Chapter 1579 — Sealed for Eternity
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Wherever the spear passed, billows on either side rose like a continuous chain of mighty mountains, swelling ceaselessly forward; the towering waves climbed higher and higher, like mountain peaks.
Shen Mu immediately seized up the Taiyi cane and met the blow! The Heavenly Emperor's body was far too strong in battle; he had to use the Taiyi cane to stand against it, for otherwise, even if he called upon the Calamity Sword, he could never have blocked the Great Emperor's attack! Boom!
Shen Mu's body shook violently, his robes snapping in the wind.
The scabbard of the Calamity Sword at his waist was shattered to pieces, and the Calamity Sword fell into the water. The Heavenly Emperor's body stood upon the God-Slaying Platform. With one stroke it smashed the two God-Slaying Mystic Sabers to fragments, and the Great Emperor's primordial spirit once again frantically tried to control the Heavenly Emperor's body.
But no matter how many times it tried, it was always the same: half its spirit without, half within—it could never completely take command of the Heavenly Emperor's body.
Shen Mu came killing once more, laughing: "Great Emperor, when I drowned the Heavenly Consort Qiang, I told you that before you died I would give you the chance of a fair battle. Now I have come to redeem that promise!
" The Heavenly Emperor's body roared, raised its foot, and stamped down heavily—the thirty-five-layer God-Slaying Platform was actually shaken until it split open!
Shen Mu's eye twitched.
He knew all too well how terrifying the power of the God-Slaying Platform was. Kaihuang of the thirty-five-layer Dao Realm could not harm this platform in the slightest, because the platform was condensed from the Great Dao of the Ancestral Court—a natural Dao object.
Only after Kaihuang achieved the Dao would it be possible for him to break open this platform. The power of this Heavenly Emperor's body was truly too dreadful.
Even though the Great Emperor could only control half the body, its might could likely kill a Heavenly Lord! But what was strange was that neither Heavenly Lord Xiao nor Heavenly Lord Hao, nor even Kaihuang, had made the slightest move! Up to this very moment none of them had appeared, none had acted—it was more than a little eerie!
A cold light flashed in Shen Mu's eyes.
Holding Lord Ling's hand, he rushed at the Great Emperor with all speed. The Great Emperor stamped again.
The God-Slaying Platform gave out crack after crack, almost snapping apart. The blood-qi within the Heavenly Emperor's body seethed, growing ever more exuberant, and swept away the baleful aura of the God-Slaying Platform.
Compared with the blood-qi stored within the Heavenly Emperor's body, the blood-qi of the platform counted for nothing! This blood-qi was so formidable that it not only scattered the God-Slaying Platform's baleful aura, but actually evaporated the Celestial River itself, laying bare the towering mountains and rivers all around!
It was a landscape of utter ruin—as if it had suffered doomsday catastrophe after doomsday catastrophe. Gazing far into the distance, one saw no sign of human habitation for ten thousand li.
Yellow sand and vast desert stretched everywhere.
Now and then a shattered divine city could be seen standing amid the sands. Gales howled, whipping sand dunes in a mad race across the desert.
When the dunes shifted away, they exposed layer upon layer of white bones buried beneath the desert.
This should have been one of the heavens; for some unknown reason it had turned into a desert, and beneath the whole desert lay bones everywhere—the battlefield of some unknown age.
Even Shen Mu could not tell what age it was. When he broke Lord Ling's Unchanging divine ability, by rights he should have returned to the time before Lord Ling was ambushed and slain; but Lord Ling had already passed through cycle after cycle of reincarnation within the Unchanging divine ability.