Chapter 1281 — That Venerable One's Fear
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The Southern Heaven expert's heavenly palace spun out of control, and his whole body burst apart with a thunderous boom; the raging energies of that heavenly palace poured loose and reduced his primal spirit to flying ash! The blast of the heavenly palace's energies instantly roused his Heavenly Fire art, and a second explosion came hard on its heels!
The Heavenly Fire crystals within his art had been built with macro-scale arcane arts and touched nothing of the micro-scale, and so they harbored a gaping flaw — yet their power was nothing to be scoffed at.
The dreadful might of the Heavenly Fire spilled out in every direction, and the two explosions merged into one; that energy was a world-ending force, enough to blast any common lesser heaven into cinders. Yet in the very instant that energy erupted, the Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns flickered, their teleportation arts bursting forth, and each one vanished without a trace before the blast could reach them.
Qi Xiayu and the others had no time to save him; they hurriedly unleashed their own arts to withstand the explosion. The light from the Southern Heaven expert's detonation blazed so fiercely that it lit the dark valley, and as the crowd peered in, they saw winding, twisting paths and forests of standing rock.
Countless Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns flickered to and fro through the valley, drifting without pause, using teleportation and every manner of other art to evade the blast's force. The crowd stared, dumbstruck; the sheer number of Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns in that dark valley was enough to make a scalp go numb.
How violent that explosion had been — and yet every one of those Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns had dodged it.
Clearly their abilities were far from ordinary. They also saw that a great many Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns had gathered together, each working an art — a refining art, by the look of it.
Plainly these demons were refining something. "How afraid of Mu Tianzun can Hao Tianzun possibly be.
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" Xi Tianjun had barely spoken the words when he caught himself and shut his mouth. Yan Yunxi, her soul seemingly fled, murmured, "Those Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns gathered together — could they be refining Hao Tianzun?
" The light of the explosion slowly dimmed, and the valley sank back into darkness; in that dark, pair after pair of eyes glimmered with a faint, ghostly light, then were swallowed by the black.
At the sight, everyone felt a chill crawl up from the bottom of their hearts.
"What did you see? " The Woodcutter Sage strained to stare into the valley, eyes wide; but his cultivation was comparatively low, and when the explosion came the blinding glare had all but seared his eyes, so he had shut them.
By the time the blast subsided and he opened his eyes, he had already missed that dreadful scene.
The Martial Celestial Master Zhuo Cha told him what he had just seen: "Those Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns have most likely trapped Hao Tianzun and mean to refine him.
I saw faintly flickering dao patterns within — they must be a seal Hao Tianzun laid down with the remnants of his own Great Way, holding those heart demons at bay. " The Woodcutter Sage was struck speechless; after a moment he blurted, "Hao Tianzun has fallen unconscious!
" Everyone turned to look at him.
The Woodcutter Sage steadied himself and said, "Mu Tianzun is Hao Tianzun's heart demon. The appearance of so many Heart Demon Mu Tianzuns here means Hao Tianzun's dao heart has gone completely out of control! There is only one circumstance in which a Tianzun's dao heart loses all control — when he has fallen unconscious!
His wounds are far graver than we imagined!
" Though everyone in the Heavenly Court called him the Cockcrow Thief, mocking him as an old rogue who rose at the crow of the cock, all of them trusted the Woodcutter Sage's judgment completely.