Chapter 1243 — The Ancient Emperor Returns
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She was shocked. The instant she took that step, Zhuo Cha, the Martial Dao Heavenly Master, reached out to seize her and drag her back; but Di Yiyue's cultivation stood above his, and his hand closed on emptiness.
The Martial Dao Heavenly Master hurried after her, and only then did he notice something uncanny.
In his eyes, Di Yiyue's movements had become extremely slow, but when he looked back at the cliff, the people up there were moving at an unthinkable speed! He pressed on toward Di Yiyue, and the closer he drew, the more normal her speed became, while the people on the cliff grew faster and faster.
Shen Mu took out the Great Emperor's Seal and the Great Emperor's Altar, flew over on the altar, and pulled both of them up onto it.
Only then did the Martial Dao Heavenly Master and Di Yiyue realize that all around them had returned to normal. Shen Mu looked at the divine weapon components: they had already clasped together.
"There's no stopping it now!
" He drove the altar back up the cliff and said gravely: "The Great Emperor's reincarnated form, Heavenly Venerable Qiang, has already reached the Great Void — she must be somewhere near!
If we don't go now, even the Othershore Ark won't be saved! " The company hurried back atop the cliff and made for the Othershore Ark.
Shen Mu turned his head back.
The divine weapons had locked into a colossal sphere.
Strange runes were stamped all around the sphere, and within the Supreme Divine Sense Domain it revolved at a measured pace, rune after rune lighting up and casting its image into the domain. Di Shitian started up the Othershore Ark and sailed outward.
As the ark steadily picked up speed, Shen Mu looked into the Supreme Divine Sense Domain once more — the sphere had begun to roll, winding around the Great Emperor's impossibly towering body on a path that never once repeated itself, and as it rolled it projected still more runes into the domain. "After all these years, the Great Emperor has finally cracked the formation laid down by Heavenly Venerable Ling and Heavenly Venerable Yun. No small feat.
" The thought had just crossed his mind when his expression changed.
"Othershore Ark — dive into the void!
" Di Shitian Li Youran drove the ark with all his might, and the giant vessel rumbled into the void.
At that very moment, on the Lotus Continent, the Supreme Divine Sense Domain shrouding the Great Emperor's body began to spin in wild frenzy! The Creators' clan patriarchs and elders, also pinned down in the domain, aged before the naked eye, while the wounds on the Great Emperor's body began to repair themselves.
Boom! Shen Mu saw the Great Emperor raise his hand, five fingers spread, snatching from afar at the Othershore Ark.
At the same instant, the ark pierced through the void and vanished from this world.
The next moment, the void shattered.
Everyone aboard the ship, everyone in Fengdu, turned to look back — that plain, ancient great hand hung there with fingers splayed, and it was even more enormous than the Othershore Ark itself!
Between the five fingers drifted cloud-vapor; there were thunder and lightning; the fingerprints rising upon those fingers were like gullies, and the closer one came, the deeper the gullies grew, like abyss after abyss! The Great Emperor — truly worthy of being honored by the Creators as the owner of the mightiest physical body in history!
— although in Shen Mu's heart, it was the physical body of Heavenly Emperor Taichu that was mightiest of all. The great hand shot forward with terrifying speed and was just on the point of seizing the Othershore Ark when Zhuo Cha, the Martial Dao Heavenly Master, roared, his hair bristling with fury, and with both fists clenched, flew up from the ship and charged at the Great Emperor's hand.
Di Yiyue, Tian Shu, King Yan, the Old Fisherman, the Azure Emperor, and Di Shitian all hurled themselves at that hand together.