Chapter 932 — Purple Qi Fills the Heavens, Fist Intent Cleaves the Firmament
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The Dao Ancestor had always been ambiguous in his stance; no one knew which faction of the Heavenly Court he belonged to. He was part of the Heaven Alliance, and he helped the Heavenly Court gather data on the ancient gods and compile the ancient gods' dao runes.
At the same time he knew the true identity of the Ancient God Heaven Emperor, and he did a great many things for him.
And if all of it sprang from a stratagem he had settled with Lord Yun hundreds of thousands of years earlier, then everything could be explained.
Yun Jianli's move was vast in power, yet before Shen Mu's half-stroke of the Heaven Seal divine ability it could not hold, and Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens shattered into fragments.
This was inevitable. Lord Yun had died at the end of the Longhan era, four or five hundred thousand years ago.
To pit a divine ability of several hundred thousand years past against one of today — of course it would be broken with ease.
Yun Jianli was not surprised by this.
Yet after Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens came Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens again — only this time, when he unleashed the move once more, it was no longer Lord Yun's divine ability of old.
It had merged the newest and most complete heaven's dao that the Heavenly Court's Daoist sects had researched.
Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens was like nine layers of purple empyrean heaven, nine heavenly palaces, and in each palace sat a Heaven Emperor enthroned! What was more, the reach of Yun Jianli's divine ability had shrunk by countless times.
A moment before, his Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens had covered several li all around; it had looked mighty and far-reaching, but in truth its strength was scattered. Against ordinary folk it would have frightened them to death, but against a powerhouse like Shen Mu it was mere ornament.
Now the move covered only a single zhang across, its power condensed to the highest degree, utterly terrifying, forcing Shen Mu to take it seriously! Yun Jianli's earlier divine ability and this one could no longer be mentioned in the same breath!
Shen Mu could not help but be moved.
Lord Yun's Purple Empyrean Azure Void Art had indeed seized hold of that one word, change.
Beyond absorbing the researches of the Heavenly Court's Daoist sects, this move also bore the traits of the dao arts and divine abilities of Kaihuang's era.
The hallmark of Kaihuang's age was this: no pursuit of vast and magnificent momentum, but every effort to compress a divine ability's might into a square inch, striving to break a surface with a point, to slay the enemy while doing the least harm to the surroundings, to bring forth the greatest power at the smallest cost. Yun Jianli's move did precisely that.
"The Yun clan's divine abilities are indeed very strong. " Shen Mu's eyes flashed with keen light; the Mystic Body Three Core Art stirred, and the surging vital essence within him was summoned up: "But I am stronger! " The martial spirit in his body erupted; he threw one punch, and the boundless force drove straight through Xiaohan of the Nine Heavens!
In the very instant their fists and seals clashed, two great waves rose from the Jade Sea behind them and went racing off into the distance.
The towering swells they raised even carried the giant divine turtles of the Jade Sea up into the sky — turtles that bore divine mountains on their backs, and on those mountains stood many palaces and treasure halls, where the divine maidens of the Jade Pool made their home.
The turtles swam through the surging waters, straining to steady themselves, the divine mountains upon their backs rocking as though in an earthquake.
Many divine maidens came forth from the palaces to look, and between the two great waves they saw the shapes of two youths flitting across the sea, clashing at flying speed, swift as lightning — and yet their moves and divine abilities were utterly terrifying!