Chapter 1763 — Far Journey to the Primal Realm, Heroes Every One
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
The Tai Yi Divine Axe turned, its divine might past all fathoming, carrying the momentum to hew the world itself open!
Shen Mu's eyes shone bright as snow. His three Saint-Pupils saw through every secret of Haotian's divine arts, and in the very instant the Tai Yi Divine Axe came cleaving down, he suddenly stabbed out a finger!
The Finger of Primordial Chaos!
As he loosed that finger, all fifty wounds across his body burst open at once, and blood came pouring out!
The Dao-wounds the Third Young Master had left him, he had studied God knows how many times by entering the Dao in dreams, striving within those dreams to learn the myriad Miluo Palace divine arts and methods hidden in the Dao-wounds, and yet he was still far, far from healing them.
For now he could barely hold the Dao-wounds in check; but the instant his mana stirred, suppression became impossible!
At once the Dao-wounds began to wreck the workings of his flesh and to ruin his Divine Treasury!
An agony that pierced him to the heart swept over him, and yet Shen Mu made no sound and kept the smile on his face. When the Void Heavenly Venerable drove the Dao-Slaying Divine Nail into his wounds, he had writhed in torment; now he did not care at all!
He had to overawe his enemy in spirit!
Boom!
The two divine arts collided. In the instant of collision Shen Mu shifted his stance and changed his move: this time it was no longer the Finger of Primordial Chaos but the Seal of the Five Tai.
The Great Dao of the Five Tai lay in his palm, joined to his five fingers, and those five fingers fell one after another upon the Tai Yi Divine Axe in Haotian's hand. The axe, already pierced through by the Finger of Primordial Chaos, now took the Seal of the Five Tai, and burst apart with a thunderous roar!
Haotian's five fingers ran with blood; the webbing of his hand split open.
But in the same instant that Shen Mu changed his move, Haotian changed his as well: his other hand became the Ten-Thousand-Dao Heaven Wheel and pressed toward Shen Mu's chest, and within that wheel the power of thirty tiers of Dao-realm erupted in full!
He knew Shen Mu's fleshly body bore the gravest wounds, and so he struck at that body.
At the very moment his Ten-Thousand-Dao Heaven Wheel pressed upon Shen Mu's chest, Shen Mu's primordial spirit rose up from behind him, took its seat enthroned within his own Heavenly Court, and drove the Immutable Divine Art.
Bang, bang, bang!
Thirty muffled reports came in succession from within Shen Mu's body; his wounds burst open, and at the same instant the power of the Immutable Divine Art erupted, sealing those torn wounds shut again.
Behind Haotian his own primordial spirit flew out, swung up the Tai Yi Divine Axe wrought from the Way of Tai Su, and brought it down in a single stroke at the World Tree behind Shen Mu.
Shen Mu smiled. Before Haotian's primordial spirit could strike the World Tree, the Great Abyss of Guixu abruptly appeared; a lotus turned, and Haotian's primordial spirit was taken within the lotus.
The lotus sank and vanished into the Great Abyss of Guixu.
The abyss rushed shut, and then a flash of axe-light split it open before it could close entirely. Haotian's primordial spirit fled in wretched haste, its whole body ablaze with raging fire of heat-death that nearly refined it to nothing.
In the instant he fled Guixu, Shen Mu's primordial spirit stabbed out a finger. Haotian's spirit held the axe crosswise to block, and the axe face was pierced through once more by the Finger of Primordial Chaos, leaving two finger-holes.
Two holes there were because the earlier Finger of Primordial Chaos had left them, an indelible scar upon the Way of Tai Su that Haotian cultivated!
Such was Shen Mu's Finger of Primordial Chaos: a finger that pierces the Great Dao!