Chapter 1254 — The Lord of the Netherworld Descends
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But Shen Mu was ruthless and vicious: he had used the Dao arts and divine powers of the Heaven Yin Realm to refine Yin Jiuzun's very soul into flying ash.
That truly roused the Yin Son of Heaven's wrath, and he would spare nothing to strike with his own hand!
Flesh and blood grew anew, and Shen Mu's body recovered with astonishing speed; more than that, even his robes mended themselves.
Yet no sooner had he appeared before the Heavenly Court's divine city than a world-shaking toll of the bell rang out: Yin Jiuzun's headless body, bearing the Reincarnation Bell, had come out from the Nether Capital of the Great Void into the Great Void itself, hunting him down. Shen Mu bellowed, and the Spirit Consciousness Heavenly Palace leaped from the back of his head, the supreme spirit consciousness domain unfolding, but the next moment the bell tolled, and his spirit consciousness domain was annihilated outright; even the Spirit Consciousness Heavenly Palace ceased to be!
"The Divine Treasury Domain—" Shen Mu's mana erupted, and the Divine Treasury Domain bloomed with a hum. But there stood the headless Yin Jiuzun, both hands raising the Reincarnation Bell high, its mouth turned toward Shen Mu.
Around that Emperor Throne treasure countless brilliant runes emerged; runes of the Nether Capital, of Heaven Yin, of Creation whirled madly, shifting and evolving without cease!
A vast and boundless might gave off waves that struck the heart with dread and despair, circling the bell's wall; and more than that, from within the great bell overflowed waves yet more terrible, making space itself shudder like the veins of a butterfly's wing.
Clang— The bell tolled, and within the Divine Treasury Domain the Four Pole Heavens burst asunder, the Mystic Capital was destroyed, the Nether Capital crumbled, the Primordial Tree snapped, the myriad stars were extinguished, and the Ancestral Court shattered like glass.
Shen Mu's heavenly palaces flew apart in broken brick and shattered tile, and the primordial spirits within those palaces were annihilated outright! Such was the power of an Emperor Throne treasure, truly terrifying!
Shen Mu frantically marshaled his mana and drove the Immutable Divine Art, but the next moment the Reincarnation Bell's might reached him directly, and his robes once more became flying ash; skin and flesh alike were dissolved away!
This blow, which the Yin Son of Heaven had unleashed through his own son's body, was terrible beyond measure: even Shen Mu's bones flew up and were annihilated in the savage impact, and the entire Primal Embryo Divine Treasury Domain was destroyed by a single toll of the Yin Son of Heaven's bell!
The bell's sound took a long while to subside.
On the walls of the Heavenly Court's divine city not far off, countless heavenly gods and demons and soldiers of Beiluo Shimen toppled down; despite the guardian formations, they were shaken into grievous injury, unable to rise, spitting divine blood.
The waves raised by the bell also settled of themselves, when suddenly, with a pattering sound, an eyeball dropped out of the air and rolled and bounced a few times on the ground. Then, all at once, the eyeball sprouted thin little legs and took off running.
"Still not dead? " The Yin Son of Heaven's voice came from within the bell, filled with boundless fury.
Yin Jiuzun's headless body soared up, raising the great bell high, and made straight for the swiftly fleeing eyeball. The eyeball hopped and bounded at great speed, and as it ran it grew taller and taller; soon it had grown a body, a head, four limbs, and the eyeball came to rest at the center of that person's brow.
In that brief moment Shen Mu had even restored his clothes to their former state, without the slightest change.
Yin Jiuzun arrived in a flying leap, raised the great bell high, and brought its mouth down to cover Shen Mu, meaning to trap him inside where he would have no way to flee.