Chapter 1545 — Beyond the Cure of Medicine, Beyond the Power to Save
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Do you truly want me to strike? " Fire Heavenly Venerable stood there without moving: "Strike, Divine King, and strike without fear!
" The Ancestor Divine King turned his supreme treasure of the heavenly Dao into a heavenly blade and brought it down in a single stroke, cutting Fire Heavenly Venerable's face off entirely — tongue, eyes, and half his brain went with it.
How dreadful a thing it is for a man's head to lose half of itself; the remaining half of the brain might well have slipped out of the skull — and yet Fire Heavenly Venerable stood there calm and composed, a composure so profound that even the Ancestor Divine King could not help but admire it.
Yet the very next moment, something strange happened: Fire Heavenly Venerable stirred his Creation Mystic Art, and the face that grew back had no skin, no flesh and blood at all — only broken bone, tongue, and naked eyeballs. At last Fire Heavenly Venerable could not remain calm and composed; his two newly grown short arms and hands trembled, and he raised them with difficulty, trying to touch his own face — but the arms were far too short to reach. And even had he reached it, he would only have collapsed the further into despair. The Ancestor Divine King stepped back a pace, his brows knit tight.
By rights, once the wounds were cut away, cut away together with Shen Mu's lingering divine arts, then with Mu's arts gone the face Fire Heavenly Venerable grew anew should have been restored as before; it should never have grown back exactly like the wounds.
— This could not be called a face at all. The strange thing was that the face Fire Heavenly Venerable grew with his Creation Mystic Art was still the wounded face, not his former countenance at all.
Fire Heavenly Venerable's voice was hoarse and trembling: "Divine King, cut again! " The Ancestor Divine King frowned and struck once more; the ugly face fell to the ground, and Fire Heavenly Venerable stirred his Creation Mystic Art again. A new face grew forth, exactly the same as the one before it, hideous beyond measure.
"Again! " Fire Heavenly Venerable was on the verge of collapse, his voice and look savage.
The Ancestor Divine King shook his head: "It is useless, Brother Fire. When Mu Tianzun wounded you, he surely used some uncanny divine art.
Unless that art is broken, you need not dream of restoring your features.
No matter how many times we cut off your face, it will do no good.
" Fire Heavenly Venerable gave a furious roar, and suddenly stirred the vast, mighty power of his own cultivation, surging it toward that ruined face of his; Dao fire blazed up and burned upon his countenance. He was trying to find the traces of Shen Mu's divine arts and erase them utterly.
If only he could erase Shen Mu's arts, he could be restored.
Yet however fierce his Dao fire burned, he never found any trace of Shen Mu's arts — as though no such traces existed at all.
Fire Heavenly Venerable cried out; the Dao fire bored this way and that through his ruined face, yet met no resistance whatsoever.
No enemy, no opposition — his whole store of martial power was rendered entirely useless. "This injury, I cannot heal either.
" From behind Hao Heavenly Venerable came Taisu's voice: "This is not the sword Dao, nor is it purely the Dao of Taisu, the Dao of Taichu, or the Dao of Taishi; it is a little of every kind of great-Dao divine art.
Among them are the Unchanging Divine Art and the Dao of Creation, and it seems there is also something of the Dao of Reincarnation that Yin Tianzi comprehended. " Fire Heavenly Venerable's body shuddered, and he frantically stirred his Dao fire. Taisu continued: "When Mu Tianzun's sword Dao breached your face, I fear he had already stirred his great-Dao divine arts to invade your body.