Chapter 1579 — Sealed for Eternity

Wherever the spear passed, billows on either side rose like a continuous chain of mighty mountains, swelling ceaselessly forward; the towering waves climbed higher and higher, like mountain peaks.

Shen Mu immediately seized up the Taiyi cane and met the blow! The Heavenly Emperor's body was far too strong in battle; he had to use the Taiyi cane to stand against it, for otherwise, even if he called upon the Calamity Sword, he could never have blocked the Great Emperor's attack! Boom!

Shen Mu's body shook violently, his robes snapping in the wind.

The scabbard of the Calamity Sword at his waist was shattered to pieces, and the Calamity Sword fell into the water. The Heavenly Emperor's body stood upon the God-Slaying Platform. With one stroke it smashed the two God-Slaying Mystic Sabers to fragments, and the Great Emperor's primordial spirit once again frantically tried to control the Heavenly Emperor's body.

But no matter how many times it tried, it was always the same: half its spirit without, half within—it could never completely take command of the Heavenly Emperor's body.

Shen Mu came killing once more, laughing: "Great Emperor, when I drowned the Heavenly Consort Qiang, I told you that before you died I would give you the chance of a fair battle. Now I have come to redeem that promise!

" The Heavenly Emperor's body roared, raised its foot, and stamped down heavily—the thirty-five-layer God-Slaying Platform was actually shaken until it split open!

Shen Mu's eye twitched.

He knew all too well how terrifying the power of the God-Slaying Platform was. Kaihuang of the thirty-five-layer Dao Realm could not harm this platform in the slightest, because the platform was condensed from the Great Dao of the Ancestral Court—a natural Dao object.

Only after Kaihuang achieved the Dao would it be possible for him to break open this platform. The power of this Heavenly Emperor's body was truly too dreadful.

Even though the Great Emperor could only control half the body, its might could likely kill a Heavenly Lord! But what was strange was that neither Heavenly Lord Xiao nor Heavenly Lord Hao, nor even Kaihuang, had made the slightest move! Up to this very moment none of them had appeared, none had acted—it was more than a little eerie!

A cold light flashed in Shen Mu's eyes.

Holding Lord Ling's hand, he rushed at the Great Emperor with all speed. The Great Emperor stamped again.

The God-Slaying Platform gave out crack after crack, almost snapping apart. The blood-qi within the Heavenly Emperor's body seethed, growing ever more exuberant, and swept away the baleful aura of the God-Slaying Platform.

Compared with the blood-qi stored within the Heavenly Emperor's body, the blood-qi of the platform counted for nothing! This blood-qi was so formidable that it not only scattered the God-Slaying Platform's baleful aura, but actually evaporated the Celestial River itself, laying bare the towering mountains and rivers all around!

It was a landscape of utter ruin—as if it had suffered doomsday catastrophe after doomsday catastrophe. Gazing far into the distance, one saw no sign of human habitation for ten thousand li.

Yellow sand and vast desert stretched everywhere.

Now and then a shattered divine city could be seen standing amid the sands. Gales howled, whipping sand dunes in a mad race across the desert.

When the dunes shifted away, they exposed layer upon layer of white bones buried beneath the desert.

This should have been one of the heavens; for some unknown reason it had turned into a desert, and beneath the whole desert lay bones everywhere—the battlefield of some unknown age.

Even Shen Mu could not tell what age it was. When he broke Lord Ling's Unchanging divine ability, by rights he should have returned to the time before Lord Ling was ambushed and slain; but Lord Ling had already passed through cycle after cycle of reincarnation within the Unchanging divine ability.

The substance in the Celestial River had not changed, but the substance of the outside world was changing. "Such a majestic body!

If I could cut it down and use it to nourish the God-Slaying Platform and the God-Slaying Mystic Sabers, then these two divine sabers could slay even a Dao-attainer! " Shen Mu paid no attention to the outside world, unable to hide the excitement in his heart.

He charged to the God-Slaying Platform and, using the Taiyi cane as a sword, met the divine spear the Great Emperor thrust at him!

In the instant the divine spear and the cane collided, blood spurted from Shen Mu's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose; his body crackled and popped; sinew and bone snapped inch by inch! At the same moment, the Calamity Sword suddenly leaped out of the Celestial River and stabbed into the sole of that half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit which hung exposed.

This sword held myriad upon myriad of transformations of technique.

It attacked upward from the toes of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit, and the dense ranks of blade-light passed in a single blink from the toes to the sole, from the sole to the ankle, from the ankle to the hollow of the knee, from the hollow of the knee to the thigh! Everywhere the blade-light passed, the Great Emperor's primordial spirit disintegrated! Shua— The blade-light pierced through the breast and belly of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit, running from the throat straight to the brain.

With a pop, the Calamity Sword burst out from the crown of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit and rose to the heights of the Celestial River, where every kind of sword technique was still being scattered in wild profusion, forming a gorgeous canopy of the Dao of the Sword! Half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit was utterly dissolved, shattered by that one Calamity-Breaking stroke!

At the same time, Shen Mu, hurtling backward, struck out with a palm, undoing the Unchanging divine ability upon the Heavenly Emperor's body. His teaching rod flew forth—pa!

—and knocked the other half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit out of the body! Boom!

He crashed into the blinding yellow sand. Dust flew up in all directions, staining out a blood-red trail—the blood of Shen Mu's own body.

In the very instant he knocked out the other half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit, a figure struck, appearing abruptly behind the half-spirit. It seized the Great Emperor's primordial spirit with one hand, opened its mouth wide, and forcibly swallowed that half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit into its belly. This person was none other than Heavenly Lord Xiao!

Heavenly Lord Xiao had just swallowed half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit when, in the next moment, a peachwood hairpin pressed against his brow.

"Fixed for eternity, sealed fast," Lord Ling said softly.

Heavenly Lord Xiao's expression changed drastically.

This time, Shen Mu had not been holding Lord Ling's hand. Lord Ling had been on the God-Slaying Platform all along, standing beside the Heavenly Emperor's body, waiting for this chance to ambush him and the Great Emperor.

Now, Heavenly Lord Xiao and half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit had merged into one, and together they had transformed into Unchanging matter.