Chapter 1456 — A Friendship to Rival Hundred-Tempered Steel
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
The space of the Ancestral Court shook violently, quaked; the eyes of Shen Mu and the rest were drowned in blood-red, and they even saw the thirty-fifth layer of the void sheared apart together by the two God-Slaying Sabers.
Such might was not what the two God-Slaying Sabers could erupt with of themselves; it was the work of some incomparably powerful being urging their power to the utmost.
The might of the two God-Slaying Sabers was too terrible; had Shen Mu and the other four not absorbed a good part of the baleful aura, causing the two god-sabers to take on their peak state of form without substance, even a Heavenly Venerable would likely have found it hard to withstand their power. Were the god-sabers to take on true substance, their might would likely be enough to slay a Heavenly Venerable.
"Celestial Consort Qiang!
" Shen Mu turned his palm and brought out the hairpin of Heavenly Venerable Ling; his divine sense burst forth, becoming a heaven-shaking, earth-rocking sound that crashed out as he cried in a loud voice, "You promised us entry into the God-Slaying Platform — would you now go back on your word?
" He grasped the hairpin and swept it down with force; the power of the Unchanging Divine Power erupted, and he bore himself like one ready to risk everything in mutual destruction.
When he had earlier stirred the Unchanging Divine Power within the Primal Embryo Spirit Treasury, he had used only fragments of that power, not its full might; were he to unleash the full power of this divine art, time and space would be stilled, all material change halted, and even the transformation of matter made to flow in reverse.
But in that case, even Shen Mu himself would become Unchanging Matter and be trapped within this divine art. He could save Heavenly Venerable Ling, but to save himself he would have to invoke the power of the Great Beginning, and that would cost him dear.
Even as he stirred the Unchanging Divine Power, Heavenly King Tian Shu raised the Imperial Palace God-Saber and slashed down with force, cleaving forth a Heaven-Bearing Gate, and shouted, "To the Dark Capital first!
" Now that the Ancestral Court was open, the Dark Capital too had come within the Ancestral Court, and taking refuge in the Dark Capital was a sound plan.
Heavenly King Tian Shu was one of the few who could cultivate the Heaven-Bearing Gate and open the Dark Capital, and it was for this that he was honored as the Heavenly King of the Nether Capital — a title that Earth Earl himself had bestowed upon him. Shen Mu's figure drew back, guarding Zaifu and the other three as they entered the Dark Capital; but scarcely had Zaifu, Tian Shu, and the rest arrived in the Dark Capital when two blood-bale dragons came slashing suddenly out of the void, and with a ka-cha sheared the Dark Capital open.
The four were startled at heart; the two blood-bale dragons had sheared clean over their heads, numbing their scalps and sending cold sweat rolling down their brows.
"Shen'er is still over there! " Zaifu was about to rush back when he saw that the Heaven-Bearing Gate had already been sheared to powder by the two blood-bale dragons, cutting off his road back.
"Heavenly Saber, there is no need to worry.
" Heavenly King Tian Shu hastily embraced him to keep him from forcing his way through, saying, "What manner of cunning man is Heavenly Venerable Mu?
He is the leader of the Heaven Alliance besides, and bears the title of the Heavenly Venerable Who Transmits the Undying Dharma; Celestial Consort Qiang would not go so far as to strike him down.
" Zaifu was still for struggling when Luo Wushuang said as well, "Heavenly Venerable Mu has his ways of preserving himself.
He did not die through all his many years in the Heavenly Court, and he will not die now.