Chapter 1340 — Two Champions in Inner Strife

His head actually split into three — three heads and six arms — bang, bang, bang — and in a single instant countless fists fell upon the Divine Emperor Tai's face, blasting that colossally vast head flying backward! Thunder roared in the Divine Emperor Tai's skull; he was beaten into a muddled daze.

Then Shen Mu stamped his foot, and a divine ark appeared beneath him; the ark spanned the sky, pursuing him straight on.

The Other Shore Divine Ark Crossing! At the prow, layer upon layer of heavenly palaces ranged themselves at Shen Mu's back, palace upon palace arrayed and combined, in a moment becoming a whole heavenly court, resplendent in gold.

Shen Mu's qi and blood surged to their utmost in a single instant; the light of blood illumined half the sky, dyeing that half of heaven crimson! Countless phantom forms of ancient gods surfaced in the sky, warring and slaughtering, as though the bitter, savage spectacle of the Longhan era — heroes contending, striving for supremacy over the world — were reenacted before him!

The Divine Emperor Tai looked toward that blood-hued light, and saw within it Shen Mu's heavenly court split into three, recreating the very scene of the three heavenly courts standing in tripartite balance in the Longhan era!

"This is a creation divine art — and he has refined it to such a degree!

" The Divine Emperor Tai was greatly shaken.

This move of Shen Mu's was precisely the seventeenth heaven of entering the Dao through divine arts: Longhan's Rivalry!

This great divine art, Longhan's Rivalry, brimmed with killing intent to the heavens, as though all the savagery of Longhan's struggle for hegemony were gathered into a single move: the three great heavenly courts of Longhan, Xiaohan, and Longxiao contending, fighting for the orthodox right to the Heavenly Emperor, countless plots and schemes all converging within one move!

That age was vast and grand, and bitterly savage: nine Heavenly Venerables spread the Dao through the world; the Heavenly Emperor Taichu grasped the reins of power and toyed with all living things; Earth Count reincarnated as Ah Chou, dragging Youdu forth to war against the Heavenly Court; Yun, Ling, and Yue slew the Divine Emperor Tai in the Great Void; the Heavenly Venerables schemed to put the Heavenly Emperor to death; Heavenly Venerable Hao wove his plots against the crown prince Xie Wuqi; the Empress fell at Guixu; Heavenly Venerable Ling exiled the Ghost Ship's Feathered Forest Army; and Longhan swallowed Xiaohan and Longxiao.

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The Divine Emperor Tai had lived through those years himself, and the feeling Shen Mu's move gave him seemed to carry him back to that age of great contention, an age in which even the titans who ruled the ancient times might fall at any moment!