Chapter 800 — Runaway Magnetic Surge

Both were rare paragons among the Phoenix clan, Feng Qiuyun's cultivation already at the peak of the Lingxiao realm, while Qi Xiayu had long been of the Imperial Throne realm, and knowing she might not be Qi Xiayu's match, she had carried off the Yuanjun Kunyuan Sword.

Cold sweat broke on Shen Mu's brow as he muttered: "The Earth Mother told you to guard me. .

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" Rolling waves of magnetism swept in, a strange force that warped the earth and warped space, making the mountains heave up and down like waves, twisting without rest.

Shen Mu swiftly drove the Mysterious Body Three Elixir Art to shield himself, while many gods, devils, and demigods caught up and fled in all directions, and from time to time someone was hit by stray magnetic light and in the blink of an eye was shrunk by magnetic power in midair into a ball of flesh, then burst with a crack into blood mist.

Shen Mu faced rearward, watching the magnetic light behind in alarm and guiding the Dragon Qilin to dodge.

Just then, from the heart of the two Earth Mother Yuanjuns' battle came an incomparably dreadful ripple, the ground shaking like a cloth being snapped and the mountains rising and falling.

At the center, magnetic divine light spread swiftly outward like an swelling sphere, and where it passed, peak after peak looked like raised pictures pasted upon the sphere. That terrible sphere of magnetic light expanded at a fearful speed and rushed toward them, many times faster than the Dragon Qilin could fly!

Shen Mu's heart turned cold: "No dodging it.

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. a dead Earth Mother, plus a new Earth Mother born of the crippled Earth Mother's flesh, can they be this dreadful?

Brother, lend me your power!

" He suddenly tore off the willow leaf and roared, his body swelling unceasingly as rolling Youdu divine power surged in and obscure Youdu divine speech rang about his body, eerie and unfathomable.

Not far off, the Ancestor Dragon King and the others, sheltering a band of demigods in flight to this place and seeing escape was hopeless, shouted: "Join hands to resist!

" The auras of the company crashed together as each displayed divine arts, the Ancestor Dragon King turning into an old dragon of matchlessly vast flesh, coiling his dragon body round his kin and spitting forth a Black Water Dragon Pearl that blasted toward the oncoming magnetic light, crying: "Strike this one point together and blast a great hole in this art and we may yet live, or else all shall die without burial!

" The other strong ones each used their means, and great arts followed hard upon the Black Water Dragon Pearl to blast there.

Shen Mu leapt up to stand before the Dragon Qilin and the others, his six arms flying like countless arms that at last merged into a single punch! The sphere formed of magnetic light, bearing ponderously heavy mountains, met their arts, the sphere seemed to halt for the briefest instant, then swallowed them.

In Shen Mu's ears came a roar like the sundering of heaven and earth as he was lifted by boundless force and hurled backward.

He had after all three heads and six arms, and at once reached out, seizing the Dragon Qilin with one hand and the Water Qilin with another, his remaining arms snatching up Yu Tianzun and Gongsun Yan as the aftershock of the two Earth Mothers' arts sent him flying.

At last the shock subsided and the warped mountains and land settled into stillness, Shen Mu arched his body, pinned beneath a great mountain, and crawled out from under it. Gongsun Yan, Yu Tianzun, and the others walked trembling out from beneath him, Shen Mu dispersed his three heads and six arms, shrank his body, and looked about with lingering fear. As far as the eye could see, the mountains lay toppled askew like a forest ravaged by tempest.

As for the Ancestor Dragon King and the others who had joined them in resisting the aftershock in the panic, none knew where they had been flung.

Those demigods were the progenitors of the demigod clans, their strength extremely formidable, no weaker than Feng Qiuyun and the rest, and surely the aftershock would not have finished them.

"Wicked little brother, borrowing my power cost me dear.

" Within the Shen-Character Continent, Shen Fengqing's breath was wilted and faint, and he said in some anger: "I must eat some ghost gods to restore my strength!

" Shen Mu had borrowed his power to collide with the aftershock of the two Earth Mothers, and that aftershock was too strong for even the little tyrant of Youdu to bear.

Shen Mu hastily pasted on the willow leaf, checked himself and the company, and breathed out, saying: "Only skin wounds, nothing grave.

" Gongsun Yan said in haste: "Let us hurry back to find the Earth Mother!

That false Earth Mother is too strong, who knows if the Earth Mother will be all right.

" Shen Mu shook his head and said: "We cannot go back, the underground palace must be buried deep in the Primordial World, and even if it was not destroyed, we could not find where it lies. Now we can only wait for the Earth Mother to come find us.

This is no place to linger, we must leave quickly.

Fat Dragon, can you still walk?

" The Dragon Qilin roused his spirits and was about to speak when he suddenly lifted his head to stare at a mountain thrust slantwise from the earth ahead, saying nothing.

Shen Mu followed his gaze to see upon that tilted peak a girl sitting with her arms about her knees, smiling toward them, the disciple of the other Earth Mother Yuanjun.

Her dress was bright and fresh without a trace of distress, unlike Shen Mu's dusty company, as if the aftershock of the magnetic arts had no effect on her at all.

Shen Mu showed a smile and said leisurely: "Senior sister, we are both disciples of the Earth Mother, yet I still do not know how to address you. " The girl rose to her feet and smiled: "Fellow disciples of the Earth Mother, yet I have long heard of Cult Master Shen, and I came forth this time to meet you and see what you are capable of.

" Shen Mu laughed heartily, his right arm sweeping flat with fingers spread, his sword pellet whistling up to fall into his hand and turn into a flying sword: "Please, I too would see the skill of the long-inherited Heaven Alliance.

" "Heaven Alliance? " The girl burst out laughing: "Cult Master Shen mistakes me, my name is Yan Qiling, and I am not from the Heaven Alliance that breeds rebels and traitors.

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