Chapter 1239 — The Supreme of the Heaven Realm Breaks Free
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Heavenly Lord Han shrank rapidly, a size smaller in no time; yet the next moment his divine ability erupted, and with a single strike he shattered three Heaven Palaces in a row, pulverizing the three palaces and the three Shen Mu primal spirits within them, and won his way out and fled!
Shen Mu was startled as well; then he raised his hand and struck, a sword that severed the Thirty-Three Heavens, stabbing at Heavenly Lord Han's back.
Heavenly Lord Han roared, swung his arm backward, and the arm was instantly chopped off, split into thirty-three pieces. He hurtled on and on, and the Fortress Wall Formation gods and demons that made up that arm he simply abandoned.
The Fortress Wall Formation was one army of the Heavenly Court, and its gods and demons were not of especially high cultivation — most were True Gods, deities of the Yaochi realm — and if they died, they died; their lives were not worth his own.
Tubo Shen Mu of Youdu surfaced, using the Nether River as a whip to coil around Heavenly Lord Han and whittle away the three souls and seven spirits of the Fortress Wall Formation army.
Lord of Heaven Shen Mu surfaced from above, and with a wave of his hand loosed forty-nine Heavenly Dao divine abilities, blasting Heavenly Lord Han so that every part of his body burst open, while heavenly fire burned those Fortress Wall Formation gods and demons until their souls scattered and their spirits fled.
The Primeval Tree swept across, flaying the skin from him. The four ancient-god Shen Mus of the Four Extremes Heaven transformed into the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, the Black Tortoise and other marvels, pouncing to kill, while the true gods of the stars of the whole heaven spread an inescapable net of heaven and earth; and Tianyin Shen Mu shattered the primal spirits of thousands of gods and demons with a single blow.
But even so, Heavenly Lord Han's speed only increased.
Wherever he passed, the Primeval Tree broke, the Nether River split apart, Tianyin Shen Mu perished, and the ancient-god Shen Mus of the Four Extremes Heaven were beheaded — their deaths most hideous. Even the Lord of Heaven Shen Mu was struck by a blow that sent him tumbling down out of Xuandu.
Shen Mu sighed inwardly: "My strength is still not enough.
My divine abilities have come through, but my cultivation realm has not. I can defeat Heavenly Lord Han, yet I can absolutely never kill him.
" Heavenly Lord Han careered wildly about, broke out of Shen Mu's Divine Treasury domain, and fled for his life, crying in a harsh voice: "Celestial Venerable Mu, you have provoked me past all bearing! When I recover my strength, I shall see to it that you never rise again through all eternity—" Before he could finish the words, he abruptly halted.
For there ahead of him stood a Buddha of elegant and handsome features: Indra Li Youran.
While Shen Mu and he had been locked in battle, Indra Li Youran had repaired the Ark of the Other Shore. Heavenly Lord Han's body was too vast; he could not arrest its momentum, and could only grit his teeth and charge forward as the shattered cubes around him dropped away one after another.
The Fortress Wall Formation gods and demons within those cubes, wounded as they were inside the Divine Treasury domain, impaired the working of the formation, and he cast them off without a shred of mercy. Indra Li Youran's face was grave and solemn.
He watched him draw nearer and nearer, and the precious countenance of the Buddha upon his face turned monstrous with wrath, while about his body blazed the raging fire of the Vidyaraja!
He had always had a bond with the Buddhist Dharma; it was only that the feelings within his heart could not be resolved.
Later, when his clansmen were ambushed and slain, he had believed the killer to be the Crimson Emperor Qi Xiayu, and so, in utter despair, he had gone to the Buddha Realm.