Chapter 1477: Nine Heavenly Venerables Rescue Qin Mu (Second Update)
The Blind Man couldn't help but grow tense, listening as Tai Yi set down his water pipe and continued: "The nine Heavenly Venerables have already entered the city. I can no longer see them."
The Blind Man clenched his fists. The Mute was still urging him on, and the Blind Man snapped angrily: "Wait a little longer!"
Just then, waves of shocking tremors came from the direction of the ancestral court's Jade Capital City. The Blind Man's heart leaped with joy, and he stared at Tai Yi with eager expectation.
Tai Yi said: "There's no need to look at me. I cannot see what's happening inside Jade Capital City either."
The Blind Man refused to give up, continuing to stare at him, waiting for him to report on the battle.
In the ancestral court's Jade Capital City, seven Heavenly Venerables arrived together and joined forces with Fire Heavenly Venerable and Void Heavenly Venerable outside the city.
Fire Heavenly Venerable and Void Heavenly Venerable had arrived earlier than the others. They hadn't planned to enter the city immediately—after all, the appearance of Jade Capital City had caused such a tremendous commotion that even they felt some fear at the sight.
This fear was the fear of the unknown.
When facing the unknown, even Heavenly Venerables felt a sense of trepidation.
So the two Heavenly Venerables, Fire and Void, had remained outside the city, waiting quietly for the other Heavenly Venerables.
"Pastoral Heavenly Venerable hasn't come out from inside."
Fire Heavenly Venerable said to Hao Heavenly Venerable and the others: "After he broke the seal of the Fragrant Robe Hall, he's remained in this city."
"The seal of the Fragrant Robe Hall was placed by nearly all the mighty figures throughout history, including the seals of us Ten Heavenly Venerables. With his abilities alone, he couldn't possibly break it."
Hao Heavenly Venerable said unhurriedly: "He must have borrowed external power to break it."
He surveyed this ancient, weathered divine city, and said calmly: "In other words, there is something extremely terrifying in this city that can break the seals of us Ten Heavenly Venerables—even the seals of Heavenly Emperor and Great Emperor Tai!"
Yan Heavenly Consort, Qiang Heavenly Consort, Shi Qiluo, and Palace Heavenly Venerable felt a chill in their hearts. If it could break their seals, then the power Qin Mu had borrowed was likely no weaker than theirs—perhaps even stronger!
The other Heavenly Venerables didn't know how terrifying this place was, but Yan Heavenly Consort, Qiang Heavenly Consort, Shi Qiluo, and Palace Heavenly Venerable had been here before and remembered it vividly.
Hao Heavenly Venerable said: "The Fragrant Robe Hall absolutely cannot be lost! The thing suppressed inside that hall must never be allowed to escape."
Fire Heavenly Venerable thought of Imperial Heavenly Venerable and Bright Emperor, and quickly nodded: "They absolutely cannot be allowed to escape!"
Yan Heavenly Consort, Qiang Heavenly Consort, Shi Qiluo, and Palace Heavenly Venerable also recalled the painting in the hall and the figure within it. Their hearts shook violently, and they said in deep voices: "He cannot be released!"
Ancestral God King and Palace Heavenly Venerable followed Hao Heavenly Venerable's lead without question. Void Heavenly Venerable and Langxuan Divine Emperor had no choice but to follow as well. Nine Heavenly Venerables, along with the Taiji Ancient God, walked together into the city.
The gazes of the two Ancient Gods remained fixed behind Hao Heavenly Venerable. Others couldn't see Tai Su behind Hao Heavenly Venerable, but they could see Tai Su's true form.
"This place is indeed somewhat strange. For Pastoral Heavenly Venerable to have found such a location is no small feat." Langxuan Divine Emperor's Dao Fruit spun behind his head, and he couldn't help but praise.
Hao Heavenly Venerable felt uncomfortable hearing him mention Qin Mu, so he quickened his pace.
The nine Heavenly Venerables entered the city. The scenes they encountered along the way were the same as what Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun had seen, but they were far more powerful than Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun. Even when they encountered the wind of heat death, they didn't avoid it—and immediately, all nine Heavenly Venerables suffered greatly!
The nine Heavenly Venerables dodged the wind of heat death, then encountered the withered Dao Trees. But they didn't know the trees must not be touched. The moment Ancestral God King touched a Dao Tree, he immediately sensed a profound consciousness invading his mind and hastily resisted.
"A demonic tree dares to harm me?"
This Divine King flew into a rage, uprooting the withered Dao Tree and blasting wave after wave of great Heavenly Dao divine abilities into it, snapping who knew how many of its withered branches.
