Chapter 987 — As If the Gods Lend Aid

I still have to go back.

. . " Divine King Langwan gave a few instructions, and before long each clan had selected nine adult Creators of mighty physique.

"What the Holy Infant is to visualize is the holy relic of the Xiu clan.

" Divine King Langwan looked to Xiuzhong. He hesitated a moment, then lightly raised his hand, and a treasure drifted slowly upward — a pearl, which came to hover before Shen Mu.

Xiuzhong said, "Holy Infant, look carefully.

" His divine consciousness erupted and drove the pearl, and at once the pearl swelled and expanded, in an instant transforming into a world of the myriad heavens suspended above the altar!

In that round heaven-world the land was inlaid upon the pearl's inner wall, and a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers seemed carved of fine jade; the forms of the mountains and the courses of the rivers wove runes of every kind, countless peaks rising and falling, the detail of their construction beyond measure complex! And the flow of the rivers, the mountain streams and waterfalls, likewise formed differing runic structures, the interconnections among the various runes exceedingly intricate!

Most crucial of all, at the pearl's center stood a divine city, built in the manner of the Jade Capital City of the Heavenly Palace, and within it were gods and devils in the form of the Ancient Gods!

Look closely and one would see that within the bodies of these god-devils of Ancient God form were hidden infinite details! Cold sweat broke out on Shujun's brow, and he muttered inwardly, "This wench Divine King Langwan means to do the Holy Infant to death.

. . pah, to do this brat Shen Mu to death.

A visualization this complex — never mind that he cannot manage it, even I would find it a strain; the control of divine consciousness it demands is too fine.

These Creators have utterly cast tradition aside, to make even a single pearl so complicated. .

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" The vertical eye at the center of Shen Mu's brow opened, and a curtain of light shot forth from the holy pupil, like an incomparably fine harrow, plowing over every corner of the Xiu clan's holy relic — mountain and river alike, and that Jade Capital City too. Shen Mu closed his eyes and sat motionless upon the altar. Below, more than a hundred thousand Creators were silent as the dead, watching him in anxious dread. Suddenly Shen Mu opened his eyes and said, "I am ready.

" Divine King Langwan said, "Nine Creators will attack with their divine consciousness to destroy your visualization. Do not take it lightly.

" Shen Mu nodded.

Divine King Langwan signaled to the nine Creators, and at once their divine consciousness erupted; from the third eye at each brow it came surging, vast and mighty, and though divine consciousness is formless, it stirred up storms and thunder, howling as it rushed toward Shen Mu upon the altar!

In the very first instant the nine Creators' divine consciousness erupted, Shen Mu's own had already come howling forth — yet he did not visualize the pearl, but stirred up all his divine consciousness and charged at the nine Creators!

Boom—!

The area around the altar shook violently as ten overbearing streams of divine consciousness collided. Shen Mu's divine consciousness suddenly transformed into the Great Luo Heaven, crushing the divine consciousness of the nine adult Creators; in a single instant it broke them and forced them back into their brows! "Seal!

" At his low shout the nine Creators' bodies convulsed, and the diamond-shaped vertical eyes at their brows were at once dimmed with dust; he sealed them layer upon layer with his divine consciousness, so that they could not rouse it to break through their brows. Shen Mu sealed the nine in succession, and only then withdrew his divine consciousness and began to visualize the creation.

"This is what a Holy Infant is," Chief Dongming could not help exclaiming in admiration, and he smiled.

"Had he set his mind solely on visualizing the Xiu clan's Jade Capital Pearl, the nine would surely have taken advantage of him, and he might even have been blasted into an idiot by them; but by sealing their divine consciousness, he can visualize at leisure, undisturbed. " The other clan chiefs nodded one after another, and the Silkworm Maiden said, "Now we shall see whether he can visualize the Jade Capital Pearl. " Before their words had faded, a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers seemed to gush forth from the void around Shen Mu — all manner of mountain forms and water courses, of stars above and lands below, nearly identical to the heaven-within-the-pearl of the Jade Capital Pearl, surging into being!

Not only that, the phantom of the Jade Capital City itself appeared as well — its gates and walls, its houses, palaces, and treasure halls, corresponding one to one with the Jade Capital Pearl; and those god-devils in the form of the Ancient Gods were all visualized by Shen Mu as well, their construction so complex and intricate that it surpassed even the Jade Capital Pearl!

"As if the gods lend aid — as if the gods lend aid! " Many Creators exclaimed in wonder, praising him: "More complex than the Jade Capital Pearl, richer in detail!

Truly worthy of the Holy Infant born of the Origin Stone — he has come to guide us!

" Shujun rolled his eyes again and again and thought, "If it were me, I would probably have been blasted into an idiot by now.

. . no, I would not be blasted into an idiot; I have no brains to begin with.

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