Where the flowing water passed, the reversing extremities and the distorted space by the Heaven Emperor’s sleeve were stained by the light of water.
The figure of the black snake immediately regained its original size as it lifted the jade chariot, flying out from the area enveloped by the Heaven Emperor’s sleeve.
Seeing this, the Heaven Emperor was unconcerned as his figure swiftly shifted through space.
With the legacy of Ten Thousand Longevity Mountain’s Five Minor Locale’s Primordial Suppressing Immortal and the Aeon Light Heavenly Scripture of the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures of the Jade Clear lineage which he cultivated in, he had extremely high attainments in the principles of space and time.
With just a thought on his part, he had already surpassed the Female Emperor’s obstruction and arrived before Yan Zhaoge!
The Female Emperor who was garbed in wide-sleeved white clothes was like an Immortal descended into the mortal world as with her eyes still closed, she left that jade chariot and pursued the Heaven Emperor.
While she did not cultivate in the Spatial Heavenly Scripture like the Western Exalt Lang Qing, as an Emperor who had already pushed open the door to Immortality, she would not be any slower than him!
Her palm that was white as jade was clenched into a fist, flickering with icy-blue light as it struck towards the Heaven Emperor’s back.
The Heaven Emperor did not stop, turn, evade or block.
He forcibly took this punch of the Female Emperor’s head-on with his back.
At the instant at which the blow contacted, patterns like the long river of time appeared within the eyes of the Heaven Emperor.
He was enveloped by the long river of time as time in the surrounding space then flowed in reverse!
The reversing time forcibly rewrote the fact of the Heaven Emperor being struck by the punch of the Female Emperor as the scene before everyone’s eyes regained the look of there still being a distance before this punch made contact.
Of everyone present, besides the Female Emperor who was also a True Immortal, there were only Yan Zhaoge who cultivated in the Peerless Heavenly Scripture and Yan Di who was guarded by the Grand Simplicity Splendour Cloud who were able to detect some of this.
In the eyes of others, Cao Jie and the other Exalts included, their minds only wavered slightly as they did not register ever having seen the Female Emperor successfully strike the Heaven Emperor with a punch.
The Female Emperor Jie Mingkong snorted lightly, abruptly opening her palm that was clenched into a fist.
Changing her fist into a claw, the Female Emperor’s hand turned the long, formless river of time into something which possessed a form, grabbing hold of it as she would a belt.
A feeling of coldness rampaged as roiling cold qi dispelled the miraculous nature of that long river of time, seemingly reducing it into ordinary flowing water.
Then, the water was frozen into ice.
The long river of time formed by the Immortal qi of the Heaven Emperor was instantly frozen into a glacier.
Meanwhile, the Female Emperor’s second punch fell upon him!
The Heaven Emperor exhaled slowly, still not halting and turning as he forcibly took a punch of the Female Emperor’s once more.
He was unable to dispel this punch.
Green qi flickered across his pale face.
His right sleeve shook with a flow of qi circulating as a figure few out from within.
This was none other than the Northeastern Exalt, Liu Zhenggu, who had previously been suppressed by the Heaven Emperor’s Heaven Earth Within Sleeve.
The Heaven Emperor had been injured by the Female Emperor and forced to let him out.
Still, the Heaven Emperor capitalised on this chance, not halting in the least as he instead accelerated towards Yan Zhaoge!
The Heaven Emperor disregarded even suffering an injury simply to see Yan Zhaoge dead.
Streams of green qi surged out from his back where the Female Emperor had struck him.
It was as though the seed of a tree had sprouted, a seedling breaking out from the soil as it instantly grew into a massive tree that towered into the heavens.
Green light intermingled, resembling the entanglement of tree branches as it swept along the arm of the Female Emperor, obstructing her advance.
The Female Emperor knit her brows slightly as the massive tree of lush greenery before her instantly transformed, turning straight into an entire forest which surrounded her.
