Chapter 1085 — Three Tianzuns Rob the Treasure Hall by Night
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Were not the ancient gods already born in the age of primeval antiquity? Why, then, was there an ancient god that had yet to be born into the world, and was even sealed up here?
Just then, the lantern-light ahead blazed bright, countless threads of light shot wildly in every direction, and in a single breath every palace lantern in the Zhaoyang Hall was stirred into action. Hundreds of millions of threads of light flooded the place, until there was almost nowhere left to hide!
Whether it was Hao Tianzun or Yun Tianzun who had touched off the lanterns sealing the treasures, a chain reaction had begun, and in that flash all three who had entered the hall were cast into peril! Shen Mu shrank violently, turning into a mote of dust, darting back and forth over the sphere to dodge the threads of light; then a curtain of light shot from his brow and swept over the nearby lanterns, drawing one of them into the Shen Continent.
Light blazed from Shen Mu's brow, shining without cease, and the lanterns around him were swept clean, opening a pocket of stable space. In the distance, the shock of erupted divine power reached his senses, and one palace lantern after another was snuffed out. Shen Mu's heart stirred: "In this age, Yun Tianzun is already of the Imperial Throne Realm, and Hao Tianzun is a being of the Cloud-Soaring Realm.
Their strength already stands above mine — these lanterns can do nothing to them.
" Soon, every lantern in the hall was extinguished, leaving only the treasure-light shed by the various treasures of the Zhaoyang Hall.
Light blazed from Shen Mu's brow, and he drew the great egg of the suspected ancient god into his brow, then flew toward another treasure. It was a treasure mountain.
Shen Mu's brow light flickered — before he had even reached the mountain, he had taken it away.
The mountain was like jade throughout, yet its substance was something he had never seen before; still, anything that could be kept in the Heavenly Emperor's treasury must have no ordinary origin.
"Could this be treasure the ancient god Heavenly Emperor plundered from the Ancestral Court?
" He also took a winding river, which had been refined down to a mere five or six zhang, but was incomparably dense and weighty; even after it was put away into the Shen Continent, Shen Mu felt his brow dip with a sudden heaviness.
"What river is this?
" He felt the pupil of his vertical eye pressed downward without cease, and his heart shook. But he had no time to dwell on it — soon the Heavenly Emperor would smite Achou into the Netherworld, and he had only this interval to plunder treasures to his heart's content.
Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun harbored the same intention, and the treasures in the Zhaoyang Hall kept dwindling.
In haste, Shen Mu glimpsed Hao Tianzun taking out a snakeskin pouch and stuffing treasures into it — plainly, that snakeskin pouch was itself an extraordinary treasure of no small account.
Yun Tianzun, too, held a sack, but it was not like an ordinary sack; Shen Mu sensed upon it the aura of a Taotie, and it must have been a treasure refined from Taotie hide. Within the hall, the treasure-light died away ceaselessly and gradually grew dark.
Shen Mu stepped up his plundering, until suddenly he saw, far away, a pillar of jade of blinding brilliance, and could not help freezing — he nearly cried out. That jade pillar was the very pillar of the Hidden Archive of the Patriarch of the Way, the one that could brand the marks of all kinds of ancient gods and could even shape forth the form of Yu Tianzun! "Could that pillar also be a peerless treasure?
" He charged forward, only to see Hao Tianzun appear before the pillar a step ahead of him and stuff the pillar into the snakeskin pouch. The two men's eyes crossed.
Shen Mu turned his hand — and Hao Tianzun rose higher and higher, his body swelling larger and larger.
It was the divine power of Shen Mu's enlightenment: Gathering the Circle Whole in the Great Luo Heaven!