Chapter 1676 — The Seventh and the Third

With a boom, a fierce tremor came as Shen Mu, muscles knotted and savage, crashed against that prehistoric existence who had attained the Dao through strength, and in the instant of impact that Enlightened One's flesh burst apart, blood and flesh flying everywhere!

Shen Mu's power proved greater than his, and with one punch he hammered him against his own Treasure Hall, splashed plasma painting the walls!

Taichu at once felt the flesh formed of his own blood wholly wiped of all spirit and power!

With one punch, with but one punch, Shen Mu utterly erased that existence comparable to a Heavenly Venerable!

At the same time the divine arts of the other twenty-three Enlightened Ones struck Shen Mu's body in unison, and terrible ripples drowned him!

At that same moment behind Taichu's head emerged the phantom of a Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and willy-nilly he leapt forward, plunging into the divine arts of those twenty-three Enlightened Ones!

His heart was seized with terror, for this power was not his own, but the power of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall! The phantom of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall behind his head had been bestowed by the Third Young Master to guard him.

He had once borrowed this power against Tai Di to preserve himself.

Later, when he gained his own flesh, he had likewise borrowed this power to brand ultimate void and achieve Daluo Heaven.

When borrowing this power, he had felt nothing amiss, yet now, controlled by this power and rushed into peril, he turned cold to the bone.

The deeper his reliance upon the Third Young Master's power, the more he was controlled by it, giving him the feeling of having fallen into a spider's web.

He watched himself urging a divine art, an abnormally dreadful art, ancient and vast, the ultimate power of the Taichu Dao, gathering the thirty-six heavens of divine consciousness and the thirty-six heavens of one qi, a divine art formed of the ultimate Dao realm of the Taichu Dao!

He plunged into the erupting arts and saw Shen Mu's tattered figure.

Twenty-three Enlightened Ones possessed of Heavenly Venerable-like mighty power striking as one had still failed to kill Shen Mu!

Not only had Shen Mu not died, he was even urging the Immutable Art and the Creation Profound Art, striving to restore flesh and primordial spirit!

Taichu watched his own palm thrust forward, the power of the ultimate Taichu Dao venting from his palm, so domineering, so brilliant, the power he dreamed of, yet it chilled him to the marrow!

"The Third Young Master controls my flesh.

What does he mean to do? " Terror filled his heart: "He can control me to slaughter at large, make me his avatar, and hasten his early descent!

" In the moment he reached out, Shen Mu turned and raised his hand to meet his palm! Five red cords shot from Shen Mu's palm, piercing through Taichu's divine art, and with a swish they pierced Taichu's brain, the cords knotting to lock the Lingxiao Treasure Hall behind his head!

"Second Brother, I save your life!

" Shen Mu smiled, and was then torn to pieces by his strike, blasted into a mass of Taichu Qi! Taichu wavered between shock and doubt, then felt the knotting power of Shen Mu's red cords erupt, beating back into the Treasure Hall and sealing the power gushing from the Lingxiao Treasure Hall behind his head!

"Seventh, you are still as slippery as ever.

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" came a strange voice from within the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. Taichu's hair stood on end, then he sensed that alien power within him swiftly ebbing, returning to him control of his flesh.

"They have both fallen.

I can seize the chance to swallow Venerable Mu!

" Taichu's eyes brightened, and he drew a long breath, meaning to swallow and refine the Taichu Qi Shen Mu had become. At that moment Shen Mu's World Tree swayed, Guixu erupted, devouring all things, the Shenzang domain reopening heaven and earth, passing in an instant through the Five Tai evolutions of the universe!

The Taichu Qi before Taichu's eyes vanished, and then from behind him came the sound of clashing arts.

Looking back, he saw Shen Mu raise his sword and slay the avatar of a prehistoric Enlightened One!

"Third, this is our first clash!

" Shen Mu pierced the brow of a prehistoric Enlightened One with his sword, then reversed his grip and thrust the hilt forward, and another Enlightened One burst apart, turning to chaos, as he smiled: "When I return to the past, I shall learn from you in person!

" The sword in his hand flew forth and stabbed into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall behind Taichu's head, and the phantom of that Lingxiao Treasure Hall burst apart with a rumble! "I shall wait for you!

" came a muffled grunt from within the Lingxiao Treasure Hall!