Chapter 1174 — Tearing It Apart to My Heart's Content

He pressed forward against the falling chaos stones, and at the same time controlled the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner, the heavens shifting without cease to displace outward any chaos stone that had smashed through one heaven after another. His strides were swift. He rushed into the mine shaft and raced upward along the path he had come.

Just then, the road ahead suddenly collapsed. With a thunderous roar, the mine cavern caved in, burying the path. The collapsing road surged ever toward him. Shen Mu's scalp went numb. Planting the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner with his hand, he bellowed, "Treasure, unleash your full might!"

Scarcely had the words left his mouth when the mine cavern where he stood came crashing down! Countless chaos stones pressed upon the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner, squeezing the Twenty-Eight Heavens ever smaller. Shen Mu too was crushed until his bones crackled and popped. Across the surface of his flesh, his skin burst open again and again; beneath the skin, vein after blue vein bulged and split the flesh. The various runes branded in primal qi upon his skin burst apart and were annihilated, one after another.

Shen Mu's eyes were blood-red. His voice hoarse, he said, "You are an ancient god of this same mine vein - can you not even withstand the mountains where this ancient god was born?"

As his words fell, the celestial sphere of the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner suddenly blazed with light. The Twenty-Eight Heavens spun madly. Long Qilin and Yan'er, within those heavens, felt themselves flung up and down, left and right, unable to tell direction, shaken until they were utterly dazed and reeling! The great stones crashing down in the mine cavern were hurled aside, and a path appeared.

Shen Mu seized the moment. Leaning on the Lapis Azure-Sky Banner, he charged outward along the path.