Chapter 1438 — Pummeling the Empress
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Faced with the sky-filling flood of chaotic qi rolling down upon her, the Empress hastily drew back, yet Shen Mu's One-Qi Primordial Dao Roam divine art was blindingly swift and was upon her in a breath! She fell back again, and behind her a standing abyss suddenly split open.
She slipped into the abyss, the abyss closed, and her form vanished in an instant. In the next moment the might of the One-Qi Primordial crushed forward, grinding and rolling over the Guixu Great Abyss hidden deep in space.
Lurking within her Guixu art, the Empress was caught off guard and watched in horror as Shen Mu's single blow actually shattered Guixu and surged toward her. "Since there is no dodging it, then I will meet it head on! I refuse to believe your God-Slaying Platform cultivation can stand against my ancient god mana!
" The Empress raised her hand to block force with force, her whole body's mana erupting utterly.
At the first collision she felt her own mana and her own Great Dao begin to be assimilated the moment they met that divine art, turning into the Dao of Taichu and swelling the blow's power! Startled at heart, she quickly withdrew her palm and plucked a hairpin from her coiffure. That hairpin was forged of Guixu Abyss Iron.
She poured mana into it and sent it flying from her hand! Hiss!
The hairpin rode the wind and split the waves, cleaving Shen Mu's blow apart and driving straight for Shen Mu himself.
Its speed was extreme, yet even the Abyss Iron was ground away without pause within his blow, dissolving into chaotic qi.
By the time it reached Shen Mu the Abyss Iron had been worn down to a mere iron needle, which flashed through his brow and pierced into his brain. Boom! A great crash rang out as that needle exploded inside Shen Mu's head, becoming a Guixu Great Abyss that in an instant swallowed and refined his skull.
Shen Mu's headless body swayed but did not fall.
Then his neck shook and three heads grew out, while four more arms drilled from beneath his shoulders: three heads and six arms. Just then the power of the One-Qi Primordial Dao Roam was spent, and the Empress walked out from the chaotic qi, her robes in tatters, her white skin exposed and her lovely body half hidden, half revealed.
Her face was dark with rage and murderous intent as she strode toward Shen Mu and sneered, "Mu Heavenly Venerable, that great divine art must have exhausted your cultivation? How much mana do you have left?
" Divine light shot heavenward from Shen Mu's crown and became a vast Heavenly Court, and his three heads laughed as one, "I have mana to spare. My lady, behold!
" The Empress's pupils shrank. She saw that within the palaces of the Heavenly Court, Shen Mu's primordial spirits were actually leaving the God-Slaying Platform, each stepping forth to cross into the next realm.
What she could not fathom was how Shen Mu could in so short a time cross the Jade Pool to enter the realm of the God-Slaying Platform, and how he could then directly cross the realm of the God-Slaying Platform to enter the next realm! What baffled her still more was that Shen Mu's next realm was not the Yujing realm at all.
By rights the realm after the God-Slaying Platform for a god should be Yujing City, yet between the God-Slaying Platform and Yujing City his Heavenly Palaces held an enormous Heavenly Prison! In the Heavenly Court the Heavenly Prison is where grave criminals are locked, a place overgrown with thorns from which none who enter can escape.
It holds the most evil death-row prisoners, for whom beheading upon the God-Slaying Platform would be mercy, so they are shut in the Heavenly Prison to endure endless suffering and torment. Within the palace system the Heavenly Prison does not count as a realm at all.