Chapter 1438 — Pummeling the Empress

The Taiji Ancient God had at last acted, stretching space without limit and drawing ever closer the distance between Guixu and the Taiji Star Domain! The Empress is a Dao-born ancient god, but like the sacrifice-born ancient gods, the nearer she is to her birthplace the stronger she grows. The other Dao-born ancient gods are the same, such as Tubo and Tiangong, who are strongest within their own birthplaces of Youdu and Xuandu.

Now that Guixu drew near, the Empress's battle power was steadily climbing! At the same time the Shenqi Yu Heavenly Venerable stirred in heart and likewise sensed the coming of Guixu, and could not help great joy.

He too felt his power rising!

Within the Shenqi Yu Heavenly Venerable it was Madam Yuanmu controlling him with her own primordial spirit, and her spirit, like the Empress's, issued from Guixu, of the same source. With Guixu approaching, her strength would naturally keep rising!

The Qiang Heavenly Consort also sensed the breath of Guixu at the first instant, and her face could not help changing.

She hastily looked up and saw above the Taiji Star Domain a long narrow abyss appear, black and fathomless.

At first that abyss was extremely distant, looking from afar like an eye half open and half closed. Yet the abyss was gradually growing larger, not because the abyss itself grew, but because its distance was closing! About the abyss ringed mountains formed of Guixu Abyss Iron, and around it floated dead stars, some broken and ragged, dragged by this suddenly appearing abyss to circle and revolve around it.

Within the abyss two great blossoms were slowly surfacing from the dark.

"Ruined! Those two little wretches have actually summoned Guixu!

" Even the Qiang Heavenly Consort could not help her face changing at this moment, feeling deeply thorned. What she had not expected was that it was not the Empress and Yuanmu who summoned Guixu, but the Taiji Ancient God wielding his own power to draw space close!

Shen Mu also sensed the breath of Guixu, and his face could not help changing.

He had forcibly raised his cultivation to test his strength, to see whether he could contend with a Heavenly Venerable, not to throw his life away. The Guixu Great Abyss is a place that even Tiangong feels dread to behold, deeming it the land where the myriad Daos are ground to extinction.

With this great abyss appearing, the Empress's strength must surge violently, growing stronger the nearer it came.

He had to prove his strength before the Empress's power climbed to its peak.

He did not seek to finish the Empress, nor did he have the power to do so. He only wished to lock wrists with a Heavenly Venerable!

He gave a long howl and his form erupted, every shred of his power bursting forth in that instant!

With his first step he lifted heaven with both hands and pressed down earth, each hand pinching a different seal, transforming into the first heaven of the Dao realm, the Four Revered Seals of Heaven and Earth!

About him the Four Revered Seals formed a domain round as heaven and square as earth, and four god-demon faces emerged, joy, anger, sorrow, and delight, gazing to the four quarters. With his second step a Mysterious Gate of Heaven and Earth appeared behind him, its portal joining sky to land, reaching Xuandu above and Youdu below, borrowing strength from heaven and earth together.

This was the second heaven of the Dao realm.

With his third step the Heavenly River rushed in a mighty torrent, and the Four Polar Heavens emerged, ringing the Mysterious Gate and the Four Revered Seals.

With his fourth step the Daluo Heaven gathered round and took form above, his crowning Daluo Heaven like a splendid canopy. With his fifth step purple blossoms flew forth, one dividing into two, two into four, four into eight, and in a blink painted full the layered heavens.

With the sixth step Youdu pursued the wandering souls, with the seventh the primeval Jade Terrace stood firm in Xuandu. .

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In a fleeting instant Shen Mu strode twenty-six steps in succession, twenty-six heavens of the Dao realm stacked as one, making his aura for a moment matchless.

Swift as lightning and thunder, he raced on, leaving strings of thunderclaps across the White Sand Desert, bearing overwhelming might to arrive before the Empress with crushing force!

"Mu Heavenly Venerable, you truly do not know death! " The Empress was beside herself with rage.

She had already been left by Shen Mu's One-Qi Primordial Dao Roam with robes ruined and her jade body hard to cover, and now Shen Mu, presuming upon crossing into some inexplicable realm, dared to strike even as Guixu arrived.

It was truly courting death!

"You seek death, and I shall grant it!

" The Empress's aura climbed madly, actually hastening Guixu's coming, and she met Shen Mu's blow head on!

At this moment Madam Yuanmu, controlling the Shenqi Yu Heavenly Venerable, was racing through the Taiji mineral veins.

She had already sensed the whereabouts of the Yan Heavenly Consort, and at the same time the Qiang Heavenly Consort could spare no care for the battle between Shen Mu and the Empress and went tracking the Shenqi Yu Heavenly Venerable. Just then a heaven-shaking palpitation came, making even the two Heavenly Venerables turn to look. They saw the Empress spitting blood and flying backward, her jade body pressed to the White Sand Desert and skimming swiftly backward across the desert's face!

The gazes of the two Heavenly Venerables froze.

They saw Shen Mu leaning forward, sliding aslant, swift as streaming light, and in a blink twenty-six great divine arts fell like linked arrows, bombarding the Empress madly! In that brief instant the Empress skidded hundreds of miles, while Shen Mu unleashed his great arts to the final blow and bowed with clasped hands! Boom!

The Empress's jade body lay sprawled as she flew through the air, and the space around her suddenly burst open into a mass of chaotic qi.

Surging waves of chaotic qi spun and erupted, blasting a vast hollow out of the Taiji Star Domain!

"Wretched little thief! " The Empress's furious voice rang out as she charged from the chaotic waves, her robes all but gone. She looked up, only to see Shen Mu leap high, the Other Shore Ark appearing beneath his feet to bear him whistling away in flight.

The Empress in her fury gave chase, but where could she still find that little thief?