Chapter 1287 — The Eighteen-Layered Heavenly Gate
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The Woodcutter Sage's reckoning had been faultless: Heavenly Venerable Hao dared not fight a drawn-out battle, so there was no need to trade blows with him head-on; one had only to hold out a while, and the strain of his own cultivation would crush his body. But man proposes and Heaven disposes: Heavenly Venerable Hao's oppressive might was too overwhelming, leaving them no room to join forces at all.
Under the threat of their Dao-hearts crumbling and collapsing, every one of them struck out at Heavenly Venerable Hao alone, a heap of loose sand, so that they were defeated, and defeated this swiftly. "Wait — there is still Shen'er!
" The Woodcutter Sage's spirit suddenly surged. Remembering Shen Mu, he said urgently, "Donkey, put me down!
Shen'er is still back there! " Lü Zheng clenched his teeth and said nothing, sprinting for all he was worth.
The Black Tiger God said, "Master, how shrewd is your second disciple?
If he saw how the wind blew, he would surely have fled long ago — would he still be waiting there?
Master, what matters now is how we get out of this alive! " The Woodcutter Sage ground his teeth and raged, "I know him. He will not flee.
He will seize this chance, and whatever it costs him he will try to do away with Heavenly Venerable Hao, that foe of a lifetime! This is not a chance in a thousand years — it is a chance in ten thousand, in a million years! Put me down! With the wit of this master and disciple together, perhaps we can put Heavenly Venerable Hao to death!
" Lü Zheng turned a deaf ear and hurtled on.
At that moment, in the dark valley behind them, a spirit-sense domain burst forth, and the countless inner-demon Mu Tianzuns of this moment turned themselves into part of the Divine Treasury Domain, becoming gods within that domain. All the energy in the Divine Treasury Domain gathered, and under Shen Mu's direction it evolved into one world-shaking strike.
The light that the blow burst forth scattered every shadow from the valley, so bright that it cast the silhouettes of all who fled in panic; their shadows were drawn out long, and the leaping light set those shadows leaping upon the earth too, claws and fangs bared, like devils.
The Woodcutter Sage looked back and sighed inwardly. It was true that Shen Mu was contending with Heavenly Venerable Hao, trying to cut him down — but that power was far too strong; even if he wished to go back now, he could not.
The energy released by the clash between Shen Mu and Heavenly Venerable Hao was too fierce, and with his strength he could never draw near; the aftershocks of the battle would strike him and grind him to dust. "Shen'er must be borrowing the power of the inner-demon Mu Tianzun.
He is the true Mu Tianzun, marshalling and commanding every inner-demon Mu Tianzun, and so he has the strength to fight Heavenly Venerable Hao — and perhaps even to drag him down to his death.
" The Woodcutter Sage smiled and murmured, "You have grown up. You are an old hand at this game now, and in this battle you have shown me that you possess the wisdom to stand against a Heavenly Venerable.
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" The dark valley. Shen Mu stood at the center of the Divine Treasury Domain, and four of the surrounding five great Innate ore veins erupted in surging veins of the Dao, rushing toward the long sword in his hand!
At the same time, the Ancestral Court, Xuandu, Youdu, the Four Poles Heaven, Yuandu, Tianyin, and every Great Dao of all the heavens and myriad worlds in the domain blazed out and poured into the sword in his hand! The inner-demon Mu Tianzuns enthroned in each of the heavens drove every Dao art and divine power at once!
His eighteen heavenly palaces likewise blazed alight together, their vast cultivation pouring out as one!