Chapter 631 — The Divine Eye Reveals Its Might
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In his heart there was some doubt: "Strange. When I use this one sword-path divine power, my vital essence is consumed by seven or eight parts. Why is it that now I feel my vital essence still brimming, like well water, seemingly inexhaustible.
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" He felt his vital essence remain at its peak, as though it could never be spent.
He had fought so long, had used nearly every divine power and battle technique at least once, had unleashed no small number of great divine powers that consumed enormous dharma power, and yet his vital essence had not diminished in the least.
More bizarre still, he even felt his vital essence cultivation rising at flying speed!
This completely defied common sense.
Then, in an instant, he perceived where the problem lay. It was the third eye at his brow.
Every time he killed a person, vast vital essence flowed out from within that eye and into his whole body, as though it were a reward; the more people he killed, the richer the reward. "Strange, strange. There is indeed something very wrong with this eye.
. . " Chi — Ten li of sword-light pierced the Buddha-child Puzhao's skull, the radiance dazzling beyond measure, lighting up half the sky.
And Puzhao's move, Illuminating All Beings, its power overwhelming, struck only empty air; Shen Mu had long since used the Sky-Skimming Divine Legs to get far away.
Puzhao's eyes were blank and lifeless as he pitched forward.
Behind him, the sword radiance abruptly contracted into a tiny sword pellet that spun down from the air; before it landed, the pellet suddenly swelled into nine long dragons, heads down, tails up, tangled together like a great cover, and with a clang it clamped down over a Buddha-child.
Within the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Shroud, firelight and sword-light burst forth, pulverizing that Buddha-child and burning him to ash.
At the same moment, Shen Mu, having landed, raised a hand; the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Shroud flew to him, shrinking swiftly, and became a great hammer in his grip. Shen Mu roared in fury, firelight surging skyward behind him like a great volcano erupting; he hurled the hammer forward, smashing with all the strength of his flesh, and struck the chest of a Buddha-child charging at him.
In the instant he hurled the hammer, the muscles of his legs tensed and he charged forward with a boom.
That Buddha-child's chest caved in; driven by the hammer, he flew backward, trees on either side shrieking past in streaks of light, and the trees behind him burst apart with thuds as he crashed through them.
But the next moment, Shen Mu was before him, reaching out to seize the hammer's shaft.
The hammer flowed like water, becoming a long spear, and he lifted the Buddha-child on the spear's tip; Shen Mu shook the spear, and the Buddha-child flew apart in four pieces!
"Do not fight each on your own!
" Prince Fuyun cried sharply: "Gather together, all of you, come to my side, and use the Buddha Eye divine power to refine him to death! " The surviving Buddha-children, pursuing Shen Mu, were hurling divine powers and primal weapons at him yet could scarcely catch his figure; hearing this, they understood at once and gathered around Prince Fuyun. One after another the Buddha-children swiftly formed a wall of bodies, one treading on another's shoulders, another on a third's, stacked together, sixty-four in number.
"Buddha Eye, open!
" The sixty-four Buddha-children pressed their palms together; some had three heads and six arms, some a body with two faces, some the true body of a Wisdom King, some the frame of an Arhat; each urged his Buddha Eye.
"Sweep away the demonic miasma, subdue demons and vanquish evil! " Their voices were mighty; the momentum of them all joined as one, like walls of bronze and iron, their force like a city.
Shua — Buddha light gathered into a flood, massed together, shaking mountains and splitting stone, making space itself tremble without cease, and shot forth at Shen Mu!