Chapter 716 — The Youth's Demonic Fall
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Suddenly, two divine arts in succession shattered the fleshly bodies of Fu Yanqi and Kui Qingpei; the two corpses broke apart, and at once a blood sacrifice erupted, transforming into two beams of blood-light. Near Yongjiang Academy, that stone statue revived on the instant, flesh and blood rapidly sprouting.
Shen Mu fended off Lou Yunqu's attacks and shot several more beams of divine light from his eyes, driving Lou Yunqu out of the Dark Capital; then he seized Fu Yanqi's primordial spirit and sent it toward his mouth.
Just then he suddenly sensed a shadow above his head and hastily dodged aside. With a thunderous boom, the Heaven-Watching Terrace shuddered violently, and an incomparably towering god-demon crouched in its midst.
This demon-god was colossal and mighty, and slowly rose to its feet. "With the corpses of two junior brothers, the Calamity God is revived at last!
" Lou Yunqu was overjoyed, and was about to join forces with the Calamity God to besiege Shen Mu, when the Calamity God suddenly brought down a fist; caught off guard, Lou Yunqu was smashed into the earth by that enormous fist!
The ground caved in, forming a vast crater.
The Calamity God lifted its fist, and blood plasma dripped ceaselessly from beneath it. Lou Yunqu's bones were broken and his tendons snapped; he lay spread-eagled there, filled with regret: "I forgot—these Calamity Gods recognize no kin.
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" In bitter misery, his fleshly body all but ruined by that one punch, he had no choice but to abandon it; his primordial spirit left its shell, and he thought, "A Dark Capital disciple without a fleshly body loses little in fighting strength.
" His primordial spirit emerged, and at once he saw the Calamity God and Shen Mu had flown into the air and were locked in savage battle. By now Shen Mu was all but berserk; every manner of divine art came to his hand with ease—whether the Buddhist primordial spirit from the Heavenly King Sutra of the Heavenly King Buddha Shakra, or the Heaven-Earth Seal Art of the First Ancestor Human Emperor, or the Ancestral Dragon Supreme Mystery Art of the True Dragon Lair, or the arts of the elders of Yincan Village, the arts of the Human Emperors through the ages, or the arts of the Crimson Emperor and the Bright Emperor—whether or not he had once been able to master them, now he wielded them all!
He had not fully possessed the Nether Capital Divine Child's power, yet he had borrowed a small portion of it, his cultivation deepened until he pressed close upon Lou Yunqu.
With magic power so boundless, commanding these arts was effortless; even against the Calamity God he did not yield a step, and attacked more than he defended. He had neither primordial weapon nor divine weapon in hand, and fought the Calamity God bare-handed; in close combat and at range alike, he was wild and brutal, simply crushing with divine arts. Lou Yunqu's cultivation was deeper, but in the transformations of divine arts he was far inferior, and most of the Dark Capital's arts were aimed at the soul; in sheer means of attack he could not compare with Shen Mu at all. "How many divine arts and dharma methods does this fellow actually command?
" Lou Yunqu watched the battle in the sky from afar, his heart quaking with dread: "Is this the full strength of the Nether Capital Divine Child?
Truly formidable!
No wonder the Master would have him by any means! " Little did he know that the power Shen Mu had borrowed had not even reached one percent of the Nether Capital Divine Child's strength before Tian Shu and the Crimson Emperor cut it off, lest it grow beyond control.