Chapter 1591 — The Myth Crumbles

The Moon Heavenly Venerable still found it hard to believe—Ling Heavenly Venerable had appeared before her, alive and in the flesh. She wanted to smile, but the moment the smile surfaced, tears fell with it.

How many years had it been?

How many years since she had lost this old friend?

Their friendship had begun in the early years of the Longhan Era, through the War of the Three Heavenly Courts, fighting and striving side by side, back to back, bathed in blood.

In the final years of Longhan, they had sunk into despair together; then, at the end of the Chiming Era, seeing the withering and decline of the human race, they resolved to emerge once more and do something for their people.

It was these two women who, joining hands, founded the Shanghuang Era!

When the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign gathered the world's demigods, ruled and enslaved all humankind, and dominated the Yuanworld, it was these two women who stepped forward to oppose the Earth Mother, raising up the Southern Shanghuang Heavenly Court and establishing a glorious age that lasted three hundred thousand years, spanning fifteen generations of Shanghuang Heavenly Emperors!

They had supported each other, and the hardships they endured were beyond words—only they themselves understood the taste of it, the bitterness and sorrow.

Ling Heavenly Venerable was the coldest of the two; she devoted nearly all her body and soul to researching the Unchanging Divine Power. In the Way of Creation, her achievements were unmatched by anyone, and the mysteries of the Unchanging Divine Power were built upon the foundation of the Creation Divine Power, demanding all her painstaking effort to study.

Yet it was she who, seeing the misery of the human race after the fall of the Red Emperor Era, resolved to return.

When the Chiming Era collapsed, the Yuanworld fell into chaos, the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign rose, restoring the savage rule of the ancient gods, replacing civilization with blood sacrifice—and the declining human race became the finest offerings.

To be a slave, or to be a sacrifice—that age could be called the darkest period for humankind in the Yuanworld.

It was she who found the Moon Heavenly Venerable and asked her to emerge once more.

Beneath her cold exterior was a burning heart, unable to bear seeing her own people continue to struggle in suffering.

And the Moon Heavenly Venerable, after the death of the Cloud Heavenly Venerable, had been utterly despondent, living in seclusion, originally intending never to emerge again—but Ling Heavenly Venerable's arrival made this woman resolutely break her own vow and emerge once more!

Ling Heavenly Venerable was in truth ill-suited to participate in the struggles for power. Throughout the long Shanghuang Era, it was mostly the Moon Heavenly Venerable who managed everything, supporting the Southern Shanghuang Heavenly Court and contending against the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign of the Northern Shanghuang Heavenly Court.

Without the Moon Heavenly Venerable, Ling Heavenly Venerable would have found it hard to accomplish anything.

Without Ling Heavenly Venerable, the Moon Heavenly Venerable would not have had enough courage to sustain her onward march. Ling Heavenly Venerable was her support, her pillar of strength.

Ling Heavenly Venerable was resolute, the Moon Heavenly Venerable gentle; the two supported each other, making those three hundred thousand years of the Shanghuang Era the most brilliant and dazzling star in history!

Though there were many extraordinary women in this world, they were the legends among legends!

Ling Heavenly Venerable also remembered that battle to eradicate the Earth Mother, when the Moon Heavenly Venerable, to protect her, fell into dire straits and was gravely wounded by the Fire Heavenly Venerable, Hao Heavenly Venerable, Xiao Heavenly Venerable, and others.

She remembered that after that, the Moon Heavenly Venerable no longer appeared, the Dao wound plaguing her continually, refusing to heal for the longest time.

The two of them had supported each other; no one dared touch the Southern Shanghuang. But after the Moon Heavenly Venerable was afflicted by the Dao wound, the Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court grew restless—and finally, when her Unchanging Divine Power reached mastery, they struck her a fatal blow!

She and the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body were trapped within the Unchanging Divine Power; the two great pillars of the Shanghuang Era thus collapsed.

The Shanghuang Heavenly Court fell, and a glorious age shattered, reduced to ruins.

Now, these two women who had propped up the three-hundred-thousand-year splendor of the Shanghuang Era, separated for forty thousand years, were reunited at the source of the Surging River.

They looked at each other; the years had left no trace upon them, and they were still as peerlessly elegant as ever.

There was so much they wanted to say, but for a moment neither knew where to begin.

There were many heroes and extraordinary figures in this world, but those who achieved what these two women had achieved in accomplishment and enterprise could be counted on one's fingers.

The wind blew over the Surging River; the cold, lonely wind from the Great Luo Heaven blew the sunlight above the Surging River until it seemed like golden dust, painting beautiful sand pictures across the sky.

In the Great Luo Heaven, the Sword Dao Great Luo Heaven and the Divine Consciousness Great Luo Heaven clashed violently, making the ultimate void clearly visible. A magnificent golden ship, two towering Dao trees, Dao flowers bursting with billions of sword lights, Dao fruits emitting enchanting Dao radiance—all collided together, fierce and mesmerizing!

In that instant, nearly everyone in the Great Luo Heaven brought out their most powerful means!

Ka皇's Sword Dao Great Luo Heaven was itself thirty-six layers of sword domains; the light erupting from the Sword Dao at this moment made even the sun dim!

Xiao Heavenly Venerable's Lingxiao Hall came from the highest inheritance of the prehistoric universe, a symbol of power and authority. Combined with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and Forty-Seven Treasure Halls, commanding the Way of Primordial Beginning, his single strike made even the ultimate void tremble!

Hao Heavenly Venerable's Myriad Ways Domain condensed, transforming into the Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel. Within the Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel, the Zixiao Hall rotated—this Zixiao Hall from the ancestral court's Jade Capital was the materialization of the life's learning of the four princes of Miluo Palace!

Upon the rotating Zixiao Hall, countless magnificent runes reflected light, falling upon the Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel. The wheel rotated, revealing both front and back faces.

The front face of the Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel was the Way of Primordial Beginning condensed from the power of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces, while the back face was boundless darkness.

Where darkness shrouded, occasionally illuminated by Ka皇's sword light, were another thirty-six heavenly palaces hidden in the dark. The dark Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel was like a massive Guixu, filled with world-destroying destructive power!

Hao Heavenly Venerable had two Heavenly Courts.

In fact, Shen Mu had already discovered this back in the Void of Grand Emptiness.

When the Great Emperor's fleshly body revived and intercepted Hao Heavenly Venerable, in that battle, Hao Heavenly Venerable employed two different Heavenly Court cultivation methods—one based primarily on the Innate Primordial Qi derived from the Way of Primordial Beginning, the other based on the Way of Guixu.

In that battle, the Great Emperor's fleshly body was crippled, and Hao Heavenly Venerable was also severely wounded.

Now, with the Zixiao Hall's empowerment, Hao Heavenly Venerable had unified the two Heavenly Court cultivation methods almost perfectly!