The Battle of the Celestial Venerables

Vast and boundless, the Heavenly Realm was layered with seas of clouds. Countless gods and Buddhas concealed themselves across the immortal islands and divine realms within it, stretching across hundreds of millions of miles.

Each immortal island was comparable in size to a planet. This boundless Immortal Realm was itself a vast star field, concealing most of the Heavenly Court's foundations.

Yet now, spreading outward from the Central Heavenly Realm, who knew how many floating islands had been shattered into pieces, reduced to wreckage drifting through the Immortal Realm? It looked like a single strike had crossed hundreds of millions of miles.

In their fury, Houtu Heavenly Venerable and Northern Imperator had launched a battle between Celestial Venerables. They had clashed violently during the Peach Immortal Banquet, destroying most of the Central Heavenly Palace. Countless Pan Tao Trees had been annihilated, and even the main immortal root had been overturned.

After that single exchange, they crossed from within the Three Realms to beyond them in the blink of an eye, charging into the cosmic starry sky. A terrifying calamity had brewed across the Central Heavenly Court Immortal Domain. Myriad Stars were destroyed, the great suns fell, and even immortals and gods were as fragile as ants before such power, trembling with fear.

At that moment, the gods and Buddhas throughout the Heavenly Realm were still panic-stricken. None of them knew why the joyous Peach Banquet, which had been fine only moments ago, had suddenly turned into this state.

Even more immortals and gods began leaving. Houtu Heavenly Venerable and Northern Imperator had turned against each other. Of the remaining two Celestial Venerables, one had hurriedly departed, while the other had long since secluded himself in cultivation and had not come to the Peach Immortal Banquet this time.

One was Southern