Chapter 748 — Shaking the Heavenly Court
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"Niu Ben is this strong..."
Beside Yu Tianzun, Yin Tianzi's eyes went wide; he stared blankly at Niu Sanduo, whose head was thrust up into the clouds, his eyeballs on the verge of bursting from their sockets.
He had known that this fellow called 'Niu Ben' was strong — the man had nearly crushed the great Kun into a fall the moment he appeared — but he had never imagined that this unremarkable-looking Niu Ben could be this strong!
So strong that even the sky could not bear his aura; so strong that with his very first move he had cowed the entire Jade Pool Grand Gathering!
In the Jade Pool, those giant turtles that bore sea islands on their backs as they swam were demigods too, born of mighty bloodlines, descendants of the ancient gods, and full-grown besides, their strength immense. Yet before Niu Ben's aura these great turtles did not dare so much as show their heads; they drew in their limbs and their heads and sank into the sea, leaving only the divine-power wielders on the islands to scramble madly for the summits, lest they drown within the Jade Pool.
"As strong as an ancient god..."
Yu Tianzun and several other Tianzuns went pale, raising their heads to gaze up at this wrathful god-devil, a hundred feelings churning in their hearts.
Yu Tianzun especially found the taste in his heart hard to swallow.
For the sake of this Jade Pool Grand Gathering he had run everywhere, greasing every level of the Heavenly Court, conferring with the Empress, and bribing those close to the Tongtian Emperor who had a voice, so that they might put in a good word for him before the Heavenly Emperor.
Nor was that all: he had needed to build great momentum, to draw young talents from every heaven and every world of the lower realm, great and small, to come and take part in this Jade Pool Grand Gathering.
Only by borrowing the force of the Heavenly Court Grand Gathering had he been able to stage the Jade Pool Grand Gathering at all, and make it a roaring, bustling affair.
And this time, he meant likewise to use the great matter he was to announce to gather every eye upon himself, and by that opportunity to become at a stroke the leader of all divine-power wielders — even of the demigods.
He would draw every race under heaven, the descendants of the ancient gods included, into his own camp!
Thus half the fruits of the Heavenly Court Grand Gathering would fall into his hands and become the capital for his rise.
Yet never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that at this Jade Pool Grand Gathering two young men would suddenly appear and fall to fighting, displaying a peerless brilliance that left the divine-power wielders who had come to the gathering stunned beyond measure — and stole his own thunder.
And what he had imagined even less was that now, from who knew where, a powerhouse to rival an ancient god had leaped forth. Whether the Jade Pool Grand Gathering could still go on, he had no idea at all.
If this powerhouse lost his temper and smashed the Jade Pool to bits, would not all his own toil be poured away like water?
Niu Sanduo revealed his incomparably mighty, sinew-knotted body, smoke jetting from his nostrils and fire from his eyes. He raised a palm and pressed it down upon the empty air; before it had even touched Shen Mu and Kaihuang, the two of them felt a terrifying pressure bearing down on them!
Bang. Bang.
Two muffled reports rang out; the divine abilities of Shen Mu and Kaihuang collapsed of themselves, and their bodies fell from midair, pinned dead to the ground by the invisible pressure.
The earth rumbled and sank; the two were flattened spread-eagled, sinking deeper and deeper, unable to move, both appalled to the core.
"You dare hit him?"
Shen Mu, shocked and furious, strained to lift his head. "You hit him, you hit me — you dead ox..."