Chapter 1056 — The Incense Hall Descends Upon the Mortal World
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The Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird meant to use this chance to die and be reborn, to break free of the Great Way's bonds; and the Heavenly Court meant to use this chance to suppress her soul, so that she could never be reborn. The Ten Celestial Venerables would surely use this chance to show the world and the ancient gods that Shen Mu, this Great Mage imperishable through ten thousand kalpas, was no reliance the ancient gods could lean upon! They had means enough to counter and crush Shen Mu's arts, so that Shen Mu could not resurrect a dead ancient god.
"The Ten Celestial Venerables have four or five means that can counter my resurrection arts.
But the Grand Emperor's ultimate void cannot be used, or it would betray his identity as the Grand Emperor; nor can the Gulf of Returning of the Empress and Yuanmu be used, for they too fear exposing themselves.
The Heaven Emperor's Forbidden Zone cannot be moved.
That leaves only the Hall of Wafting Incense. " Shen Mu looked ahead, cold sweat starting on his brow.
The Heavenly Court's Hall of Wafting Incense was where the remnant soul of Celestial Venerable Yu lay suppressed; when Shen Mu summoned Celestial Venerable Yu's soul, he had been unable to call that remnant soul out from within the hall.
Even Earth Count, searching for Celestial Venerable Yu's remnant soul in person, had been unable to enter the Hall of Wafting Incense! The Hall of Wafting Incense was one of the Heavenly Court's seventy-two treasured halls, and the Heavenly Court's Ten Celestial Venerables would surely bring out this hall to suppress the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird's soul, rendering Shen Mu's divine arts useless and killing her utterly!
"Let this be only my guess.
Let the Hall of Wafting Incense still be in the Heavenly Court, and not sent down to the Southern Pole Heaven.
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. " The Celestial Dragon Palanquin pushed its speed to the utmost.
Shen Mu looked back and saw the Vermilion Bird's heavenly palace collapsing; the fall of this most ancient of heavenly palaces was now certain, and that the Southern Pole Heaven would change masters, inevitable. Even if he could resurrect the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor could never again rule this place.
And what was more, the Southern Emperor might not be resurrectable at all!
Boom — the sky shuddered violently.
A Heavenly River tens of thousands of li wide suddenly appeared above the Southern Pole Heaven, vast and surging, twisting space as it drove through the suns one after another, and upon its waters countless tower-ships and great vessels emerged.
Unlike the rivers of the mortal world, the surface of the Heavenly River here was dish-shaped, like two plates pressed rim to rim; the Heavenly River had no above and no below, and so on both its faces countless tower-ships and great vessels raced along. That was the Heavenly River Navy!
The Heavenly River linked the great heavens, and so through a million years the Heavenly River Navy had always been the Heavenly Court's best-armed force and its army with the greatest number of gods and demons! Always, the Heavenly River Navy had been the main force in putting down rebellions across the great heavens, and the main force in annihilating era after era!
Whether it was the Xiaohan Heavenly Court of old, or the Chiming Heavenly Court, the Shanghuang Heavenly Court, or even the Kaihuang Heavenly Court, all had been ground to flying ash beneath the tower-ships and great vessels of this greatest of god-and-demon armies. Shen Mu raised his head and saw the Heavenly River splitting in the sky like a nine-tailed fox of unimaginable vastness stretching out its tails — though it had more tails even than a nine-tailed fox.