Chapter 1433 — That Detestable Tai Emperor
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"This God-Slaying Platform must have been formed by absorbing the killing aura of all beneath the heavens. Its power is too great — most likely it has slain exceedingly mighty beings from the ancient era and drunk far too much blood!"
He had originally intended that, once the Jade Terrace was perfected, he would pass straight through the God-Slaying Platform; perfect that, and he would be a great master of the Nine-Prison Terrace realm, free to go in search of the Jade Capital City. After all, he had already passed the trial of the Prison-Locked Dao-heart and walked out of the Nine-Prison Terrace alive.
But he had underestimated the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform.
The Four Heavenly Gates, the Jade Terrace, the Nine-Prison Terrace — none of these places could grow on their own. Yet the God-Slaying Platform could grow by itself! In the ancient era, the leaders of the various Creator races must have sent their prisoners of war, or their rebels, here to be beheaded by the God-Slaying Platform, and the blood fed it, making it ever stronger — so strong that although it ranked only as the fourth realm of the Heavenly Palace system, its might could hew down a handful of Emperor Throne powerhouses as neatly as slicing melons and cutting vegetables!
The peril of this God-Slaying Platform far exceeded that of the Nine-Prison Terrace.
"That motherless Tai Emperor, promising to let me enter the God-Slaying Platform for tempering — sure enough, the motherless bastard meant no good by it!" Shen Mu cursed loudly.
His current strength was enough to contend with Emperor Throne realm beings, but he relied on the marvels of his divine arts. He had mastered every manner of obscure Daoist art and divine ability: the Dao of the Great Beginning, the Dao of the Great Ultimate, the Dao of the Great Change, the Dao of the Great Simplicity, and Ling Heavenly Venerable's Unchanging Divine Art. His body and his mana had not yet grown strong enough to rival Emperor Throne powerhouses, nor had his primordial spirit reached their level.
The Tai Emperor's gracious permission for him to enter the God-Slaying Platform for tempering had plainly been an attempt to borrow the platform's might and lop off his head!
"Motherless Tai Emperor!"
Shen Mu cursed again, then abruptly unleashed the Guixu Single-Breath Genesis — though he performed only half the move. A vast Guixu Abyss appeared, and he stepped into it, and his form vanished.
"Yuanmu, Tai Emperor — I mean to see just what the two of you are up to!"
After a long while, Shen Mu's brow-eye peered far and wide and at last found Qiang Heavenly Consort's trail. Trailing Lady Yuanmu's Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable, she had come to a vast desert of black sand.
Shen Mu looked all around, doubt in his heart. "This should be the Taiji Star Region, domain of the Taiji mineral veins. What has Lady Yuanmu come here for?"
Just then, he caught sight of the Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable. It was hidden within a Guixu divine art, lurking in the void. Shen Mu was baffled. "That little tramp Yuanmu seems to be trailing someone as well..."
Then he saw a peerless beauty strolling through the black-sand desert, heading toward the Taiji mineral veins.
Jue Wuchen!
"It is Her Majesty the Empress!"
Shen Mu, too, was hidden within a Guixu divine art, and his pupils contracted. Jue Wuchen was what he had given to Yan Heavenly Consort — back then, in exchange for the yield of the Taishi mineral veins, he had traded away the Empress's physical body, Jue Wuchen and all, to Yan Heavenly Consort. Now Her Majesty the Empress had taken possession of Jue Wuchen's body and come to meet the ancient god within the Taiji mineral veins!