Chapter 1635 — The Venerable One Perishes
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Boom! The center of the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel burst apart with a roar, and a violet light came surging vast and mighty, rushing straight at him with heaven-overturning power, reducing everything it touched to powder!
The Hongmeng Finger! Hao Tianzun flung himself backward, twisting aside to evade the blow; yet Shen Mu's finger was no longer the Hongmeng Finger of old.
The Hongmeng Finger of old had been a simple finger, with no variation in its power.
The Hongmeng Finger of this day was what Ling Tianzun had made it by passing on to Shen Mu all she had comprehended in forty thousand years, and Shen Mu had fathomed countless transformations from the Dao patterns of the Miluo Palace, so that it was not only mightier but past all prediction.
As Hao Tianzun dodged, he saw that the finger had become a violet sword, slashing at his waist to cut him in two! He bent back, face to the sky; the violet sword swept over his upper body, sliced open his garments, and then halted.
Cold sweat sprang out on Hao Tianzun's brow. His feet moved, and he shot backward skimming along the ground; the violet sword came down between his legs, and then the violet light chased straight after him!
Just then a Yutianzun divine artifact was brought into being by creation, and Hao Tianzun at once took command of the Yutianzun artifact and drove it straight at the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel. Within the wheel, Shen Mu struggled against its strangling force and raised his cultivation to its utmost; beneath his magic power and divine arts, Hao Tianzun's thirty-five heavenly palaces had nearly ceased to turn.
He strove with all his strength to force his way out, but the Yutianzun artifact had already charged up before him.
The Yutianzun artifact bellowed, both hands coming down left and right to smash his skull!
It looked as though the Yutianzun artifact would shatter his head to fragments when suddenly Lingyu Shangzun, controlling Langxuan Divine Emperor's primordial spirit, slammed into the Yutianzun artifact, sending the god rolling over and over, unable to steady itself! Hao Tianzun had just made the Yutianzun artifact climb to its feet when Lingyu Shangzun brought Langxuan's primordial spirit before him once more, both hands joined together, shooting toward him. Hao Tianzun raised a hand to block, but it was too late; with a swish, the two hands of Langxuan's primordial spirit pierced into the Yutianzun artifact's brow.
Within the artifact's body Hao Tianzun's divine consciousness erupted and held Langxuan's primordial spirit at bay; the Yutianzun's hands shot out, seized the primordial spirit by the legs, and strained to tear it free. Within Langxuan's primordial spirit the Dao fruit spun and consciousness erupted.
Langxuan's consciousness was far mightier than Hao Tianzun's, so that he could be called the first man beneath Langwo. Langxuan was already dead, yet Lingyu Shangzun, having seized his body, wielded and commanded his consciousness with a mastery even beyond Langxuan's own!
In his former life he had taken possession of Taichu, one of the Five Primes of the Sixteenth Universe; handling Langxuan's consciousness came to him as easily as a hand to its glove. When the shock of that consciousness passed, Hao Tianzun's consciousness within the Yutianzun artifact was utterly erased, leaving no trace behind!
Lingyu Shangzun promptly occupied the fleshly body of the Yutianzun artifact and let out a long breath, limitless joy in his heart. He had at last crossed the great tribulation of destruction and gained firm footing in the universe of the future!
On the other side, Hao Tianzun's body tumbled and flew, dodging the might of that finger and unleashing art after art to wear down the Hongmeng Finger's power layer by layer, and he shouted fiercely: "Mu Tianzun, by letting a prehistoric Dao-achiever descend alive into this universe, you have incurred guilt before Heaven!