Chapter 1158 — The Contention of the Venerables
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Yet judged by the strength all the Celestial Masters had displayed, his was the greatest. Because of his bloodline he was by nature nearer to the Dao than the others, swifter to cultivate, swifter to fathom the essence of the Great Dao.
Thus he commanded the greatest number of innate Great Daos.
Kaihuang's sword pierced into his palm. The sword domain and the domain of the myriad daos clashed; the divine powers of both men erupted. Celestial Master Hao's cultivation proved vast beyond measure, surpassing Kaihuang by no small margin—even Celestial Master Huo, who had absorbed the Great Dao of the Southern Emperor, fell a little short of it.
His dharma power was overbearing in the extreme, the gift not only of his bloodline, but of tireless, bitter cultivation besides.
The heavenly palaces behind him numbered as many as twenty-eight, the most fused by any of the Ten Celestial Masters; Celestial Master Xu had only twenty, and Celestial Master Lang a mere eighteen.
Though one could not rule out that they were concealing their strength, on the face of it Celestial Master Hao, with his twenty-eight heavenly palaces, still held the most complete Great Heavenly Court cultivation method.
He had already set half a foot into the legendary Heavenly Court realm!
Yet what was dreadful was this: as the sword domain and the domain of the myriad daos clashed, Kaihuang's sword rode the wind and broke the waves, sweeping all before it, and pierced through the domain of the myriad daos—and with a sharp hiss, Celestial Master Hao saw the point of the sword emerge from the back of his hand.
At the same moment Kaihuang's body was shaken violently; his sword domain collapsed, and the Thirty-Four Heavens Sword Dao, slipped from all control, shot out in every direction!
It was as though a terrible sword-dao storm had been raised at the Lingxiao Hall, spreading outward in all directions from that point as its origin, sweeping up and devouring all it passed!
That was not the sword domain alone, but the ever-expanding domain of the myriad daos as well!
Celestial Master Hao's domain of the myriad daos, long stored and only now released, revealed at last a power and might beyond compare!