Chapter 1241: The Ruler of the Old Days (Third Update)
The Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court created the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable, with the goal of reaching the current state of the Great Emperor, yet it was always borrowing external objects, not truly their own strength.
But the Great Emperor, relying solely on himself, could achieve this step, and even stronger!
"The peerless overlord of the ancient era, truly extraordinary!"
Qin Mu couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. The Great Emperor's current state was not even his strongest. If he were to reach his peak, he would need the complete Primordial Origin Stone embedded in his forehead!
Not only that, he would also need to reclaim the magical power and divine consciousness of Heavenly Consort Qiang!
Only then would he be the complete Great Emperor!
With the Divine Consciousness Great Luo Heaven above, this form of the Great Emperor was absolutely the most terrifying existence under heaven, throughout all ages!
Now Qin Mu finally understood that the Creator race ruling over the ancient gods and enslaving them was by no means empty talk.
It was the Creators of the ancient era who had forged such a ferocious monster as the Great Emperor.
They could create one Great Emperor, and they could also create a second Great Emperor, a third Great Emperor. Enslaving the ancient gods was not an empty phrase.
"However, the path of divine consciousness derived from the Primordial Beginning path has a great flaw, and that is Ling Heavenly Venerable's Material Immutability divine ability."
Qin Mu's expression turned strange. Under the influence of the Immutability divine ability, the Great Emperor simply could not visualize anything, could not visualize any great path, suppressed to death, without the slightest chance to resist!
Under the full might of the complete Immutability divine ability, he wouldn't even have the chance to make a move before being completely solidified by it.
Compared to the Primordial Unity Qi, the path of divine consciousness had a great flaw.
The Primordial Unity Qi was also derived from the Primordial Beginning path, yet when facing the Immutability divine ability, it could resist, and even kill the master of the divine ability.
"This should also be the reason why the Great Emperor's reincarnated soul body, Ming Fangyu, drove the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor's physical body to assassinate Ling Heavenly Venerable." He thought to himself.
Suddenly, he felt a strange resonance of the Dao emanating from beside him. He quickly turned to look, only to see that Lan Yutian had actually fallen into enlightenment without realizing it, listening to the Dao resonance within the zither melody!
Qin Mu was stunned. Despite having the Heavenly Emperor's eggshell, despite having extraordinary attainments in the Primordial Unity Qi and the divine consciousness great path, and even having the successive Creator ancestors of the Tai Xu Primordial Spirit Realm imparting divine consciousness insights to him, he had not fallen into enlightenment upon hearing the zither sound.
Yet Lan Yutian should only be encountering the path of divine consciousness and the Primordial Unity Qi for the first time, but he fell into enlightenment upon hearing the rhythm of the zither. This aptitude was simply too heaven-defying!
Qin Mu pondered briefly, then suddenly entered the Dao through dreams. Layer upon layer of dreamscapes spread out within the light strings, and countless industrious little Qin Mus each listened to the zither's Dao tones, comprehending the mysteries within.
Although his natural talent was far inferior to Lan Yutian's, Lan Yutian's attainments in mathematics and numerology were not as high as his, and his understanding of the Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha's Buddhist teachings and mind studies was also inferior.
Therefore, he could enter the Dao through dreams to comprehend, while Lan Yutian could not. This was his shortcut, something others could not envy.
His physical body slept, but his primordial spirit kept its eyes open, using the primordial spirit to watch the battle between the Great Emperor and Hao Heavenly Venerable, pondering the divine abilities of these two supreme existences, not neglecting either.
Bai Yuqiong, on the other hand, looked at the two of them, opening her small sandalwood-scented mouth, unable to speak.
After a moment, she let out a faint sigh.
"I relied on nearly two hundred lifetimes of experience to earn my current position, while Mu Heavenly Venerable and Brother Lan's talent and intelligence are innate. One uses techniques and divine abilities to deduce, the other directly enters the Dao. Comparing people..."
She shook her head. Although she could also hear many wonders of the great Dao from the zither melody, comprehending them thoroughly would require who knows how much time.