But the Dao Tree concealed a strange Dao within, and it struck back, wounding Ancestral God King in the process.
The other Heavenly Venerables were horrified.
"Ancestral God King, this is a Dao Tree! Don't fight it head-on!"
Qiang Heavenly Consort raised the two divine blades from the ancestral court's Divine Execution Platform. The blades shook their heads and wagged their tails, crossing in a devastating slash. With a thunderous crash, the Dao Tree was severed, and she said: "In this world, the only one who cultivated a Dao Tree was Great Emperor Tai—that invincible existence, undying and immortal, living eternally alongside heaven and earth. And the only one who can cut down a Dao Tree is me!"
They saw that at the severed point of the Dao Tree, crimson-red blood flowed from the trunk. The blood was suffused with rosy light, and the light flew up to slash at everyone!
The nine Heavenly Venerables each struck out to resist, wiping away the rosy light, their hearts secretly alarmed.
Even for them, facing that rosy light felt somewhat strenuous.
"How did Pastoral Heavenly Venerable find such a bizarre place?"
They wiped away the rosy light and were about to collect the withered Dao Tree when they saw the trunk and branches rapidly disintegrate, vanishing without a trace in no time.
Only countless Dao patterns flew out in all directions, merging into heaven and earth, making the spiritual energy here so dense it was like a holy land.
"Strange!"
The nine Heavenly Venerables pressed forward again. As for Qiang Heavenly Consort's two divine blades, the Divine Execution Blades, they were secretly on guard. Those two divine blades could easily sever even a Dao Tree—truly the most ferocious weapons under heaven. Killing them would probably be no trouble at all.
Everyone secretly kept their guard up against Qiang Heavenly Consort. Before long, they encountered strange ghosts rising from the chaotic qi, spewing the wind of cold stillness. Fortunately, they were prepared this time. Everyone dodged the wind, and Langxuan Divine Emperor casually pointed a finger, killing the strange ghost on the spot!
With nine Heavenly Venerables joining forces, they were virtually unstoppable, charging through all obstacles. Before long, they came upon a bizarre forest formed by withered Dao Trees. At the sight, even as Heavenly Venerables, they couldn't help but draw in a cold breath.
"That boy Pastoral Heavenly Venerable actually found such a strange place—he cannot be allowed to live!" all the Heavenly Venerables said in unison.
Then their gazes fell upon the Fragrant Robe Hall. They saw that this majestic hall was now in ruins, its various seals around it tattered and broken, seven or eight out of ten already destroyed.
The hall had been pierced through by a Dao Tree. On that Dao Tree hung a Dao Fruit, withered and decayed, suspended before the door, riddled with holes from the seals' attacks.
And inside the Dao Fruit was a woman, naked, already dead within it.
"A pity. A pity."
Langxuan Divine Emperor shook his head and sighed: "That Pastoral Heavenly Venerable fellow knows nothing of cherishing beauty—he only knows how to cruelly destroy flowers. We can no longer indulge him. He must be eliminated."
The other Heavenly Venerables nodded in agreement.
Ancestral God King frowned: "The seals have been broken. That Pastoral Heavenly Venerable is cunning as a fox—he's probably already fled with the prisoners from here."
"No."
Palace Heavenly Venerable said calmly: "Even if he broke the seals of the Fragrant Robe Hall, he absolutely cannot escape from within. Once he enters the hall, he can forget about fleeing."
Hao Heavenly Venerable, Fire Heavenly Venerable, and the others exchanged strange glances. Palace Heavenly Venerable clearly knew many of the Fragrant Robe Hall's secrets.
Fire Heavenly Venerable let out a breath and said in a deep voice: "Since Pastoral Heavenly Venerable cannot escape and has fallen into the hall, we should take this opportunity to send him on his way, to avoid further complications."
They walked into the hall.
After a moment, an incomparably terrifying tremor suddenly erupted from within. Heavenly Venerable divine abilities exploded, shaking heaven and earth. The entire Fragrant Robe Hall swayed violently, quickly crumbling, and then the great hall split apart into pieces!
Whoosh—
Fragments of the Great Luo Heaven burst forth from within the hall, expanding madly. Within the fragments of the Great Luo Heaven, the nine Heavenly Venerables surrounded a scholar, fighting with desperate ferocity. All nine were bleeding, yet they savagely cut down the Dao Fruit and felled the Dao Tree!
No matter how skilled the Mira Palace's Primal Sage was, because he had suffered the cataclysm of the universe's great destruction and his power had not yet recovered, he was brutally slain by the nine Heavenly Venerables within the fragments of the Great Luo Heaven!
At that very moment, in the ancestral court's Great Black Mountain, Qin Mu slowly awoke.