Chapter 880 — The Everlasting Undying Body

Suddenly "Heaven Venerable" soared aloft like a startled swan, narrowly avoiding a black, sunken portal. As he avoided this Heaven-Bearing Gate, a sword light stabbed out from within it; a figure stood in the gate, beaten past all recognition, none other than Shen Mu, driving a sword into his brow.

"Heaven Venerable" swept his hand to cut the sword, and with his bare palm severed that divine sword clean through.

The two vanished once more.

When the two appeared again, Shen Mu was fleeing, dodging the dreadful power behind him, panic on his face.

Yet suddenly countless starlights appeared ahead, starlight woven like chains; caught off guard, Shen Mu ran through the net of woven stars and shattered into several hundred pieces, his head tumbling off as well. "The Overlord Body has lost!

" The three hundred-odd Lords of the Heavens all breathed a sigh of relief.

Smiles broke out: "The pact of the Little Earth Lord can be dissolved as well.

" Just then, they saw the several hundred pieces of Shen Mu each sprout arms and legs and go running madly about, and even gather back together as they ran into a whole Shen Mu. The gods and demons of the Northern Heavens stared blankly at this scene, somewhat at a loss.

"An undying body? " The enormous demon eye behind the Great Black Palace started.

"Was it not lost when the Crimson Emperor vanished?

How could anyone still cultivate to the Crimson Emperor's level? " Behind Shen Mu, countless flying swords suddenly burst from the earth, like a mountain and a forest of swords, breaking apart the divine ability that came hunting him.

Shen Mu turned, his six arms raised high, and the sword mountain and sword forest howled up, slashing down as his six arms slashed down!

One of "Heaven Venerable"'s arms was severed; his figure fell back, and the two vanished into the darkness again.

This time they vanished long, no sound, no surge of divine ability.

The Lords of the Heavens around the Great Black Palace gathered their sight one and all; beam after beam of light broke the darkness as they searched everywhere; but the darkness of the Great Black Palace shrouded ten thousand li in every direction, and mighty as their sight was, for a time they could not find the two. "Where have they fought to?

" At that moment thunder suddenly exploded among the gods, countless bolts lighting the surroundings bright as snow; Shen Mu fell from the air with an arm lodged in his chest, and before he reached the ground a Heaven-Bearing Gate appeared and swallowed him in.

The Heaven-Bearing Gate vanished; the ground was empty.

A sword light flashed in the distance; a Heaven-Bearing Gate appeared, and within it two white skeletons were fighting until heaven and earth went dark. One skeleton had an arm thrust through its chest, while the other had lost an arm.

That towering Heaven-Bearing Gate drifted to and fro in the air, holding every gaze; within the gate, the two skeletons still fought for dear life.

"Are those two bent on dragging each other down to death?

" Suddenly that Heaven-Bearing Gate came crashing down and stood upright before the Great Black Palace; the gate slammed shut, and from within came a clatter of ding and dong, the two skeletons still battering each other. All around was silence; no one dared even draw breath, waiting quietly.

A long while passed, and the sounds suddenly ceased.

They waited on; a moment later the gate creaked and groaned and opened by degrees.

Suddenly blood gushed forth, pouring from the gate like a flood, the gore carrying bits of shattered bone.

Startled, they waited a while longer.

Then from the gate a white skeleton came out leaning upon the door, and fell with a thud into the pool of blood, flesh and blood slowly growing over it. "The Jingping Overlord Body truly lives up to its name!

The mightiest colossus of the Heavenly Court could not overcome you at the same realm.

" Great Black Heaven suddenly laughed aloud and clapped his hands. "You have won; it is I who lost.

The three hundred and sixteen Lords of the Heavens are yours to deal with as you please, but my Northern Heavens, do not even think of laying a finger on!

Lords of the Heavens, take your master and leave my domain!

" The three hundred-odd Lords of the Heavens did not stir; their gazes each fell upon Shen Mu, lying in the blood as flesh and blood grew.

"Now that he is dead, what need to fret over the pact of the Little Earth Lord?

" one demon god murmured.

Suddenly, god and demon after god and demon moved as one, charging at Shen Mu in the pool of blood! Great Black Heaven closed his eyes and murmured, "Why are there so many fools under my command?

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