Chapter 1650 — The Fall of the Underworld's Heavenly Son
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"Forty-two years from now?"
Shen Fengqing's face lit with anticipation. Though his younger brother Shen Mu always gave people an impression of unreliability, in his heart Shen Mu was the most reliable and dependable person of all—even more dependable than their mother.
If Shen Mu said that forty-two years from now Kaihuang would appear on the Ferry-to-Salvation Golden Ship, then Kaihuang would certainly appear!
"This being who saved Kaihuang truly possesses inconceivable divine powers…"
Shen Mu murmured, "His Daoist arts and divine powers leave even me marveling. That such a powerful being exists in this world! Why did he save Kaihuang? And then there is the Hall of Chaos—that name resembles Lingxiao Hall, Zixiao Hall, Taishang Hall, and the like. Could he too be a Young Master of Miluo Palace? If so, he should be a Young Master worth befriending…"
His gaze fell upon the battle in the Southern Heaven, and he cast aside all distracting thoughts.
Below, the Yin Heavenly Son suddenly unleashed his arts and bowed his head to the Fire Heavenly Venerable!
That was the Youdu divine art in which the Yin Heavenly Son excelled—one that bow-killed the souls of others. A single bow from him, and even those of higher cultivation would have their souls shattered into four or five pieces, transforming into soul black sand!
The Fire Heavenly Venerable remained standing there, steady as a mountain, and received the Yin Heavenly Son's bow.
In the instant the Yin Heavenly Son bent in his bow, he suddenly sensed something wrong—within his soul, a Dao fire was blazing fiercely!
This fire had come along his own divine art, directly igniting his soul with extreme speed!
The Yin Heavenly Son hastily activated his divine arts to resist the Dao fire, but it was already too late.
He could only throw himself into the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital, relying on its power to reincarnate and extinguish the Dao fire through reincarnation.
In the instant he flew out from the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital, he had already transformed from a man into a woman—yet the Fire Heavenly Venerable's Dao fire continued to burn along the reincarnation, still scorching his soul!
Alarmed, the Yin Heavenly Son hastily reincarnated once more.
His Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital was better called the Heavenly Gate of Reincarnation—each passage through this gate meant one reincarnation. This was the same principle by which he had schemed against the South Emperor's reincarnation, Bai Yuqiong: each time Bai Yuqiong died, she passed through the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital and reincarnated as another person.
Of course, the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital had more uses than just these.
When the Yin Heavenly Son himself passed through the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital, his cultivation and strength remained after reincarnation. For anyone else, passing through the gate would often mean reincarnating as a beast, losing all cultivation, and becoming helpless to be slaughtered at will.
The Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital also had the wondrous effect of shielding from cause and effect—this was why the Yin Heavenly Son had relied on the gate to evade the Dao fruit that the Fire Heavenly Venerable sent burning toward his soul. Yet he had never imagined that the Fire Heavenly Venerable's Dao fire would invade reincarnation itself, so that even his reincarnations could not escape!
He had originally believed the Fire Heavenly Venerable's soul to be weak, his Dao arts unable to reach the soul, which was why he had rashly bowed in an attempt to bow-kill the Fire Heavenly Venerable.
But the Fire Heavenly Venerable had not died—instead, he himself had incurred a Dao fire that invaded his soul and could not be shaken off.