Chapter 675 — The Tempered Physique Stirs Up Storms
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True God Pang Yu held back his anger and said, "Then I must ask Senior Brother Lou to tie the noose himself."
Lou Yunqu smiled. "Easily said, easily said. But before that, I still wish to see how far the cultivation arts and divine abilities of Taihuangtian and Jingping have come. Junior Brother Qianzhong has been issuing his challenges here for six days and has killed a good many young experts. Might I ask whether Taihuangtian still has any talents of outstanding caliber?"
Lou Qianzhong said indifferently, "In the past few days I killed them with the divine abilities and cultivation arts of the Northern Heaven Nether Capital. These last two days, however, I have used divine abilities learned from the divine ability users of Taihuangtian."
True God Pang Yu was faintly shaken. Looking at this young demon, he recalled the battle between Lou Qianzhong and Yuhe moments ago: the divine abilities used had indeed been those of Taihuangtian and Jingping—he had not employed the divine abilities and cultivation arts he excelled in.
Four days—learning divine abilities from Taihuangtian's divine ability users, and then using them to kill Taihuangtian's divine ability users in turn?
Such innate talent was terrifyingly high!
What was more shocking still was that among those he had defeated was Pang Yu's own disciple, Yuhe!
Before Shen Mu came to Taihuangtian, Yuhe had always been the foremost of Taihuangtian's Seven-Star realm divine ability users; now and again Shu Yao surpassed her, but such occasions were few.
After Shen Mu came to Taihuangtian, the title of foremost changed hands; and once many young elites had flocked to Jingping, whether Yuhe could even hold on to second place was hard to say—yet her strength was absolutely not to be underestimated. She was unquestionably among the very finest divine ability users!
For this Lou Qianzhong to have used Taihuangtian's own divine abilities to defeat Yuhe was something all but impossible to accomplish, and yet he had done it. It showed that the man's foundation was incomparably solid, and even gave one the sense that he had entered the Dao through divine abilities!
For one who has entered the Dao through divine abilities, a single glance at any divine ability or cultivation art is enough to grasp its principles and structure.
The first such heaven-defying figure he had seen was the Imperial Teacher of Jingping, whose understanding of every kind of divine ability and cultivation art approached the Dao itself—talent unmatched in a generation.
The second time True God Pang Yu encountered such a figure was Xu Shenghua, who had walked out of the Suppressing Gods Pagoda—dazzling of person, peerless in elegance.
Apart from these two, Pang Yu had never met anyone of the like.
Not even Cult Master Shen—whose name shook the world and who commanded the foremost sect of both Jingping and Taihuangtian—possessed such talent and brilliance. Shen Mu was master of many things: blade arts, sword arts, medicine, forging, all of them outstanding, among the very best. Yet in divine abilities, Shen Mu had not come near to the Dao.
Shen Mu had entered the Dao through cultivation arts and through sword arts; he was strong in every field, but first in none. Sometimes True God Pang Yu even felt that if Shen Mu had spent less time fiddling and fretting over this and that, his achievements might well have risen beyond what they were today.
And yet it was precisely because of that fiddling that Shen Mu's strength only grew greater and greater. Even the Imperial Teacher of Jingping and Xu Shenghua could not dim his radiance in the slightest; on the contrary, he had eclipsed much of theirs.
"How does one defeat a man who has entered the Dao through divine abilities? And a man who is moreover the disciple of an Emperor Throne powerhouse of the Northern Heaven Nether Capital..."