Chapter 1186 — The Void Beasts Invade
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Yan'er came running up with Little Tubo, meaning likewise to tell of what she and Dragon Qilin had witnessed, but at the sight she did not dare disturb Shen Mu.
"Young Master, I fear you do not know. The strange thing we spoke of is not the Void Beasts. It is that there is something uncanny about this Black Wood.
" Yan'er's face was troubled. Shen Mu looked at the Void Beasts surging in like a blanket over the heavens and laughed.
"Heaven Venerable Qiang will not deign to act in person.
Does she think mere Void Beasts are enough to do for me? " The first wave of Void Beasts slammed with a roar into the outermost of the Heavens; each Void Behemoth, in the very instant it crashed into the First Heaven, vanished from sight, slipping into the void of that Heaven, and in the next moment appeared beside the various rare treasures suspended within it, opening vast, blood-red maws to devour them.
The might of the Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy came precisely from these treasures. When the Two Xuanwu Emperors had refined the Canopy, because there were too many treasures, and because the artifact-refining methods of that age were crude, the power of each single treasure had never been brought to its utmost.
When the treasures of every Heaven within the Glazed Azure Heaven Canopy burst forth together, they held the might to destroy heaven and earth; yet the power of any one treasure alone was not especially great. And Void Beasts could devour even the Heavens themselves: when hundreds of them invaded a Heaven, they could swallow the sun, swallow the moon, and gnaw the continents clean.
Yet Void Beasts had little intelligence, acting only on battle instinct.
If no one controlled them, these behemoths would simply charge, devour, and destroy at random, following their instincts. But with the Heavenly Consort Qiang secretly directing the Void Mother Beast, and the Void Mother Beast marshaling tens of thousands of Void Behemoths, these behemoths became an army of unspeakable terror; wherever they passed, all was annihilated.
Now it was the Heavenly Consort Qiang pulling the strings from the shadows, and so the Void Beasts went straight for the treasures of the First Heaven. Shen Mu gave a cold laugh and bowed from the waist.
At once the First Heaven became the Second Heaven, and the Second Heaven became the First Heaven; more Void Beasts surged in, rushing into the new First Heaven.
At that same moment, in the other Heavens the various treasures blazed with light.
Before the Void Beasts could devour the treasures of the Second Heaven, thousands upon thousands of dread radiances rippled out, gathering the might of a myriad precious treasures, and swept the Void Beasts that had charged into the Second Heaven utterly away. Countless enormous corpses fell from the sky, plunging into the dark, brooding mountains below.
"Heavenly Consort Qiang, let us see whether it is your marshaling of troops and laying of formations that is the better, or whether my formations can establish the Dao! " Shen Mu's spirit soared; he roared with laughter, gathered his concentration, and marshaled the various Heavens. Borrowing the peculiar power of the ancient god's egg to answer every plea, he urged on the precious treasures of each Heaven, rousing the might of one treasure after another.
The order of the Twenty-Eight Heavens shifted without cease, dazzling the eye; the might of the various treasures burst forth, rays of every hue flashed, and the various Dao arts turned into streams of Dao patterns visible to the naked eye that lashed out in all directions, cutting Void Beasts in half at the waist, cleaving them apart, piercing their skulls, slicing them to pieces, or blasting them to bits on the spot.
Within Heaven after Heaven, corpses rained down until the fifteen growth rings of the Black Wood were heaped with bodies; only the quarter of the Great Black Peak had yet to be engulfed.