Chapter 1275 — The Heart Demon Turns Out to Be an Old Acquaintance

The two went on.

Before long they came upon the traces left where the enormous head of the divine artifact Lord Yu had smashed into the ground. The scar was as if a star had crashed into the earth: lava lay everywhere, black smoke rolled through the sky, and countless streams of molten rock plunged down like meteors.

The ground was seamed with fissures that yielded nothing to the Great Canyon of the Yuan Realm, and through those canyons ran rivers of lava.

Numberless mountains of the Land of the Great Void had been broken as well, their peaks snapped off, their bodies scorched black, and one broken peak after another turned to volcano, spewing fire. Around Bai Yuqiong floated fragments of space that had no thickness, warding off the falling lava and the acid rain.

This place was like hell itself, and yet heart demons were not few here; there were even more of them than elsewhere.

Shen Mu observed for a while: after the head of the divine artifact Lord Yu had smitten the ground here, it must have rebounded again; Lord Hao must have known that his own state was exceedingly dire, and not daring to remain, had roused his last mana to drive the artifact's head away in flight.

He frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "Celestial Master Bai, do you sense it? " Bai Yuqiong was puzzled. "Sense what?

" "The chaotic divine senses of the collapsing void.

" Shen Mu's face was grave.

"When Lord Hao came crashing down," he said in a low voice, "a piece of the collapsing void came down with him.

" A chill seized Bai Yuqiong's heart, and she scanned her surroundings.

Her attainment in divine sense was far beneath Shen Mu's, and so she was nothing like as sensitive; she could hardly sense those masterless divine senses, nor did she perceive the fragments of the void.

Shen Mu raised his head to the sky and could not help but be stunned. He had actually seen the entrance to the Great Void!

The entrance to the Great Void hung in the heavens, so close to the Land of the Great Void!

"The reason the Land of the Great Void has been able to survive is that it lies so far from the entrance to the Great Void.

Even a Lord needs several days to cross that distance, and for the Heavenly Court's great army to reach the Land of the Great Void takes more than a year!

And to come from the Heavenly Court to the Great Void likewise takes more than a year of travel. Now that it lies so close, I fear the Land of the Great Void cannot be preserved. " Shen Mu's heart sank a little. "It is too close.

We must find Lord Hao as swiftly as we can and kill him, or once the Heavenly Court's reinforcements arrive there will be no chance left! " He frowned and looked around, and saw that the chaotic divine senses surging to this place were growing ever more numerous; this place seemed to hold a tremendous attraction for those chaotic divine senses.

"With so many masterless divine senses piled up here, before long this place will become another collapsing void. " Bai Yuqiong led him deeper in, when suddenly a giant fell from the sky, struck the ground, and died on the spot!

It was a Creator, not a corpse walker; most likely a Creator of the Void of the Other Shore, who had likewise come searching for Lord Hao and had met an unlucky end.

Shen Mu looked up, and his heart gave a lurch: the one who had killed this Creator was an uncanny figure.

It was the Heart Demon Heavenly Emperor. Or rather, to be precise, it was an imagining of the Heavenly Emperor.

This Heart Demon Heavenly Emperor had three heads and six arms and was hideous beyond compare, blue-faced and tusked, its features savage and ferocious, its body covered in eyes.

The Heavenly Emperor was not especially handsome, but he was, after all, an emperor who had ruled the ancient age and had cultivated a bearing and presence beyond the ordinary; this Heart Demon Heavenly Emperor had nothing left but cruelty and malice.

The chief reason Shen Mu could recognize it as the Heart Demon Heavenly Emperor was that upon its face were written the two words "Heavenly Emperor"!

Clearly, the dead Creator had never gone to the Supreme Divine Sense Realm to see the true Heavenly Emperor, and so had imagined his likeness; the Heavenly Emperor was his heart demon, and when he entered this place, the heart demon became reality and struck him dead.

"Lord Kaihuang and Lord Langwan have sent masters too! " Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief; he had feared that he and Bai Yuqiong were no match for Lord Hao, but since Lord Kaihuang and Lord Langwan had both sent powerful cultivators, perhaps Lord Hao really could be buried here!

"Lord Mu, this place grows more perilous by the moment. You must exert every effort to suppress your heart demons!

" Bai Yuqiong said swiftly. "Have you learned the Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha's Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception? Circulate that art, and the eerie divine senses of this place will be unable to make your heart demons real!

" Shen Mu shook his head.

"I never learned it. Nor do I need to, for my Dao heart is firm beyond measure and I have no heart demons at all.

Since childhood I was told that I am an Overlord Body, unmatched in all the world, and that confidence and faith has sustained me all along.

Beyond that, I have passed through too many great rights and wrongs, too many great rises and falls; my Dao heart is clear and bright, and there can be no heart demon left in me to make my heart quail. " Bai Yuqiong circulated the Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception and said, "I have heart demons.

My heart demon is the Yin Son of Heaven; he is the greatest demon in my heart. My Dao heart must screen out the heart demon, or this uncanny land will give birth to an unspeakably dreadful Yin Son of Heaven. " Shen Mu walked shoulder to shoulder with her and looked about him: numberless broken peaks shrouded in black qi, fiery meteors falling like rain, mountain after mountain spewing lava. And in the darkness, a great many heart demons and corpse walkers lurked or prowled.

The Heavenly Court's army had already come here; waves of divine art rippled endlessly from ahead — the Heavenly Court's powerful ones must have encountered a formidable foe! They hurried forward at speed, and Shen Mu felt the divine senses here piling ever higher, mingled with demonic qi and demonic nature, their threat to their Dao hearts growing ever stronger. Bai Yuqiong especially: even though she used the Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception to steady her Dao heart, she found it hard to keep those divine senses from seeping in.

For she could distinctly feel wave after wave of dreadful demonic nature invading, making her state of mind more and more unsteady! They drew closer and closer to the fighting ahead, and Bai Yuqiong found it harder and harder to hold on.

She looked at Shen Mu and saw that he remained utterly composed, and could not help praising him inwardly: "Lord Mu is indeed.

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. " Scarcely had the thought formed when she suddenly saw a look of horror cross Shen Mu's face as he stared fixedly ahead.

Bai Yuqiong hurried to look, and saw that out of the void walked Shen Mu's heart demon. It was a little fat boy — a little fat boy exactly like the Lan Yutian who hid within the lantern!

Bai Yuqiong's expression froze.

"Did Lord Mu not say he was an Overlord Body with unmatched confidence? How could his heart demon be his little brother Lan Yutian?

" That heart demon Lan Yutian came walking toward Shen Mu, and in the instant he lifted his foot, the Essence Fetus Divine Treasury unfurled with a hum — the Star River, the Heavenly River, the Four Poles, the Yuan Capital, the Nether Capital, and the Returning Abyss appeared one after another within the Spirit Fetus!

Then the Ancestral Court surged forth, vast and mighty, a towering domain of rivers and mountains!

Bai Yuqiong saw the corner of Shen Mu's eye twitching wildly.