Chapter 1334 — Piercing Heaven and Earth

Because the Taichu Primordial Stone had burst, the power of the Great Emperor's Daluo Heaven of Divine Consciousness was greatly diminished as well; the Ancestral God King's head had already fallen into the Daluo Heaven of Divine Consciousness, and his skull began to crack apart, his skin flying up and breaking like scraps of paper, his face quickly becoming a blur of flesh and blood that bared stark white bone. The might of the Daluo Heaven of Divine Consciousness was truly overbearing; even though the Great Emperor could not exert his full strength at this moment, a Heavenly Venerable's body could not withstand it.

Shen Mu, dwelling high in the twenty-ninth void, at once stirred up his vital qi and drove the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, racing down out of the void, his divine arts sweeping freely abroad, treading the Ferry of the Other Shore Divine Ark as he became phantom after phantom flashing across layer upon layer of the void, meaning to seize the flying Taichu Primordial Stone.

At the same time, in the Sea of Chaos, Tai Yi said with perfect composure, "Fellow Daoists, watch — a strange turn will soon occur.

" Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua had been watching with soaring excitement; hearing that more was to come, they could not help asking in doubt, "Brother Dao, what strange turn could there still be?

" The aged Tai Yi said nothing. Divine Emperor Langxuan shook out his sleeve and was about to gather all the Taichu Primordial Stone into it, when suddenly purple light blazed forth, purple empyrean and azure vault, as though the Heavenly Court had abruptly collapsed.

"Heavenly Venerable Yun —" Divine Emperor Langxuan was startled, and cried out in a hoarse voice.

He had already been struck; spitting blood, he pitched forward, and piece after piece of the Taichu Primordial Stone flew past him. He turned in midair, and what he saw was not Heavenly Venerable Yun but Heavenly Venerable Xiao, his face wreathed in smiles, reaching out a palm to seize the scattered fragments of the Primordial Stone.

Heavenly Venerable Xiao had just grasped all the fragments in his hand when his expression changed drastically the next moment: the hand that held the Primordial Stone was suddenly severed at the wrist, and the hand fell from the air.

What cut off his hand was a hairpin, a hairpin exceedingly sharp, whose hidden power was nothing less than the Great Dao of Guixu!

In the distance Heavenly Consort Yan drew the hairpin back and thrust it into her hair bun; then she raised a hand and shook it, and the Four Directions Cauldron that had been pinning down the Taishi ore vein shot up into the sky, and with a swish its four curtains of light enveloped Heavenly Venerable Xiao!

Beneath Heavenly Venerable Xiao's feet a lotus suddenly appeared; he stamped down hard with his great foot, and the lotus fell into the Four Directions Cauldron, and lotus and cauldron plunged downward together.

And below them was the Sea of Chaos!

Beneath the lotus and the cauldron was Heavenly Venerable Xiao's right hand, still gripping the Taichu Primordial Stone for dear life!

The earth all around the Sea of Chaos suddenly heaved and churned, and one after another enormous root tendril shot up into the sky, like countless tentacles, swarming and crisscrossing, winding toward Heavenly Venerable Xiao's right hand.

This whole chain of changes left the crowd hiding in the Sea of Chaos staring dumbstruck, mouths agape, unable to speak.

At the same moment, Shen Mu was still on his way by ark; Heavenly Venerable Mu stood at the prow, his face dark: "Up at dawn only to reach the market late!

What rotten luck! "