Trees that towered to the heavens connected to one another, obscuring the heavens and concealing the sun with spiritual qi circulating to form a sealed off world.
Simply destroying these trees alone would be insufficient for the Female Emperor to quickly extricate herself.
The forest before her was a massive formation!
A casual formation established by the Heaven Emperor was an even more powerful formation than the inferior version of the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation that Yan Zhaoge had previously set up at Circumference Mountain with the help of the river water of the Dynasty River.
Having temporarily tied up the Female Emperor’s footsteps, the Heaven Emperor continued traversing space as he instantly arrived in front of Yan Zhaoge.
Despite still being rather confused due to only just having escaped, as the Northeastern Exalt Liu Zhenggu saw this, even though he knew that he was not the Heaven Emperor’s match, he still strove to rush to Yan Zhaoge’s aid.
“It just happens that there are four of you…” The Heaven Emperor’s gaze swept across Yan Zhaoge, Yan Di, Cao Jie and Liu Zhenggu, “Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation, is it? Of no use whatsoever.”
Ignoring the fact that there were no formations besides the Immortal Exterminating Formation which allowed Martial Saints to slay Immortals, the Heaven Emperor would be unconcerned even if this was not the case.
In the current World beyond Worlds, he, the Heaven Emperor, was ranked number one amongst the Five Emperors in the dao of formations!
Qing Shuzi and Daoist Leading Mist who had died within the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation had not been able to inherit his attainments in formations.
Still, the late Daoist Shi who had merely listened to him talking about formations before had been extremely outstanding in the dao of formations amongst all the Immortal Bridge Martial Saints of the World beyond Worlds.
Aside from Daoist Shi’s unordinary talent in formations, the Heaven Emperor’s guidance had been a major factor in this as its significance could not be ignored.
The Heaven Emperor possessed an incomplete version of the formation diagram of the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation in the first place.
If the four of them were to establish this formation in front of him now, he could break it with a snap of his fingers.
Whether or not the Taiyi Imperial Breaking Formation was there made no difference to the Heaven Emperor.
It was the same for other formations as well.
If the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation was in front of him now, if it was not controlled by other Emperor-level experts, the Heaven Emperor would still be able to move straight past it as if it had never existed in the first place!
Now, he was only concerned about the Female Emperor behind him who might charge out from the impromptu formation that he had set up at any time.
Therefore, the Heaven Emperor did not waste time on words as he pointed out with a finger straight towards Yan Zhaoge’s forehead once more!
Within the forest, the Female Emperor’s face was cold as frost as she sensed these variations outside of the formation.
“Do not play these little games, Heaven Emperor,” Her eyelids suddenly quivered lightly as her closed eyes looked set to open.
Still, she soon made an inquisitive noise as she instead detected that something was not right.
The Heaven Emperor who was staking it all on this one move also discovered this abnormality.
For Yan Zhaoge who had previously been standing there q
uietly, unrelated to the fight as he could only wait for the conclusion of this battle between the two Emperors, light was flickering about his body at this moment, scattering between the heavens and earth!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1037: Earth Mother Dao Ritual, Later Earth Text!
HSSB1037: Earth Mother Dao Ritual, Later Earth Text!
With the descent of the two Emperors, the conclusion of the battle seemed like it would be decided by victory and defeat between them.
When the Heaven Emperor temporarily shook off the Female Emperor at the price of suffering an injury, everyone felt despair rise within their hearts.
The Heaven Emperor pointed towards Yan Zhaoge as immense pressure appeared once again, virtually suffocating him.
He could even hear the blood of his entire body erupting and booming, his bones creaking.
His body seemed like it would be crushed into a puddle of sludge in the next instant.
Beneath this extreme pain, Yan Zhaoge had a serious expression on his face. Still, his gaze remained calm and bright, neither hurried nor flustered.
