Chapter 1131: Four World-Suppressing Divine Weapons
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Where the Lingxiao Hall of Treasured Jade ought to have stood, there now towered a colossal divine weapon: eight enormous wheels interlocked, with neither axle nor bearing, but so wondrously contrived that in their turning they stamped an unbroken stream of Creation runes upon whatever was taking shape at their common center. The eight wheels bore Creation runes of unfathomable complexity, and when they turned the runes kindled to light and the power of Creation spilled forth from all eight. And judging by the construction of Yujing City, a thousand celestial furnaces stood within it, their conduits paved with divine gold and covered end to end with transmission runes, able to carry the energy of those furnaces to the eight wheels. To set such a behemoth in motion, every furnace in Yujing City had to be lit, at ruinous cost. "This is the Divine Weapon of Creation that Venerable Lingtian designed and made, the body of Zaohua Juewuchen and the treasure of the Divine Weapon Yutianzun alike." Gazing at that Divine Weapon of Creation, Shen Mu thought, "After Venerable Yuntian's death, this treasure was sent to the Heavenly Court." The greatest legacy of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court was this Divine Weapon of Creation! And at that very moment, all at once, furnace after massive furnace in Yujing City of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace blazed up, and the Divine Weapon of Creation began to move! Shen Mu's heart gave a leap. He looked that way, shaken beyond measure. "The Heavenly Court has started the Divine Weapon of Creation—what do they mean to make?" Rune by rune, the marks upon the eight wheels lit up, and as they kindled their radiance grew ever more dazzling. Shen Mu bade Long Qilin and Yan'er draw near, and looking on from afar they saw the Heavenly Court's giant strongmen hauling in a great cart, and within the cart lay a hunk of flesh like a mountain of meat. "Sect Master, it's a Taisui!" Long Qilin cried out in alarm. Shen Mu nodded. The cart bore the Taisui over to the Divine Weapon of Creation; several Daoist priests climbed down, lifted the creature up, and laid it at the weapon's center. The Taisui lay dull and insensate, neither stirring nor aware. Just then the eight wheels began slowly to turn, their light growing ever brighter, rune after rune blazing brilliantly and casting its radiance down upon the Taisui! Whirr—whirr—whirr! The Divine Weapon of Creation spun faster and faster, and the runes flashed down faster and faster; Creation rune after Creation rune struck the Taisui, and before their eyes the Taisui began to change, sprouting a head, sprouting limbs, sprouting a body! Amid the myriad flashing runes, Shen Mu dimly made out that some were not Creation runes at all, but the Great Way runes of the ancient gods, trailing a blinding crimson glow. The divine official who had come to proclaim the decree reminded him, "Venerable Mu, His Majesty is still waiting for us." His eyes fixed unblinking upon this act of Creation, Shen Mu said, "A moment more. Those are... the Great Way runes of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird!" Shen Mu was struck dumb, and the Taisui, remodeled by the Creation runes, its form transforming, little by little began to resemble the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird! And as time passed the likeness grew ever closer; more than that, the ancient-god Great Way of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird was branded upon this body of Creation as well, so that the Southern Emperor taking shape within the Divine Weapon of Creation grew stronger and stronger! The Vermilion Bird's sacred fire poured from that body, blazing fiercely about this Southern Emperor of Creation and scorching the Divine Weapon of Creation red-hot! Shen Mu's heart and spirit quaked—the Ten Heavenly Venerables meant to create another Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird! Yet they were not truly recreating the Southern Emperor; they were forging a divine weapon in the Southern Emperor's shape! What did the Heavenly Court mean to do with a second