Chapter 1269 — The Shattering of the Void
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"This, I fear, is why his cultivation and foundation stand above the other Heavenly Venerables.
" She had only just formed this thought when another heavenly palace leapt forth behind the brows of Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable, and Tai Di fell wholly onto the defensive!
Against their joint assault he had at first been able to suppress Hao Heavenly Venerable entirely, and when Hao Heavenly Venerable arrayed twenty-nine palaces into a court he could only stand as an equal.
Now that thirty palaces had appeared, he sank into suppression.
Yet he was Tai Di after all, and even facing such disadvantage he could still hold on.
"Hao Heavenly Venerable, let me show you the thirty-sixth heaven of the path of divine consciousness! The Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven!
" Tai Di's divine consciousness erupted anew, and when the Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven appeared, from the light strings thousands of miles away came an ineffably wondrous music of zithers, as Dao tones were struck and turned surpassingly beautiful.
All those within the light strings fell silent, lost in that enchanting melody.
And gazing outward through the strings, they saw the Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven as a supreme domain wrought of pure Great Dao, cast throughout as if of jade, like a Jade Capital formed of the Dao itself.
Within the Grand Luo Heaven stood a treasure tree condensed from the great Dao of divine consciousness, dazzling in radiance, bearing Dao flowers upon its boughs, the blossoms opening to set fruit. Shen Mu's primordial spirit gazed from afar, and he saw that in Tai Di's Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven the treasure tree was complete and the Dao flowers had bloomed, but the Dao fruit had not yet ripened.
"Tai Di's grand Luo Dao fruit of divine consciousness remains unformed because in his cultivation he borrowed the sacrificial power of other Creators?
" Thinking of this, Shen Mu could not help but feel a lingering fear.
Long ago, after Kaihuang had cleft and slain Ming Fangyu, the Eleventh Heavenly Venerable who was Tai Di's other identity, Shen Mu, Lang Wan, and Shu Jun had courted death by seeking to capture Tai Di's divine consciousness to refine it.
They divided that consciousness into three portions, each taking one.
Lang Wan used her portion to strengthen her consciousness, Shu Jun used his to strengthen his flesh, while Shen Mu left his own portion untouched.
In truth he had always wished to use that portion of Tai Di's consciousness to raise his own cultivation and strength, yet he had faintly sensed that to do so would leave hidden peril.
Now it seemed Tai Di's consciousness was a draught of poison, strengthening oneself at first, yet certain in the later stages to bar one forever from the highest realm of the Dao!
"When Tai Di's consciousness struck at us from the Grand Luo Heaven and yet could not prevail against us, was he deliberately planting poison?
" Shen Mu shivered, yet he also saw how mighty was the Dao-realm road Kaihuang walked, for Tai Di had failed to perfect that road and could结 no Dao fruit, but should Kaihuang continue in cultivation he would surely refine a Sword Path Grand Luo Heaven and结 a sword Dao fruit!
Hao Heavenly Venerable remained unhurried, and even as Tai Di displayed the Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven, another palace was added to his court, his cultivation and power climbing once more!
Soon his palaces numbered fully thirty-three, in no way inferior to Tai Di's Divine Consciousness Grand Luo Heaven! What was more, the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable also reached thirty-three palaces!
So mighty was the battle power of these three giants that even the world of the Grand Void could not bear it.