Chapter 1097 — The Imperial Lord Performs the Nuptial Rites
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Chu Xiao's standing among the human race was very high, and he had many friends there; likewise, among the demigods he had many friends as well.
Jue Wuchen was the foremost beauty of the Primordial Realm, with countless suitors and a name known throughout the world. Even Cloud Venerable, who had taken only a principal wife, had thought of making her a consort. But the empress of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court was a fierce-tempered woman; rumor had it she beat Cloud Venerable until he knelt and begged for mercy, and only then did he abandon the idea of taking Jue Wuchen as a consort.
There were also rumors that the Dark Heavenly Emperor had once tried to seduce Jue Wuchen, but Hao Venerable gave him a sound thrashing and made all sorts of trouble for him, turning sworn brothers into enemies. Yet Hao Venerable did not win the beauty's heart either.
It was said that God Emperor Langxuan and Hao Venerable came to blows; though their friendship had been deep, over this woman they broke apart and became as irreconcilable as fire and water. Word had it that God Emperor Langxuan and the Ancestral God King were also contending for Jue Wuchen, and there were even rumors that the Heavenly Duke himself had descended to the mortal world, reincarnated as a common man, to fight for her.
But since the Ancestral God King was his son, father and son contending for the same woman was more than his pride could bear, so he gave up. That Chu Xiao had been able to defeat all his rivals and win the beauty's heart made the countless gods of the Primordial Realm sigh in wonder and pass it down as a beautiful tale.
On the day of Chu Xiao's wedding to Jue Wuchen, Cloud Heavenly Emperor, Hao Venerable, God Emperor Langxuan, and the other romantic rivals, since the groom was not themselves, did not attend but sent gifts instead. Still, Chu Xiao had many friends; Moon Venerable and the Ancestral God King, for example, came in person to offer congratulations.
On that great day of joy, the hall was packed with guests and the clamor was extraordinary. Just as Chu Xiao and Jue Wuchen were bowing to each other in the wedding rite, a sudden change occurred!
As the two bowed, Jue Wuchen pressed a light palm against the crown of Chu Xiao's head, and the Guixu divine art turned into a vast abyss that drove into the sea of his consciousness! "Lover, even you have met your day at last.
" Jue Wuchen across from him giggled. At the same time, many of the guests who had been all smiles and pleasant words suddenly sprang up and attacked Chu Xiao at once! Blades flashed and sword-shadows filled the hall; in an instant, the wedding hall became a slaughterhouse!
Chu Xiao understood at once that he had been struck by treachery.
Although he had fallen victim to Jue Wuchen's ambush, he was, after all, the Heavenly Emperor's reincarnated body, and hidden within him was the Heavenly Emperor's primordial spirit. That primordial spirit contained only two souls, but they were still the most supreme fighting strength in the world.
Wearing his great crimson robe, he flicked his sleeve, and countless attacking guests tumbled into its folds.
He shook the sleeve, and blood and shattered bone gushed out from it, becoming a river of blood!
Just then Moon Venerable and the Ancestral God King closed in from left and right. Moon Venerable held a branch of peach blossoms and blew on it gently; peach petals fluttered down, and Chu Xiao's body instantly split apart like falling peach petals.
"Moon Venerable!
" Chu Xiao bellowed, forcibly pulling his four limbs back.
Just as he was about to join them together, the Ancestral God King raised the Great Net and clapped it over his head.
As a first-generation Dulin Spirit Body, his fighting power was supreme--that was the Heavenly Duke's bloodline! Within the Great Net, the forty-nine Heavenly Ways bound tightly around the Heavenly Emperor's primordial spirit, trying to imprison it inside the body!