Chapter 1590 — Only When the Coffin Is Sealed Comes the Verdict
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The primordial runes he had left within the Great Emperor's fleshly body were many, but they could be used only once; once those runes formed the Miluo Palace dao patterns, they would scatter with the eruption of their power. Now Shen Mu would have liked to strike again, but the will was there and the strength was not.
Seeing the look on his face, Xiao Tianzun abruptly let out a breath of relief, and thought, "So it seems that wretch Mu Tianzun tampered with my body only once, and left no other tricks behind.
Had he been able to leave ten or eight such backhands, then even if I recovered my body I would not dare to use it. " His heart grew wary, and he resolved that he must never let his body fall into Shen Mu's hands again. Otherwise, who knew what outlandish contraptions the boy might plant inside him — he could be plotted to death and never even know how he died!
"The most perilous thing in this world is Mu Tianzun's scheming!
" The Great Emperor came killing, heat steaming from the crown of his head — that was where Shen Mu's blow had torn away his skullcap, leaving his brains exposed. The dao wounds left by Kaihuang, Hao Tianzun, and Xiao Tianzun were another matter; given the might of the Great Emperor's fleshly body, those wounds were not grave.
With the qi of Taichu he could assimilate and heal the traces of their dao patterns, and then use the Mystic Art of Creation to repair the damage to the body.
Only the dao wound left by Shen Mu's blow could not be assimilated even by the qi of Taichu.
The wound at his crown was a wound left by the Miluo Palace dao patterns, and those patterns were the crystallized wisdom of the past sixteen universes. They held not only the knowledge of the Dao of Taichu, but also the various great dao divine arts of Taiyi, Taishi, Taisu, Taiji, and the rest. Even Shen Mu, who had spent years trying to unravel the mysteries of the Miluo Palace dao patterns, had gained something from it, yet could not unlock all their secrets.
And it was precisely because the Miluo Palace dao patterns were so formidable that they suppressed the Great Emperor's fleshly body, allowing Xiao Tianzun, Hao Tianzun, and the others to break through its defenses and wound him grievously.
What was more infuriating still: Shen Mu had not merely left him the dao wound of the Miluo Palace patterns — he had also driven the Taiyi Cane into his skull, piercing from the top of his head through his throat and straight down to his belly! The Taiyi Cane was another remarkable supreme treasure, forged by Taiyi from a branch of the World Tree after he cut it down. Taiyi had left the cane to Shen Mu so that Shen Mu would follow the map and save him, but the cane's power was by no means small.
When Taiyi crossed the Long River of Chaos, he had used the cane to beat the prehistorical Dao-achieving beings, among them none other than the Young Masters of the Miluo Palace!
The dao wounds the cane had dealt to the Great Emperor's fleshly body and to the Great Emperor's consciousness would likewise be hard to heal in a short time. Moreover, though the cane had been seized by the Great Emperor, he could not wield it.
In Shen Mu's hands it was a weapon that struck wherever it was pointed; in his hands it was at most an exceedingly hard wooden stick, its power beyond his command. Shen Mu drove the golden ship straight at the Great Emperor, and at the same moment the Great Emperor charged head-on, his killing intent soaring to the heavens, directly unfurling his supreme divine-consciousness domain, threading it through with the qi of Taichu, on guard against the Unchanging Divine Art.
Everyone aboard the ship shouted and bellowed; layer upon layer of domains stacked together, four different domains fusing into one, and collided with a thunderous boom against the supreme divine-consciousness domain!