Chapter 1361 — The Supreme Seal

An inexplicable dread welled up in Xiao Tianzun's heart.

Shen Mu's strike had come out of nowhere, entirely beyond his expectations. He had intended to seize this opportunity to subdue Yue Tianzun, crush You Tianzun, and make Tubo retreat in the face of difficulty, daring not to harbor any further disloyalty.

With his current strength, he was fully capable of accomplishing this! If he could subdue Yue Tianzun and crush You Tianzun, bringing these two Heavenly Venerables under his wing, then among the Ten Heavenly Venerables he would no longer need to conceal his identity.

With his strength, making Huo Tianzun submit and his bastard son Lang Xuan swear fealty was hardly worth mentioning.

Add to that the Ancient God lineage, and Tian Gong Tubo would not dare contend with him; Xuanwu, Qinglong, and Baihu could be easily subjugated. Who among the other Heavenly Venerables would dare oppose him then?

Tai Di could only continue hiding, for emerging meant certain death.

Hao Tianzun could only obediently play the son, and Zu Shenwang would only dare curse his old man, not act recklessly. He could use them like blades to restrain Tian Gong, and Xu Tianzun to restrain Tubo.

Kaihuang Shen Ye could only obediently shrink back into Wuyou Township, not daring to show his face.

As for the Empress and Yuanmu, they could only obediently be his women, daring not to harbor second thoughts!

The situation was overwhelmingly favorable.

He need only subdue these two Heavenly Venerables, and he could retake the throne! Yet Shen Mu's strike filled him with dread.

The moment it was unleashed, he felt his primordial spirit tremble, the Great Dao hum with resonance, and an involuntary urge to return to his eggshell.

The very matter of his body was changing, and he could barely suppress it. His physical body did not belong to his original self; it was merely a reincarnated shell. Yet his primordial spirit was one with this body, and as the primordial spirit and the Great Dao were being imprinted toward that eye of Shen Mu's, he too was being drawn flying toward Shen Mu's eye.

More critically still, Shen Mu had in one motion withdrawn his mana and spiritual consciousness from the divine artifact Yutianzun, causing the artifact to lose control! The divine artifact Yutianzun was his most powerful weapon at present, even more formidable than his current physical body by a considerable margin.

Losing this divine artifact instantly plunged him into a passive position. "Shen'er, well done!

" the Alchemist cried out in great delight.

Bang—Shen Mu's skull suddenly exploded.

Everything above his neck vanished without a trace, and blood splattered across the Alchemist's face, leaving him frozen in stupefaction.

Along with Shen Mu's head, Shen Mu's vertical eye also exploded, including the Yuan Tai Spirit Treasury hidden within his brow. The Yuan Tai Spirit Treasury resided within the brow of those who possessed divine powers and gods alike.

Xiao Tianzun's finger had burst Shen Mu's vertical eye and skull. The power of his strike was too tremendous, and Shen Mu's Yuan Tai Spirit Treasury could not withstand it either, exploding along with them! In the instant the vertical eye and the Yuan Tai Spirit Treasury burst open, who knows how many treasures flew dancing through the air.

There were chunks of Taisu Divine Stone, Taiji Divine Stone, Taishi Divine Stone, and Taishi Primeval Stone! There were also mountain-piled Ancestral Court Divine Gold and Divine Ore, a great bow, half a Taichu eggshell, along with two Taiyi eggshells and chaotic qi.

And a round, plump Taishi egg flew out as well. Beyond these, there were also the Taiji Primeval Stone bursting from the Sacred Pupil, the shattered Shen Character Continent, and Madam Yuanmu's crystal coffin.

The crystal coffin had been broken open, and Madam Yuanmu's corpse flew up along with it.

Madam Yuanmu's corpse had already given birth to a corpse demon, which had all along been suppressed by Wei Suifeng's seal. Now it was suddenly freed, and overjoyed, it rushed outward.

As for the other treasures, they were too numerous to count, dazzling the eyes. Xiao Tianzun's one finger had burst Shen Mu's skull and vertical eye, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He withdrew his mana and spiritual consciousness, reached out to grab his eggshell, and thought to himself: "No matter what, I must obtain my eggshell.

. . Mu Tianzun's other treasures aren't bad either. This brat really plundered so many treasures!

And that fellow daoist in the divine egg is also with him. .

. " His spiritual consciousness and mana surged toward the divine artifact Yutianzun, which had toppled behind him, while his palm enveloped all the treasures that had burst from Shen Mu's skull. Just as he was about to succeed, the world suddenly spun.

All of Shen Mu's treasures were directly shifted away by Yue Tianzun and hidden deep within space. For a time, even Xiao Tianzun could not locate where these treasures had been hidden.

And just as his spiritual consciousness and mana were about to surge into the body of the divine artifact Yutianzun, You Tianzun, who had been standing on the artifact's shoulder, immediately slapped a yellow paper talisman onto the artifact's back. You Tianzun gave a soft cry, and the yellow talisman split into two, then two into four, four into eight.

In an instant, the divine artifact Yutianzun was covered completely, yellow talismans plastered everywhere across its entire body. Xiao Tianzun's spiritual consciousness and mana could not penetrate within.

His heart skipped a beat, and he instantly knew he had been schemed against by Shen Mu, completely losing the initiative.

Whoosh—Tubo's severed hand swept over, and the severed fingers flying through the sky rolled back onto his palm.

Xiao Tianzun's expression turned grim.

He let out a long cry and turned to meet Tubo's great hand.

Behind his head, one heavenly palace after another emerged, each interlocking with the next, perfectly joined like pearls in a string, forming a great Heavenly Court! The heavenly palaces in this Heavenly Court numbered as many as thirty-five. The Heavenly Court formed by thirty-five heavenly palaces caused his mana to surge explosively.

Though it was not as powerful as the divine artifact Yutianzun, it was still by no means ordinary, absolutely not inferior to the strength Hao Tianzun and Tai Di had displayed in their battle! Yet the instant he collided with Tubo's palm, he still felt an incomparably matchless force transmitted through, forcing him to take two steps forward.

He used the momentum to rush toward Yuanmu.

So long as Yuanmu was in his grasp, it would be equivalent to having the peak-period Earth Mother Yuanjun as his divine weapon. The reason Earth Mother Yuanjun could not exert her own strength was something even Earth Mother Yuanjun herself did not understand, yet Xiao Tianzun knew it with perfect clarity.

Earth Mother Yuanjun was a great tree born in the Ancestral Court, a spiritual root of heaven and earth. She had been irrigated by the creators with the Primordial Liquid from the Ancient Jade Pool, absorbing the spiritual qi and spiritual power of heaven and earth in the Ancestral Court, and thus gestated life, becoming the Earth Mother. She was uniquely blessed, the most powerful deity born of heaven and earth.

Yet it was also precisely because Yuanmu was too tall and too vast that the creators of the ancient era developed the custom of Yuanmu worship.

They offered sacrifices to this Yuanmu, causing the sacrificial power of countless creators to gather within the Earth Mother's body. Thus, though the Earth Mother was born of heaven and earth, she also absorbed the sacrificial power of the creators, making her cultivation impure. This was the greatest reason limiting the Earth Mother herself.