Chapter 1393 — Paying Homage to the Earth Mother

Wei Suifeng flexed his body and said calmly, "I have crossed hands with the White Emperor and the Green Emperor, and I have traded blows with several Celestial Masters. Though I could not beat them, neither could they kill me; they only sank me in a river. I have never fought the Earth Mother, so I may as well give it a try. " Crown Prince Youming hesitated, then said, "Though I have learned a great deal from Jingping, I have spent all these years only learning and have never put it to use, so I do not know how strong I really am.

Teacher Youyou says I am stupid and slow to learn. I am most likely no match for the Earth Mother. .

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" Long Qilin quietly retreated a few steps and muttered under his breath, "I definitely cannot beat anyone.

Better to slip away. .

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" He turned and ran, using his Reverse Summoning Divine Ability as he fled.

Just then he noticed Long Xiao, and his expression went blank.

"What a huge dragon. . .

When will I be as colossal and majestic as he is?

" Boom! In the distance, Long Xiao was smashed into the dust. Long Qilin shuddered, then kept running for his life, farther away from that place. His Reverse Summoning Divine Ability was not as swift as Shen Mu's.

After all, Shen Mu was the originator of the Reverse Summoning Divine Ability and could activate it with incredible speed, whereas he needed time to prepare. He first had to find a safe place before he could use it calmly. Shen Mu leaned on the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner and said with a calm expression, "Earth Mother, we did have some friendship in the past. You once lent me the Core of the Primordial Tree and a bottle of Primordial Essence of Chaos.

So today I will give you one more chance. Withdraw now, and I will not stop you. Whether we are enemies or friends in the future will depend on fate.

" Earth Mother sneered, "You?

Just the three of you mongrels? Among you three, one is the Heavenly Venerable Mu who does nothing but swindle and bluff, one is the Emperor Yunluo who was sunk in a river, and one is a demigod suppressed by his parents for six hundred thousand years. What virtue or ability do you have to make me withdraw?

" Wei Suifeng said with utter sincerity, "Earth Mother, you have killed too many gods and demons.

Your mind and soul have been clouded by baleful aura, and you have lost your reason. I know the Buddha Great Brahma Heavenly King. Why not come with me to see him and let him help you dissolve the baleful aura? " "Great Brahma? " Earth Mother sneered, "Since you are no match for me, you plan to conspire with Great Brahma to ambush me? I may not have recovered to my peak state, but I am not someone Great Brahma can match!

" Wei Suifeng frowned, sighed, and said no more.

Crown Prince Youming could not help saying, "Earth Mother, do you know that what Heavenly Venerable Mu holds is the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner? In its day, this treasure was the foremost treasure under heaven, and you must know its fearsome name. Though it may not rank first today, after Heavenly Venerable Mu's elders, the Silent Artisan and the Blind Elder, redesigned and reforged it, it is countless times stronger than before. Once Heavenly Venerable Mu brings out this treasure, your retreat will be cut off, and you will not even be able to flee. Earth Mother, think thrice! " "The son of the Black Tortoise only knows how to boast about his family's treasures? " Earth Mother could not help but laugh.

"The foremost treasure under heaven was never the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner.

The reason your parents gained that title was simply that the Heavenly Emperor, the Lord of Heaven, Earth Lord, and I did not care to bring out our own treasures. Take my true body, the Primordial Tree, which holds up the myriad heavens and worlds. It is far beyond anything the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner can compare to.

Your banner is merely twenty-eight heavens.

The Dark Emperor and the Martial Emperor became gods through sacrifice, after all, so their vision was shallow, and you have no eye for such things either. " Crown Prince Youming opened his mouth, then sighed again and said no more. Shen Mu gently shook the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner in his hand.

With a hum, twenty-eight layered canopies unfurled, and twenty-eight heavens appeared, howling as they rotated and expanded outward, soon shrouding the vast space of the Ancestral Court. These layers of heavens even split the earth apart, cutting off the Earth Mother's retreat.

Earth Mother looked around and saw that within the twenty-eight heavens of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner were powerful heavy treasures. These treasures had clearly not been forged by the Dark Emperor and Martial Emperor; the formation runes and glyphs within them were simply too powerful.

As she had said, the reason the Dark Tortoise Emperors' Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner had earned the name of the foremost treasure under heaven was merely that the Heavenly Emperor and others did not wish to show off.

Whether it was the Heavenly Emperor or the Lord of Heaven and Earth Lord, each possessed treasures of immense power. Even the treasures of the Empress and her sisters were no weaker than the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner.

And Earth Mother herself was originally a supreme treasure of immense power. She had seen the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner of old. Though intricate and formidable, it was far from being as terrifying as it was now. The current Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner had nearly all the power of its various heavy treasures activated.

These treasures were as numerous as stars, spread throughout every heaven. Clearly, a supreme grandmaster skilled in forging and formations had spent a very long time continuously elevating the treasure's power, refining the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner to a degree it had never reached before.

Earth Mother sneered, not afraid in the least.

Though she had lost her physical body, and even her roots had been taken by Heavenly Venerable Xiao and Gongsun Yan, she possessed the Core of the Primordial Tree. Her current strength, even if not equal to a Heavenly Venerable, was no weaker than existences like the Dao Ancestor and Great Brahma.

Even if Shen Mu brought out the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner, even with Crown Prince Youming and Wei Suifeng, two beings at the Emperor Throne realm, she was still certain of victory.

"Die—" Earth Mother let out a shrill shriek.

Behind her appeared her true body, which was none other than the Core of the Primordial Tree. At this moment, the Core of the Primordial Tree was even more majestic and massive than when the Earth Mother had first descended upon the Yuan Realm. The crown of this tree directly lifted up the layers of heavens of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner, making it impossible for the heavens to change their sequence.

Clearly, Earth Mother had studied the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner and knew that this treasure could grant whatever was asked, able to freely swap the order of the heavens. In the Yuan Realm, the Primordial Tree was what held up the heavens.

Thus, she easily fixed the heavens of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner in place.

From the very start, she had stripped away this method of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner.

Earth Mother revealed her true form. Countless roots danced wildly, and one thick root after another spread toward the various heavens, invading them, rolling toward the heavy treasures suspended in each heaven.

When it came to how to break the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner, she also had a natural advantage.

Her figure shook and rose, racing through layer after layer of heavens, pouncing toward Shen Mu.

Fixing the heavens, collecting the treasures, killing Shen Mu, all in one breath.

Beside Shen Mu, Crown Prince Youming bowed deeply to the Earth Mother flying toward him. Then he rose, stepped forward, and roared, "Myriad Phenomena of the Heavenly River!