Chapter 1271 — Attachment to His Mother
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Void Heaven Venerable sighed.
"You are loyal to him, I will grant you that. " The two Venerables hurried together toward the battlefield, only to find the void collapsing without cease, space itself shrinking, until the soldiers and generals of the Heavenly Court who guarded the void passage were forced to retreat into the Great Void.
No small number of the Heavenly Court's gods and devils had been stationed here; the Court had raised city after divine city upon this ground, and now even those cities were crumbling, shattering, ground into dust. Myriad gods, devils, soldiers and generals fled madly toward the Great Void, and one after another the annihilating void caught up with them; their bodies burst apart in an instant, reduced to dust, and then even the dust could no longer be found.
They had at first still resisted, trying to steer the West Emperor's artifact against the aftershocks of divine arts that drifted through the collapsing void, but they could not hold out at all. The commanding general stationed here saw how the wind blew and immediately fled aboard the West Emperor's artifact; countless Heavenly Court divinities tried to catch up to that artifact and clamber onto it, only to be blasted down by the divine weapons raised by the god-and-devil commanders aboard it, with grievous casualties.
When the two Venerables arrived, each shook his head. Fire Heaven Venerable was about to shield them from the aftershocks of Hao Heaven Venerable's and the Grand Emperor's divine arts when he noticed Sovereign Kai and Langwan, the Divine King, flying over; his heart went cold, and he did not go to the rescue of those Heavenly Court soldiers. The collapse of the void, mighty as it was, could not harm figures of their rank. Sovereign Kai and Langwan noticed them as well, and each slowed his pace.
The four of them, each wary of the others, did not strike, but turned their eyes to the battle between the Grand Emperor and Hao Heaven Venerable. All four noticed that within the collapsing void there was a string that drifted ceaselessly, yet at this moment their attention was wholly captured by that battle such as the world had never seen, and they paid the string little heed.
By now the Grand Emperor, strongest being of the ancient era, was being crushed almost utterly; his incomplete Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness could no longer stand invincible against Hao Heaven Venerable and the artifact, Imperial Heaven Venerable.
"The Dao Realm is, after all, only a lesser path; it cannot compare with the Heavenly Palaces and the Heavenly Court.
" The halo behind Fire Heaven Venerable's head turned, and he spoke with studied indifference.
Sovereign Kai heard this and smiled faintly. "That the Grand Emperor cultivated it astray does not mean the Dao Realm system is wanting.
I have not cultivated it astray. " Void Heaven Venerable said mildly, "Those who can cultivate the Dao Realm are, in the end, few.
The Dao Realm system cannot benefit all living beings.
The Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace is the system that benefits all living beings.
" Sovereign Kai said leisurely, "That is where I fall short of Imperial Heaven Venerable. But I am the pioneer of the Dao Realm, whereas Hao Heaven Venerable merely learned from Imperial Heaven Venerable.
That is where he falls short of me. " Boom— A radiance of incomparable splendor burst forth in the void.
Hao Heaven Venerable unleashed the Innate Primordial Qi, and the artifact, Imperial Heaven Venerable, unleashed the Great Way of the Returning Abyss; caught between the two, the Grand Emperor's chest was pierced through, and even the back of his skull was smashed open in a great hole.
The Grand Emperor dropped to his knees with a thud. His divine consciousness was very hard to erase, yet when it met the Great Way of the Returning Abyss, it could not withstand such crushing force.