Chapter 1208 — The Four-Dimensional Divine Realm
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He had no choice but to steel himself and charge as well. In a flash, Human Emperor Lanpo was smashed to the ground by the Lord of Heaven and could not move; Human Emperor Kongxian was beaten down by the seventy-two Earthly Fiend ancient gods and could not rise; the Fifth Ancestor Human Emperor, bearing the Five-Thunder Sky-Upholding Bell, charged forward and was dragged into Youdu by Tubo; the Second Ancestor was seized by the Vermilion Bird, Emperor of the South, and suppressed in the Southern Pole Heaven; the Sixth Ancestor was trapped in the Northern Pole Heaven by the Black Tortoise, Emperor of the North!
The Human Emperors at the very front fell one after another, and the disciples of Heavenly Venerable Xiao, too, were struck by blows as uncanny as gods and ghosts, suppressed one after another, powerless to resist. Yet Yan Qiling and the others were, after all, mighty in divine ability, and soon rushed to the vicinity of the Taiji diagram.
Looking up, they beheld heavenly palaces ranked in graceful disorder—sixteen heavenly palaces, sixteen primordial spirits of Shen Mu, some standing beneath the Southern Heavenly Gate, some amid layer upon layer of palaces, and they were not far now from ascending the Jade Terrace to drink the heavenly dew. The Yaochi realm held one great boon: one could climb the Jade Terrace and drink the heavenly dew, and for one who had cultivated to the divine realm this was a transformation as of rebirth.
Yet several of Shen Mu's heavenly palaces were incomplete—the Heavenly Palace of the Medical Dao and the Heavenly Palace of the Buddhist Dao were both lacking—so that he could never wholly enter the True God realm, and it was most difficult for him as well to step into the Yaochi realm. Within the sixteen heavenly palaces Shen Mu's primordial spirits each unleashed divine abilities against the crowd, ten thousand transformations dazzling the eye, and several more people toppled to the ground.
By this point only Yan Qiling, the First Ancestor Human Emperor, Gao Huaitong, and two others remained—five in all. Gao Huaitong withstood the attacks pouring from the sixteen heavenly palaces even as he helped Yan Qiling charge forward.
No sooner had Yan Qiling rushed into the yin-yang Taiji diagram than she saw Shen Mu, standing within it, thrust out a great hand, his divine ability smashing down.
Her strength was formidable as well, and all that Heavenly Venerable Xiao had taught her was divine ability and Dao arts of the very highest order. Yan Qiling met Shen Mu's blow head-on, her innate primordial qi merging ten thousand daos into one stream—and even so she could not withstand it, and was struck out of the yin-yang Taiji diagram.
At that very moment the First Ancestor Human Emperor rushed into the yin-yang Taiji diagram. His realm was high, yet the instant he entered Shen Mu's domain he perceived that here heaven and earth were one, leaving him no purchase for borrowed strength; so he called up the Dao-realm divine ability with which he had contended against Gao Huaitong and broke through barrier after barrier to force his way in. The place where he breached differed from Yan Qiling's, the two of them occupying precisely opposite quarters—yet what faced him was likewise Shen Mu's full face.
He took Shen Mu's blow head-on and was sent flying too.
Gao Huaitong broke through the obstruction of the sixteen heavenly palaces and fought his way into the diagram, while Yan Qiling and the First Ancestor Human Emperor also charged in at the same moment. The three of them, from three directions, without a word exchanged, attacked Shen Mu at once! Upon the Taiji diagram three figures darted to and fro like a hare starting up and a falcon swooping, their forms and positions ever shifting, dazzling to the eye—yet they could never close in!