Chapter 1358 — I Alone Win

The Alchemist's expression stirred, for now he could see every wound before Heavenly Venerable Yue and behind her, even above her head, and the dao patterns of every dao wound within those wounds stood revealed with perfect clarity!

Even the single Great Way runes that made up those dao patterns lay plain before his eyes, and in that instant he seemed to possess countless eyes, able to see the face and the back of every rune, even the structure hidden inside each rune, with utter distinctness! For him to reach out and heal Heavenly Venerable Yue was now simplicity itself.

"If I had such power, there is no one under heaven I could not poison to death!

" The Alchemist was wild with joy.

Heavenly Venerable Yue also stood within Shen Mu's divine treasure domain, and in that moment she found her Way of Space flowing with a smoothness beyond expectation, her unleashing of divine arts swift beyond expectation! She seemed in an instant to have entered a deep and unfathomable realm, plucking the strings and driving her Way of Space to a pinnacle she had never before been able to imagine!

"This wondrous employment can bring my Way of Space to its very limit.

" She plucked the strings, and through the ten thousand li of peach forest one string of light after another shuddered suddenly, in a blink vibrating countless times, forming countless floating spaces, gossamer thin, without any thickness, like the strings of space itself.

Those strings of space each burst forth with a different tone, so that the whole peach forest seemed at once to dwell within all the heavens and myriad worlds, and those strings of space sliced apart that strange wind, blocked one star after another in the sky, and kept the roots of the Yuanmu from spreading through the forest, severing root after root without cease! This was the working of Shen Mu's divine treasure domain.

In this age few in the world have cultivated a domain, some in the Heavenly Court have done so, some in Jingping have done so, and with Carefree Village and Tai Di added, that is all. Yet every one who has cultivated a domain has achieved something extraordinary.

Kaihuang's sword domain, for instance, is irresistible to all.

Tai Di's supreme divine consciousness domain, for instance, can freeze all things.

And Luo Wushuang's and Zaifu's saber domain and Heavenly Saber domain likewise possess exceeding mighty power.

To cultivate a domain one must have surpassing attainment in one's own Great Way, for a domain is the extension of the Dao Realm system.

Shen Mu's path of cultivation differs from other men's, others open the Spirit Embryo step by step, open the Five Luminaries and the Seven Stars, while he uses the Spirit Embryo to evolve the universe, to open heaven and sunder earth, evolving Xuandu and Youdu and Yuandu and the Four Polar Heavens, even the Ancestral Court!

He has no other divine treasuries, within his own divine treasure domain he is as the singularity of the great explosion of this universe.

A singularity has no time or space, thus no up or down or left or right, standing at the singularity one can take in all of the universe at a glance, whether front or back.

Therefore all time and space within his divine treasure domain are to him like patterns viewed in the palm, while others looking at him can never see his back, only his front, even if they fly above Shen Mu's head or beneath Shen Mu's feet they still see only his front. Now Shen Mu holds Heavenly Venerable Yue and the Alchemist upon his palm, laying his divine treasure domain upon their cultivation, and so lets the Alchemist and Heavenly Venerable Yue temporarily possess this inconceivable power.

In the sky forty-nine great stars fell, dodging the leaping strings in the air, then suddenly each star gave a violent shudder and turned in the sky into forty-nine gods of the Heavenly Way, behind one god floated Tiangang, the Tiangang Great Way like a vast net, behind one god floated Tianjing, one god sat enthroned upon Tianxuan, Tianxuan like a chariot, and there were gods of Tianxue and Tianyuan and every Heavenly Way, with the Heavenly Way behind each made manifest!

One god after another descended from the sky to contend with the music of the zither.

On the other side that strange wind howled, rolling up peach branches and peach leaves and peach blossoms, and those flowers and branches and leaves formed a torrent, racing through the cry of the music, until suddenly countless flowers and branches and leaves rushed before the palace ruins, petals and leaves dancing, gathering together to form the figure of Divine Emperor Langxuan. The music struck from all sides, shredding Divine Emperor Langxuan, yet the shattered Langxuan gathered as fast as he broke, petals and branches scattering from his body, dispersed and regathered.

What had come was not his true body, but his divine consciousness. His true body had been gravely wounded by Tai Di and forced to return to the Heavenly Court to heal, Tai Di had hurt him too badly for him to recover to his peak in a short time.

Against Heavenly Venerable Yue he is the most adept, back then it was he who first struck her, giving the other Heavenly Venerables their chance to wound her grievously. His divine consciousness may be called the bane of the Way of Space. "Heavenly Venerable Yue, you have clung to life so long, more than forty thousand years, no? " Divine Emperor Langxuan strode forward and said aloud, "Back then you should have died with Heavenly Venerable Ling, you lived only because you were crippled, ruined.

Only you in your crippled state could set the Heavenly Venerables at ease.

And now you seek restoration, that is plainly seeking death. " Stride as he might, he could never draw near the palace ruins, and he frowned faintly and looked up at the sky.

In the sky the forty-nine gods of the Heavenly Way shouted as one, forty-nine Heavenly Ways like long rainbows pinning one string of light after another, and the power of the music was greatly lessened.

Yet even so Divine Emperor Langxuan still could not draw near.

Those forty-nine gods of the Heavenly Way suddenly turned themselves into rainbows, descended from the sky along the rainbow Heavenly Ways, and landing turned again into gods of the Heavenly Way, and the faces of these gods were each exactly alike, all the visage of the Ancestral God King.

These gods were the Great Way incarnations of the Ancestral God King.

He too, gravely wounded by Tai Di, had been forced to return to the Heavenly Court to heal, his true body unable to move.

"Heavenly Venerable Yue.

" The Tiangang god spoke, unhurried, "Cease your healing, return to your crippled body, and you may yet live, otherwise blame not your fellow seekers for mercilessness. " Heavenly Venerable Yue heard nothing.

Suddenly god after god sensed the Heavenly Way dao wounds within Heavenly Venerable Yue healing at speed, and all opened their eyes together, their gazes falling upon the Alchemist flitting about Heavenly Venerable Yue upon Shen Mu's palm.

"You ruin our Heavenly Way, you are doomed to calamity!

" the forty-nine gods said with one voice.

The Alchemist's heart tightened, he hastily felt the bronze mask upon his face, the mask was still there, and only then breathed easy, "Luckily, for fear of making Shen Er feel inferior, I never took off the mask, else these fellows would have seen my true face. .

.

" "Heavenly Venerable Xiao, Ancestral God King.

" Divine Emperor Langxuan said suddenly, "Today there are only we three, but surely you have not forgotten that scene of those years?

" The forty-nine gods nodded, and Heavenly Venerable Shenqi Yu said, "Back then though Heavenly Venerable Fire struck first, Heavenly Venerable Yue dodged his blow, and it was you who succeeded first.

" Divine Emperor Langxuan smiled faintly, then erupted and cried, "Strike!