Chapter 1488 — The Bright Moon and the Morning Sun Vie in Radiance
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Venerable You spat blood, his body smashing hard into the starry sky like a stone flung upon still water, bobbing up and drifting down, raising ring after ring of ripples across the stars. His spirit was entangled by the Taiji Ancient Gods, and at once his weakness lay bare.
His mortal body could not be as mighty as his spirit.
His spirit commanded the Great Dao of Youdu, having entered the twenty-fifth heaven of the Dao; twenty-five worlds of Youdu spread out before him, and each layer of his Dao arts and divine powers ran deeper than the last, each layer stronger than the last. And still he ceaselessly comprehended realms of the Dao ever more profound, so that even the Taiji Ancient Gods could do nothing to him for the moment.
Even when the two Ancient Gods joined bodies and took the form of Tubo, galloping at will through his Youdu worlds, at most they could only run neck and neck with his spirit, and could not wound it.
Though the two Ancient Gods could take the forms of Tiangong, Tubo, and others besides, when it came to the deeper realms of the Dao of Heaven and the Great Dao of Youdu, they fell somewhat short. Yet the weakness of Venerable You's mortal body now showed itself, and gave Consort Yan and Venerable Gong the opening they sought.
He was not a Venerable renowned for battle with the flesh; fighting body to body he had always scorned, nor had he ever had occasion for it. Consort Yan and Venerable Gong struck from front and rear.
In Consort Yan's slender jade fingers a hairpin was pinched; shaken once against the wind it became a sharp sword, and as its light whirled and flew, one great Guixu abyss after another opened before and behind Venerable You, tearing his body in different directions and pinning him alive in the starry sky.
His body was spread-eagled, limbs and head stretched taut, arms, legs, and neck all drawn out long. Venerable Gong leaped up, shook the long whip in her hand, and it became a great spear that thrust at the space between his brows.
Clang! The great spear, transformed from the dragon vein of the Ancestral Court, struck Venerable You between the brows; blood appeared there, and the spear tip pierced through his skull and drove in. Venerable You struggled violently, but could not break free of the Guixu divine art, and his face fell.
"Mu, I did my best.
.
.
" He strove with all his power to drive his mana against the spear's entry, but he could not resist it at all; the dragon spear bored into his skull inch by inch.
"Forgive me.
I could not fulfill what you entrusted to me.
You told me to live on, and that, I cannot do.
.
. " Just then a sword light came vast and mighty, one sword dividing yin and yang, forcing the two Taiji Ancient Gods to part, one to the left and one to the right, to evade that world-startling blade.
The two Ancient Gods were startled, and at once recognized the sword: this was the sword of Kaihuang Shen Ye.
Kaihuang's sword now differed from the sword they had seen not long before, and the difference lay not in swordsmanship but in the realm of the Dao. When they had met Kaihuang in the Heavenly Court before, his one sword had pierced through the Taiji Diagram; mighty as his strength was, he had posed no great threat to them.
But now Kaihuang's single sword had divided yin and yang, and they felt a threat most terrible. Were the two of them parted, one against one, they were a notch inferior to beings such as the Ten Venerables; only joined together did they possess boundless battle power.
They had been parted only a short while, and Kaihuang had already grown to the point of seeing through their weakness; truly remarkable. Once the Taiji Ancient Gods were parted, Venerable You's spirit broke free at once and flew straight to where his body lay.
And that sword light, having divided yin and yang and driven back the two Ancient Gods, drove straight on, aimed at Venerable Gong, so swift that even she felt caught off guard.