Chapter 1268 — A Lesson from the Overturned Cart
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Yet my purpose was to have the two of them wound each other — and if they could destroy each other outright, so much the better. That said, although I regard the Great Emperor as very strong, Hao Heavenly Venerable's true strength has never yet been revealed. " With a gaze deep and distant fixed upon that soul-shaking battle, he went on unhurriedly, "My other purpose in sending the Great Emperor into action was to ascertain exactly how far the upper limit of Hao Heavenly Venerable's strength could go. Have you not noticed?
Hao Heavenly Venerable has been perfectly at ease all along, and to this very moment he has still not shown his true strength. " Bai Yuqiong looked toward Hao Heavenly Venerable.
Indeed, although he was thoroughly at a disadvantage, he remained as calm and unhurried as Shen Mu had said. As for his divine artifact, the Imperial Heavenly Venerable, it had been beaten down by the Great Emperor until it was severely wounded — the Great Emperor's power was so overwhelming that the divine artifact, the Imperial Heavenly Venerable, had been battered until its physical body was a tattered wreck!
Even the Heavenly Palaces of the divine artifact, the Imperial Heavenly Venerable, had been reduced to ruin under the Great Emperor's mighty assault!
Shen Mu said, "The Heavenly Palaces of Hao Heavenly Venerable and those of the Imperial Heavenly Venerable number twenty-eight each. Yet though their numbers are the same, their types are not entirely alike. If you carefully examine the palaces one by one, you will discover that the types of Hao Heavenly Venerable's and the Imperial Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly Palaces, added together, reach as many as thirty-five! " Bai Yuqiong's heart gave a leap, and she carefully examined the types of Hao Heavenly Venerable's and the Imperial Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly Palaces.
The types of Heavenly Palaces cannot be distinguished by the Imperial Seat arts, for some Imperial Seat arts are in fact of the same type.
For example, among the flame-class Imperial Seat arts, besides Fire Heavenly Venerable's art, there are Red Emperor Qi Xiayu's art, the former Red Emperor's art, and even arts of the heavenly-fire class. But these arts are all of one type; to cultivate the Great Heavenly Court, one can choose only one among them. Yet of the Imperial Seat arts of Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Imperial Heavenly Venerable, not many types are repeated — divided by type, they indeed number thirty-five!
"In other words, Hao Heavenly Venerable has very likely merged Imperial Seat arts of thirty-five types, and in truth he is only a step away from the Heavenly Court realm.
" Shen Mu went on, "The reason he is at ease is that he possesses the combat strength to stand against the Great Emperor. He is not far from the true Heavenly Court realm.
That he has not yet exerted his full strength is only meant to force the Great Emperor to reveal the identity he hides among the Ten Heavenly Venerables. He knows that the Qiang Heavenly Consort is close at hand — his purpose is to draw the Qiang Heavenly Consort out.
" Bai Yuqiong's voice turned a little hoarse. "The Qiang Heavenly Consort plus the Great Emperor — Hao Heavenly Venerable has no chance of winning at all! Moreover, the Qiang Heavenly Venerable also possesses the divine artifact, the Imperial Heavenly Venerable. .
. " "You are wrong," Shen Mu said unhurriedly.
"It has been a million years since the Imperial Heavenly Venerable pioneered the realms of the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Court, and Hao Heavenly Venerable is the true culmination of it all.