Chapter 1142 — Sword Like a Long Rainbow, Spirit Like a Winding Dragon
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The White Earth Ancient God had sensed the moment the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner touched down. He opened his eyes at once, and the sinews of the four-armed white ape suddenly crackled and popped. Its muscles surged into towering knots, its body swelling several times larger than it had been only moments before, and it continued to expand without end!
Yet when Shen Mu bowed, the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner began to swell with a frenzy of its own. Its twenty-eight layers of canopies transformed into tier upon tier of heavens, spreading outward without cease!
The entire ancestral land of the White Earth Ancient God was instantly split apart by the twenty-eight heavens. The gods and demons surrounding him were lifted helplessly into the air, each falling into a different layer of heaven, while the altar beneath the White Earth Ancient God was swept up by the First Heaven and sent far away, leaving him separated from it by an immeasurable distance! The instant Shen Mu straightened from his bow, he shot forward. The twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner shifted out of alignment, and in the next moment sent him directly before the White Earth Ancient God.
The Glazed Azure Heaven Banner moved entirely according to his will. This treasure was known as the greatest treasure beneath Heaven, yet in Shen Mu's eyes, Northern Emperor Xuanwu's art of refining treasures was hardly accomplished at all; indeed, it could even be called crude.
He had merely piled treasures together, forcibly assembling them into this object. The result was rough beyond compare, almost painful to behold.
And yet the treasure was worthy of its reputation as the greatest treasure beneath Heaven, because Northern Emperor Xuanwu had piled together far too many treasures, and with the wish-granting Ancient God Egg besides, there was no divine weapon in all the world that could rival it. The White Earth Ancient God's body was still swelling, but he now stood twenty-seven layers of heavenly worlds away from his ancestral land, each world separated from the next by an immeasurable distance!
At once he felt his strength ebbing away, and a terror unlike any he had ever known surged through his heart. "Northern Emperor Xuanwu's supreme treasure, the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner! " His mind was thrown into turmoil.
The Glazed Azure Heaven Banner had even been hailed by the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor as the greatest treasure beneath Heaven, possessing unfathomable might. Naturally, he knew of it.
"Was this treasure not lost six hundred thousand years ago? Why has it appeared now?
" Though his mind was in disarray, the White Earth Ancient God made his decision without hesitation. He immediately stopped expanding and began contracting instead.
If he continued enlarging his body without the support of his ancestral land, he would become nothing more than huge and hollow, outwardly formidable but inwardly weak.
If he reduced his body, however, his strength would become concentrated. After a million years of painstakingly studying his own Great Dao, he was certain that he feared no one!
But in the next moment, Shen Mu appeared before him, still hurtling forward.
Shen Mu drew his sword. The blade flashed, and sword radiance filled the heavens!
This was precisely the instant when the White Earth Ancient God's body had stopped expanding but had not yet begun to contract, when his strength had fallen to its absolute nadir.
Even so, he remained calm in the face of danger.
Ancient gods entered the Dao by birth, grasping the Great Dao by birth, possessing advantages no other postnatal life-form, not even a demigod, could match. Though ancient gods could not set foot in other fields, so long as they delved deeply into their own Great Dao, he believed that with his innate advantage and his comprehension of his own Dao, he could surpass every other postnatal life-form and demigod!