Chapter 753 — Expanding the Celestial Palace
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Kaihuang had already retreated, unnoticed, to the threshold of the great hall. Leaning close to Old Ox, he whispered, "If anything goes amiss later, you must act to save people!"
Niu Sanduo said hastily, "How could anything go amiss? The spirit bridge connects to the heavenly palace. Junior Brother only needs to speak of the primordial spirit ascending to the heavenly palace, and he can bluff his way through. Hao Tianzun cannot expose him."
Kaihuang shook his head and said gravely in a low voice, "Hao Tianzun has ill intentions. Having him speak the first section is deliberately setting a trap to make him reveal himself. You know this as well as I do—when the primordial spirit ascends to the heavenly palace, one can be called a god, immortal and undying, equal to the ancient gods. But the people of this age have no heavenly palace!"
Old Ox was stunned, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
Kaihuang said solemnly, "The people of this age have not yet opened a heavenly palace within their bodies. Their spirit bridge is nothing but a flying bridge! The Heavenly Venerable Yu's great feat was to open a heavenly palace out of thin air! Now that the Heavenly Venerable Yu is dead, the only one who knows the art of opening the heavenly palace is Hao Tianzun! Mu Qing—does he know how to open the heavenly palace? If he knows, then he is another Heavenly Venerable Yu! If he does not, he will be exposed!"
Old Ox's heart gradually sank, and he muttered, "It would be more satisfying to just say Hao Tianzun killed him and beat Hao Tianzun to death. Why must he insist on this whole business of preaching the art..."
"His ascending the altar to preach the art serves another purpose. He must both restrain Hao Tianzun and force him to spread the art of becoming a god, lest future ages lose the path to godhood. That is why he cannot finish off Hao Tianzun at once."
Kaihuang lowered his voice further. "But Hao Tianzun is a peerless man of cunning. He has seen through his intent. This man's heart is vicious—he is the enemy of my life! This is the ancient heavenly court of the primeval gods, and all around are demigods and adepts. If Mu Qing cannot answer, Hao Tianzun won't even need to make a move; the demigods and adepts will beat Mu Qing to death! What's more..."
A worried look crossed his face, and he thought, "Yaochi is the empress's back garden. For Hao Tianzun to dare kill the Heavenly Venerable Yu on the empress's own ground—the undercurrents here run far too deep. Hao Tianzun is a demigod, a child of an ancient god and a human. Which ancient god? Mu Qing is too impulsive. We came to explore the mysteries of antiquity, yet he has thrown himself into the very eye of the storm, risking his life..."
At the altar, Shen Mu's primal energy soared, dazzling and resplendent. The energy transformed and condensed above the crowd's heads into the seven great divine treasuries: the Spirit Embryo, the Five Luminaries, the Six Harmonies, the Seven Stars, Heaven-Human, Life-Death, and the Spirit Bridge.
He manifested them with his primal energy, revealing the mysteries of the seven divine treasuries so that everyone could witness them.
"Such profound numerology! Monk, the Heavenly Venerable Yu's mastery of numerology is truly extraordinary!"
A Taoist holding a compass tilted his head back to gaze upward, praising without cease, and said to the monk beside him, "Worthy of the Heavenly Venerable Yu! He is nearly at the point of entering the Dao through numerology. Marvelous beyond words, marvelous beyond words! Can you tell that his divine treasuries are constructed from numerology?"
The monk beside him was occupied with begging alms. "Esteemed senior brother, the two of us have been starving for days now. Give a couple of spirit pills as alms, if fate allows... Numerology is of no use to me—I cultivate only the mind."