Chapter 1456 — A Friendship to Rival Hundred-Tempered Steel
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Shen Mu could feel the might and puissance of his God-Slaying Platform waxing ever greater; and above all, now that the power of the two Blood-Bale God-Slaying Sabers had been refined by him, the power of the two sabers upon his own God-Slaying Platform rose with the tide, growing ever more fearsome. Zaifu, Tian Shu, Luo Wushuang, and Zhe Huali seized the same chance to remake the God-Slaying Platforms of their own Heavenly Palaces — but the benefits they won were not so great as his.
Of the baleful aura of the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform that the five refined, four-fifths were refined by Shen Mu, and the remaining fifth was divided among Zaifu and the other three.
Even so, it was no trifling matter.
Their spirit treasuries held no Ancestral Court, only the God-Slaying Platforms within their Heavenly Palaces; that the four of them should divide a fifth among them was already a remarkable feat.
One must understand that the God-Slaying Platform of the Ancestral Court had gathered to itself the baleful aura accrued from the primordial era down to this very day, and now half of it had been refined by them — baleful aura enough to grant their Heavenly Palace God-Slaying Platforms a leap in quality!
Zhe Huali above all: before he stepped onto the God-Slaying Platform he had still been of the Jade Pool realm, and now at a single bound he had become a God-Slaying Platform realm cultivator; the benefits he had won were beyond all reckoning. In the God-Slaying Platform realm he now had few rivals left.
In the God-Slaying Platform realm, so long as no Heavenly Venerable stepped forth, none could contend with him.
Though the realms of Zaifu, Luo Wushuang, and Tian Shu had not advanced, their God-Slaying Platform realm had grown incomparably firm, and their cultivation of the Dao heart had advanced by leaps and bounds; the benefits they gained were likewise beyond imagining.
The baleful aura stored within their God-Slaying Platforms swelled the might of their sabers, and its influence upon their Dao arts and divine powers was vast besides; and furthermore, because the God-Slaying Platforms absorbed the baleful aura, for two such as Tian Shu and Zaifu, who came and went upon battlefields, it resolved the hidden peril of baleful aura coiling about their bodies and afflicting their Dao hearts.
The stronger their cultivation and strength, the swifter they refined the two baleful-qi God-Slaying Sabers, and the greater the benefits they gained. Give them but another three or five months, and they could refine the baleful aura of the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform entirely and make it their own, and might even raise the merged battle art of the five to the height of the thirty-first heaven, or even of the thirty-second!
By then the five joined in battle would most likely possess strength akin to that of a Heavenly Venerable — at the very least they could be called lesser Heavenly Venerables! Of course, it was only with the five joining hands that they could raise the Dao realm of the Saber Dao to such a degree; apart, even Shen Mu could not attain the thirtieth heaven of the Dao realm.
Suddenly Shen Mu sensed the might of the two baleful-qi God-Slaying Sabers upon the Platform leap upward by a great measure, and his expression changed drastically; he said in a low voice, "Withdraw!
" His body moved; his spirit treasury domain bloomed layer upon layer, and bearing the other four along with him he flew back in retreat. At that very moment the might of the two baleful-qi God-Slaying Sabers surged madly, so that all before their eyes was blood-red, and endless sounds of slaughter filled their ears, deafening, setting their ears ringing, as though they had come to a battlefield of the primordial era where heaven was destroyed and earth annihilated.
The two evil dragons came slashing crosswise at them, one from the left, one from the right, shearing suddenly together!
Ka-cha!