Chapter 1599 — The Art of the Turning Wheel
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Gong Tianzun's heart jumped; she hurriedly halted. But she saw the two auras of Her Highness the Empress twining about and attacking each other — it turned out that Lady Yuanmu and Her Highness the Empress were simultaneously driving the Way of Reincarnation, each trying to use it to refine the other!
Gong Tianzun sighed in relief, only to see that Shen Mu had already gone far. She dashed toward him at once and, without another word, burst out her divine sense and attacked him!
Shen Mu flew into a rage. He stopped reciting, defended with all his might, and said in a low voice: "Gong Yun, you are looking for death! If you alarm her, none of us will get away!"
Gong Tianzun attacked him in frenzy, and said coldly, "The Hao Tianzun gave me the task of filling the Sea Eye. If I let you escape, I am a dead woman all the same! Today, no matter what, you must be stuffed into the Great Abyss of Guixu!"
Her divine sense was formidable, her divine-sense attacks swift beyond compare. Though Shen Mu's attainment in divine sense was also extremely high, he was still a shade or two beneath hers, and he was forced to defend; if her divine-sense art bored into his body, it might not kill him, but it would bring him enormous trouble.
Shen Mu repelled her onslaught and, with fierce resolve, drew his sword. The Tribulation Sword, once drawn, was at the thirtieth heaven of the Sword Dao — the Breaking of Tribulation!
Sword light flashed as it swept across Gong Tianzun's throat, and a line of blood appeared.
Gong Tianzun turned aside, evading the blow. Her body spun, the long whip flew out, and with a swish it coiled around him.
Shen Mu rode the momentum into her presence. A grand martial divine power burst out; he unleashed the peerless Crimson Bright Divine Body and hurled a fist at her.
Gong Tianzun raised her hand to parry. Behind her head, heavenly palace after heavenly palace emerged, forming the Grand Heavenly Court, elevating her primordial qi against his martial divine power and bearing him down with dharma force!
The instant they touched, their bodies shuddered violently, and both tumbled backward.
Boom!
In the Great Abyss, a column of light shot up to the heavens. The Guixu tide burst forth, grazing their bodies, and in a flash both were drenched in streaming blood.
In the Great Abyss, the twin lotuses on a single stem rose slowly within the tide of light, gorgeous beyond words.
Above Gong Tianzun's head, the heavenly palace transformed into a war horn and stood erect; with a blare, her blood qi surged, and she shook the whip into a spear and stabbed at him. Shen Mu joined his hands into a Taiji diagram; the spear drove into the diagram, and Gong Tianzun pressed against him, shoving him into the tide of light of Guixu!
Shen Mu retreated at lightning speed, and in the next instant landed on the twin lotus blossom, where no tide could assail him.
Gong Tianzun frowned and halted.
Across the tide of light, Shen Mu looked at her, then suddenly smiled: "Gong Yun, the Empress is right behind you."
Gong Tianzun shuddered with fear. She sprang up at once, hurtling with a whistle toward the twin lotuses.
Forcing her way through the tide of light, she was instantly covered with wounds. She turned back hastily to look, and saw Her Highness the Empress still standing where she had been, babbling and mumbling to herself — she had not been behind her at all!
"A trick!"
The thought had barely crossed her mind when a beam of sword light pierced through her chest and out of her back, checking her momentum!
Shen Mu had scored with his stroke; he changed his move at once, meaning to drive her completely into Guixu. But with a sudden swish, a long whip swept in and locked around Shen Mu. Shen Mu anchored both feet and held his ground; in the next instant, Gong Tianzun was already within the lotus.