Chapter 1455 — Dancing Butterflies, Charmed by Fragrance; the Fragrance Speaks Not

His heavenly palaces numbered as many as nineteen; he must remake the God-Slaying Platform of all nineteen heavenly palaces, and remake the God-Slaying Platform in the Ancestral Court of his own primal-embryo divine treasury as well.

With those twenty God-Slaying Platforms raised, he felt his cultivation rise once more, his Dao heart all the more round and lustrous as a pearl.

Yet once the God-Slaying Platform in the Ancestral Court was raised, the changes it brought somewhat exceeded his reckoning: the moment this platform took form, it straightaway absorbed the baleful aura of his own body!

The more slaughter a man commits, the heavier the baleful aura that coils about him — as when, in years past, the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign had unleashed a great slaughter in Xuandu, butchering a million gods and demons, so that baleful aura wrapped about her and wrought upon her Dao heart.

The Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign's Dao and virtue had rotted away to nothing, and in the end she died at Shen Mu's hand; it was the baleful aura that did its work.

Since leaving the Desolate Ruins and entering Jingping, Shen Mu had committed little slaughter, and his hands were not stained with much blood.

It could be said that in these several decades he had wrought few killings; mighty as his cultivation was, among all beings of such cultivation, his hands were the cleanest, bar none.

But the living things that had died at the hands of his elder brother Shen Fengqing could not be counted; even while Shen Fengqing was still a babe in arms he had devoured countless departed souls — and in those days Shen Mu's consciousness had not yet been born!

When the two had still been one body, Shen Mu had been wrapped in baleful aura, and all those lives must be reckoned to his account.

Shen Mu was well versed in the Great Dao of Youdu, and the baleful aura could not disturb his wits; yet for so much baleful aura to coil about him was no good thing either.

Now, the moment the God-Slaying Platform in his divine-treasury Ancestral Court took form, all the baleful aura gathered upon that platform and became two blood-bale saber lights, coiling and tangled without cease!

Nor was that all: the baleful aura of Consort Qiang's Ancestral Court God-Slaying Platform was devoured and refined by his own as well, to strengthen it.