Chapter 1087 — The Emperor Tries to Cleave the Ancient Divine Egg
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The ancient gods had ruled the world by their bloodlines; and after these two great affairs, the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system rose in full!
This was a revolution of the Longhan era, quietly accomplished under the faint, barely perceptible plucking of the Heavenly Emperor of the ancient gods' fingertips.
The power that had held the Heavenly Emperor in check was precisely the other ancient gods. Now, with the strength of the acquired races and the demigods, the Heavenly Emperor pressed down these once-meritorious ministers and their descendants.
The ancient gods were weakened; he was not.
His rule became unshakably firm.
Aboard the ghost ship, Shen Mu took out the round egg he had stolen from Zhaoyang Hall, and he and Wei Suifeng studied it together.
Wei Suifeng rapped on the round egg. The sound that came from within was a dao-sound, as though someone were speaking inside it, yet the language was so obscure it was hard to make out.
Wei Suifeng studied it a while, gazing into the egg with various holy-pupil divine arts, but could not tell what lay within. He guessed, "If it were an ancient god, then by rights, all the ancient gods have already been born, and there can be no new ancient gods, unless it be a god of nature formed from a dragon vein or a mountain spirit. Could what is in the egg be a demigod?"
He leaned over the round egg and listened. The dao-sound that came from within was very strange, and the heartbeat was stranger still, sounding infinitely remote.
"Can we crack it open?" Wei Suifeng asked.
Shen Mu said thoughtfully, "I used this round egg to block the attacks of Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun, and it did not crack. Yun Tianzun's realm is already the Imperial Throne; and though Hao Tianzun is only Lingxiao, his bloodline power is very strong, and he is close to coming of age."
"That era you went to, Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun were not strong enough there. Not the equal of me as I am now!"
Wei Suifeng shouted, and above his head countless stars blazed and spun madly, like a whole firmament!
Shen Mu's heart stirred. His senior brother's fighting strength was immeasurably greater than that of the Woodcutter Sage!
The firmament turned, and a heavenly river circled it in its course, bringing about the marvel of the heavenly river hanging down from the Celestial Dipper!
The Great Heavenly River Celestial Dipper!
This was a marvel that later ages could never see; only in the Longhan era, and in ages more ancient still, could the true whole countenance of Xuandu be seen.
Clearly, when Wei Suifeng had crossed into the Longhan era and become the head of the Yulin Guard, he had seen the true Xuandu, and comprehended his own techniques and divine arts!
Wei Suifeng raised his right hand, and the power of the Great Heavenly River Celestial Dipper flowed into his palm. He made his hand a blade, struck down with all his strength, and cleaved at the round egg.
His fighting strength was indeed far greater than that of Yun Tianzun and Hao Tianzun in that era.
As Wei Suifeng's blade fell, the round egg blazed with light; and suddenly, whether Shen Mu or Wei Suifeng, or the Yulin soldiers aboard the ghost ship, all heard at their ears a tremendous sound as of great bells and mighty chimes, like the sound bursting forth at the opening of the universe!
Countless gorgeous patterns of the Great Dao flew out of the round egg, bathing the ghost ship in thick radiance of dao-patterns!
In that instant, Shen Mu and Wei Suifeng felt the ghost ship slip free of its state of unchanging matter and fall into a state where yin and yang were one, where there was form but no substance, murky and undifferentiated.
At the same time, all manner of complex dao-sounds rang out, sonorous and deafening, as though ten thousand ancient gods chanted the words of the dao at once, and as though all living beings called the same name, uncanny and holy!