Chapter 1676 — The Seventh and the Third
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Shen Mu let his gaze sweep one by one over the Chaohui Hall, Lingxu Hall, Baoguang Hall, Tongming Hall, and other Treasure Halls, and said unhurriedly: "In their hearts, you and Emperor Haotian are still not their own. They never imparted to you the true Yujing Enlightenment. If it were the true art of attainment, you would not cultivate a Lingxiao Hall or a Zixiao Hall, but cultivate your own Treasure Hall, cultivate your own imperial seat, and attain your own Dao.
" Taichu's heart turned cold, and he said nothing.
Just as Shen Mu said, the great Dao of these twenty-four prehistoric Enlightened Ones had in the end each become its own Treasure Hall, and not a Lingxiao attainment or a Zixiao attainment.
It was plain that the Lingxiao attainment and Zixiao attainment he and Emperor Haotian walked were a trap!
Shen Mu was not wrong in the least: he and Emperor Haotian were but pawns of the Third and Fourth Young Masters, not those the Third and Fourth Young Masters counted as their own. "But matters have come to this, and there is no road back.
" Taichu said silently to himself. Suddenly the twenty-four prehistoric Enlightened Ones moved as one, assailing Shen Mu from all sides! For the first time the divine arts of the prehistoric great Dao appeared in this universe. In their own eras these existences had each been a heaven-soaring genius standing upon the summit.
Though their divine arts differed from those of this universe, their might yielded nothing!
Nay, tempered a thousand times, as followers of the Lord of Miluo Palace, in finesse and in application they surpassed the present Heaven Court by countlessfold!
One of them had plainly walked the path of attaining the Dao through strength, cultivating the flesh, primordial spirit and flesh knit as one, his bodily power rare in all the world.
His moves resembled the martial path, vast and sweeping, like a giant sundering heaven and earth, tearing sun and moon with his hands, joining heaven and earth in his palms!
Another walked the path of innate holy fire, his flames refined into a wind of thermal extinction surpassing Venerable Fire, his art warping space, and with one strike his raging flames melted all things!
Yet another walked the path of the Heavenly Dao, his cultivation comparable to the Ancestral God King, yet his arts more exquisite and wondrous than the Ancestral God King's!
One prehistoric Enlightened One after another erupted in concert, slaying toward Shen Mu! Taichu fell back a step, suppressing the wound between his brows, waiting for his moment.
His wounds were heavy. His flesh could be called the mightiest flesh in the world today.
With this flesh Tai Di could sweep all before him undefeated, until at last, ambushed by Venerable Ling, he perished in Dao and body.
Yet by this day Shen Mu had grown to the point where he could batter this undefeated flesh.
In their clash just now, he had nearly been slain by Shen Mu! He had hurt not only flesh but primordial spirit, for Shen Mu's Calamity-Breaking Sword was skilled at wrecking the great Dao, and that thrust into his brow had left a grave Dao wound.
In the instant his foot fell back, Shen Mu's domain erupted, howling and spinning, crashing against his Yiqi Daluo Heaven!
Taichu lost his footing and fell back another step, his Yiqi Daluo Heaven sent spinning and flying backward by the impact.
A domain cultivated to the utmost, branded upon ultimate void, is a Daluo Heaven: Tai Di's Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven, Kaihuang's Sword Dao Daluo Heaven, are both domains.
And now Shen Mu's Shenzang domain clashed with Taichu's Yiqi Daluo Heaven and yielded nothing, filling him with astonished dismay. "His growth is too swift.
At but the thirty-second heaven of the Dao Realm he does this.
Fortunately he has not cultivated a Dao tree. .
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" Taichu had just thought this when suddenly behind Shen Mu a World Tree rose from the earth, suffused with the Dao resonance unique to Enlightened Ones!