Chapter 1560 — One Finger Comes and Goes, Shattering the Firmament
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" Shen Mu stood at the stern with his hands on his hips and laughed aloud: "Who says I know only one finger? What I struck with just now was my index finger, called the Shangyang Finger. I also have the Guanchong Finger, the Shaoze Finger, the Shaochong Finger, and the Shaoshang Finger!
If you don't believe me, come and try!
" But the others already knew his true measure. The Divine Emperor Langxuan sneered and said in a muffled voice: "He makes it sound frightening, but it is only the same move performed with different fingers.
" The Fire Tianzun said in a low voice: "If it is only this one finger, then boarding the ship will be easy! " The Dao Tree charged forward once more. Shen Mu too was greatly troubled.
He did indeed have only the one finger, called the Hongmeng Finger, and it was easily seen through; no matter which finger he used, it was always and only the one divine power, the Hongmeng Finger. This divine power he had comprehended from the Dao patterns on the walls of Miluo Palace.
It was indeed formidable, full of power, infinite in profundity; but the greatest problem was that he had never comprehended the mystery of the Hongmeng primal-qi runes, and had only barely imitated the Hongmeng primal-qi runes.
What was more, his Hongmeng Finger imitated the Hongmeng Dao patterns of the master of Miluo Palace, but what it imitated was the static structure of the Dao patterns, a rough and careless imitation with no variation whatsoever.
This was why he had only the one finger, come and go as he pleased, unable to change his move. The greatest advantage of a divine power over a treasure is its mutability.
A dragon-form divine power, for instance: the dragon, under its wielder's command, dances in the sky, shifts and turns, grows large or small, comes and goes at will. But Shen Mu's Hongmeng Finger went straight out and straight back; once loosed, its trajectory could not be altered, and whether it struck depended solely on whether the other party could dodge, or had time to dodge. "The Golden Ship of Deliverance is still picking up speed.
There is no way to evade these five Tianzuns. .
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" The Fire Tianzun and the others adjusted their strategy and came at him again. Shen Mu steeled himself and continued to employ the Hongmeng Finger; but this time the five Tianzuns dealt with his straight-flying move far more easily and calmly, needing only to borrow force in midair and dodge the move.
Shen Mu cursed inwardly and thought: "This ship is too big. If it were smaller, its speed could be raised faster.
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. " No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than the immense Golden Ship of Deliverance suddenly shrank drastically, and swiftly, from a leviathan beyond all measure, became a great ship some hundred zhang long! Shen Mu was both startled and delighted, feeling that the Golden Ship of Deliverance was now picking up speed far faster than before.
Seeing this, the Fire Tianzun and the others hurriedly urged the Dao Tree on with all their strength, pouncing toward the golden ship.
They were secretly anxious. Judging by the rate at which the golden ship was gaining speed, before long it would surpass their own speed and leave them far behind!
Shen Mu laughed: "The golden ship that the master of Miluo Palace forged to ferry men through the great calamity of world-destruction is indeed no small matter!
But as a ship of deliverance, how could it lack means to defend against the onslaught of the Great Calamity of Destruction?
If it can withstand even the Great Calamity of Destruction, how could it fail to withstand a few mere Tianzuns? " Scarcely had his voice fallen than the runes on the great ship suddenly lit up, layer upon layer of Hongmeng golden light flowing like water, spreading over the whole of the great ship, then blooming outward to form one golden heaven after another, like a golden firmament stamped all over with Hongmeng runes.