Chapter 1250 — Joy Falls from the Heavens
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Hu Mengdie's body swayed to and fro, and at last she fell.
"Yin Tianzi truly has great ability — even his disciples are so outstanding."
Shen Mu sheathed his sword, his face grave. That Hu Mengdie had been utterly helpless before him was not because his cultivation outmatched hers; in truth, Hu Mengdie's cultivation still ran deeper than his own.
That he could cut her down rested on the fact that he had studied the divine arts and dharma of the Yin Tianzi line almost to the marrow.
And his attainments in the Way of Reincarnation pressed close upon Yin Tianzi's own; even so, his want of cultivation forced him to lure Hu Mengdie in with dreamscapes, compelling her to spend her mana breaking them.
Only at the very end, when Hu Mengdie had exhausted her cultivation, did she die beneath his sword.
"The Wuwang City she refined is a work of no small imagination as well — a fine treasure."
Shen Mu raised his hand. Wuwang City flew up and once more became a wooden stake. This stake bore only three hundred and sixty-five rings of years; it must be no more than a single branch of the Origin Wood. That Hu Mengdie could refine it to such a degree was truly no mean feat.
In the beginning the Earth Mother Yuanjun had given Shen Mu a core of the Origin Wood, with as many as fifty million rings of years. Refined by Hu Mengdie's method, the terror of its power would be beyond imagining!
"From this alone one may see the might of the Origin Wood. Xiao Heavenly Master is unfathomable—"
In his heart he grew warier still of the strength of the Heavenly Court's Ten Heavenly Masters. Hao Heavenly Master had fought the Earth Mother Yuanjun to the death; Xiao Heavenly Master had seized the Origin Wood for himself. These two were likely the very peaks among the Ten Heavenly Masters!
That Consort Qiang had reclaimed the Grand Emperor's fleshly body was likewise unspeakably dreadful; yet whether she could overawe these two was not yet known.
He walked on. He had already fathomed the Way of Reincarnation, though it was yet incomplete, and the seventeenth heavenly palace, the Samsara Heavenly Palace, had not been fully established; but this was determined by the depth of his foundations.
His Way of Reincarnation was more complete than Yin Tianzi's. Yin Tianzi had been able to refine the Samsara Heavenly Palace because his gifts were limited, and he could fathom no more than this much, and so hastily refined his palace.
Shen Mu, striving ever for perfection, his roots too good, wished to refine his own more perfectly; and for that very reason found it harder to refine the Samsara Heavenly Palace.
"The Heavenly Court's great camp is nearly here."
Shen Mu looked ahead, and saw in the Grand Void the phantom silhouettes of one divine city after another rearing up. Seen from the Grand Void's Nether Capital, all was grey; no human figure could be made out, only one Life-and-Death Treasury after another drifting in unceasing motion.
The Life-and-Death Treasury is the sixth great treasury of the human body. Whoever opens it may comprehend life and death, and know how many years of life remain to him.
Yet the Life-and-Death Treasury opens onto the Nether Capital, and so it brings a fearful consequence: one may invade another's Life-and-Death Treasury from the Nether Capital and make him die without rhyme or reason.
This too was why the Heavenly Court was set on taking the Nether Capital.
If they held the Nether Capital, then no one in all the world could stand against the Heavenly Court!
The Grand Void's Nether Capital had been built by Shen Fengqing, and possessed a part of the Nether Capital's own nature; therefore one could observe here the Life-and-Death Treasuries of gods and demons and of those who wield divine arts.