Chapter 715 — Heaven Sets the Fire
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
These statues had a special name in the Heavenly Court: calamity gods. They were the deities the Heavenly Court used to send disaster upon those lower realms that would not submit. When a calamity god descends, the world falls into chaos. In the past, an ordinary lower realm might receive one or two calamity gods at most, and that was enough to destroy a world.
Jingping was different: Jingping had more than thirty calamity gods descending at once!
Nor was that all. Along with the calamity gods came more than a dozen celestial divine weapons. In the Heavenly Court such celestial divine weapons were called tribulation-descending divine weapons, weapons made expressly to punish the people of the world, forged by the ancient gods born of heaven and earth.
One or two tribulation-descending divine weapons were enough to inflict all-around, devastating blows upon a world!
And Jingping had more than a dozen of them.
Calamity gods plus tribulation-descending divine weapons: that was the array of world-destruction! Calamity gods recognize no kin, and neither do tribulation-descending divine weapons.
So Lou Yunqu and the others must leave the moment they had kindled this calamity, lest they be caught in it. Kui Qingpei walked over and reached for the bright mirror in Shen Mu's hand, smiling. "Our master spent great pains refining this Nether Capital Jade Mirror; it took him four or five years to complete. This treasure was made for the Divine Son of the Dark Capital, and yet junior brother Qi Jiuyi let it fall into this boy's hands. The boy looks clever, but has he not fallen into our trap? Dealing with him is truly as easy as reaching out and taking it.
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. " His palm had just closed on the Nether Capital Jade Mirror when Shen Mu's palm closed on his hand.
"Is that so?
" Shen Mu's voice came at his ear, grim and cold, enough to make a man's blood run cold.
Kui Qingpei looked up and saw Shen Mu's three eyes blazing with butterfly-wing-shaped light.
Kui Qingpei's blood ran cold. "Divine Son of the Dark Capital, you were not sealed.
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" "It is my brother who was sealed. " Shen Mu's other hand clamped on Kui Qingpei's head and twisted hard.
Kui Qingpei saw his own buttocks and his own heels. Hmmm.
Shen Mu's three eyes blazed.
Three beams of light stabbed in through the back of Kui Qingpei's skull and out through the front. "Did Qi Jiuyi never tell you? He once tried to freeze me with this mirror, and he could not freeze me either.
Instead he was defeated by my hand! " Shen Mu opened his mouth and drew in a long, long breath.
Kui Qingpei's soul had just left his body and was trying to flee into the Nether Capital when it was suddenly swept, helpless, toward Shen Mu's mouth! "You are too stupid.
Best not to reincarnate. Let me taste your soul!
" Lou Yunqu and Fu Yanqi's faces changed drastically; they rushed to the rescue. There was a thunderous boom, and Fu Yanqi was sent flying backward, while Lou Yunqu, whose cultivation was the highest of the three, a god of the God-Slaying Terrace, was a cut above the rest and knocked Shen Mu head over heels.
Kui Qingpei's body was dead; his soul, once free, tried to fly into the Nether Capital. Shen Mu landed, reached out, and pinned it in the air, unable to return to the Nether Capital.
"The taste of a Nether Capital disciple must be finer than those ghosts of the Dark Capital! " Shen Mu opened his mouth wide in excitement.
Lou Yunqu and Fu Yanqi charged in again, striving to save Kui Qingpei before Shen Mu could eat him. Meanwhile, on the Shen-character continent at the center of Shen Mu's brow, the Crimson Emperor blinked and said, "Have we given him too much of the Dark Capital's power? " Lord Heaven, his nose swollen and his face bruised, said, "Not too much.