Chapter 938 — Tearing Apart the Heavenly Court
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In that instant, even Shen Mu felt his scalp go numb, as though he were plunging into an abyss.
The Court Realm might remain incomplete, but it was still a supreme realm, and even an incomplete supreme realm was a thing of terrible dread.
Yet Heavenly Venerable You might not prove a match for that mysterious figure upon the sea.
Over the years, the Heavenly Court had been ceaselessly amassing the arts of the Imperial Thrones, intending to combine them all into a complete Court Art. Though they had not yet succeeded in forging that complete art, they had nonetheless accumulated an immense trove of techniques.
Heavenly Venerable You, however, had long since leapt clear of the Heavenly Court's circles of power, withdrawing to Youdu.
True, the Imperial Throne powerhouses who had fallen in battle across history were far from few, and some of their souls had returned to Youdu after death; Heavenly Venerable You might well have obtained no small number of Throne Arts there. Yet for a long time now, the Heavenly Court had been steadily eroding Youdu's purpose—as when they commanded the Black Emperor, Yin Tianzi, to forge the Nether Capital, an act meant not merely to weaken Tubo but also to intercept a portion of the souls of fallen Imperial Throne beings.
Thus it was impossible for Heavenly Venerable You to forge a complete Court Realm art.
Add to that the sheer overwhelming resources the Heavenly Court commanded, with the Dao Ancestor's classical arts of number deducing the Great Dao runes of every ancient god—without those ancient god runes, Heavenly Venerable You could not possibly be a match for the mystic upon the sea.
And what was more, another Heavenly Venerable–level existence had descended!
Cold sweat broke out on Shen Mu's forehead.
He had thought his rescuer would be the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor. Had the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor made his move, tearing apart the Heavenly Court would have been simplicity itself.
He had never imagined Heavenly Venerable You would concern himself so deeply with Shen Mu's safety as to intervene personally.
His heart was moved—yet at the same time, he feared for Heavenly Venerable You's safety.
Heavenly Venerable You and the mystic upon the sea erupted almost simultaneously. Heavenly Venerable You raised his horse-lantern and brought it down with a heavy strike; in an instant sea and sky changed color, the entire Yaohai seeming to flip over in a single revolution. The next moment Yaohai vanished from the Heavenly Court and appeared within a vast, dark, boundless world.
The Court's Yaotai and Yaohai had been forcibly dragged by him into Youdu itself!
At the same time, the mystic upon the sea made his move. Behind him, heavenly palaces rose one after another, touching sky and earth, rumbling forth until they formed a vast, boundless Heavenly Court!
Simultaneously, another figure appeared upon the surface of the Yaohai within Youdu. Light burst forth behind him, and heavenly palaces emerged—likewise an incomplete Heavenly Court.
The two Heavenly Venerables lifted their feet as one and stamped down heavily upon the surface of Yaohai. Space convulsed violently, and the sheer pressure forced Yaohai back into the Heavenly Court once more!
"Heavenly Venerable You absolutely cannot hold off both of them at once!"
Shen Mu struck without hesitation. He forcibly erased the Creator's consciousness upon the altar, then rose abruptly to his feet as a beam of light shot from the center of his brow.
Qi Jiuyi, Yun Jianli, and the others were startled, unable to fathom his intent. They thought Shen Mu had swallowed a bear's heart and a leopard's gall and meant to attack those two Heavenly Venerables.
But unexpectedly, the divine light from the third eye in Shen Mu's brow shone toward Yun Chuxiu's direction—which bewildered the two of them all the more.