Chapter 503 — The Cult Master Who Slays the Heart and Seizes Life
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In the Mirror of Three Lives, the receding tide of time grew ever more ancient, until at last another world began to surface—the god Kui Wushen, with countless gods and demons at his side, had received the command to descend into the lower realms and make war upon the Kaihuang Heavenly Court!
Even King Yama could not help but be stirred; he rose to his feet and gazed into the Mirror of Three Lives.
Within the mirror, Kui Wushen's memories shifted into Kui Wushen's own field of vision. He wished to see—who, in those distant years, had given the order to destroy the Kaihuang Heavenly Court!
Kui Wushen's vision was vast, and it mirrored the immense, boundless expanse of the so-called True Heavenly Court, where countless gods and demons swore their oaths and arrayed themselves for battle, bent on wiping the Kaihuang Heavenly Court from existence.
The sight stirred the heart—and filled it with dread at once!
Even a being such as Kui Wushen was, in this so-called True Heavenly Court, no more than an utterly inconspicuous common soldier among countless gods and demons!
The vision in the mirror slowly rose, looking up toward those true gods enthroned on high; their towering bodies were vast beyond measure, and the lesser gods thronged about them and beneath their feet like stars.
The Kui Wushen in the mirror was gazing toward the leader of this oath-taking host—the Heavenly Emperor of the so-called Heavenly Court.
King Yama could not suppress his agitation. Just as that incomparably towering being's face was about to enter Kui Wushen's view, the scene in the mirror warped madly out of shape!
That passage of Kui Wushen's memory suddenly went blank, erased by some nameless power!
Startled, King Yama reached out and pressed his hand to the mirror's face.
"Tracing Light Art!"
The image on the mirror steadied for an instant; but the next moment a huge eye appeared upon its surface—an eye that seemed able to devour all light, making Kui Wushen's memories be deleted without cease.
King Yama roared. His long dark cloak whirled up, and from beneath it a blade of sword-light flew out and cut into the mirror.
Inside the Mirror of Three Lives, the image was restored. The scene upon the mirror resumed its rewinding, drawing up ever earlier passages of Kui Wushen's life. Yet all of Kui Wushen's memories concerning the so-called True Heavenly Court had been utterly erased, as though they had never been!
King Yama put away his sword; the sword-light slipped back into his cloak and vanished.
"There is a supremely powerful being who sensed that we were peering at him through Kui Wushen's memories, and so he deleted Kui Wushen's memories of him."
His voice rang hard and resonant. In a low tone he said, "The moment Kui Wushen recalls him, he will be sensed. His dharma power surges through time and space, through consciousness itself—truly terrifying beyond compare!"
Within the Hall of the Shen King, the assembled Ghost Kings all shuddered. To recall that man was to be sensed by him, and to have your memory simply wiped away?
Such a divine power was nothing short of inconceivable!
Shen Mu too was astonished beyond measure. That the Mirror of Three Lives could reflect the memories of a man's whole life was already a tale out of fantasy, beyond all belief; and this power—by which one sensed another's prying and erased his memory—was even more dreadful, dreadful past all imagining!
"They were taking the chance to spy upon that True Heavenly Court. Does that mean the one who erased that passage of Kui Wushen's memory is the Heavenly Emperor of the True Heavenly Court?" he speculated inwardly.
The Mirror of Three Lives brought up what remained of Kui Wushen's memories—his journey to Youdu to study arts and divine powers. The Ghost Kings crowded forward one after another to look closely; some held brush and ink, recording the divine powers and arts Kui Wushen had seen and learned in Youdu.