Chapter 1653 — The Twilight of That Heavenly Venerable

Huotian Zun let out a long cry: "Among the Longhan Nine Heavenly Venerables, Haotian Zun is the strongest—but I am not the slightest bit inferior!"

Zushen Wang and Xutian Zun were greatly shaken, retreating step by step under his assault.

After Huotian Zun slew Nandi Zhuque, his strength in that year had leapt into the top three of the Ten Heavenly Venerables. Yet Zushen Wang had obtained Tiangong's physical body, and Xutian Zun had obtained half of the Youdu Great Dao, so they believed Huotian Zun's strength was far inferior to theirs. The two of them had come together, certain they could capture him with ease.

But the cruelty of reality exceeded their expectations.

Now, they were the lambs awaiting slaughter—Huotian Zun was the hunter!

The more Huotian Zun fought, the more elated he became. His long cries never ceased, various divine abilities flowing freely, effortlessly at his fingertips. His Dao heart had swept away its earlier dejection, gradually approaching clarity and the tendency to advance further!

So long as he slew Zushen Wang and Xutian Zun, then joined hands with Taichu to kill Haotian Di, he would surely be greatly favored by Taichu and become the unparalleled powerful minister, the pillar of the state!

Just then, he suddenly sensed an incomparably intense peril. Before he could react, a Guixu Abyss suddenly appeared within the layers of flame wheels behind his head!

The moment that Guixu Abyss appeared, it swept up the Dao fire and devoured the Dao fruits from the layers of flame wheels behind his head, drawing them into the abyss!

Not only that—even the Heavenly Court behind his head could not remain stable, and it too began to fall toward the abyss!

Behind his head was also a ring formed of the heavens, and at this moment it too was falling toward the Guixu. The entire heavens began to burn, stars falling one after another, flowing into the abyss!

That abyss was like a bottomless pit, impossible to fill.

Huotian Zun was horrified. He forcibly severed the layers of flame wheels behind his head, even abandoning all living beings within those heavens, and charged forward, struggling free from the Guixu Abyss's entanglement.

His cultivation was greatly damaged. He suddenly turned around and saw that the Guixu Abyss was not a divine ability, but a true Guixu, forcibly moved here by someone with immense magical power!

Within the Guixu was the palace of Empress Dihou. In the palace, a woman lay languidly upon a jade couch, her jade body draped across it, exceedingly comfortable, smiling at Huotian Zun's panic. It was clearly Empress Dihou's face.

But the black mole between her brows revealed her identity—Madam Yuanmu!

"Yulangjun, how do you find this palace's methods?"

Madam Yuanmu's sandalwood-scented small mouth opened slightly. At that moment, a man's figure appeared in the palace, holding a spiritual pill between thumb and forefinger, gently placing it between Madam Yuanmu's lips.

Jingping Danshi, known as the Jade-Faced Medicine King, with miraculous hands that brought spring back to life—he was the world's finest physician, having refined the supreme Dao of medicine. He was renowned throughout the world for having healed Yuedian Zun's Dao wound.

He was exceedingly handsome and elegant, even surpassing Yin Tianzi.

The alchemist attended to Madam Yuanmu as she swallowed the spiritual pill, observed for a moment, then said with a smile: "Madam, after this pill, your Dao wound will be fully healed. Your servant should take his leave..."

Madam Yuanmu shot him a glance and scolded playfully: "Why are you in such a hurry to leave? I heard people say you are Mutian Zun's elder. Do you think Mutian Zun still lacks motherly love? Does my lord wish to find him a stepmother or a step-grandmother? When I see you, I feel that Mutian Zun was originally nothing but chaff."

The alchemist felt greatly overwhelmed and hastily said: "Madam, you must not! His Majesty will have my head... Huotian Zun is coming to kill."

Madam Yuanmu giggled and soared into the air, flying over his head. The alchemist looked up and immediately his nose bled profusely. He thought to himself: What a demoness indeed.

"Shen'er has been mingling with her for so long, and yet he can still maintain his virgin body—truly remarkable!"

The alchemist could not help but admire Shen Mu immensely: "Were it me, I could not hold out!"

Madam Yuanmu reached out and grasped. From the abyss, twin lotuses rose slowly, falling into her hand. She laughed: "Huotian Zun, my Haosheng sent this palace to see you on your way."

Huotian Zun was greatly shaken. In that instant of their earlier clash, he could sense that Madam Yuanmu's combat strength was absolutely not inferior to his—it was even stronger!

Madam Yuanmu, at her leisure, smoothed the hair at her temples. Suddenly she raised the lotus—the lotus closed and transformed into a great hammer, smashing down toward Huotian Zun!

BOOM—

When the lotus fell, it bloomed as it spun, and the terrifying Dao of Guixu erupted!