In comparison, her wisdom and methods were inferior to Qin Mu's, and her natural talent was even further behind Imperial Heavenly Venerable by a hundred thousand miles.
"Diligence can compensate for lack of talent!"
She looked at the little Qin Mus in Qin Mu's dreamscape, industrious and diligent like little bees, and snorted: "But no one can match his diligence and hard work... What if I awakened the Southern Emperor's divine soul? What if I became the Southern Emperor..."
She suddenly shuddered and quickly erased this terrifying thought.
In the distance, the might of the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable was also pushed to the extreme by Hao Heavenly Venerable. This colossal divine artifact, like the Great Emperor, had ancient deities residing in every aperture of its body, controlling the ten thousand paths of the world, with battle power soaring to the heavens.
However, compared to the Great Emperor, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable was still a notch inferior.
In terms of physical body, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable could not match the Great Emperor. His physical body was born through the path of creation, and even with the great path's blessing, the Great Emperor also had the great path's blessing, and moreover, had the ancient era's Creators offering sacrifices and refining him day and night.
In terms of vital energy, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable's vital energy exceeded the Great Emperor's by a great deal, but the Great Emperor's cultivation was divine consciousness, and his divine consciousness had already become strong enough to brand itself into the Ultimate Void!
If judged by vital energy, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable had not yet reached this step.
Under the Great Emperor's attacks, the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable retreated again and again, beaten until his skin split open, the Dao patterns on his body shattered, and the ancient god Dao lights within the apertures of his body went out one after another.
The divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable was a giant that could destroy heaven and earth, suppressing all realms, but before the Great Emperor, he was like a little brother, only able to take the beating.
At this moment, suddenly a series of heavenly palaces leaped out from behind Hao Heavenly Venerable, and at the same time, a series of heavenly palaces also leaped out from behind the divine artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable, causing their magical power to surge!
Two Heavenly Courts materialized, their structures different from each other. Different combinations of heavenly palaces could form different Great Heavenly Court techniques, and different Great Heavenly Court techniques possessed different powers.
With the two Heavenly Courts appearing, the power of their divine abilities and Dao techniques immediately soared in a straight line!
Hao Heavenly Venerable had been enduring all along, like a venomous snake staring at its prey, waiting for the moment of a fatal strike.
And now he no longer needed to endure, directly unleashing his true skills!
The Great Emperor laughed heartily: "Hao Heavenly Venerable, I've been waiting for this move of yours all along!"
His divine consciousness erupted, forming a stretch of heavenly palaces behind him, connected into a Heavenly Court.
Bai Yuqiong widened her eyes, watching this scene, her heart pounding wildly.
She suddenly thought of a possibility—that one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables was the Great Emperor!
The Great Emperor, who had been killed by Yun Heavenly Venerable and Ling Heavenly Venerable back then, naturally could not have comprehended his own Great Heavenly Court technique. After his resurrection, he could not have comprehended it in such a short time either. Yet he could unleash his own Great Heavenly Court technique. There was only one possibility.
"That is—the Great Emperor is hidden among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, and this Heavenly Venerable is nearby at this very moment!"
She was stricken with terror.
Although she knew full well that there were many dirty secrets and underhanded dealings among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, she had never imagined that the dirt and schemes ran so deep, so profound!
The Ten Heavenly Venerables stood high above. Heavenly Masters like her, though also high above in the eyes of many, were utterly insignificant before the Ten Heavenly Venerables. Crushing her was like crushing an ant.
Now that she knew this secret, how much longer could she live?
Just then, she suddenly saw Qin Mu's primordial spirit had left his body at some point, and was looking at her with great interest.
Bai Yuqiong steadied herself and decided to tell him her discovery, saying: "Mu Heavenly Venerable, one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court is the Great Emperor, and he is nearby at this moment!"
Qin Mu's primordial spirit smiled at her, saying leisurely: "I already knew that. And I also know that this Heavenly Venerable is Heavenly Consort Qiang. I also know that the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor is among them, being Xiao Heavenly Venerable. Do you want to know the identities of Empress, Yuan Mu, Heavenly Duke, and the ancient god divine kings among the Ten Heavenly Venerables?"