Chapter 1466 — With Face Concealed, None Can Tell Your Countenance
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Above Shen Mu's head the sea of qi and blood boiled open; the demonic qi of the Netherworld dyed that sea of blood a pitchy black, and the skin of his fleshly body cracked and burst with sharp pops, scarcely able to hold in his own primordial spirit.
The two bowed down once more, and each took the heavier wound for it!
"Take my salute!"
"Take my salute!"
...
BOOM!
A roar that shook heaven and earth came rolling out, and Shen Mu was blasted so hard that the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Gate behind him burst apart; his fleshly body could bear it no longer, and from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose spurted stream after stream of the black sand of souls.
Lord Yin, facing him across the formations, had his own fleshly body suddenly explode, bowed into a mass of chaos qi, and the Nether Capital's Heavenly Gate behind him was bowed into fine dust along with him; great shards of a divine artifact, trailing threads of chaos qi, plunged into the Nether Sea.
Shen Mu's body swayed and tottered, yet he stood and did not fall; of a sudden he stirred the Soul-Pulling Lure, reining in the black sand of souls that had scattered from him, and his divine ability turned, reshaping his soul!
Zaifu was just about to steady him when he saw that he had already recovered; his aura was spent, but no great harm remained, and so Zaifu drew back his hand.
"Is Lord Yin dead?"
Zaifu raised his Heavenly Blade and turned its face this way and that, searching out Lord Yin's whereabouts.
Tian Shu also raised his Emperor's Gate Divine Blade, staring at its face to seek Lord Yin's primordial spirit.
Luo Wushuang likewise raised his divine blade and swept the four quarters.
Zhe Huali raised the demon blade Dragon Fang; but Dragon Fang was a tooth of the Eastern Emperor, the Azure Dragon, and its face was not bright, so it could not shine into the depths of the void.
The hilt of Dragon Fang, however, bore a demon eye, and that demon eye rolled and rolled about, hunting Lord Yin as well.
Though Lord Yin was no Heavenly Venerable, his skills were truly uncanny beyond measure, sublime past the reach of the divine, impossible to guard against.
They had thought the killing of Lord Yin a trifling matter, and indeed to cut him down was trifling enough; but to take Lord Yin's life was a hard thing.
Nor was that all: Lord Yin's Netherworld divine ability and his Great Dao of Reincarnation left a lingering dread in their hearts.
"Is he dead, or gone?" Zaifu searched a long while, found no trace of Lord Yin, and could not help asking.
Shen Mu opened the vertical eye between his brows and swept his gaze around; suddenly his sight pierced clean through the void and the dark, and far away he saw the Nether Sea heaving and surging, with a head drifting upon its waters, rushing toward the Nether Capital. He said, "He is not dead; he has gone back to the Nether Capital. He is a being who cultivates the Dao of Heavenly Yin, and he has mastered the Great Dao of the Netherworld besides, so killing him is no easy thing. Pay him no mind. Lord Yin was nothing more than a whetstone for us to try our blades upon, no more than that; he is not fit to stand at the table."
He lifted his head, and there before him stood the army of gods and demons of the Northern Heaven Nether Capital, arrayed as though against a mortal foe; countless mighty gods and demons stood upon the prows, silent as crows at dusk, watching them in desperate alarm.
Zaifu, Tian Shu, Luo Wushuang and the others each stepped forward; Luo Wushuang gave his one-armed divine blade a shake and said coolly, "Shall we kill them all?"
The several divine generals at the head of the Northern Heaven Nether Capital changed countenance greatly, each stirring his divine weapon to shield himself first.
"No need."