Chapter 1446: Strongest Combat Power (First Update)
"Even the Heavenly Duke would seize an opportunity to launch a sneak attack?"
Lang Xuan Divine Emperor was both surprised and amused. Although he had been wounded by the two Heavenly Venerables, these wounds were not fatal. When the Heavenly Duke's palm came striking toward him, he immediately stopped targeting Thach Ky La and Tuong Thien Phi, turned around mid-air, and without further ado elevated his power to the absolute limit!
At this moment, his back faced Tuong Thien Phi and Thach Ky La, his rear completely exposed, devoid of any defense, laid bare so openly before these two great Heavenly Venerables.
Thach Ky La gently raised a hand and pressed it against his back. The flesh on Lang Xuan Divine Emperor's back, which had been torn to shreds by the two Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables, immediately regenerated, broken bones reconnected, and his wounds fully healed.
On the other side, Tuong Thien Phi returned to the Divine Execution Platform. With a flick of her sleeve, she swept it across Thach Ky La's neck. At the neck, the killing intent and residual sword dao left behind by Qin Mu's blade strike were immediately absorbed by her, feeding back into the killing-intent divine blade of the Divine Execution Platform.
Thach Ky La's head flew back and landed on his own neck, his wounds fully healed. Immediately after, a halo of light flew out from behind his head and came to hover above Tuong Thien Phi's head. The halo spun, sweeping from the top of her head down to her feet.
Tuong Thien Phi had been beaten by Lang Xuan until her bones were broken and tendons snapped, but now, with the aid of Thach Ky La's art of creation, her physical body immediately returned to its peak condition.
Although the three of them had just been viciously attacking one another moments ago, looking as if they wished nothing more than to kill each other, at this very instant they were actually healing one another's wounds, showing not the slightest bit of wariness toward each other—like comrades who could entrust their very lives to one another!
This was the tacit understanding among the Ten Heavenly Venerables!
When there was no great enemy present, they would do everything in their power to strike at one another, seeking any opportunity to eliminate their rivals. But when an enemy appeared, they immediately became allies on the same front line, willing to entrust their lives to each other!
This was the very reason the Ten Heavenly Venerables had managed to stand unshaken for a million years!
The three great Heavenly Venerables struck out almost simultaneously. The treasure chest behind Thach Ky La opened, and another Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerable leaped out. Two of his Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables had been destroyed, but he still had three intact ones remaining.
The three divine artifacts roared furiously, their bodies swelling rapidly until they became immeasurably larger than Thach Ky La, Lang Xuan Divine Emperor, and Tuong Thien Phi combined. Even the Ancestral Court's Divine Execution Platform seemed utterly insignificant before them!
These three Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables possessed towering bodies, representing the strongest combat power of the Heavenly Court over the past million years—the most world-shocking weapons!
The three divine beings each shook their bodies and transformed into three heads and six arms, their sinewy frames ferocious. Eighteen arms raised high, and with a thunderous boom, they actually blocked the Heavenly Duke's strike!
The instant they blocked the Heavenly Duke's attack, the halos behind the heads of the three Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables spun with howling speed. Beneath the colossal halos, Thach Ky La and the other Heavenly Venerables appeared even more minuscule, standing before the divine beings' toes like ants.
And within the halos, twenty to thirty Heavenly Palaces each came crashing out, forming a grand Heavenly Court!
Those halos were of various colors, each different—one was Fire Heavenly Venerable's Dao Fire Halo, one was Hao Heavenly Venerable's Primordial Unity Halo, and the other was Tuong Thien Phi's Divine Sense Halo!
Thach Ky La borrowed the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables to steal the cultivation methods of the other Heavenly Venerables, commanding these three divine beings while simultaneously unleashing the ultimate techniques of different Heavenly Venerables—yet his own ultimate techniques had never once been used.
This sight made both Tuong Thien Phi and Lang Xuan Divine Emperor's eyes twitch.
However, they had no time to settle scores with Thach Ky La over this matter. The two Heavenly Venerables soared into the air, one to the left and one to the right. Lang Xuan Divine Emperor's physical body suddenly swelled, and with a single reach of his hand, he manifested twenty-eight layers of heaven, his divine abilities imprinting twenty-eight layers of void. His Primordial Beginning Dao formed like a circular disc, slashing toward the Heavenly Duke's arm!
His Primordial Beginning divine ability was even more exquisite than the Divine Origin Finger, its power even greater. With a single strike, he sliced open the Heavenly Duke's arm!
Tuong Thien Phi stood upon the Divine Execution Platform, channeling the killing-intent divine blade. Two streams of killing intent grew ever thicker, coiling like dragons, spinning around the Heavenly Duke's severed arm. With hissing successive slashes, they chopped the severed arm into pieces, stealing the power of the Heavenly Dao!
The three Heavenly Venerables coordinated flawlessly. This sight made Qin Mu and the other four, who were racing along the Heavenly Duke's arm, feel their hearts sink—while simultaneously silently thanking their luck.
If Qin Mu had recklessly tried to ambush the three Heavenly Venerables just now, he would likely be dead by now!
The three Heavenly Venerables joining forces had easily severed one of the Heavenly Duke's arms. This also made the five of them feel their hearts sink. The Heavenly Venerables were too powerful. Even the Heavenly Duke couldn't withstand the combined assault of three Heavenly Venerables—so how were they supposed to fight this battle?
Under heaven, who could possibly withstand the combined might of three Heavenly Venerables?
