Chapter 1158 — The Contention of the Venerables
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Celestial Master Qiang, Celestial Master Xiao, and Celestial Master Hao felt a chill in their hearts, and at once understood the meaning of his words! So long as fewer than three Celestial Masters remained in the Heavenly Court, those two ancient gods would strike, and blot the Celestial Masters from existence!
At present there were four Celestial Masters in the Heavenly Court: Hao, Xiao, Qiang, and another, Consort Yan, in the rear palace.
It would take only two Celestial Masters sent out to hold off Kaihuang and Langwan to give the Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth a heaven-sent opportunity!
Dispose of four Celestial Masters, and the remaining six would face a disadvantage most galling to bear.
After all, Kaihuang Shen Ye was the natural ally of the ancient gods; the age of Kaihuang had been raised up with the support of the ancient gods! The ancient gods had nurtured Kaihuang precisely to raise him up as a challenger to the Heavenly Court.
Kaihuang Shen Ye, plus Divine King Langwan, plus the Lord of Heaven, the Lord of Earth, Celestial Master You, and the three Ancient God Emperors—and if Celestial Master Yue, who had withdrawn from the world into seclusion, were added to the count—the balance of power between the two sides would be reversed at a single stroke!
Though if the Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth made their move they would be bound by the Great Dao of their respective worlds, it would still be more than enough to wound them grievously!
In the very instant their minds faltered, Kaihuang drew his sword with savage resolve.
The Carefree Sword came forth, stabbing at Celestial Master Hao!
This was the moment he had wanted!
He had not come to the Heavenly Court this time to compromise, nor to trade pleasantries with these Celestial Masters.
He had come to destroy!
He had come to hurt the Heavenly Court, to make it bleed, to make the Celestial Masters dare not rush all together into the Void! His very first stroke was his mightiest sword dao: the Thirty-Four Heavens Sword Dao, founded upon Sword Form Twenty!
His sword domain swelled, erupted, and drove on without a thought of retreat.
As an unmatched overlord who had opened an era, never mind his strength—such momentum and spirit alone had seldom been seen in a million years! In the distance, Shen Mu, seeing this sword, could not help but be stirred, and cheered aloud.
This Kaihuang of today was the Kaihuang he had wished to see: powerful, confident, believing that no difficulty or danger could bar his way, that every hardship and peril would be cleft in two by his sword!
But in the next instant Shen Mu's face changed drastically.
He slapped his dragon qilin sharply and cried: "It is too high here—beware the sword qi!
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No sooner had he spoken than Celestial Master Hao raised his palm and grasped at Kaihuang's Thirty-Four Heavens Sword Dao. He was like an emperor enthroned on high, ruling every Great Dao in the world; one hand stretched out, and the myriad daos of heaven and earth lay within his grasp.
Behind him heavenly palaces lay piled one upon another, blazing with light; behind his head his wheel of light was radiant, dazzling beyond measure; in his hand the Great Daos gathered, the myriad daos flowing into one.
Those were pure innate Great Daos; not one acquired Great Dao could be found among them.
As the son of the Heavenly Emperor and Yuanmu, Celestial Master Hao possessed pride beyond compare, and the wherewithal to justify it. His gifts were exceedingly high, and he was the Celestial Master Hao who had opened the Divine Treasury; the one thing that made him feel small was that the Heavenly Emperor had been reincarnated as a human when he begot him, so that half the blood of the human race ran in his veins.
This was the greatest stain upon his life.