Chapter 1594 — Walking Into a Dead End
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Langxuan Divine Emperor urged it on again and again, but its might only fell further, and at last he had to step back, his face crimson with shame. "This treasure has not yet recovered. My skills go no further.
I am deeply ashamed. " Hao Tianzun was also relieved. Had Langxuan Divine Emperor truly refined Shen Mu to death with the Dao Fruit, then he would have had no choice but to move against Langxuan as well.
Gong Tianzun stepped forward. "I have a supreme secret realm of divine consciousness.
It can throw his Dao heart into disorder, draw him into the secret realm, make him lose himself and lose his cultivation—and he will simply die of it. " Hao Tianzun said with delight, "Fellow Daoist Gong, by all means make the attempt! " Gong Tianzun's divine consciousness erupted, transforming into layer upon layer of secret realms that poured into the Wheel of Myriad Daos.
Illusion after illusion unfolded, drawing Shen Mu within.
A long while later, Gong Tianzun's expression shifted slightly. She felt that Shen Mu's divine consciousness matched her illusory realms in attack and defense, and that her illusion arts could gain no advantage!
In the attainment of divine consciousness, Shen Mu had advanced by leaps and bounds, and was very nearly catching up to her! What was more, his methods were wondrous beyond compare, surpassing even the Grand Emperor's!
She did not know that this was the Dao-completing method Yun Tianzun had perfected after obtaining the Grand Emperor's Dao arts and divine powers, and passed on to Shen Mu—naturally far surpassing the Grand Emperor's own arts of divine consciousness!
Gong Tianzun held out another two days, but could not touch Shen Mu in the least; instead she had raised his divine consciousness by a whole grade.
Ashamed at heart, she too stepped back. Hao Tianzun looked around the assembly, and the many Heavenly Venerables had all run out of ideas.
The Seven Lords, the Four Ministers, the Three Preceptors, the Two Aides, and the Five Emperor Seats and Five Inner Emperor Seats—the whole host of the Heavenly Court's civil and military grandees—came forward one after another, bowing low: "We are willing to serve with the toil of horse and hound, and refine the Mu barbarian! " Hao Tianzun said warmly, "You are all Emperor Seat powerhouses, your Dao arts and divine powers surpassing others; perhaps one of you has the means.
" The Seven Lords, the Four Ministers, and the other powerhouses came forward.
They were the backbone of the Heavenly Court; over a million years the Heavenly Court had gathered the finest talents under heaven, and Emperor Seat powerhouses were not few. Power and position were granted them, and they were bound to the court. These twenty-six Emperor Seat powerhouses sat cross-legged on the ground around the Wheel of Myriad Daos, each sending his primordial spirit out of his body to stand in the heavenly palace, urging their Dao arts and divine powers into the wheel.
More than a month passed. The crowd was worn out and could not continue, yet Shen Mu remained as lively as a dragon in the Wheel of Myriad Daos.
Hao Tianzun frowned deeply. Gong Tianzun said, "Only if Yin Tianzi takes action can the thief Mu be destroyed. " The Ancestral God King clapped his hands and laughed.
"Yin Tianzi's peerless art of reincarnation is the very nemesis of the thief Mu! And now that we Ten Heavenly Venerables have lost several, perhaps Yin Tianzi might become Yin Tianzun!
" Huo Tianzun opposed it flatly, snorting coldly, "Yin Tianzi—what virtue, what ability has he? How could he sit in the same hall as us?
" "If he can rid us of the thief Mu, what harm is there in his sitting in the same hall as us?
" Hao Tianzun said carelessly, and sent men to the Origin Realm to summon Yin Tianzi. More than ten days later, Yin Tianzi hurried over from the front lines pursuing the Land of No Sorrow and paid his respects to them all.