Chapter 1332 — The Spirit Finger Shatters the Primordial
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His mana stirred, and in that instant it transformed into defensive runes; the runes wove themselves into dao patterns that coiled about his whole body.
"Innate One Qi! " The bloodline he had inherited from Heavenly Emperor Taichu erupted, and the Innate One Qi marshaled all the great daos stored within his heavenly palaces, binding them into one whole and vastly increasing his defense.
In bloodline he was the finest in all the world, possessing at once the blood of the Creator God King and that of Heavenly Emperor Taichu; he commanded both the Way of Divine Consciousness and the Innate One Qi within the Way of Taichu. Compared with Heaven Venerable Hao, he was the more perfect!
Yet within him the Way of Divine Consciousness and the Innate One Qi were not unified.
Had they been—had they formed the complete Way of Taichu—he would have surpassed Heaven Venerable Hao and become the leader of the Ten Heaven Venerables. But in truth it was Heaven Venerable Hao who stood at the head of the Ten Heaven Venerables, the orthodox ruler of the Heavenly Court, enjoying the greater share of its resources.
The Ancestral God King was merely one among the Ten, and ordinarily kept his brilliance hidden. Even so, the gaps between the Ten Heaven Venerables were not great.
Now he erupted with all his strength; the heavenly palaces behind him multiplied without cease, climbing from eighteen to thirty-four, forming a Great Heavenly Court.
Yet before his momentum could reach its peak, the Great Emperor's fist had already crashed into his face. The Great Emperor's attacks were simple and crude.
In the most ancient era he had been the strongest of emperors, and he had no need of any flashy divine-consciousness arts—his fist was his mightiest weapon.
Divine Emperor Langxuan's face contorted and burst open; his head snapped backward, his body like a sheet of paper folded at a right angle. The Great Emperor, who had obtained the Primordial Stone of Taichu, was powerful beyond belief; even a fearsome being like Divine Emperor Langxuan could not withstand a single blow from him.
Yet in the very instant that Langxuan's body bent, the Great Heavenly Court art erupted: the Innate One Qi, bearing a terrifying divine consciousness, smashed into the Great Emperor, who had appeared in a flash.
That was his Primordial Spirit One Qi Art—the sum of every insight of his life. To all demigods he was indeed the Primordial Spirit: the first demigod, the most ancient of Primordial Spirits.
The Primordial Spirit One Qi Art unified thirty-four Emperor Throne cultivation arts, its might supreme, supremely hard, supremely fierce. He knew well the secret of striking where the enemy must needs defend himself.
The Great Emperor had seized the initiative; whatever he did now to hold him off, he would be forced onto the defensive, his advantages slipping away one by one until at last he was defeated and slain.
The best course was to strike where the Great Emperor must save himself, throwing him onto the defensive and turning the situation around.
The Great Emperor's towering frame blotted out half the sky, and a mocking smile spread across his face.
The Primordial Stone of Taichu set in his brow blazed with light, and he let Langxuan's blow land upon him. His body was stronger even than when he had crossed blows with Heaven Venerable Hao; beneath Langxuan's attack it merely swayed. The next moment his palm chopped down upon Langxuan's upflung neck.
Divine Emperor Langxuan's neck split open under the blow, his head all but struck from his shoulders!
And in that instant his Primordial Spirit rose out of the Great Heavenly Court, enthroned within it, and pointed a finger. The finger flew out like a streak of flowing light; gathered into that single point were all the innate daos stored within the thirty-four heavenly palaces, and the radiance that burst from its tip surpassed the sun by countless tens of thousands of times.