Chapter 1157 — The Human Emperor Visits the Heavenly Palace
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" Jiang Baigui said, "You have most likely never heard of him, Celestial Master Yue. He is Celestial Venerable Mu. " Yue Tingge was taken aback, then roared with laughter. "So it is him!
That fellow is cocky as all hell, strutting about as though heaven were first and he second! I have long since taken a dislike to him!
" He nodded again and again, his face shining.
"That boy beats everyone at everything, and his tongue is enough to half-kill a man with rage! But in wisdom he is no match for us!
" Jiang Baigui nodded again and again too, in heartfelt agreement. The two looked at each other and smiled, each feeling he had met his true confidant, and each savoring the pleasure of looking down on Shen Mu with their wisdom, of grinding Shen Mu underfoot.
The Heavenly Court.
Shen Mu stepped out of the Spirit Energy Transit Bridge, thinking, "I wonder how the fighting goes in the Great Void.
Can Kaihuang and Langwan hold off the Heavenly Court's assault?
" He felt uneasy. That the creators of Worryfree Land and the Other Shore Void should join hands was something he, the Creator Holy Infant, had brought about single-handedly; and it was his scheming too that had forged soldiers in the Great Void, stirred the blood of Worryfree Land, and rekindled its reforms.
If the Heavenly Court mustered a vast host of gods and demons, Worryfree Land and the Other Shore Void truly might not hold.
He looked about him and saw that the Heavenly Court had grown much emptier. It had always been boundless, but countless gods and demons had roosted here, crowds thronging everywhere.
Now nearly half the Heavenly Court's forces had been drawn away; even the Heavenly Street looked bare, stripped of many of its idlers.
"So the Heavenly Court has gathered its superior force and driven into the Great Void, resolved to settle it all in one stroke. It is indeed the way that saves the most time and trouble!
" Shen Mu's heart went cold.
With such a method, the Ten Celestial Venerables would have to go forth; the Great Void held Kaihuang and Langwan, two existences of Celestial Venerable rank. He only wondered how many of the Ten had been sent.
"If Kaihuang can hold, it will settle into a war of attrition, and only then can the Great Void forge its soldiers. If he cannot, they can only retreat and hold the Void Bridge.
" Shen Mu narrowed his eyes toward Jade Capital City in the distance. For the Ten Celestial Venerables to remove Kaihuang and Langwan without loss, they would have to commit at least six.
To win clean and lose least, that was the only way. And the Heavenly Court must keep two Celestial Venerables to guard it, to wield the Celestial Emperor's body, protect the Court, and beware the assault of the Heavenly Duke and the Earth Duke.
"I wonder how many Celestial Venerables have gone to the Great Void.
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" As he pondered, sword qi monstrous and overwhelming burst suddenly from the rear palace of the Heavenly Court. Shen Mu's heart lurched; he looked at once, and saw a blade of sword light shoot skyward from the Celestial Emperor's rear palace, taking the phantom shape of the Thirty-Fourth Heaven Sword Dao, suppressing the whole of the Heavenly Court! The sword light rose, and at once the god-palaces and great halls of the Heavenly Court cracked with thunderous reports, halls splitting open as though carved by a keen blade.
Behind Shen Mu came a world-shaking roar too; he whirled to look, and saw the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court sheared clean in two. "Kaihuang Shen Ye has come to the Longhan Heavenly Court to pay his respects to His Majesty the Celestial Emperor!
" Kaihuang's voice came from the Celestial Emperor's rear palace in Jade Capital City, ringing like a bell, sounding in the ears of every soul in the Heavenly Court. Uproar swept the Heavenly Court.