Chapter 718 — Ambush on the Netherworld Supreme
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The Imperial Gate Divine Blade came down upon Yin Tianzi's face, and the timing could not have been more exquisite — it struck at the very instant Shen Mu's Soul-Pulling Lure had seized and stirred his primal spirit. Yin Tianzi took the blow head-on.
The Imperial Gate Divine Blade all but clove him in two. What made this divine blade so terrible was not only its power to sever the Horn of the Earth Lord; it also devoured primal spirits.
Even Tian Shu, the one who wielded it, could have his primal spirit swallowed if he let his guard slip for a single moment, and be trapped in the blade's inner space for seven or eight million years. At the instant the blow landed, Yin Tianzi felt heaven and earth spin, and his primal spirit began to sink into the Imperial Gate Divine Blade against his will.
"I have been tricked!
" Yet he was decisive and ruthless.
In the same instant of realization he marshaled the power of the Dark Capital and hurled it against the Imperial Gate Divine Blade. The Dark Capital's demonic qi came swarming in, pouring madly into the blade.
"Boundless Reincarnation!
" The primal spirit that had fallen into the blade's world immediately unleashed its divine ability. A vast sea of the underworld rose into being, and from that sea a Dark Capital Heavenly Gate welled up. Yin Tianzi flew swiftly toward the portal; before he passed through it he was a refined scholar, but when he flew out the other side his appearance had changed utterly — he had become a delicate, lovely woman. Another Heavenly Gate appeared ahead, and Yin Tianzi, now in a woman's form, passed through it once more.
His primal spirit cast its arts with astonishing speed, his form a fleeting shimmer of light and shadow as he passed through one Dark Capital Heavenly Gate after another, so fast that the naked eye could not follow.
Each time he passed through a Dark Capital Heavenly Gate it was as though he had undergone a reincarnation; his primal spirit was transformed utterly, in face, in sex, even in kind, so completely different from before that he seemed an entirely other person.
This Boundless Reincarnation ability carried him through several thousand reincarnations in a single instant, so fast that even the formations within the Imperial Gate Divine Blade could not change quickly enough to keep pace. The Imperial Gate Divine Blade had a flaw of no small size — a flaw that had come about because of the cultivation art of the Emperor Shakra Heavenly King Buddha, leaving the blade's forging a hair's breadth from perfection.
Shen Mu had found the way out of the Imperial Gate Divine Blade in the Emperor Shakra Heavenly King Sutra; the method Yin Tianzi used was to change his identity ceaselessly at extreme speed. Every time he changed identity, the Imperial Gate Divine Blade had to readjust the formation structure of its inner world.
When Kaihuang designed the blade's formation runes, he had made that structure mutable by nature; a formation, after all, must change without cease in order to adapt to whoever entered it and hold them fast. Yin Tianzi used Boundless Reincarnation to shift his identity and kind, forcing the Imperial Gate Divine Blade to keep altering its formations, until at last he outstripped the blade's capacity to calculate them — so that the very flaw Shen Mu had needed nearly a year of reckoning to find was discovered by him in the space of a few moments.
Yin Tianzi's eyes lit up. When his primal spirit flew out of the last portal, it had already broken free of the blade and regained its liberty.
His primal spirit emerged from that gate and reverted to its true appearance — and there he saw that his fleshly body had been cut in two by Tian Shu's single stroke! "A powerhouse of the Imperial Throne — is this all? " Tian Shu laughed aloud, raised the divine blade, and slashed at the necks of Yin Tianzi's two halves: "Your strength doesn't seem to be any greater than mine, a mere Lingxiao!