Chapter 1363: Two Kings and One Emperor (Fourth Update)
Granny Si carried the lantern and sped away. This lantern was a treasure of the Moon Celestial Venerable, used for travel, and it was even faster than a Celestial Venerable herself.
When Qin Mu left the lantern behind, he mentioned that Palace Celestial Venerable was the natural enemy of Qiang Heavenly Consort, and then glanced at Dragon Qilin. Granny Si immediately understood Qin Mu's intention—she was to carry the lantern to find Palace Celestial Venerable and have Dragon Qilin send Palace Celestial Venerable into the back of the Ancestral Court.
As Granny Si passed over the territory of Langxuan Divine Emperor, she casually glanced downward and suddenly saw countless roots whipping through the air, with a massive altar taking shape!
Rank upon rank of divine generals stood in orderly formation atop the altar, while Langxuan Divine Emperor was performing his arts, reversing the summoning divine ability!
"Just as Qiang Heavenly Consort predicted, Langxuan Divine Emperor figured out that reversing the summoning divine ability wasn't difficult at all!"
Granny Si saw space twisting and figures on the altar disappearing one after another. Knowing the situation was urgent, she no longer lingered.
When she arrived outside the Ancestral Court, she crossed the Spirit Energy Bridge of Exchange to reach the Heavenly Court.
Each of the Ten Celestial Venerables had their own Spirit Energy Bridge of Exchange, leading directly to their own heavenly palace residence. The bridge Granny Si took led straight to Palace Celestial Venerable's heavenly palace in the Heavenly Court.
She had just stepped off the bridge when she was stopped by the divine generals guarding the palace.
Granny Si announced herself and said, "I was sent by Herding Celestial Venerable with urgent matters to inform Palace Celestial Venerable."
Before long, she was brought before Palace Celestial Venerable. Granny Si said, "Herding Celestial Venerable was coerced by Qiang Heavenly Consort and went to the back of the Ancestral Court to subdue Dragon Xiao."
Palace Celestial Venerable immediately rose to her feet and said, "That wench wants to turn the world upside down? Take me there."
By the time the two of them returned to the Ten Thousand Black Mountains of the Ancestral Court, Dragon Qilin and the others had already prepared the altar. Palace Celestial Venerable ascended the altar and saw Wei Suifeng, Youming Crown Prince, and others also standing on it.
Palace Celestial Venerable shook her head and said, "This is a battle between Celestial Venerables. Can you even get involved? I'll go alone. If there are too many people, I'll have to look after you instead."
Wei Suifeng hesitated. Palace Celestial Venerable left behind an hourglass and flipped it over, saying calmly, "Stay here. When the last grain of sand falls in the hourglass, you will have your answer."
With that, she nodded to Dragon Qilin, who immediately activated the reversing summoning divine ability and started the altar.
Light blazed on the altar as Palace Celestial Venerable's divine consciousness established a connection with the colossal beast far away in the Ancestral Court. She quickly understood how this reversing summoning divine ability worked and said, "So it builds a summoning altar in the target's mind using divine consciousness. How interesting. No wonder it's Herding Celestial Venerable. Only he could come up with such a whimsical idea. However, if you want to summon me over, even a thousand or a hundred beasts couldn't do it. I'll just use Dragon Xiao directly to establish the summoning ability!"
Dragon Qilin suddenly felt his divine ability being severed, and his heart filled with alarm. Palace Celestial Venerable had cut off his divine consciousness and replaced it with her own, actively searching for the colossal beast on the back of the Ancestral Court!
"This Palace Celestial Venerable is truly a fierce woman. No wonder when the Sect Master mentioned her, his tone unconsciously carried admiration." Dragon Qilin thought to himself.
At that moment, on the back of the Ancestral Court, Dragon Xiao's nine heads were in a deep slumber. His physique was incomparably vast, no less than beings like Heaven Duke or Earth Lord. Only a place like the back of the Ancestral Court could accommodate his body.
Countless colossal beasts lived on his body, multiplying and thriving upon him. Some beasts never even came down in their entire lives—from birth to adulthood, to mating, to death, to rotting into white bones—all of it happened on his body.
Suddenly, Dragon Xiao's senses flared with alarm. He opened his eyes and raised his head. The eyes of his nine heads opened, making the back of the Ancestral Court incredibly bright, as if eighteen suns had suddenly appeared in the sky!
He sensed an incomparably powerful existence descending upon his territory!
At that very moment, thousands of colossal beasts on the back of the Ancestral Court were pulled into the air, flying mid-air, involuntarily forming a strange formation!
The beasts' divine consciousness was forcibly dragged out of their minds by a force coming from another world. The divine consciousness automatically combined, forming runes.
Countless runes were like the most precise components of a massive machine, automatically assembling into Dao chains!
The Dao chains interwove with each other, forming an altar!
It was the reversing summoning divine ability!
Dragon Xiao was alarmed and uncertain. Last time when Shuojun and the others descended, there hadn't been such a commotion. But now, thousands of beasts were being pulled to form a summoning altar!
At that moment, countless more beasts were dragged into the sky, automatically forming another altar!
