu, that was only taking advantage of Shen Mu's ignorance of primordial history. Truly facing the other two, he still stood a head lower.

He had always wished to subdue God King Boyang's Long Xiao, but knowing he could beat neither Boyang nor Long Xiao, he had at last chosen only the Taipu Beast.

Now seeing the Long Xiao beast again, his heart could not help burning anew.

"Boyang is dead and Long Xiao has reappeared, and apart from Taidi and Gongyun, none can contend with me!

" He flew from the Great Black Wood and sped straight for the place of Long Xiao's descent, his heart ablaze: "My chance has finally come! " At this time, Yantianfei was also startled by the portents brought by Long Xiao's descent, and she walked out of her side palace and looked up at this colossus fallen from the sky, her lovely face changing slightly.

"Long Xiao.

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. " "That wretch Earth Mother Yuanjun actually did not kill Long Xiao, but hid this fierce god away!

" She flared into rage, and at the same time showed dread, for in the war between the Ancient Gods and the Creators, the Empress sisters had been charged with dealing with Boyang, while Earth Mother Yuanjun had been charged with dealing with Long Xiao. The two sisters had thrust Boyang into the Guixu Great Abyss to refine him until both form and spirit were destroyed, not even soul black sand remaining, even Boyang's divine consciousness wholly refined to ash!

That battle had cost them dearly.

Yet Earth Mother Yuanjun's handling of Long Xiao had seemed simple, and afterward she told them Long Xiao was dead.

Long Xiao was the mightiest titan of the primordial age, indeed the Ancient God among titans, a sacrificial Ancient God like Earth Mother Yuanjun!

Yet it had been created as a weapon of war to oppose the Ancient Gods!

Even the Empress sisters were filled with fear of this divine beast, for before Taidi rose, Boyang, foremost of the three primordial kings, ruled and enslaved the Ancient Gods, and he relied upon Long Xiao. This beast was the being longest sustained by sacrifice, and its battle power had absolutely reached the peak of that age!

More crucial still, it could command every strange beast in the Ancestral Court save the void beasts, and even Tiangong and Tubo had to fear it by three parts!

Even the Empress sisters could not make the Guixu Great Abyss swallow it! In those years, God King Boyang had even ridden it down to Guixu and deep into the Great Abyss, and even the Great Abyss could do nothing to it!

Until later, when Taidi rose.

Taidi controlled Taichu, which Long Xiao could do nothing against, and only then did Taidi's race grow strong.

Who would have thought that in the primordial great war, Earth Mother had never killed Long Xiao at all!

"Earth Mother means to keep it to deal with me and the other Ancient Gods, her schemes were never small!

" Yantianfei stood before her palace and gazed up at the nine incomparably towering dragon heads in the sky, unable to restrain her anger: "I and that wretch killed Boyang, and Long Xiao will surely strike at me to avenge Boyang!

She has made a fine calculation!

Yet the age of the Creators is past, and even Long Xiao can stir no great storm before the Celestial Venerables! " In the sky, the nine heads of that colossus had already appeared, yet no matter how Earth Mother Yuanjun summoned it, Long Xiao never fully crossed over. This peerless beast looked at Earth Mother Yuanjun and even showed mockery. "Long Xiao, mightiest being of the primordial age, back then it was I who spared you and did not let you die in the great war of antiquity!

" On the altar, Earth Mother Yuanjun cried sternly: "Now the time has come for you to repay that debt! Why do you not obey my summons and come from the back of the Ancestral Court?

" The nine dragon heads of the Long Xiao beast suddenly burst into booming laughter, and an unspeakably dreadful divine consciousness at once flooded sky and earth, saying leisurely: "Pitiful and lowly Yuanmu, how lush you once were, your canopy blotting out sun and sky, thousand-li Kunpeng swimming beside you like tiny fish and insects.

Now you have become but a small sapling.

You no longer have the power to summon me! " One of its heads probed down from the sky, passing before the void where Shen Mu hid, and its enormously thick neck with scale after scale even pierced through the void!

Those dragon scales were perfectly smooth, and they even mirrored Shen Mu and the Taishi Egg upon their surface, leaving them nowhere to hide! Shen Mu's heart chilled with terror. This Long Xiao beast might fall short of Taidi, but likely not by far! Long Xiao's head probed over the altar, and the shadow of its head covered and hid the mountains, and though Earth Mother's altar was great, before this dragon head it seemed utterly insignificant.

"I live well on the back of the Ancestral Court, carefree and untroubled, with countless titans dwelling and breeding there. Without the Creators, we have no masters, and we are free.

" This dragon head did not speak, his divine consciousness was too mighty, and he relied on it to convey his thoughts.

With a mere stirring of his thought, every portent appeared in sky and earth, when he thought of thunder, the sky filled with dense pools of lightning, when he thought of mountains, ranges rose rumbling from the ground, when he thought of raging seas, vast oceans appeared upon the land with wild wind and furious waves.

"This Long Xiao's divine consciousness is no weaker than Taidi's, but his consciousness is not as pure as Taidi's!

" Shen Mu at once saw where Long Xiao fell short of Taidi, likely Long Xiao had no Taichu Origin Stone, no Daluo supreme consciousness art or the like, and could not refine the vast consciousness within himself to purity, nor comprehend the Dao of divine consciousness, so that he could not match Taidi. "Judging by the wounds upon you, you have lost, lost utterly, with only a wisp of your soul left.

You have even lost your true body. " Long Xiao's mockery grew ever thicker as he said idly: "You even stop at nothing, devouring the qi and blood of others to strengthen yourself, leaving endless hidden perils.

Once you were Earth Mother, you bore the great merit of sheltering all living beings, so you could pass through calamity undying.