Chapter 531 — Mystic Mastery of the Battle Array
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"How could the Woodcutter Sage appear here? The altar he used looks as though it was prepared long in advance—could someone from this world have summoned him?"
Shen Mu's mind roared. The altar was buried at the very center of the battlefield; the instant the two armies collided, countless lives and blood would trigger it and call the Woodcutter Sage forth.
This was clearly premeditated!
He recalled what the Reclusive Sage of Qingyou had said—that the Woodcutter Sage had awakened more than a month ago and departed with his great axe. The Woodcutter Sage had evidently received some news, and that was why he had risen from his slumber, preparing to descend into this world through sacrifice.
Shen Mu parried his opponent's strike. Behind him, the Heaven-Bearing Gate abruptly swelled. He spun, and the Gate swept a full circle; in an instant, the many heavenly demons who had charged in died without even a groan, their souls returning straight to the Nether Capital!
Whoosh—
The Tiger God bore the Woodcutter Sage down from the altar and charged straight for the enemy camp. The Tiger God turned its head and looked back at Shen Mu in astonishment. A world-shaking voice rang out: "My lord, that man looks like one of your juniors!"
Astride the tiger's back, the Woodcutter Sage turned and looked toward Shen Mu, who stood before the Heaven-Bearing Gate slaughtering the surging heavenly demons. His gaze was bright as snow, illuminating all around the altar.
"Strange—how did he come to Taihuang Heaven..."
The Woodcutter Sage withdrew his gaze. Wherever the Tiger God passed, men and horses were thrown into chaos. The Tiger God roared, and ring after ring of sound waves burst forth; within those waves, countless demons were flung into the air.
In the midst of the chaos, Shen Mu saw this scene, and the image of the pot-bellied Dragon Qilin suddenly surfaced in his mind. He could not help but envy the Woodcutter Sage deeply: "This Tiger God calls him 'my lord'—it must be his mount. Truly awe-inspiring!"
Astride the tiger, the Woodcutter Sage swung his great axe, cleaving apart the divine powers of the attacking demon gods. The Tiger God bounded several times and carried him to the very center of the enemy camp.
From the moment the Tiger God leaped down from the altar to the moment it reached the enemy camp, no more than a breath had passed.
The Woodcutter Sage raised his great axe; the axe rose and fell, and before a four-headed demon god in the enemy camp could even rise, its four massive heads flew from its neck.
"Hatila!"
Demon gods came charging from all sides, wheeling around the Tiger God in a whirl of slaughter. The Woodcutter Sage sat on the tiger's back, swinging his great axe, and the axe-light surged like a tide.
"The Great Nurturing Nether Demon Scripture! No—what he's using must be the complete Mystic Body Three Elixir Art!"
Shen Mu, forced back again and again by the charging heavenly demons, retreated toward the altar. Catching sight of this in the chaos, his heart stirred: "His comprehension of the Mystic Body Three Elixir Art far surpasses mine!"
The Woodcutter Sage was not merely swinging his axe; with his other hand he unleashed the various divine powers recorded in the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Scripture. Yet those powers were not the individual techniques of the Scripture, but combinations of different techniques—like Fan Xuanshu's Great Luo Heaven Star Palm Power, which fused hundreds of divine powers into a single art.
Anyone else would not have recognized his powers as the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Scripture, but Shen Mu, as the Nether Demon Cult Leader, recognized them at a glance.
Around the Woodcutter Sage, strange force fields burst forth, blasting demon gods away one after another. In the instant those demon gods were flung back, the great axe came out of nowhere and severed their heads in midair. His combat strength was terrifying beyond measure.