Chapter 1372 — Overawing the Multitude

Shen Mu felt something stir in his heart and looked up toward the sword lights illuminating the Origin Realm. Kaihuang had not descended in his true body, but had descended upon the Origin Realm with his Worry-Free Sword.

That Worry-Free Sword had carved out thirty-four heavens in the sky not far from the peach grove!

Within the sword light the heavens appeared, unspeakably magnificent!

At that moment the sky split open and Creator after Creator flew forth, coming to the side of the thirty-four heavens left by Kaihuang, each towering Creator entering visualization. The living beings of the Origin Realm at once beheld the process of the Creators creating the heavens, and countless people stared dumbly as the thirty-four heavens evolved step by step from the sword marks of the Worry-Free Sword into reality!

At the same time another vast and profound divine consciousness flew in from the void, hastening the formation of the thirty-four heavens! That was the consciousness of God King Langwan!

"They came here by the Void Bridge!

" Shen Mu's heart stirred slightly as he glanced toward Heavenly Venerable Yue.

The formation of the Void Bridge could be said to owe a great deal to Heavenly Venerable Yue, for the three houses at the end of the bridge were her own handiwork, linking one perilous place after another in the universe.

The two watched for a while. Although Kaihuang and God King Langwan were not equal in cultivation to the Ten Heavenly Venerables, this supernatural power of recreating the heavens was beyond even what the Ten Heavenly Venerables could attain. As a shock deterrent, it was enough.

"Carve up the Origin Realm, and the great cause may be expected! " Shen Mu said with a smile.

Heavenly Venerable Yue felt her heart surge; she had not known such feeling for a very long time.

She had lived through two magnificent great ages.

The first age was the age of contention in Longhan, an age filled with too many heroes and too many unforgettable figures and deeds.

In those days she assisted Heavenly Venerable Yun and built the Xiao Han Heavenly Court with her own hands, full of high ambition, without even a thought of romance, all for a goal that to others seemed illusory and even laughable. That goal was simply to let the human race live on better, a simple and unadorned goal for which she struggled for hundreds of thousands of years, until the day Heavenly Venerable Yun died in battle.

After that she sank into dejection and withdrew into seclusion. Even during the wild and unrestrained Chiming age that followed, through a hundred thousand years of time, she never showed herself, but lived on alone and solitary in memories of the past.

When the Chiming age fell and the human race suffered a blow all but annihilating it, she had no choice but to cast off her retired state. They say the hidden dragon is not to be used, yet this hidden dragon of hers still emerged from the abyss.

It was still that same simple goal, that the human race should have the right to survive, the right to seek a better life.

On the road to saving humanity she met Heavenly Venerable Ling, who had likewise come forth. Heavenly Venerable Ling had also gone into seclusion and vanished from the world because of Heavenly Venerable Yun's death, yet faced with the great calamity of humanity, the two women made the very same choice.

They exchanged a smile and opened another new age, another equally magnificent great age. The Shanghuang age was founded by these two women's hands and became a splendid civilization lasting three hundred thousand years!

Because of the betrayal of Heavenly Venerable Xiao, together with her own maiming and the assassination of Heavenly Venerable Ling, the Shanghuang age became history.

And now yet another new age was showing its first signs, an age that set her blood boiling once more!

Who says daughters know only tenderness? Her fierce and lofty spirit, the earth-shaking enterprises and deeds she accomplished, were enough to shame countless men!

The two gazed upward when suddenly firelight surged across the sky, flames filling the heavens above the Southern Sea, and amid the flames a woman in bright red descended, sitting cross-legged, her red skirts joining with the sky like the wings of the Vermilion Bird.

"The Southern Emperor's flesh!

" Shen Mu's eyes twitched violently.

That was the flesh of the Southern Emperor, Zhuque, descending over the Southern Sea of the Southern Land!

The Southern Emperor, Zhuque, had been slain by Heavenly Venerable Fire.

When Shen Mu questioned Heavenly Venerable Fire in the South Polar Heaven, Fire had already executed the Southern Emperor in her ancestral ground, refining away her whole cultivation and refining her flesh!

Now Heavenly Venerable Fire sent forth the Southern Emperor Zhuque's flesh, also for the purpose of deterrence. It was not to deter the Ten Heavenly Venerables, but to deter Heavenly Venerable Yue, the Heavenly Duke, the Earth Count, and the other three emperors!

"When facing her own kin, Heavenly Venerable Fire is indeed the one who charges foremost.

" The light in Shen Mu's eyes dimmed.

Hardly had Heavenly Venerable Fire released the Southern Emperor Zhuque's flesh to overawe the Origin Realm when the Ancestral God King's deterrence followed close behind, and the Ancestral God King deterred the Heavenly Duke. The weapon with which he deterred the Heavenly Duke was the projection of a weapon, and this weapon was not his Heavenly Way ultimate treasure, for that treasure was already shattered.

What was projected down this time was a sphere, an incomparably intricate celestial sphere. Within the sphere, the Heavenly Way and the Youdu Great Way were fused in perfection.

The Heavenly Duke's clone dwelling upon the clouds saw it and praised, "The rebellious son is capable.

This must be a treasure forged from divine gold and ore found in the Ancestral Court? Only the mines of the Ancestral Court can perfectly fuse the Heavenly Way and the Demonic Way.

" Then the deterrents of Heavenly Concubine Yan, Heavenly Venerable Gong, Heavenly Concubine Qiang, Heavenly Venerable Xu, God Emperor Langxuan and the other venerables descended in turn, and when the Heavenly Duke, the Earth Count and several ancient god emperors saw the projections of these venerables, their faces all changed slightly. The treasure projections of these venerables Yan, Gong, Qiang, Xu, Lang and Hong were almost all forged from the divine gold of the Ancestral Court!

The minerals of the Ancestral Court harbor a wondrous energy that can knead originally conflicting Great Ways into a single weapon.

Treasures the Ten Heavenly Venerables could never have forged before could be forged once they obtained the Ancestral Court's divine gold! "It seems we can hide our private stores no longer.

" The Heavenly Duke's clone sighed, pointed a finger, and in Xuandu forty-nine Heavenly Ways became forty-nine ultimate treasures, all forged from Ancestral Court divine gold, hanging high within Xuandu to overawe the Origin Realm! The Earth Count in the Origin Realm pondered, stamped upon the earth, the earth trembled, Youdu emerged, and sixty-four Youdu Great Ways became sixty-four demonic ultimate treasures, likewise overawing the Origin Realm!

On the other side the Eastern Emperor, Azure Dragon, urged on Lingbao Mountain, while above the Gold-Iron Divine City of the Western Land a great golden horn suddenly descended from the heavens, sounding a long blast that set all who heard it burning with hot blood, longing to plunge at once into mortal combat!