Celestial Masters Qiang and Yan were thrown into deep alarm. Even shackled by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, the Lord of Heaven and the Earth Earl could still bring to bear a might by no means trifling; unless the divine weapon Yuzun was marshaled, they could never be held back! At the very instant Kaihuang made his move, Divine King Langwan struck as well, her vast divine consciousness surging forth, and in a single moment it wrapped itself around half the Jade Capital City, sinking it into the endless space and time conjured by her mind. The six imperial guards of the Heavenly Court — the Left and Right Yulin, the Shenwei, and the Shence — had only just broken through the space carved out by Kaihuang's single sword stroke when they fell into the boundless space and time envisioned by her consciousness, unable to come to anyone's aid at all. The fighting strength of those six armies was no trifling matter either; marching out in full, they could bring down a mighty one of the Imperial Throne. But set against an existence of the Celestial Master rank, they were somewhat outclassed. While Divine King Langwan held the six guard armies trapped, Celestial Master Xiao struck without warning, hurling himself at her; the Void Beast sprang backward and leapt into the void. Divine King Langwan's voice came drifting from deep within the void: "Xiao, as Celestial Master Yun's disciple, you know the Great Emperor so well that you make me doubt your identity. Perhaps you and Celestial Master Hao are of one family — perhaps you are Celestial Master Hao's birth father." Celestial Master Xiao's eyes flickered, and he too charged into the void. Though Celestial Master Hao's heart of the Dao was firm, even he was shaken by her words; facing Kaihuang's sword, he lost some of his composure and hastily dodged aside. Such a thing had not happened in several hundred thousand years. Ever since Celestial Master Yun's death, he had never once evaded another's move; he had always been the deity of this world with the most profound cultivation and the most exquisite divine powers. Yet now, his mind in chaos, he was forced to evade Kaihuang's sword lest he be wounded. Celestial Masters Qiang and Yan were likewise deeply shaken; the two women exchanged a glance, each now very much on guard against the other. "Hao, you have lost the courage of a seeker!" Kaihuang, his spirit soaring boundlessly, drove Celestial Master Hao back with his sword, yet his sword moves flowed on unbroken, his sword qi sweeping and crossing through the Heavenly Court like lightning flashing back and forth; beneath his blade the vast Heavenly Court was like a bolt of brilliant, many-colored cloth beginning to split apart under the tailor's shears. Celestial Master Hao could endure it no longer. He retreated no more; tracing a circle with his right hand, he abruptly summoned a divine weapon into his grasp. Everyone in the Heavenly Court knew that Celestial Master Hao excelled in divine powers, that he had never once wielded a divine weapon, and that he disdained to do so. Yet no one knew how much capital he had hidden away. In those years, three had stolen into the Zhaoyang Hall of the ancient god Heavenly Emperor: one was Celestial Master Yun, one was Shen Mu, and the third was none other than him; the three had divided among themselves the spoils the ancient god Heavenly Emperor had won in the Ancestral Court. Of the treasures Celestial Master Hao made off with, he gave the jade pillar to the Dao Ancestor, to fashion the jade pillars of the Shouzang Pavilion; a Tai Sui he set within the creation divine artifact, to forge the divine weapon Yuzun and other ancient divine weapons such as those of the four ancient god emperors. But the rest of the treasures he hoarded away, secretly refining them into divine weapons of his own. Now, as his right hand traced its circle, a divine weapon emerged, shaped like a disc. But the disc at once split outward with a ringing clang, and there emerged the thirty-six Great Daos of Yuandu, shaping the most ancient form of the Yuan Realm. These were thirty-six divine weapons, in forms as varied as dragons, phoenixes, mountains, marshes, rivers, hills, streams, cauldrons, pagodas, and towers! Each of these divine weapons possessed matchless might, brimming with a vast and ancient Dao power; any single one of them, carried out into the world, would be enough to subdue an entire realm! Forged from the mightiest treasures of the Ancestral Court, such divine weapons were naturally no small matter! The disc split outward once more, and with several ringing notes the forty-nine heavenly Daos emerged, taking the forms of forty-nine heavenly treasures — the cord, the seal, the umbrella, the abyss, the ..., the rope, the tally, the palace, the gate, the well, and other such things! The disc split again, and beyond the heavenly Daos it formed the Great Daos of Youdu, sixty-four forms of Youdu divine weapons — talismans, boats, masks, whips, horns, eyes, kui-beasts, passes, lanterns, fire, and more, each unlike the others. And the disc split yet again, taking the form of the constellations of the celestial sphere, more intricate still and mightier yet! This was his Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel! Kaihuang thrust a sword forward; Celestial Master Hao raised his hand to block, and a terrifying tremor instantly slammed through the whole Heavenly Court! By now Shen Mu and the others had already burst out through the Southern Heavenly Gate, far from the Heavenly Court, when suddenly a dreadful tremor rolled through heaven and earth, reaching their ears yet seeming to rise from the very heart of their Dao, as though something there had collapsed! Shen Mu abruptly turned and looked back, and at once beheld a scene that struck him dumb. Within the Heavenly Court, incomparably splendid light was rising from the Lingxiao Hall, like a many-hued cloud radiance. At the same time, from beneath the Heavenly Court as well, brilliant cloud radiance rose up. The radiance stretched farther and farther, centered upon the Lingxiao Hall, creeping toward the Eastern Heavenly Gate and the Western Heavenly Gate! Nor was that all: wherever the light reached, the Heavenly Court gave off earth-shaking booms, and one divine palace and divine hall after another split apart, cleaved in two! Shen Mu's scalp went numb as he watched. This splitting would soon spread to the Western and Eastern Heavenly Gates, and when it did, the Heavenly Court would be rent into two halves! The radiance spread with incredible speed, and faster and faster still. At last the Western Heavenly Gate shuddered and gave a great crack, and the gate split open! And when the radiance reached the Eastern Heavenly Gate and was about to tear it apart as well, in that very moment Celestial Master Xiao suddenly appeared there, bellowed thunderously, and checked the splitting! Even so, for every deity in all the world who had cultivated into the divine realm and opened their heavenly palace, an earth-shaking tremor resounded in their minds, as though something had cracked! Almost in the same instant, they raised their heads and looked toward the Heavenly Court. Some of these divine beings did not even know where the Heavenly Court lay, yet their gazes turned as one toward it, for that sound had come from that direction! That tremendous crash entered not only their minds but the very heart of their Dao, as though the heart of their Dao had split! The Heavenly Court now resembled an open mouth, filling all who beheld it with a sense of boundless absurdity and grotesquerie. The Heavenly Court, symbol of the Heavenly Emperor's supreme authority, had actually split open like this! Kaihuang burst into laughter and fled far away as a streak of sword light, his voice drifting back from the distance: "Celestial Master Hao, for the Heavenly Court's collapse today, I must thank you for your help! I shall call on you again another day!" Celestial Master Hao halted