Chapter 1633 — Victory and Defeat in the Space of a Lightning Flash

The divine whip was like a python, constricting tighter and tighter, squeezing the Heavenly Lord's neck thinner and thinner!

Shen Mu turned a blind eye. The stele forest around him collapsed, leaving only the ground beneath his feet utterly unmoved.

"Langxuan, back when you and I explored together the perils beneath the Ancestral Court's Jade Pool, and encountered the master of that Dao Fruit of yours, I greatly admired your domineering spirit."

Shen Mu said unhurriedly, "You refused the Dao Fruit master's temptation and struck him down into the destruction kalpa of the prehistoric universe. At that time, you were full of spirit and vigor—how magnificent! Why is it that today you have lost that sharpness and become Hao Tianzun's dog? And Hao Tianzun has become the dog of the young master of the Miluo Palace—you are not even his equal. What is the reason that has made you so dispirited?"

"Mu Tianzun, you will never become one of the Ten Tianzuns."

Langxuan tightened the divine whip and sneered, "If you became one of the Ten Tianzuns, you would understand my choice. For us Ten Tianzuns, there are no ideals, no aspirations—only interests. For my own interests, I suppressed the Dao Fruit master and forcibly devoured his Dao Fruit; I can also, for my own interests, pledge allegiance to Hao Tianzun. By the same reasoning, Hao Tianzun will also, for his own interests, pledge allegiance to the young master of the Miluo Palace!"

Shen Mu's expression darkened. "I understand now..."

Before his words had faded, suddenly within his Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain, forty-nine Heavenly Dao Supreme Treasures fell down. Accompanying the Heavenly Dao Supreme Treasures in their descent were the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform, and upon that platform, the two God-Slaying Mystic Blades!

The moment the God-Slaying Mystic Blades appeared, the other forty-nine Heavenly Dao Supreme Treasures rumbled, and the Heavenly Dao quaked!

The God-Slaying Mystic Blades were precisely the fiftieth Heavenly Dao—Heaven's Slaughter!

The mystic blades appeared, completing the fifty Heavenly Daos!

The Heavenly Lord immediately sensed those fifty Heavenly Dao Supreme Treasures. He secretly channeled his mind, and the fifty Heavenly Dao Supreme Treasures came shrieking out of Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, slashing toward the golden rope above his head and the divine whip coiled around his neck!

The Karma Fire Merit Stele beneath Langxuan Divine Emperor's rear immediately collapsed. His feet touched the ground. His primal spirit turned in that instant and struck, attacking both the Heavenly Lord and A'Chou and the Earth Earl simultaneously!

This strike was magnificent and overwhelming, bringing the Dao Realm divine ability of the Primordial Dao to its absolute limit!

At the same time, his Great Heavenly Court spun with a roar, and waves of incomparably terrifying power poured into his physical body, mobilizing all his cultivation to attack Shen Mu!

He would not only slay the Heavenly Lord and A'Chou—he would also slay Shen Mu!

Yet in the very instant he made his move, the spinning Dao Fruit suddenly halted. Langxuan Divine Emperor immediately felt that his comprehension of the Primordial Dao had suddenly vanished without a trace, not a shred remaining!

Only the Divine Origin Finger, which he had comprehended through his insights into the Primordial Dao, remained. Yet at this moment, the Dao Realm divine ability of the Primordial Dao that his primal spirit deployed, and the thirty-fifth heaven Heavenly Dao Realm divine ability that his physical body deployed, had all lost their power!

The Divine Origin Finger was his first heaven of the Dao Realm, a supreme Primordial divine ability he had comprehended himself. After that, he had long been unable to comprehend a second heaven.

Until he and Shen Mu entered the fragments of the Great Luo Heaven beneath the Jade Pool, and obtained that Dao Fruit.

After obtaining the Dao Fruit, his comprehension of the Primordial Dao Realm was as if aided by the gods. He comprehended one heaven of the Dao Realm after another, deducing the Primordial Dao to the thirty-fifth heaven of the Dao Realm!

This level far surpassed his father Primordial and his younger brother Hao Tianzun—he could be called first under heaven, only one step from Primordial's accomplishment of the Dao!

But now, all of this was like a flower in a mirror, a moon in water—gone without a trace!

In his desperation he was about to change his move, but Shen Mu's Kalpa Sword had already left its sheath and arrived at his brow. It trembled gently, and a sword-light stabbed into his mind!

This sword-light split into five, transforming into five red ropes.

Yet the Kalpa Sword itself did not pierce through his brain. Instead it turned, driving straight in, passing through the Southern Heavenly Gate of his heavenly court, destroying all heavenly court structures along the way, shaking the Heavenly River within the court into two great waves, and piercing the Jade Pool so that it split apart to either side!

This sword cut the Jade Capital City in two, and in the next instant arrived at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall!

Within the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, Langxuan Divine Emperor's primal spirit turned!

"Divine Origin Finger!"

His finger met the sword-light, its power erupting. It was indeed worthy of being called the foremost divine ability among the Ten Tianzuns of that year—simple though it was, its might was truly terrifying!

But that sword-light met the power of the Divine Origin Finger and advanced with unstoppable force, completely shattering the power of this strike!

Chi—

The Kalpa Sword stabbed in along the fingertip of his primal spirit, shooting out from the last joint of his thumb, transforming into a thread of light that pierced into his primal spirit's brain.

Langxuan Divine Emperor's primal spirit stood frozen. His physical body also stood frozen.

At the same instant, that Dao Fruit smashed through the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and, with a dong, landed in Langxuan Divine Emperor's primal spirit brain, spinning at flying speed—and was precisely pierced through by the Kalpa Sword in one strike!

At the same time, behind Shen Mu, Hao Tianzun appeared. The thirty-five heavenly palaces behind his head transformed into ten thousand heavenly wheels, crashing down with a roar, crushing Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain, and sweeping Shen Mu together with his Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain into the ten thousand heavenly wheels!

"Hao Tianzun!"

Shen Mu's startled voice came from within the ten thousand heavenly wheels, and then his figure passed through the wheels, about to break free.

"Mu Tianzun, you are always one move short." Hao Tianzun's palm pressed down, forcibly suppressing him into the heavenly wheels.

Before the ten thousand heavenly wheels, within Langxuan's heavenly court, the Dao Fruit in Langxuan's primal spirit spun madly, completely erasing Langxuan's consciousness and seizing control of his primal spirit.

His primal spirit and heavenly court palaces came shrieking down, preparing to seize Langxuan's physical body.

The Dao Fruit had just taken control of the primal spirit and settled into Langxuan Divine Emperor's physical body, entering the point between his brows, when suddenly five red ropes were revealed hidden between Langxuan Divine Emperor's brows. His primal spirit fell precisely into the red ropes.

The red ropes rapidly tied themselves into a knot, binding Langxuan's primal spirit and the Dao Fruit together.

"Young Master Seven!" A furious roar came from within the Dao Fruit.