Chapter 1579 — Sealed for Eternity

Lord Ling suddenly felt her heart fill with an inexpressible warmth.

She had never felt anything remotely like it.

She wanted very much to say, I have waited for you too long—but the words would not come out.

She could no longer remember how many times she had died. Every death had come so swiftly, so painfully, and yet this cycle would never end.

Her disciple Yi Shisheng had sealed up the Shanghuang Heaven and gathered her corpses along the lower reaches of the Celestial River, burying one of her bodies in each coffin; but whenever the Unchanging divine ability erupted, her corpse would turn into river water. And so, over the long passage of more than forty thousand years, her coffins had filled the Shanghuang Heaven to bursting.

Through all those forty thousand years she had been killed again and again, and had even thought of ending it all herself—but even she could not unravel her own divine ability.

The Great Emperor Ming Fangyu had left her too little time to sit and think deeply about how her own divine ability might be undone. In the midst of death after death, even the strongest mind would collapse—and Lord Ling was no exception. Her shock and gratitude at the moment she saw Shen Mu could well be imagined.

She was a woman of incomparably firm will, but even the firmest will had been worn down to collapse by all those years of dying.

And so, once her gaze fell upon Shen Mu's face, it could not move away.

The warmth that came from his hand was no longer the bitter cold that came with an icy spear-shaft piercing her own body; it made her feel alive.

She could not believe what she felt. Only when she heard Shen Mu's voice did this wild joy blossom from the depths of her heart, surge through her whole body, and turn into a warm current. On the other side, in the instant that the Great Emperor's primordial spirit, Ming Fangyu, was forcibly knocked out of the Taichu body by the cane, it arrested its retreat and charged once more at the Heavenly Emperor's body.

"Great Emperor, I knocked you out of the Taichu body, and still you want to come back?

" Shen Mu turned and smiled at the onrushing primordial spirit.

"You probably don't know me yet. My name is Shen Mu—Shen of 'three men planting a field,' Mu of 'herding the oxen.

' You may call me Lord Mu.

Though you still don't recognize me, we have been locked in mutual hatred and mutual slaughter for a very long time. " Even as he smiled, however, the blow he dealt was venomous in the extreme. He reached out, seized the two God-Slaying Mystic Sabers, and merged them into one, slashing a single stroke at the brow of the Heavenly Emperor's body!

The stroke was vast and majestic, displaying to the utmost the overbearing might of the Way of the Saber! Ming Fangyu was of the thirty-five-layer Heavenly Dao realm, and the God-Slaying Platform likewise numbered as many as thirty-five layers.

With the God-Slaying Platform driven into action, the power of the God-Slaying Mystic Saber was pushed to the limit!

This one stroke could gravely wound even Kaihuang, could batter Kaihuang until his Dao heart collapsed—and yet, falling upon the brow of the Heavenly Emperor's body, it could not even break that body's skin. Clang!

A violent concussion came, knocking the God-Slaying Mystic Saber in Shen Mu's hand high into the air. Shen Mu's heart jolted: "Such a fearsomely strong body?

" He could hardly believe it—he had never seen such a fearsomely strong body!

The God-Slaying Mystic Saber could hew even the flesh of the Heavenly Duke, yet it could not cut the smallest scratch in the Heavenly Emperor's skin! The toughness of such a body far surpassed that of the body the Great Emperor himself had worn—it reached a degree without equal in all the world!

"Truly the mightiest of ancient gods!

" At this moment, even Shen Mu was stirred by the Heavenly Emperor's body.

One who could command such a body could well be said to stand in an invincible position!

He made his decision on the spot.

He spread the domain of his Divine Treasury, abandoned the blade for his fingers, and drew stroke after stroke with his hand.

Shua, shua, shua—he traced stroke after stroke, and layer after layer of space surged outward, drawing the distance between Ming Fangyu and the Taichu body ever wider.

Ming Fangyu came howling in.

The Great Emperor's primordial spirit was vast and boundless; one stride carried it across the endlessly newborn and ever-extending layers of space. Its two palms thrust forward, and the space before it folded layer upon layer, displaying dharma power and mastery of divine abilities beyond all comparison!

Shen Mu frowned slightly. By rights, Heavenly Lord Xiao should have made his move upon seeing this, seizing back his own body; and yet even now he had made no move whatsoever, which was somewhat unreasonable. But the attack of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit was upon him, and he had no time to think further.

He released Lord Ling's hand, brought his two palms together, and thrust them forward. One Breath of Primordial Chaos—the Dao wanders together!

His palms collided with the two great hands of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit; the divine abilities of both erupted.

With a swish, Shen Mu's black hair streamed out, and the baleful blood-aura of the entire God-Slaying Platform howled upward like a waterfall, shooting straight into the clouds!

Opposing him, the Great Emperor's primordial spirit withdrew its hands and forced its way into the Heavenly Emperor's body, trying once more to seize control.

Shen Mu was strong, and could be counted as its match; but once it took command of the Heavenly Emperor's body, even ten Shen Mus attacking together could be slaughtered by a single stroke! At that very moment, the God-Slaying Mystic Saber flew up and slashed at it. The Great Emperor's primordial spirit frowned, ignored the blade-light, and forced itself into the Heavenly Emperor's body.

To its astonishment, it had only managed to squeeze half of itself inside when Shen Mu pointed at the brow of the Heavenly Emperor's body and murmured: "Fixed for eternity, sealed fast.

" The Unchanging divine ability erupted and flowed through every part of the Heavenly Emperor's body. Lord Ling's eyes brightened, and she praised: "That was a fine use of the Unchanging divine ability!

" The Great Emperor's primordial spirit had bored into the Heavenly Emperor's body; the Unchanging divine ability then took effect, and with a flash of light, half its spirit popped back out of the Heavenly Emperor's body.

As for the other half of its spirit, it was still inside the Heavenly Emperor's body. The Great Emperor's primordial spirit was aghast. It tried once more to enter the Heavenly Emperor's body, but the result was still the same: still affected by the Unchanging divine ability, the other half of its spirit hung exposed outside.

"You taught me well," Shen Mu said modestly.

The saber in his hand, however, was utterly merciless, and slashed at the Great Emperor's primordial spirit!

His use of the Unchanging divine ability was indeed remarkable. What he had unleashed was not the complete Unchanging divine ability, but only a fragment of it, so that he himself would not fall into the predicament of being transformed into Unchanging matter.

But even a fragment of the Unchanging divine ability was enough to trap the Great Emperor's primordial spirit to its death!

The Great Emperor's primordial spirit grew ever more frantic. Controlling half of the Heavenly Emperor's body, it blocked the blade-light Shen Mu sent at it.

A single colossal crash sounded; Shen Mu's body shook mightily.

He pulled Lord Ling along and retreated at flying speed, dodging the divine spear the Great Emperor thrust at him!

Ssss— The surface of the Celestial River blasted apart. The might of the divine spear surged forth, vast and overwhelming, actually tearing the Celestial River asunder.