Chapter 1430 — The Twenty-Sixth Heaven of the Dao Realm

The Yao Terrace was his opportunity to seize that chance again, but he was too overbearing, and suppressed the great Dao of the Yao Terrace, so that he could not obtain it. Langxuan Divine Emperor climbed to the eighth tier of the Yao Terrace, his face turning somewhat ugly, dark and sullen.

Before him, Shen Mu stood with his back to him, his whole body bathed in the Hongmeng qi of the Yao Terrace, his aura swirling. Langxuan Divine Emperor suppressed his killing intent and stepped forward, only to see Shen Mu's qi slowly rising, his cultivation swelling like a rising tide, strengthening without cease.

Envy was hard to conceal in his heart; he took it that Shen Mu had gained these benefits from entering the Dao on his Yao Pool, never knowing that Shen Mu's continual rise in cultivation came not from entering the Dao, but from his recasting of the Yao Pool and the Yao Terrace within his own heavenly palaces.

Shen Mu's Mystic Body Three Cores Art housed nineteen heavenly palaces, and the recasting of a single heavenly palace's Yao Terrace and Yao Pool alone would bring no small rise in cultivation and dharma power, let alone the recasting of the Yao Terrace and Yao Pool of all nineteen heavenly palaces.

And now Shen Mu's Yao Pool and Yao Terrace conformed to the primeval Yao Pool and Yao Terrace of the Ancestral Court, and he had forged eight dragon veins within the Yao Pool!

The wondrous sensation that the completion of those eight dragon veins brought was beyond compare!

When the eight dragon veins and the Yao Pool of his first heavenly palace were completed, his Yao Pool was at once filled with Hongmeng yuan qi, and that qi slowly condensed, turning into Hongmeng Yuan Liquid!

To be sure, the Hongmeng Yuan Liquid formed and dripped very slowly, and it was not the true yuan liquid of the Ancestral Court, yet the rise in cultivation it brought was plain to see! And beyond that, he possessed nineteen heavenly palaces, plus one Yao Terrace and Yao Sea within his spirit fetus's Ancestral Court, equal to twenty Yao Terraces and Yao Seas, and the rise in cultivation was all the more incomparable.

The rebuilding of the Yao Pool and Yao Terrace brought benefits beyond even this. To possess so many Yao Pools and Yao Terraces meant that his rate of yuan qi recovery was terrifying, his fighting time longer, and the rise in his strength likewise terrifying!

Langxuan Divine Emperor took Shen Mu for one who had gained enormous benefit from entering the Dao on his Yao Pool, never imagining that Shen Mu's ambition went further still: Shen Mu meant to remake the Yao Pool realm itself, to fuse the Dao Realm perfectly with the two systems of heavenly palaces and Heavenly Court!

To Langxuan and the other Ten Tianzuns this was reform, but to the whole of heaven and earth, it was no more than setting right what had gone wrong.

Suddenly Shen Mu opened his eyes and smiled, and looking at Langxuan Divine Emperor before him, bowed with clasped hands and said: "Thank you, Dao-brother, for guarding my Dao.

" Langxuan Divine Emperor's eye corner twitched.

He forced out a smile and said: "Mu Tianzun comprehended the Dao upon my Yao Terrace. Had any mishap befallen him, my sin would have been great.

" Shen Mu laughed heartily, then of a sudden reined in his smile and said gravely: "Just now, when I entered the Dao, the eight dragon veins of the Yao Pool broke once.

They will surely break again.

The great thing beneath the earth will certainly root out the Yao Pool's dragon veins entirely and destroy this place! Divine Emperor, two-tenths of the Yao Pool's output to me, and I will find that great thing for you.

How does Divine Emperor consider this offer?

" Langxuan Divine Emperor flew into a rage and shouted: "You said one-tenth of the Hongmeng Yuan Liquid before, so why is it now two-tenths?

" No sooner had his voice fallen than violent shaking came from beneath the Yao Pool; with a great boom, Langxuan Divine Emperor hurriedly turned to look at the Yao Pool, and saw the eight jade mountain ranges abruptly split apart! Each mountain range had broken into three or five pieces, as though some monstrous creature below the earth had raised its claws and torn the Yao Pool's dragon veins apart with a single swipe.

Langxuan Divine Emperor's eye corner jumped wildly; he urged his spirit-consciousness eye, trying to find the source of the attack. Yet though he searched the heavens and the earth, he could not find whence the attack had come. "Times change.

" Shen Mu said mildly: "Had Divine Emperor agreed before I entered the Dao, I would have taken only one-tenth.

At that time I had not yet entered the Dao and still had need of Divine Emperor, so my price was low. Now that I have entered the Dao, I no longer need ask anything of Divine Emperor, so my price is fair and just.

If Divine Emperor hesitates again, my price will rise.

" He raised two fingers, and the third finger was about to rise.

Langxuan Divine Emperor's expression flickered between light and dark; Shen Mu's third finger was rising, but in that very moment Langxuan Divine Emperor hurriedly seized that third finger and laughed: "Mu Tianzun, Alliance Master Mu, two-tenths it is!

Now can you tell me what the great thing beneath the earth is?

" Shen Mu laughed heartily, curled all his fingers, came to the edge of the terrace, and said with a smile: "That great thing beneath the earth wants to steal the great Dao of the Yao Pool and Yao Terrace and absorb the Yao Pool's power to aid its own revival. Beneath the earth lies a great coffin! When the coffin attacked the eight dragon veins just now, the coffin lid opened, and I saw a terrifying sight issue from within the coffin, a radiance most intense!

" Langxuan Divine Emperor looked that way, but could see no coffin there, and could not help doubting: "Where is this great coffin?

" Shen Mu extended a finger and touched his brow, saying in a low voice: "I will lend you a bit of my power, so that through my eyes you may see! " Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyes went wide, and at once he saw a horrifying scene!