The Extreme Yang Seal in his hand emitted blazing sunlight which seemed infinite and endless as it was infused ceaselessly into the Dim Radiant Wheel.
Of the twelve slots of the Dim Radiant Wheel, eleven of them were dim and lustreless at this moment as only one surged with dazzling radiance.
That radiance seemed endless and eternal as it illuminated the myriad heavens.
Bolstered by the power of the Extreme Yang Seal, the eighth of the Dim Radiant Twelve Arts, the art of Perpetual Brightness, demonstrated shocking power.
Even during the reign of the Dim Radiant Sect, besides the Dim Radiant Emperor Yin Tianxia himself when he had been at the Human Exalt stage, there were no other Martial Saint experts who would be able to display such a powerful art of Perpetual Brightness.
Yan Zhaoge’s execution of the art of Perpetual Brightness with the Dim Radiant Wheel at this very moment had already reached the peak that was possible for Martial Saints.
The immeasurable, eternal radiance did not ripple in the least as it illuminated the world all around.
Such sturdy radiance seemed to have condensed into a solid form and sealed off the entire world as one could only sigh in wonder.
Yet, while such power stood at the peak of the human realm, it still could not surpass it at the end of the day.
The Heaven Emperor’s finger continued advancing forward unceasingly.
The pressure that was on Yan Zhaoge continued to rise unceasingly.
Now, however, a change suddenly occurred within the Royal Reed Sea which had previously been messed up terribly as the battlefield.
Streams of light suddenly surfaced at the bottom of the sea, simultaneously converging towards the western region of sea in the Spirit Inheritance Region before finally falling on Broad Creed Mountain all at once!
Those streams of light ultimately transformed into a profound, complex sigil.
The sigil was massive beyond compare as it enveloped the entire Royal Reed Sea, even extending towards the surrounding lands.
Its lustre was golden and black, holy and heavy, distant and vigorous.
At the instant when this sigil appeared, those of the Royal Reed Sea felt as if they could finally distinguish the heavens and the earth again.
The great earth up above that was formed of the Heaven Emperor’s Immortal qi still existed there.
Yet, it emanated the feeling of the sky now.
The heavens and the earth became distinct once more as it was no longer two earths, one on top and one below.
This was because the actual earth down below had become incomparably heavy and solid at this moment, far surpassing the one up above.
Contrasting the two, one would naturally feel that above were the heavens whereas below was the earth.
As soon as the Heaven Emperor saw that sigil, a shocking glow appeared within his eyes.
The concept contained within that sigil was precisely the existence he had been seeking!
This was the concept of the dao tradition of the Earth Queen of Daoism’s Four Imperials!
He had schemed for many years and ordered King Xuanwen, Daoist Shi and Shen Lingzi to come to the Royal Reed Sea to establish the Heaven Bearing Efficate Formation in the hope that he would be able to find it without alerting anyone to it.
This place contained words written by the Earth Queen!
These words had already merged entirely as one with the heavens and earth of the World beyond Worlds.
The text was here in the Royal Reed Sea and yet hidden away formlessly as it would be difficult to locate and excavate it.
Even the Heaven Emperor would need a long time to find it. Therefore, he had tasked this to Shen Lingzi and the others.
Who knew that this would ultimately fail at a crucial moment due to Yan Zhaoge and Cao Jie, the Southeastern Exalt.
This time, he had resolved himself to reside at this place for a longer period of time after having taken care of Yan Zhaoge and the others, patiently searching for it then.
Yet, never would the Heaven Emperor have thought that the object might first be netted by Yan Zhaoge.
The problem was that even he as an exalted Emperor had been unable to do this. Yet, how had Yan Zhaoge, an Immortal Bridge Martial Saint, caused the text of the Earth Queen’s to resurface within a mere few years?
The Heaven Emperor was both shocked and enraged as his expression finally changed abruptly at this moment.
Gazing over, he saw Yan Zhaoge bathed within that glow.
