Chapter 1553 — The Entanglement Between Father and Son

Consort Qiang's flight caught everyone off guard. Zu, Xu, Gong, Shi and the rest turned ashen. Among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, she alone knew the way across the river; with her gone, were the others to be trapped here until they died?

Merely aging a day at a time was already unbearable!

They would never make it out; they would die of old age along the way.

"She can't get away.

" Xiao Tianzun spoke indifferently.

"Here, no one can get away. Deal with Mu Tianzun first.

" Hao Tianzun shot him a glance, his eyes flickering. So he knows some of the secrets of the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City, and that is why he is sure the Great Emperor cannot escape. Where did he learn them?

Though Shen Mu had revealed a stunning, peerless strength in this moment, he still paid it no mind.

To him, Shen Mu was not his match; his match was Xiao Tianzun, who had not stirred from first to last!

He alone knew how powerful Xiao Tianzun was! The gap between Shen Mu and himself was still vast, but Xiao Tianzun struck him as unfathomably deep.

"Apart from Mu Tianzun's strange tree, there is another way to withstand the onslaught of the Calamity of Destruction. Father, have you reached that step as well? " Hao Tianzun said silently in his heart, "In the long river of history, I have defeated not only you, but Yun Tianzun, Yue Tianzun and Ling Tianzun, and the Great Emperor as well. I can defeat you not just once, but a second time, a third time—I can even kill you!

" The two stood silently on the Dao Tree. Hao Tianzun's gaze shifted from Xiao Tianzun's back, while Xiao Tianzun watched the fierce battle as the Heavenly Venerables besieged Shen Mu.

His face was aged, but his gaze was deep and terrible. When Hao Tianzun's eyes left his back, the light in his own leaped. "Worthy of my son—he too has thought of a way to withstand the Calamity of Destruction. Or rather, he thought of it long ago, and so he has nothing to fear.

The Heavenly Court. . . " A mist of Taichu qi swirled in his eyes.

"Only by reaching the Heavenly Court realm of thirty-six heavenly palaces can one become as powerful as a Dao-achiever.

Once we reach that step, we shall be Dao-achievers who attained the Dao through force.

So long as we do not fall into the river, the Calamity of Destruction upon its surface is utterly harmless to those who attain the Dao by force!

" To unify the thirty-six heavenly palaces in a short time—he could already do it. And judging by Hao Tianzun's reaction, Hao Tianzun should be able to reach that step as well!

"This final duel among the Heavenly Venerables can only be between us, father and son!

" Below, the Ancestor God King, Fire Tianzun, Gong Tianzun, Shi Qiluo, Consort Yan, Xu Tianzun and the Langxuan Divine Emperor were locked in a fierce, tangled battle with Shen Mu.

The Ancestor God King's white hair streamed as he unfurled his Heavenly Dao domain, majestic and awe-inspiring. Fire Tianzun's twenty-eight layers of Dao-fire heavens bloomed, roaring and revolving. Xu Tianzun unfurled the demonic Dao domain of Youdu.

The Langxuan Divine Emperor was the strongest in combat, his Taichu divine abilities reaching perfection, and he posed the greatest threat to Shen Mu.

Shi Qiluo joined forces with Consort Yan, the two of them unleashing the Guixu divine ability in perfect harmony!

Gong Tianzun blew her horn, swelling the blood and qi of the others and doubling the fighting strength of the aged ones! Even so, facing Shen Mu's thirty-layered sword Dao, they all found it hard going!

No matter from what angle they attacked Shen Mu, they were contending with him head-on. Though Shen Mu had drawn his divine treasury domain back into his body, its effects remained. Every attack of theirs was blocked by Shen Mu outright.

He seemed to have countless arms, and the sword in his hand seemed to become countless swords.

What were three heads and six arms, what were a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, compared to his primal fetus divine treasury domain now?

Within his domain, he was the sole sovereign, a four-faced god with no blind spot!

Their divine abilities seemed to be seen through by Shen Mu; any divine ability would have its weakness found by him in an instant! That Mu Tianzun established his Dao through divine ability was no empty saying! The Shen Mu of today had an attainment in divine ability like an inborn gift.

Even the Dao-entering divine abilities of the Heavenly Venerables held no secret for him; even the Heavenly Venerables' heavenly palace systems and divine treasury systems were riddled with weaknesses in his eyes!

When divine ability became Shen Mu's great Dao, there was no Dao art or divine ability under heaven that could surpass his! Add to that the sword in Shen Mu's hand, so powerful that it even surpassed a Tianzun treasure, and the pressure on the seven Heavenly Venerables grew greater and greater.

In the past Shen Mu's cultivation had been far below theirs, his body less formidable, but now, assailed by the Calamity of Destruction, they were inferior to Shen Mu in body, in cultivation, in primordial spirit, in divine consciousness! Shen Mu was the strongest among them! Eight figures battled on the ruins of the Jade Capital City between two long rivers of chaos, their forms darting swiftly, divine abilities emerging in endless succession.

Even for Heavenly Venerables, the aftershocks of their battle could not break out of the ruins, swallowed and drowned by the chaotic qi upon the rivers of chaos!

Crack— A teaching whip suddenly flew up and lashed Xu Tianzun on the head. Her body convulsed violently; her primordial spirit was whipped out of her body, spirit and flesh torn apart! Shen Mu's sword flew at her, aimed straight at the space between her brows.

Fire Tianzun threw himself in front of Xu Tianzun, hands clasped, and the twenty-eight layers of Dao-fire heavens roared and swelled!

The sword light hissed through the twenty-eight heavens. Startled, Fire Tianzun hurried to dodge.

The sword light flashed, and one of the two long horns atop Xu Tianzun's head was severed! Gong Tianzun swept her whip, coiling it around Shen Mu's body, but in an instant the long whip broke inch by inch.

Shen Mu's sword light slashed down; Gong Tianzun tumbled and rolled to dodge as streaks of sword light circled above and below her. Her divine consciousness erupted, but the sword light shifted and became innate primal qi, shattering layer upon layer of illusion!

"My life is over! " No sooner had the thought crossed Gong Tianzun's mind than the Ancestor God King roused his Heavenly Dao supreme treasure, which became a round precious wheel that thundered upright before her, spinning into wind. Streak after streak of innate primal qi transformed from sword light stabbed at the Heavenly Dao precious wheel. The muscles of the Ancestor God King's body twitched in succession as he felt wave upon wave of terrifying force pass from the wheel into him, nearly blasting his body apart.

Toot—toot— Gong Tianzun rolled to her feet and roused her horn.

Its sole tooth flew out—she had not been able to keep even her last tooth. The Ancestor God King's blood and qi surged; at last he blocked the blow.

His hands twisted, and the Heavenly Dao precious wheel split apart, about to become a Heavenly Dao great cauldron to suppress Shen Mu. But in the very instant the wheel split, Shen Mu's palm pressed heavily upon it. The Ancestor God King gave a muffled grunt, and forty-eight supreme treasures transformed from the Heavenly Dao flew out in all directions.

The Ancestor God King hurriedly leaped into the air, his Heavenly Dao domain blooming to fix each Heavenly Dao supreme treasure in place, about to call them back.

At that moment Shen Mu turned his palm over, and a Heavenly Dao supreme treasure appeared in his hand! "The Tiangang Dao Soldier!