Chapter 1143 — Lesser Heavenly Court, Greater Heavenly Court

f the Heavenly Court the chance to surpass them. The reason for this was the sudden outbreak of the Jingping Calamity. At that time, the noble and high-minded of Jingping, Shen Mu among them, had for the most part entered or were about to enter the Heavenly Palace, and given their temperaments they would certainly have carried out bold and sweeping reforms of the Heavenly Palace realm as well. But then the Jingping Calamity erupted. Of the three heroes of the Reform, Shen Mu was crippled, and the Jingping Imperial Preceptor and Emperor Yanfeng were thrown into prison; the reform aimed at the Heavenly Palace realm was cut short in an instant. And Heavenly Venerable Yu, who was even more likely to become a pillar of the Jingping Reform, was dragged into Youdu to hide. More than ten years have passed since the Jingping Calamity ended. Today the Jingping Reform is mostly concerned with microscopic forging, led by Xu Shenghua, Lin Xuan, the Nine Elders of Yincan Village, Ling Yuxiu, and others. Though their talents are no weaker than those of Shen Mu, Jiang Baigui, and Emperor Yanfeng, in bold and sweeping transformation their breadth of mind and boldness of spirit are somewhat smaller. "Martial Uncle, we have arrived at the ancestral land of the Chengtu Ancient God," said Yu Chudu. Shen Mu halted. Standing outside the Chengtu ancestral land, the third eye at the center of his brow opened, and through the rolling, surging earthly baleful qi he gazed into that ancestral land. The baleful qi here was incomparably dense, blocking all sight from the outside world. Yet in his eyes, everything within the Chengtu ancestral land was laid out clear as could be.