Chapter 898 — Galloping Eighty Thousand Li
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From beneath the ground came the voice of Mother Earth, boundless in its joy, making the earth rumble with it like the roar of countless monstrous beasts crying out as one: "Celestial Venerable Mu, at last you have come to make good on your promise!
" "What Celestial Venerable Yu? The true Celestial Venerable Yu is at your side. This Celestial Venerable Yu is nothing but a weapon forged by the Heavenly Court, and it dares contend with me?
My children, it is your turn to take the stage! " Boom, boom, boom!
Around the Yuan Tree, huge emperor coffins burst from the soil one after another, and rank upon rank of stone beasts appeared before them.
The stone beasts swiftly shed their stone and turned to flesh and blood; qilin, lions, camels, horses, white elephants, xiezhi, and all manner of demigods revived, their auras flaring to the sky, their blood and vitality like seas.
These demigods had been great ministers of the Northern Supreme Heaven Court in their day, each of them of incomparably formidable strength; they reached out their hands, seized the emperor coffins, and madly broke the seals upon them. Eight emperor coffins were opened in succession, and from within came an imperial might that swept across heaven and earth; a thick corpse-qi scoured the whole world. The Northern Supreme Heaven Court had possessed fourteen Heavenly Emperors in all, every one of them offspring of Mother Earth.
These were fourteen great emperors of the Emperor Throne realm.
Five demigod emperors had been struck until their souls scattered and their bones were no more in the struggles against the Southern Supreme Heaven Court, and the corpse of one more demigod emperor had been carried by Feng Qiuyun into the Ghost Ship, its whereabouts unknown to this day.
The age of the Supreme Emperors was the wildest, most savage of ages, and also an age when stars shone in splendor and the mighty came forth in generation after generation. In that age, the Northern and Southern Supreme Emperors each had their own Heaven Court, each with great emperors who shook the world.
Countless gods and men, in the two opposing Heaven Courts of South and North, fought and slaughtered for their own races, refining the mighty of the other side into weapons and taking the flesh and blood of the other side as offerings. Among them, the Northern Supreme Heaven Court was the most brutal of all. The Divine Son Chiming had led his clansmen into hiding in the Hanging World and had not dared have any contact with the Supreme Heaven Court throughout the age of the Supreme Emperors, precisely because he had witnessed the savagery of that age.
At this moment the remaining eight corpses of the Supreme Emperors awakened and became corpse-demons; a sea of blood towered to the heavens, and the eight Heavenly Emperor corpse-demons surged up into the sky, standing tall above it, and coming to meet them was the Heavenly Court's mightiest divine weapon, the Celestial Venerable Yu. Toot, toot— Banners streamed across the sky as countless gods of the Heavenly Court blew ringing horns, horns made from the horns of giant beasts, hung down from the prows of tower ships and warships and blown by giant strongmen who stirred their true essence to sound them. Countless gods stood at the prows beating drums, drums refined from the hide of kui dragons; the drumbeats boomed, shaking both sky and earth.
The Celestial Venerable Yu drew nearer and nearer, and the countless tower ships floating around him seemed like tiny insects; yet in truth these tower ships and great warships were the highest masterpieces of the Heavenly Court's celestial craftsmanship, each tower ship several tens of li in length, the gods and demons upon them of vast physique.
Only compared to him were they utterly insignificant. Even the eight corpse-demons transformed from the demigod emperors of the Supreme Emperors were smaller than him by a factor beyond reckoning.