Chapter 1496 — The Omen of the Mind's Collapse
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Celestial Venerable Huo's power was vast beyond measure. Having absorbed the might of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird, his power was mighty beyond compare, and his comprehension of Dao Fire had reached the twenty-fourth level of the Heavenly Dao Realm!
This blow was certain to burn Lan Yutian, Shen Mu, and God King Langwan all to ashes together, to leave the three of them dead with no place for burial!
He could not endure Shen Mu's blasphemy, nor could he endure God King Langwan using a divine-consciousness illusion to peel open his heart, laying his ugly and guilty side starkly bare before Lan Yutian. Even less could he endure Lan Yutian witnessing his betrayal with his own eyes, witnessing him slay Celestial Venerable Yu within the illusion!
Killing the three would not make him taller or more august, nor would it gain him anything, but it would ease his heart somewhat.
If Shen Mu died, if Lan Yutian died, if God King Langwan died, only then would the world never learn his secret, never know his heart.
For him, having his heart ripped out and shown to others was something utterly unbearable!
Just as his palm was about to close over the three, suddenly, behind God King Langwan's head, celestial palace after celestial palace swayed into being; her divine consciousness erupted, and that mighty divine consciousness bore Shen Mu and the others through thirty-five layers of the void!
Her divine ability burst forth, yet it did not strike at Celestial Venerable Huo. It blasted forward!
In the moment her divine consciousness blasted forward, Shen Mu's physical body swelled enormously, and his Primordial Womb Divine Repository Domain expanded outward.
The Mystic Capital soared into the sky, the Nether Capital sank into the earth, the Four Poles stood in the four directions, and the Origin Capital, the Ancestral Court, the myriad heavens, and ten thousand realms emerged one after another! In a single breath, he transformed into the four-faced divine form, in every direction, from every angle, it was the front.
His palm lay flat, and God King Langwan stood at the very center of that palm, cloaked by his Divine Repository Domain.
As the domain spread open, God King Langwan was immediately turned to face Celestial Venerable Huo, and the divine ability she had sent forward was immediately turned into a divine ability aimed at Celestial Venerable Huo!
Celestial Venerable Huo's colossal palm tore through layer after layer of the void, scorching it to a molten blur as Dao Fire blazed fiercely, but reaching Shen Mu and the others in so short a time was no easy matter. Meanwhile, Langwan's divine ability reached his chest in an instant and burrowed into his body.
This divine ability was divine consciousness, formless, having no substance. Moreover, since God King Langwan had been attacking forward, her form screened the ability from his sight, so before Celestial Venerable Huo had time to defend, the divine-consciousness ability had already surged into his body!
To see a divine ability from the front and to see it from behind are entirely two different things.
Had God King Langwan faced Celestial Venerable Huo directly and unleashed her divine-consciousness ability, every subtlety of that ability would have been grasped by him the instant it was cast. Destroying Langwan's ability was no difficult matter for Celestial Venerable Huo.
But just now, Langwan's ability had been launched along its forward course, and with her back turned to him, by the time he understood what was happening, the ability had already reached his chest. The divine consciousness exploded within Celestial Venerable Huo.
What Langwan had visualized were the Four Emperors of the Four Pole Heavens, the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Dark Tortoise swiftly taking shape within his body.