Chapter 1591 — The Myth Crumbles

The strength he displayed was peerless, even above Xiao Heavenly Venerable's!

Another variable on the golden ship was Shen Mu.

At this moment, Shen Mu drew his sword.

The sword was the Tribulation Sword.

When the Tribulation Sword emerged, its sword light was not as magnificent as Ka皇's Sword Dao, nor was its power comparable to Xiao Heavenly Venerable's or Hao Heavenly Venerable's—yet it forced the Great Emperor to take notice.

Because Shen Mu's Tribulation Sword seemed to target his weaknesses specifically!

His sword did not stab toward the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body nor attack the Great Emperor's divine consciousness. Instead, every strike landed with perfect precision upon the Dao fruits of the Dao tree.

Shen Mu seemed to have studied his cultivation method for a million years, familiar with every variation of his divine powers, clear on the flaws and deficiencies of his Dao.

This sword was the Sword of Breaking Tribulation, specifically for breaking the Dao—even his Dao fruit bore wounds under the Tribulation Sword's attacks!

This strike of Shen Mu's came from the Cloud Heavenly Venerable's teaching.

The Cloud Heavenly Venerable had thoroughly studied the Great Emperor's Dao techniques, even compensating for the Great Emperor's deficiencies. The one who understood the Great Emperor best was not the Great Emperor himself, nor Xiao Heavenly Venerable, his old rival—it was him.

After Shen Mu communicated with the Cloud Heavenly Venerable, he entered the Dao in his dreams, researching the Great Emperor's weaknesses.

In this battle, Shen Mu did not represent himself—he represented the Cloud Heavenly Venerable's achievement from a million years of suppression!

He would vindicate the Cloud Heavenly Venerable, letting the Great Emperor know that his ability to defeat the Cloud Heavenly Venerable relied merely on his six-billion-year accumulation!

The splendor of this battle was clearly visible throughout the entire Yuanworld. Across the myriad worlds and heavens of the Yuanworld, deities and demon gods raised their heads, watching this scene in the untouchable heights, their faces showing obsession and shock.

In Jingping, Emperor Ling Yuxiu of Yanxiu in the Upper Capital led the civil and military officials out of the court hall, gazing upward.

They did not know who was fighting, nor who was fighting for them.

The golden ship spanned the sky, the battle fierce and magnificent, allowing the soldiers of the Thirty-Three Heavens of Wuyou Township—who were being pursued relentlessly by the Heavenly Court's armies—to finally rest for a brief while, straightening the blood-stained armor on their bodies, washing the blood from their divine weapons.

Wiping blood and tears from their faces, as they bid farewell to fallen comrades, they too saw that scene in the ultimate void.

Some were numb, some filled with longing, some whose blood boiled at this battle!

Gradually, some began to cheer, courage and strength born in their hearts!

They recognized Kaiser's sword light; they recognized Kaiser's Dao.

Their leader was still fighting, had never abandoned them. Along the way they had endured countless hardships, slaughters, and struggles, had once felt despair, given up, even entertained thoughts of surrender.

Until they saw the sword light piercing through from the ultimate void!

In the ultimate void, in the Great Luo Heaven, though the battle was incomparably fierce, it was brief and hurried.

Kaiser's sword pierced through the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body, entering from the space between the brows. The Sword Dao poured in like a waterfall through the wound between the brows into the body, the sword light almost forming a Sword Dao tree within the Heavenly Emperor's flesh!

In terms of power, he was inferior to both Xiao Heavenly Venerable and Hao Heavenly Venerable—but in terms of attack power, he was still number one under heaven!

Yet the next moment, the divine consciousness Dao fruit of the divine consciousness Dao tree burst forth with dazzling Dao radiance, piercing through his chest. Countless beams of Dao radiance, like spears, penetrated his body, striking his Dao flower until it withered!

On the other side, Hao Heavenly Venerable's Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel cycled through front and back, howling as it rotated, transforming into great seals that forcibly passed through the divine consciousness Dao tree's branches and leaves, pressing onto the Dao tree.

The Way of Primordial Beginning and the Way of Guixu erupted simultaneously. On the branches and leaves of the divine consciousness Dao tree, the imprints of his Myriad Ways Heavenly Wheel appeared everywhere.

The imprints transformed into divine powers, and the next moment they exploded—countless branches and leaves shattered and flew!

Yet at the same time, the Great Emperor thrust a finger through his forehead. Terrifying power erupted; the back of Hao Heavenly Venerable's skull burst open in a great hole, brain matter splattering across the Zixiao Hall behind his head!

Xiao Heavenly Venerable attacked the Great Emperor's divine consciousness Dao fruit. Empowered by the Lingxiao Hall, he gathered qi and Dao, transforming into an Imperial Sword, slashing down upon the Dao fruit!

He was determined to sever the Great Emperor's Dao fruit, cutting him down an entire major realm!

His swordsmanship was inferior to Kaiser's, and inferior to Shen Mu's—but as a Heavenly Emperor who had shaken the world for a million years, his sword was full of tyranny and majesty. As the sword fell, the Dao fruit actually detached from the tree!

Xiao Heavenly Venerable's heart leaped with joy, then immediately showed an expression of shock and terror.

He saw a scene beyond belief.

"My companion supreme treasure!"

He had just let out this roar when a sword light shot from the Dao fruit, piercing through him. Xiao Heavenly Venerable flew backward with a howl, pinned beneath the eaves of a great hall on the golden ship.

At the same time, Shen Mu's Tribulation Sword struck the Great Emperor's Dao fruit. The sword light flickered, becoming incomparably fine, wrapping around the Dao fruit with swift slashes.

That cyan Dao fruit could not resist his sword light; the Dao patterns and Dao chains on the surface of the Dao fruit rapidly disintegrated, and the Dao fruit itself swiftly shrank.

Crack!

The Great Emperor punched out, and Shen Mu's entire body exploded, reduced to powder along with his Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury domain!

The Great Emperor stood on the golden ship, shaking the blood from his hand, standing with hands clasped behind his back.

Outside the ship, the Goddess of Great Simplicity rang the Great Bell with resonant clangs. The bell's sound reverberated—then a branch of the Dao tree pierced through from between her brows.

The Goddess of Great Simplicity exploded, transforming into the Qi of Great Simplicity that rampaged through the Divine Consciousness Great Luo Heaven. Her shrill voice cried out: "Great Emperor, you cannot kill me!"

The Great Emperor paid it no mind, looking at the people on the ship who had no strength left to fight, feeling somewhat desolate: "A million years, and you are still so pitiful. I never expected that even now, I remain the invincible myth..."

Shen Mu restored his fleshly body, reformed his spirit fetus and divine treasury, panting heavily.

Kaiser was covered in blood, struggling to stand, refusing to fall.

Xiao Heavenly Venerable was pinned beneath the eaves, looking at the great hole in his chest, the opening filled with the Qi of Primordial Beginning, his face ashen.

Hao Heavenly Venerable lay face-up on the deck, his eyes vacant, the phantom of the Zixiao Hall behind his head flickering in and out, the great hole in the back of his skull still oozing steaming brain matter.

Shen Mu glanced around, grinned, his teeth covered in blood.

"Juyu." A cold, clear voice came from behind the Great Emperor.