Numerous characters of radiance came together to form belts of light which coiled around Yan Zhaoge’s body.
Guided by Yan Zhaoge, the power of the Extreme Yang Seal and the Dim Radiant Wheel had descended, forming a strange mechanism which induced such changes in the Royal Reed Sea down below.
More importantly, through this mechanism, the power of the Heaven Emperor’s attack that was directed at Yan Zhaoge was unceasingly channelled downwards into the great earth down below.
A wound surfaced on the exterior of the Heaven Emperor’s body.
No blood could be seen on the wound as it instead flickered with radiance.
This was neither an injury inflicted by the Female Emperor from earlier nor an actual wound. Instead, it was a wound of principles which entailed that deficiencies existed within the concept of the martial art that the Heaven Emperor cultivated in.
Yan Zhaoge raised his head, looking calmly at the flickering wound on the Heaven Emperor’s body as he chanted a sutra.
“Nine Splendour Jade Imperial, Seven Treasure Royal Room.
While bearing Heaven’s orders, handling yin managing yang.
Dao extends into glory, virtue accumulates smooth subtlety.
Efficate Art Vast Heaven, foundational beauty of earth, accessories of form in mother’s benevolence.
Disregarding weapons is reliance, all mountains battle, sorrow and desire, holiness and benevolence, Heaven Efficate Bearing Art, Later Earth Queen Divinity.”
The contents of the scripture being chanted by Yan Zhaoge were none other than the treasured ones of the Later Earth Queen Divinity, known to all Daoism.
Still, as this occurred alongside the ritual which he was currently executing, the Heaven Emperor was shocked, “…Earth Mother Dao Ritual?!”
As these words were said, the Female Emperor was surprised as Cao Jie, Liu Zhenggu, Zhuang Shen and Lang Qing were taken aback even more greatly.
“Unlike the Heaven Bearing Efficate Formation which is still circulated, this ritual was completely discontinued and lost following the Great Calamity!”
“Even the Earthly Sovereign does not possess that!”
The Heaven Emperor stared fixatedly straight over.
If he was versed in the Earth Mother Dao Ritual, executing it in concert with the Heaven Efficate Bearing Formation, he would long since have located this hidden text more than a century ago!
“You, Heaven Emperor, have the foundation of the dao tradition of Five Manor Locale that was left behind by the Primordial Suppressing Immortal of legend. A pity that it is incomplete and deficient.”
“In order to remedy this deficiency, besides continuing to search for the dao tradition of Five Manor Locale, you have also set your eyes on the dao tradition of the Earth Queen, also having learnt of this text which is located here.”
Yan Zhaoge spread his hands apart, smiling, “This Yan is untalented, inadvertently having obtained the Earth Mother Dao Ritual. I had long since finished preparations for the Heaven Efficate Bearing Formation. It is just that wanting to truly unearth the text of the Earth Queen, your strength is still necessary as only then can it go smoothly.”
The Heaven Emperor had calmed down by now as he looked at Yan Zhaoge, “So what? The text of the Earth Queen would be useless in your hands. Unearthing it would simply end up benefiting this humble Daoist instead.”
“Give it to me then!” With that, he ignored Yan Zhaoge as he abruptly spread his palm that became incomparably massive, seemingly encompassing the entire Royal Reed Sea and capturing that sigil!
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1038: Stomping on the shoulders of an Emperor
HSSB1038: Stomping on the shoulders of an Emperor
The Heaven Emperor caught the sigil that enveloped the Royal Reed Sea with his palm.
Yan Zhaoge said in no rush at all, “Its use is indeed limited in my hands.”
“I cannot take it out of the Royal Reed Sea.”
“It would not be of much help in my cultivation.”
“I am also unable to stimulate it to deal with other enemies. However…”
Yan Zhaoge raised his head to look at the Heaven Emperor, “It is basically still sufficient to receive you, Heaven Emperor, here in the lands of the Royal Reed Sea.”
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