Heavenly Deaf and Earthly Mute Display Their Might! Turmoil Rises Again Between Two Departments of the Heavenly Court!

"What did you say?!"

The moment those words were spoken, all three Heavenly Kings were shaken, and even their cloud-platform thrones trembled faintly.

Vast-Vision Heavenly King was utterly baffled. "Third Brother, Emperor Wenchang oversees literary fortune. What does that have to do with your Dry-Sky Musical Array?"

"It has nothing to do with Emperor Wenchang himself, but it does concern the two immortal attendants at his side—Heavenly Deaf and Earthly Mute." King Who Upholds the Nation looked grim, with none of his previous arrogance remaining.

No one knew the fatal weakness of one's own divine powers better than oneself.

He explained in a low voice, "Anyone who enters my array and hears the zither music—unless they are above the rank of Star Lord—will find it difficult for any god to break it. Yet it fears two things alone. First, the Nine-Heavens Fire-Tuning Pearl of the Lord; second, these two children, Heavenly Deaf and Earthly Mute. Heavenly Deaf does not hear mortal sounds, listening only to the writings of the Heavenly Dao. Earthly Mute can discern and fix the foundations of musical law, rendering my zither-based divine powers ineffective. When the two join forces, my array becomes an empty shell, unable to disturb them in the slightest."

"But I never imagined that brat would uncover this fatal weakness!" King Who Upholds the Nation found it equally unbelievable. "Forget mortals—even among the many immortals of the Heavenly Court, few would ever think that those two attendants beneath Emperor Wenchang, who never show themselves, would be the weak point of my Musical Array!"

"It was the Kitchen God!" Growth Heavenly King's voice abruptly rose. "It must have been the Kitchen God's guidance!"

"I knew there was something uncanny about that brat!" Many-Hearing Heavenly King gritted his teeth. "Though Heavenly Deaf and Earthly Mute