Chapter 1594 — Walking Into a Dead End
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The other Heavenly Venerables each frowned; none of them was confident he could refine Shen Mu to death.
Shen Mu had always been slippery, impossible to pin down. In his youth it had been another matter—back then no one paid him any mind—but after the Jingping Calamity, Shen Mu had walked into the Heavenly Court of his own accord, and everywhere he went he stirred up wind and waves, leaving a trail of foul air behind him, yet never once giving anyone a handle to grasp. At the time, any one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables could have easily disposed of him, but it happened that the Ten were locked in bitter infighting, each coveting the title of sole sovereign of the Heavenly Court, and so not one of them was willing to strike and give his rivals an opening.
Now the situation had become clear. Of the eleven Heavenly Venerables, Hong Tianzun and Qiang Tianfei were dead, Shi Qiluo and Yan Tianfei had gone mad, and the survivors had split into two great factions.
Hao Tianzun's faction held the advantage in both power and strength, while Xiao Tianzun was left a lone man, unable to withstand the surging tide of Hao Tianzun's ascendancy. But Shen Mu, too, had changed—from a weakling into a powerhouse—and he had begun to challenge them to their faces. Apart from Hao Tianzun, there was hardly a Heavenly Venerable who could capture Shen Mu; indeed, there were faint signs that Shen Mu's strength now stood on a level with their own. And now, having finally taken Shen Mu, they found that refining him to death was a problem in itself.
"Let me try," Xu Tianzun said with a frown.
"I possess the demonic Dao; I am skilled at eroding the Dao heart and cultivation, at corroding a man's vital essence. But whether it will work, I cannot say.
The thief Mu was once the Divine Son of Youdu, and he knows the Great Dao of Youdu extremely well.
" "Fellow Daoist Xu, by all means make the attempt!
" "We can only try and see! " the others said one after another. Xu Tianzun set to work at once, using the purest demonic Dao of Youdu to erode Shen Mu.
Two or three days later, Xu Tianzun's face was ashen; she felt her vital essence draining away far too fast, more than she could afford to spend, and she cried out in dismay, "What a villain!
He is using the chance to devour my cultivation!
" Everyone's expression changed, and they all looked toward the Wheel of Myriad Daos. Within the wheel, Shen Mu was rising slowly, spinning as he rose, like a Tubo. Xu Tianzun gave an angry shout, plucked the horn from her head, and made to drive it into him.
Shen Mu sneered. Xu Tianzun did not dare thrust it in after all: this was the only horn she had left.
Kaihuang Shen Ye had cut it off, and she had gone to great pains to recover it and refine it into a treasure.
If she failed to kill Shen Mu and he snatched it away, she feared she would never get it back. Hao Tianzun reached out and pressed down, pressing Shen Mu back into the Wheel of Myriad Daos, lest he escape.
Langxuan Divine Emperor said, "I have a Dao Fruit.
It can transform Shen Mu, turn him into Taichu Qi!
" "With the Divine Emperor taking action, it is as good as done!
" the others said hurriedly.
Langxuan Divine Emperor activated the Dao Fruit. That fruit, which had been shriveled and dry, now grew round and full, and the Dao might within it grew stronger and stronger.
Shen Mu's face surfaced from the wheel, and at the sight of that Dao Fruit, a flicker of alarm crossed his features.
Seeing this, Langxuan Divine Emperor's confidence swelled.
He urged the Dao Fruit on, raising its power to its utmost limit. The Dao Fruit hung above the wheel; Dao light burst from it, and ray after ray shot into the Wheel of Myriad Daos!