Chapter 1239 — The Supreme of the Heaven Realm Breaks Free
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That sword was Shen Mu's Tribulation-Answering Sword. It entered the body in a single thrust: first it shattered Heavenly Lord Han's Heaven Palace, then it severed the divine bridge, crushed the Heaven-Man, broke through life and death, and all along the way cut down and annihilated his Heaven Palaces and his Divine Treasury alike.
His Divine Treasury and his Heaven Palaces collapsed, and his very flesh burst apart with a thunderous roar, shaken into fine dust by the power within him.
Yet Heavenly Lord Han had refined himself to that level where formations themselves were his Dao; so long as his formation patterns endured, he could not die, and could reassemble himself at any moment.
It might be said that Heavenly Lord Han was the very bane of Shen Mu's third tribulation sword, the Tribulation-Answering Sword.
But Shen Mu's skills did not end there. At the instant his sword pierced into Heavenly Lord Han's body, great Dao runes made expressly to counter the runes of the Fortress Wall Formation were driven into Han's body as well, leaving him no way to bring his formation Dao into play!
Another Heavenly Lord Han crumbled and dissolved, slain in body and extinguished in Dao!
The other two Heavenly Lord Hans were shocked to the core, and hastily turned to see whence that sword had come.
And what they saw when they looked chilled them to the marrow.
The domain of the Divine Treasury, which they had battered into a field of ruins, had now recovered whole and unblemished. Heaven Palaces floated one upon another, forming a Heavenly Court; Shen Mu's primal spirit had reappeared; in the heavens the sun, the moon, the stars and Xuandu had returned; the Yuandu Continent had come into being again, growing faster even than Xirang; and the Primeval Tree stood lush and verdant once more, joining earth to sky, as though it had never been damaged at all! The Four Extremes Heaven, Youdu, Tianyin, Xuandu, even the Ancestral Court — all were exactly as they had been before.
The Heavenly River surged on, vast and mighty, threading through every world, and the ancient gods Shen Mu stood in their own domains, each holding the authority over Dao and law within the domain of the Divine Treasury! And that sword just now had been a single great divine ability issued from within Shen Mu's Divine Treasury!
"Heavenly Lord Han, how many true bodies do you have in all?
" A voice rang out.
The two Heavenly Lord Hans turned in haste, and there, standing whole and sound before them, was the very Shen Mu they had just beaten into a puddle of muck; and the muck upon the ground had vanished without a trace! Shen Mu remained in his most perfect state, seemingly with no consumption at all, no injury whatsoever.
The two Heavenly Lord Hans at once drew back, retreating in the same direction, and on the instant their bodies collided — the two Heavenly Lord Hans merged into one, and their Fortress Wall Formations merged as well, transforming into an even more gigantic giant.
This giant was stronger still, for two great Fortress Wall Formations had after all fused together. Though its divine abilities reacted more slowly, their power was truly fearsome: with a single blow it punched clean through Shen Mu's Divine Treasury domain and came charging out at breakneck speed!
He dared not linger in battle. Had it been before, with six true bodies, he would still have dared to fight; but now that four true bodies lay dead at Shen Mu's hands, he no longer dared stake his life on one last gamble!
Shen Mu crossed his hands, and the sixteen Heaven Palaces revolved, transforming into a Taiji Diagram that enveloped Heavenly Lord Han — this was the great divine ability known as the Void-Form Guest Taiji.
Within the countless cubes around Heavenly Lord Han, one Fortress Wall Formation god or demon after another was transmuted into the two energies of yin and yang and torn frantically out of his body.