Chapter 718 — Ambush on the Netherworld Supreme
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This portal was no divine ability; it was the true Dark Capital Heavenly Gate. Many disciples of the Dark Capital cultivated the divine ability of the Dark Capital Heavenly Gate, but all their arts were evolved from this portal.
And this portal itself had been born of Youdu's Gate of Heaven's Mandate. In certain mysteries of the Dao, the Gate of Heaven's Mandate was no match for the Dark Capital Heavenly Gate — its power of reincarnation and creation, for instance, was beyond anything the Gate of Heaven's Mandate could rival.
For this reason, this portal too was numbered among the Four Great Heavenly Gates, and was called the North Heavenly Gate.
"Tianyin, did you think I feared you? " Yin Tianzi laughed in his fury.
The Dark Capital Heavenly Gate pressed down upon the underworld sea, and at once its waves were stilled; even Lady Tianyin urging the Heavenly Dipper could not shake it: "It is time you saw the true strength of the Imperial Throne! " Within the Shen-Character Continent, Lord Heaven and the Crimson Emperor took turns watching the outer world through Shen Mu's third eye.
From Tian Shu's appearance with blade in hand, cutting his way into the Dark Capital, to Fengdu's collision with the Dark Capital, to King Yama bearing his sword in the siege of Yin Tianzi, to Lady Tianyin working the Heavenly Dipper across the boundary to crush tens of thousands of demon-gods of the Dark Capital — Lord Heaven and the Crimson Emperor watched with soaring spirits, clapping and cheering again and again. "Could it be that Shen Mu had long since arranged all this with the Woodcutter and the rest, to stage a fine play?
" The Crimson Emperor laughed: "The timing is far too neat.
Tian Shu, who drinks fierce as a tiger, King Yama of Fengdu, and Lady Tianyin, so lately revived — to string all these forces into one line, it must have been prepared long in advance!
And with Shen Mu, the Divine Son of Youdu, as the bait, Yin Tianzi was certain to take the hook!
" Lord Heaven laughed: "It must have been prepared long ago. This battle is fought with relish!
And Shen Mu played his part so well that even I could see no flaw in it.
" The Crimson Emperor laughed: "Nor could I see the slightest flaw.
A moment ago I thought he had truly been taken by demon-nature and meant to slaughter and devour the primal spirits of the skeletal demon-gods. Who would have guessed that in the next breath he would use his third eye to disrupt Yin Tianzi's primal spirit and let Tian Shu's sneak attack land.
He must have been part of this surprise strike on Yin Tianzi from the start! His pretense of being seized by demon-nature just now was truly frightening. " Lord Heaven breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "If he can master the demon-nature of Youdu, then I can set my mind at ease. What is he doing now?
" The two of them looked through Shen Mu's third eye, and dimly made out the back of a head.
"This is. . .
" Lord Heaven and the Crimson Emperor were both puzzled, then suddenly it came to them: "That boy is gnawing on the Calamity God's head! " At that moment Shen Mu lay sprawled on the Calamity God's back, his mouth stretched wide in excitement, biting down on the Calamity God's head, a low growling humming in his throat.
The Calamity God's head was a mask of blood where he gnawed. Lord Heaven and the Crimson Emperor exchanged a glance and said in one voice: "That boy really has fallen to demon-nature — he is not pretending! "