Chapter 1478 — Shattering the Boundless Void Realm
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Shi Qiluo let his true strength burst forth; three artifact Heavenly Venerables came surging up out of the Hundred Treasure Chest, swelling at furious speed above the Heavenly River until in a breath their might stood at full bloom!
Of these artifact Heavenly Venerables, one was wreathed in the Primordial Innate Qi, as though Heavenly Venerable Hao himself had come; one was wreathed in the Dao of Divine Consciousness, as if Heavenly Venerable Qiang guided the artifact with her own hand; and one was wreathed in Dao Fire, as though Heavenly Venerable Fire drove it. Heavenly Consort Qiang stood upon the God-Slaying Terrace; catching sight of this, her heart quaked within her.
"When that wench Yuanmu forged the artifact Heavenly Venerables, she left a countless back doors in them. Anyone who drives an artifact Heavenly Venerable to work his own arts will be spied upon by her! I used one once, and she learned my arts and divine abilities!
" Boom— When the two Heavenly Venerables and the four artifacts crashed together, the Heavenly River was vaporized stretch by stretch, and the heaven-wrecking shockwaves set the distant river heaving violently up and down like ripples.
Shi Qiluo stood upon a stretch of the Heavenly River driving his artifacts, teeth clenched, when all at once he sensed deadly peril descend; he sprang hastily into the air, only to see a blade-light shriek past and flash through his neck. His great shaggy head went tumbling through the air.
He glimpsed a Divine Treasury Domain spring suddenly into being, with five masked men—Shen Mu, Tian Shu, and the rest—standing within it, one stroke of whose blade had taken off his head! "This little wretch!
" Shi Qiluo laughed in his fury. Though Shen Mu and the others wore black masks, he could still recognize Shen Mu; straightway he took command of his headless body and bolted off with the Hundred Treasure Chest.
The Chest opened once more; an artifact Heavenly Venerable was just about to fly out when a blade came cleaving down and struck the Chest out of his grasp.
The blade-light veered and slapped the Chest shut. Shen Mu was just reaching to seize it when Shi Qiluo's headless body suddenly rang with clanging chimes, and his body of divine stones, stone upon stone, broke apart of a sudden.
The five men's hearts lurched, for Shi Qiluo's headless body was shifting like an exquisitely cunning artifact, countless divine stones rearranging back and forth in bewildering complexity, and in a mere instant they had assembled into a colossal artifact!
"Damnation! Shi Qiluo is the master of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace—he borrowed the Palace's power and remade himself!
" Even as Shen Mu reached for the Chest, Shi Qiluo's head had already settled at the center of that infinitely intricate artifact. The artifact roared to life, Dao Fire blazing; it formed the Dao Wheel behind Heavenly Venerable Fire's head, and the artifact itself was as the ancestral ground of Dao Fire!
Boom— Boundless Dao Fire came battering at them, its flames vaporizing all.
"Lady Yuanmu's arts and divine abilities are truly monstrous! " Shen Mu had no choice but to abandon Shi Qiluo's Hundred Treasure Chest with a pang; before the Dao Fire touched his body he cleft the void with one blade and plunged into the thirtieth layer of the void.
The Dao Fire came howling after them and was ground away by the void.
Zhe Huali cried out again and again, blurting, "This Shi Qiluo's methods remind me of that wretch Xing An!
If Xing An's craft were cultivated to its utmost, I fear he would be another Shi Qiluo!
" Tian Shu and Luo Wushuang had no notion who Xing An was and gave it little thought, but Zaifu knew Xing An through and through, and mused: "Zhe Huali speaks true.
Xing An's craft and Shi Qiluo's do share a likeness—different roads, the same end.