Chapter 1240: A New Generation Surpasses the Old (Second Update)
The Innate Heavenly Palace was absolutely a great heavenly palace that surpassed the Divine Sense Heavenly Palace and even the Reincarnation Heavenly Palace. The benefits it brought to Qin Mu would also exceed those brought by the other heavenly palaces.
If this heavenly palace were successfully refined, the improvement to Qin Mu's cultivation and strength would be incalculable!
However, the strumming of the Dao's zither strings quickly ceased. Looking through this string of light, Qin Mu saw that the lotus continent beneath the Grand Emperor's feet had actually shattered, crushed into fine powder!
The Grand Emperor had finally completely broken free!
Relying on his own strength alone, it would be very difficult for the Grand Emperor to fully break the restrictions left by Heavenly Lord Ling and Heavenly Lord Yun. But the purpose of the Grand Emperor's first move was precisely to borrow the power of Heavenly Lord Hao and the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord to shatter the cage that imprisoned him!
Although he had used borrowed power to break the restrictions, he was also severely wounded by Heavenly Lord Hao, with blood at the corners of his mouth.
"Hahaha!"
The Grand Emperor laughed heartily, his legs covered in severed roots, and said fiercely: "Finally out, finally out! Damn Heavenly Lord Yun and Heavenly Lord Ling, you plotted against me, but didn't you both still die at my hands? And I—I have lived on!"
The thick roots on his legs had snapped. These roots were the sacred roots of the holy objects of the various Creator races. These holy objects were spiritual roots that the Creator race had found in the Ancestral Court, raised into sacred relics through countless ages of worship.
Some of the sacred relics had grown into sacrificial gods, while others maintained their original form as sacred objects.
In the battle to eliminate the Grand Emperor, the Creators in the Great Void had almost used up all their sacred relics, all used to design traps. Only then were they able to breach the Grand Emperor's physical body, giving Heavenly Lord Yun, Heavenly Lord Ling, and the others an opportunity.
But now, the sacred relics that had bound the Grand Emperor's body were also dead.
The Grand Emperor's wounds were healing at terrifying speed, and soon there were no wounds left at all.
His divine sense was powerful. Under divine sense visualization, even if his head were chopped off, he could easily visualize it back into existence.
For an existence like him, his vital weakness was not his soul, not his primordial spirit, and not his physical body. His vital weakness was his divine sense. As long as his divine sense was not extinguished, he would never truly die.
And he had already entrusted his divine sense to the Ultimate Void, which completely cut off the possibility of his death.
The strongest physical body in history, as the Creators called it, was finally able to unleash its full power!
The Grand Emperor laughed loudly, and his incomparably terrifying divine sense erupted outward. His divine sense was unmatched in the world. Even before he had fully broken free, he could influence the entire Divine City and even control an Imperial Throne existence like Shang Pingyin.
Although Shang Pingyin was easily controlled because of a flaw in his Dao heart, being able to easily control an Imperial Throne existence was still an incredible ability.
However, the Grand Emperor's divine sense was not merely for controlling others—it was for visualization!
"Heavenly Lord Hao, let me show you what true visualization means!"
The Grand Emperor's long hair twisted into clumps, many strands tangled together, thick and wild. At this moment, not only did Heavenly Lord Hao sense the fluctuations of Dao hidden within his divine sense, but even Qin Mu and the others far away could feel the Grand Emperor's divine sense transforming into Dao!
Divine sense transforming into Dao was a realm Qin Mu had never encountered before!
The Grand Emperor wasn't truly turning his divine sense into the Great Dao itself, but rather using the characteristics of divine sense to visualize the Dao of Heaven and Earth!
This already belonged to the level of creating Dao from the void!
"The Grand Emperor's abilities truly share the same origin as Heavenly Emperor Taichu's abilities—both are derivations of the Great Dao of Taichu! The Primordial Unity Qi and the Path of Divine Sense both belong to the Great Dao of Taichu!"
Within the string of light, Qin Mu was extremely excited, listening to the zither music played by the fluctuations of divine abilities. Suddenly he said: "Heavenly Master Bai, can we get a bit closer? Many of the Dao laws are too faint and difficult to capture."
Bai Yuqiong hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "If we get any closer, I'm afraid we'll exceed the limit this lantern can withstand. At that point, I won't be able to protect you either."
Lan Yutian pleaded: "Sister, can we get a little closer?"