One after another, gods and demons emerged, appearing on the back of the Ancestral Court!
"Heh heh, so the so-called Celestial Venerables have come? You're just asking for death!"
Dragon Xiao stood up and shook his body, sending countless beasts tumbling off him.
He was the god of the Creators, the beast god that the Creators hoped would restrain the Ancient Gods and punish them. He possessed boundless power and the most robust physical body.
It had been a long time since he had truly fought!
When he opened his eyes, it was day. When he closed them, it was night. When he moved, the entire back of the Ancestral Court would be wracked with thunder and lightning, with hurricanes sweeping across the land!
Now, he was finally going to display his power!
Whoosh—
The power of the first reversing summoning divine ability fully bloomed. Qin Mu and Qiang Heavenly Consort appeared on the back of the Ancestral Court. Qiang Heavenly Consort's beautiful eyes swept around, first landing on the massive creature slowly rising into the air, then looking toward the distant site where the other reversing summoning ability had erupted.
"Langxuan Divine Emperor really did come."
Qiang Heavenly Consort frowned and sneered, "Tai Chu wants to take everything from me—power, status, women. Even his son wants to take everything from me! They truly don't know their place!"
Qin Mu took a step back and said calmly, "Langxuan Divine Emperor is the illegitimate son of Gongjun Divine King and Tai Chu Heavenly Emperor. From the moment he was born, he possessed boundless glory—blessed by the Heavenly Emperor, blessed by the Ancient Gods, becoming the first demigod and the leader of all demigods. And now he's even a Celestial Venerable. If the son of Gongjun and Tai Emperor were still alive, wouldn't he be no less than him?"
At that moment, the reversing summoning divine ability erupted with incomparably intense light as Langxuan Divine Emperor descended with Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign!
"What is Tai Chu anyway?"
The divine light around Qiang Heavenly Consort grew denser and denser. Her figure vanished in an instant, and the next moment she appeared beside the just-arrived Langxuan Divine Emperor. Her divine consciousness exploded, surging toward him. Langxuan Divine Emperor's face changed drastically, and he decisively grabbed Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, using her as a shield against the incoming divine consciousness!
At the same time, heavenly palaces flew out from behind his head, forming the Great Heavenly Court and elevating his cultivation and power to the absolute peak!
Boom—
That powerful divine consciousness bypassed Earth Mother in an instant and struck his brow, causing his primordial spirit to waver!
His divine consciousness was certainly powerful, but compared to this person, it was like a minor sorcerer before a great one.
He immediately knew who had come, and his face changed dramatically: "Tai Emperor—! Herding Celestial Venerable was right, you really were hiding among the Ten Celestial Venerables!"
His figure flew backward, but even in defeat he remained composed. He immediately executed the Divine Origin Finger. Qiang Heavenly Consort had witnessed this technique before and knew well how powerful it was, so she immediately dodged.
Langxuan Divine Emperor steadied himself, his primordial spirit floating behind him, rising to the highest point of the sky above the back of the Ancestral Court, blotting out the heavens. He sneered, "Tai Emperor, you escaped last time. Where can you flee this time? Among the Ten Celestial Venerables, we've always followed Herding Celestial Venerable's lead, and the other Celestial Venerables rarely clash. Now, perhaps it's time to see who is truly the supreme Celestial Venerable!"
In the distance, Dragon Xiao saw his primordial spirit and his face changed dramatically: "This Celestial Venerable... seems to have real skill..."
He still had immense confidence in himself. He strode forward, crossing mountains and seas, walking toward them.
Suddenly, the two Celestial Venerables clashed again. Terrifying divine abilities erupted, and the shockwaves swept in all directions. Dragon Xiao's body was caught in the aftermath of the two Celestial Venerables' abilities, and cracks appeared across his dragon scales.
Dragon Xiao was startled, and his nine heads roared in fury as he struck at both Celestial Venerables simultaneously!
Boom—
After a few exchanges, his body was sent flying, crashing backward. His mind was filled with confusion: "Are they really that strong? No, it's because my body is too big! Shrink!"
His body shrank, and he charged forward again. Qiang Heavenly Consort and Langxuan Divine Emperor were locked in battle, their eyes only on each other, paying no heed to his charge. Occasionally they would dodge, causing him to lose track of their positions. When truly pressed, they would simply blast Dragon Xiao away.
"This beast never learns his lesson!"
Qiang Heavenly Consort and Langxuan Divine Emperor saw him still pestering them, and each sneered coldly. Two streams of divine consciousness erupted simultaneously, pressing down on him. Dragon Xiao's nine heads went foggy, his divine consciousness nearly unusable. Only then did he understand how terrifying they were.
"The Celestial Venerables are too strong—not like that fraud Herding Celestial Venerable!"
He suddenly came to his senses and was about to flee when an even more vast and profound divine consciousness locked onto him, manipulating his own divine consciousness, forming a summoning ability in his mind!
Dragon Xiao's nine heads roared, and he felt a deep terror wash over him.
At that moment, Qin Mu leisurely walked to the divine consciousness prison and looked at the people inside, smiling: "Everyone, are you all well?"