Moreover, the Xuan Capital at this moment had not only three Heavenly Venerables in attendance. Those who had already revealed themselves in the open included five Heavenly Venerables: Hong, Fire, Tuong, Lang, and Stone!
No one knew whether other Heavenly Venerables lurked in the shadows!
At the very least, Ancestral Divine King had yet to show himself—and Ancestral Divine King would absolutely come here!
Tian Shu's voice was hoarse as he lifted a jar of wine and poured it frantically down his throat, rasping: "The Kai Emperor told us to hold the line first, but even the Heavenly Duke can't hold..."
Just then, suddenly brilliant light blazed within the Xuan Capital. Countless streams of starlight surged madly, converging at the Heavenly Duke's severed arm.
Dao sounds rumbled and boomed. The Heavenly Duke's severed arm was regenerating, while the fingers of the severed arm splayed open. Muscles decomposed, bones, blood vessels, and sinews transformed in an instant into forty-nine kinds of Heavenly Dao treasures, floating suspended around the three Heavenly Venerables.
Those were Heavenly Dao treasures formed from the Heavenly Duke's own flesh, possessing tremendous power. Suddenly, driven by the Heavenly Principles treasure, all the Heavenly Dao treasures merged into one, descending like a Xuan Capital world, trapping the three Heavenly Venerables and the three Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables beneath it.
Hum—
The forty-nine different Heavenly Dao treasures blazed with brilliant light. The vibrating hum sounded like the Heavenly Dao itself crying out "Seal!" "Seal!" "Seal!" in strange resonance!
The great seal formed by the combined power of the forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures actually suppressed and sealed Thach Ky La, Lang Xuan, and Tuong Thien Phi along with the three Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables!
Qin Mu and the others watched with excitement, about to speak, when suddenly cracks appeared across the great Heavenly Dao seal. The next moment, it shattered into pieces!
"Powerful!"
Triet Hoa Le couldn't help but exclaim in awe. Tian Shu was still pouring wine down his throat, his calves still trembling, shouting loudly: "Stop staring! Charge forward! The Heavenly Duke can't hold off these wolves and tigers!"
The group quickened their pace, but in this time, they still hadn't managed to run from the Heavenly Duke's arm up to his shoulder.
The Heavenly Duke's body was too towering. Such a colossal frame could indeed concentrate unmatched power, but having such an enormous body also created one consequence: lack of mobility.
The Heavenly Duke and the Earth Count shared the same weakness—their massive physical forms made their attack speed slow and their offensive options limited when facing opponents of comparable strength.
"Unless the Heavenly Duke can shrink his body, no matter how powerful he is in this battle, he'll be like an elephant bitten to death by ants!"
Qin Mu had just had this thought when he suddenly felt the Heavenly Duke's body tremble violently. Fierce heavenly winds blew past them, so strong that all five could barely keep their footing!
That was another of the Heavenly Duke's arms slamming down past them, attacking the three Heavenly Venerables!
The five quickly stopped in their tracks to avoid being blown away by the heavenly wind. After the wind passed, they were about to set off again when suddenly heavenly thunder rumbled. Lightning formed rolling seas of thunder, and a fist broke through the thunder sea, passing beneath them!
Qin Mu, the Butcher, Triet Hoa Le, Lac Vo Song, and the drunken Tian Shu looked up and immediately witnessed a most spectacular sight. In the sky of the Xuan Capital, countless arms descended from above, each forming different palm techniques, seal techniques, fist techniques, and hook techniques, striking at the three Heavenly Venerables!
The power contained within each palm was so surging, so formidable. Every single strike carried the resonance of all forty-nine Heavenly Dao principles!
Every strike of the Heavenly Duke represented the full power of the Heavenly Court realm at its perfection!
Tuong Thien Phi raised her twin Divine Execution Mystic Blades to receive the first strike, severing one of the Heavenly Duke's arms. The second strike sent her flying along with the Divine Execution Platform. Then the third, fourth, and fifth strikes came hammering down like a violent storm!
Lang Xuan Divine Emperor channeled all his power into that withered Dao Fruit. One Primordial Beginning grand divine ability after another displayed overwhelming might, shattering the Heavenly Duke's arms one by one and severing palm after palm. But the next moment, the Dao Fruit suddenly turned sluggish in its operation, and he too was sent flying by a single Heavenly Dao great hand seal.
While he was still mid-air, more Heavenly Dao great hands struck him one after another, causing blood to spray from his mouth!
Thach Ky La strained every fiber of his being to control the three Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables, but every fist the Heavenly Duke brought down was like Ancestral Divine King unifying the forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures into a single Heavenly Dao supreme treasure—one strike that smashed the Divine Artifact Imperial Heavenly Venerables so they couldn't raise their heads, rattling her Dao heart, shattering the Heavenly Palaces behind the divine beings' heads one by one!
This was the combat power possessed at the Heavenly Court realm's great perfection!
Although the Heavenly Duke had no cultivation realm, within the Xuan Capital, he represented the strongest combat power under heaven!
"Four-faced divinity—a perfect four-faced sacred being, without any flaw!" Tian Shu muttered as he poured wine down his throat.
Qin Mu's heart sank. He knew that the Heavenly Duke was not perfect. There were places under heaven that the Xuan Capital's light could not reach, and places that the Heavenly Dao could not touch.
At that moment, he saw Hong Heavenly Venerable break free from Moon Heavenly Venerable's harassment and fly toward them.