Bai Yuqiong looked at the two of them, her heart softening. She bit her pearl-like teeth and said: "Fine then, a little closer. But not too close, otherwise I won't have time to escape either."
Qin Mu glanced at Lan Yutian, and a trace of sadness rose in his heart: "I suppose I'm past my prime now, no longer able to pretend to be young. Heavenly Lord Yu can still continue to pretend to be young. This time, Bai Yuqiong agreed to move the string of light because of him..."
As a youth who had walked out of the Crippled Elder Village, having studied under the Medicine Master, he had tremendous appeal to young women. But that was all in the past.
Now people thought of Heavenly Lord Mu as cunning and treacherous, deeply calculating. Even if he made an adorable expression, the girls no longer believed him.
Bai Yuqiong moved the lantern, and the string of light also moved forward. She said to the two: "Brother Lan, although I am a disciple of Master Yue, what I learned is all from her abilities from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Master Yue pioneered the Path of Space, and there is nowhere in the world she cannot go. I cannot do the same. I very much want to formally become her disciple again, but I also have some hesitations..."
Lan Yutian blinked his big eyes and asked curiously: "What hesitations?"
Bai Yuqiong glanced back at Qin Mu but said nothing.
Qin Mu understood, however. Bai Yuqiong was worried that the friendship between Heavenly Lord Yue and Southern Emperor Zhuque would cause her to undergo another awakening, awakening the Southern Emperor's divine soul within her body.
Bai Yuqiong also had her own selfish motives and her own considerations. This could not be held against her.
Bai Yuqiong sensed that the lantern was about to reach its limit, and the zither music had become much clearer. She immediately stopped and said: "We can't go any further... I have always been cautious by nature. How is it that when I run into you two brothers, I dare to take such great risks?"
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Qin Mu observed the battle between the Grand Emperor and Heavenly Lord Hao with the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord from afar, while listening to the Dao laws coming from the zither music, and comparing them with his own realizations. His understanding of the Primordial Unity Qi deepened even further.
The Grand Emperor's divine sense transformed into Dao. With a single thought, the Great Dao flourished. Not only that, but his Dao permeated his entire body, allowing his physical form to reach an extremely terrifying state. Even when Heavenly Lord Hao controlled the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord against his iron fists, he could not withstand the power brought by the eruption of the Great Dao!
Boom—
A terrifying shockwave came, shaking the string of light. At the center of the battle, the Grand Emperor moved with every action, his Dao naturally perfect. The Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord was forced back again and again under his pressure.
His muscular body was ferocious, like the most ancient mineral veins of the Ancestral Court in the primordial era, the hardest mountains and rivers, forged into a body of iron fists and bronze bones.
With one punch, the Great Dao resounded in unison, power concentrated in the center of his fist. As the punch was thrown, Dao might erupted, and even the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord had its flesh blasted apart, staggering backward.
Qin Mu finally saw why the Creators said the Grand Emperor possessed the strongest physical body in history. This kind of power could overturn heaven and earth—no one could match him!
However, he could also tell that in the primordial era, the Grand Emperor must not have been this powerful.
The reason the Grand Emperor had become so strong was mainly because he had lived until now in the guise of Qiang Tianfei, absorbing the Dao techniques and divine abilities of the past million years.
Most critically, the Dao Ancestor had mapped out the Dao runes of all the ancient gods!
The Grand Emperor's divine sense, combined with the Dao runes of all the ancient gods, gave his physical combat power and divine sense combat power another astonishing boost!
"In other words, Qiang Tianfei has already made contact with the Grand Emperor's physical body and passed on her cultivation insights from these years to the Grand Emperor." Qin Mu thought to himself.
Heavenly Lord Hao used the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Lord to confront the Grand Emperor head-on, while his true body did not dare to clash with the Grand Emperor directly. Instead, he chose to circle around, using divine abilities to bombard the Grand Emperor's physical form.
But for the Grand Emperor, this was simply like scratching an itch through a boot.
The Great Dao around the Grand Emperor condensed madly, actually forming materialized Dao around his body. Those Heavenly Daos transformed within the various apertures of his body into ancient gods of Dao with actual physical forms!
From Xuandu to Youdu, from the Eastern Extreme to the Western Extreme, from the Yuan Realm to the Guixu, one ancient god after another stood within the hundred apertures of his body!
Even at his brow, the Great Dao formed the shape of the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor!
————I had insomnia last night and only slept two hours. Begging all my wonderful readers for advice on how to fall asleep and how to avoid waking up with a stiff neck. Crying~