Within the Jade Capital, wave after wave of heart-stopping fluctuations erupted as the nine great Heavenly Lords—Hao, Fire, Langxuan, Gong, Qiang, the Ancestral God King, Yan, Shi, and Void—broke into all-out combat. The heavenly palaces of these lords joined into the Grand Heavenly Court, and the might of their divine abilities had reached, it could be said, the very pinnacle of divine power! Having slain the Heavenly Duke and refined Xuandu's Heavenly Dao, the nine lords had all reaped enormous benefits; their strength had once again soared. The reason they fought was nothing else: they were after the Dao tree, the Dao flower, and the Dao fruits of the Primordial Sage of the Miluo Palace. With the Primordial Sage slain, what remained was the Sage's wealth! The Dao tree, the Dao flower, and the Dao fruit were a realm they had never touched, a state they had never reached—whatever the cost, they had to possess them. Slaying the Heavenly Duke had increased their strength, but slaying the Primordial Sage of the Miluo Palace and gaining the Dao tree, flower, and fruit might elevate their realm! The free-for-all began abruptly, but it also ended quickly. At the first instant of battle, Heavenly Lord Hao, Heavenly Lord Fire, Heavenly Lord Gong, the Ancestral God King, and Heavenly Lord Void all attacked Consort Qiang at once. Consort Qiang, for all her possession of the God-Slaying Platform of the Ancestral Court and her two Mystic God-Slaying Blades—blades of incomparably terrifying offensive power—could still barely cope before the assault of five Heavenly Lords. She wrapped the two blades around her, and they spun about her with a shrieking roar like two great dragons of blood. Yet when Heavenly Lord Gong appeared before her, she dared not strike to kill, and an instant later she was gravely wounded by the five lords, whereupon she mounted a dragon and fled! Shi Qiluo opened her treasure casket, and with boom after boom, Artifact Heavenly Lords descended. Three Artifact Heavenly Lords screened her as she made straight for the Dao fruits beneath the tree. She had only just seized the two Dao fruits in her hands when greed surged in her heart and she was about to grab the Dao flower as well—when suddenly four Artifact Heavenly Lords flew out from behind Heavenly Lord Hao. Four of them, no less! Three engaged her own Artifact Heavenly Lords, while the fourth came straight at her to kill. "How can Heavenly Lord Hao have so many Artifact Heavenly Lords?" Shi Qiluo did not stop to think; she split her spirit to control this Artifact Heavenly Lord. Artifact Heavenly Lords were weapons she had made, and in each one she had left countless hidden trapdoors, through which she could spy on the divine abilities and techniques of the various Heavenly Lords. She could even, when doing battle with a Heavenly Lord, forcibly seize the other's Artifact Heavenly Lord and turn it into a weapon to slay its owner. But no sooner had her split-off spirit entered this Artifact Heavenly Lord than she felt something was wrong: there were no hidden trapdoors inside this Artifact Heavenly Lord at all! "This is not an Artifact Heavenly Lord I made!" Shi Qiluo was chilled to the bone. The split-off soul she had sent out was shaken to pieces, and her whole soul almost shattered. She hastily withdrew her soul, but the Artifact Heavenly Lord's attack had already landed on her; the terrifying force nearly crushed her heavenly palace along with her! This was an Artifact Heavenly Lord refined after Taisu's innate companion treasure had transformed into a Creation Artifact—in no way a weapon made by Shi Qiluo. In her rashness, she suffered a great loss. Since his injury, Heavenly Lord Hao had been underestimated by everyone, but in this Battle of Xuandu he shone brilliantly and became the great winner among the Ten Heavenly Lords. He subjugated Heavenly Lord Gong and the Ancestral God King, and with the aid of Heavenly Lord Fire and Heavenly Lord Void, he was like a tiger with wings—the most powerful faction among the Ten Heavenly Lords! Yet even in the Battle of Xuandu he had not shown all his assets. Taisu's innate companion treasure could take the form of any other treasure, or transform into a Creation Artifact. Having obtained this supreme treasure, while the other Heavenly Lords attacked and plotted against one another, ignoring him, he seized the opportunity to bring out all his wealth and refine it into one Artifact Heavenly Lord after another! Shi Qiluo, wounded and knowing her life was in danger, flung the two Dao fruits from her hand, and they flew toward Consort Yan. Consort Yan raised her hand and caught both. The instant they landed in her palm, the five Heavenly Lords—Hao, Fire, Void, Gong, and the Ancestral God King—had already gravely wounded Divine Emperor Langxuan and now closed in on her from both sides. Behind her, the two Taiji Ancient Gods merged and drove the Taiji Sand Table. In one fleeting moment, the power of this innate companion treasure was raised to the peak by the two ancient gods; yin and yang generated each other and merged into one as Taiji. The Way of Taiji surged; ten thousand Ways were born; ten thousand things were born! In that instant it was as if a world was born from the sand table—sun and moon, stars and constellations, the Starry River ablaze, the Great Dao flourishing! Just then, a great bell rose slowly behind Heavenly Lord Hao and crashed with a thunderous peal against the Taiji Sand Table. It was precisely Taisu's innate companion treasure. This treasure had no fixed form, yet it could assume any form. At this moment it had become a great bell of the Starry River. Its outer wall was etched with birds, beasts, insects, fish, and all manner of sacred figures; its inner wall was wrapped with the stars and starry rivers of all heavens. When the great bell collided with the Taiji Sand Table, its power could not prevail, and it burst apart! In the instant the bell shattered, the Way of Taisu condensed, and the broken bell became a great tripod. Chaotic qi swirled beneath the tripod and bore it aloft, smashing it into the Taiji Sand Table. At the same time, the five Heavenly Lords arrived together, each unleashing his most ferocious strike upon the Taiji Sand Table. The Taiji Ancient Gods were shaken and involuntarily split into two; one to the left, one to the right, they sped away with Consort Yan toward the outer city. Heavenly Lord Hao's Myriad-Dao Heavenly Wheel flew from his hand. With a tearing hiss, Consort Yan lost an arm, and in the palm of that severed arm was clutched a Dao fruit. Consort Yan fled wounded with the other Dao fruit. The five lords gave chase, but suddenly the two Taiji Ancient Gods drew their hands through the air; heaven and earth spun wildly, and space revolved like a Taiji Diagram. The five lords hastily halted, crushed the Taiji Diagram to pieces, and looked up—the two Taiji Ancient Gods and Consort Yan had vanished without a trace. "No need to pursue." Heavenly Lord Hao picked up Consort Yan's severed arm and smiled. "After all, we are all among the Ten Heavenly Lords. We are bound to meet again soon enough, and some day we may still have use for them. There is no need to destroy them utterly." Heavenly Lord Fire, Heavenly Lord Gong, and the others came to a halt. Heavenly Lord Fire stepped forward, picked up the Dao flower, hung it on the Dao tree, then lifted the Dao tree of the Primordial Sage of the Miluo Palace and bore it before Heavenly Lord Hao. Hao watched him with great interest, and only when he saw the tree and flower brought before him did he smile. "Your loyalty is commendable." Heavenly Lord Fire bowed and stood in attendance. "The other Heavenly Lords all think the Dao fruit is best, and the Dao flower is fine too, but what is truly useful to us Heavenly Lords is still the Dao tree. Without a tree, where would the fruit come from?" Heavenly Lord Hao walked over to the Primordial Sage's Dao tree and