Chapter 748 — Shaking the Heavenly Court
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Niu Sanduo's furious voice came down from midair. "Making trouble! Making trouble! How many times did I tell you two on the road to hold yourselves in check, not to stir up trouble — and trouble is exactly what you stir up! Do you really think Old Ox has no temper? When my ox temper rises, I don't care who you are..."
"Stop pressing!"
Ling Tianzun stood beside his ox leg, watching in terror the place where Shen Mu and Kaihuang had fallen — a great pit a hundred zhang deep had already been pressed out there — and hastily raised her head. "Press any harder and you will crush them to death!"
But Niu Sanduo's body was too tall; her voice could not reach him up there.
Just then a clarion voice rang out, like the cry of a goshawk. "Who dares make trouble in the Heavenly Court?"
Swift fire like a meteor: a streak of flame came hurtling, growing larger and larger, like a sun smashing toward Niu Sanduo!
Niu Sanduo reached out and seized it, crushing that sun to powder, then suddenly let out a great roar.
Mooo—
The roar rolled on and on; the Great Sun Star Lord who had come flying, though a born divinity, was struck by the savage sound waves and could not keep his footing, hurtling backward.
He was, after all, not the counterfeit Great Sun Star Lord of later ages. In an instant he shook his wings, transformed, and revealed his true body: pinions spread in layer upon layer, fiery feathers linking with the sky, wings a hundred li long, three sharp claws glinting cold. A beat of those wings and the claws were above the Jade Pool, claws to split skull and brain, reaching for Niu Sanduo's head.
Niu Sanduo hurled a punch; the sky gave a muffled thud; the Great Sun Star Lord shrieked and went tumbling far away. A burst of fire flared on a sun in the distance — he had been smashed into that sun and for a long while could not rise.
Elsewhere, from one heavenly palace after another of the Heavenly Court, ancient gods and demigods rose into the air one after another and hurried toward the Jade Pool. The aura of the gods of remote antiquity shrouded heaven and earth and twisted space itself, and someone was heard crying aloud, "Where does this vermin come from, that he dares run wild in the Heavenly Court?"
Niu Sanduo's ox nature had taken hold of his head; he paid it no mind. He leaped, sprang into the sky, and let fly with fists and feet, laying bare every scrap of his martial Dao cultivation and unleashing it in full, glorious flow.
He cared nothing for divine abilities; he simply blasted through with fist and foot. One punch ground out the divine abilities of these ancient gods and demigods — sheer force crushing all, heedless of the power of their arts. Even ancient gods such as the sun, the moon, and the Five Luminaries had no strength to resist before him; their divine abilities were simply blasted apart!
Niu Sanduo's attainments in the martial Dao were exceedingly high and his speed extreme. The running speed of a martial Dao powerhouse is beyond the reach of any divine-power wielder, and he was moreover a powerhouse of the Lingxiao realm, second only to the Emperor's Throne. To catch his figure with the eye alone was all but impossible!
In the sky an ancient god grunted, took a punch to the face, and plunged down headfirst, his great head stuck in the Jade Pool and his body and legs standing straight up, dead or alive unknown.
Another ancient god was struck down into the Heavenly River, smashing up waves that reared to the heavens and tossed the painted pleasure boats one after another, to ride upon wave crests ten thousand zhang high, drawing a chorus of screams.
Still other ancient gods, in the blink of an eye, took more punches, palms, and kicks than could be counted; with every blow their bodies bent, their faces twisted, their minds went blank.
By the time they came to their senses, they were lying in a great pit, beneath them the palace they had crushed in their fall.