Chapter 844 — The Steward of the Heavenly Tower Library
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His primordial spirit was a toad-shaped demon god, standing upright like a man, a medicine pestle in one hand, a wood-chopping axe in the other, and a wooden stick clamped between its teeth. This demon-god primordial spirit stirred the great Dao of heaven and earth, making the stars of Qingyun Heaven blaze out endlessly and magnifying the power of his divine abilities.
In the briefest of moments, Xiao Chunfeng unleashed several hundred divine powers from different systems, dazzling Shen Mu! These divine powers encompassed the great Dao systems of the three hundred and sixty orthodox gods of the starry circuit, and also included the arts of the Sun Star Lord and the Lunar Star Lord! Each of those starry gods had a different nature of the Great Dao, some even conflicting with one another, yet he could mobilize them at will—clearly the Heavenly Court Dao school had explained all these Great Dao powers through the arts of number and restructured them completely. Not only that, Xiao Chunfeng also used the Great Dao powers of Xuandu, Youdu, and Yuandu.
He quickly discovered that the powers of Youdu were of little use against Shen Mu and were in fact suppressed by him, while Shen Mu was also extremely proficient in the primal-magnetic arts of Yuandu. So he immediately contended with Shen Mu using the Heavenly Dao powers of Xuandu and the starry-circuit divine powers.
The two figures rose higher and higher. In the vault of Qingyun Heaven, even the artificial sun, moon, stars, mansions, and asterisms were stirred into power by his spells and divine arts.
The divine temples on star after star trembled, and beam after beam of light blasted toward Shen Mu! Xiao Chunfeng held the advantage of time and place, like a fish in water.
Somewhere else he might not have been so overwhelmingly powerful, but here in Qingyun Heaven he was almost in an unassailable position!
Dao Lord Lin Xuan looked up at the starry sky, watching the two locked in combat in the River of Stars. In Xiao Chunfeng's hands, every kind of divine power and Dao technique came as if plucked from the air, and Lin Xuan could not help feeling a thousand emotions surge in his heart.
"This is a true heir of the Dao school. " Xiao Chunfeng was what moved him the greatest. This journey to Qingyun Heaven had shaken him more than anything else, nearly overturning his whole view of the world.
The Jingping Dao school had always prided itself on being the true orthodox school of the world, yet it had never occurred to anyone that it was founded by outcast disciples of the Heavenly Court's Dao school, for the very purpose of opposing the Heavenly Court.
If so, the Jingping Dao school was actually no different from its old enemy, the Heavenly Sage Sect—both had the same goal, and yet the Dao school and the Heavenly Sage Sect had fought for twenty thousand years for no reason at all. And the false heavenly phenomena that shrouded Jingping had been created by Qingyun Sect, a branch of the Dao school, which wounded his Dao heart even more. Now, seeing the true ultimate arts of the Dao school, he beheld the true beauty of the arts of number and the true transmission of the Dao school—the impact on him could well be imagined.
"Cult Master Shen has met his match. " He had just thought this when the River of Stars in the sky suddenly began to turn. All the stars swirled and revolved as if beyond control; at the river's center, a great sun gathered!
Then all the stars formed the body of the Heavenly Duke. The Daoists of Qingyun Heaven looked up in horror.
The Heavenly Duke was made of light—the artificial stars had actually formed an artificial Heavenly Duke! "Who is moving the starry sky?
" an old Daoist cried in terror.
No one answered him. This artificial Heavenly Duke was not controlled by any of the Daoists of Qingyun Heaven.