Chapter 735 — Strange Peaks at Heaven's Edge, a Hundred Palms Revolving
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The gods within Jade Capital City were shaken to the core, and all of them turned to look at Shen Mu: "Is he that Overlord Body the Grand Heavenly Master spoke of? Isn't the Overlord Body the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping?"
In that brief instant, Shen Mu's thousand arms returned to six, and all his divine abilities fused in the space of a breath into six forces of palm, meeting Hu Bugui's Wind Shakes the Pines, Waves Quake the Valley.
Strange Peaks Beyond the Heavens, a Thousand Palms Returning.
This was his martial dao divine ability.
Hu Bugui's Wind Shakes the Pines, Waves Quake the Valley: his fist intent like wind, his figure like a pine, a thousand pines forming a forest. When he struck, his divine ability burst forth and his body was as wind through the waves of pines, while the eruption of power crushed and shook the valley.
Shen Mu's great martial dao divine ability, by contrast, fused into one all the physical-body divine abilities of the combat schools he had once learned; the earlier thousand arms and thousand palms had been for the very purpose of merging these techniques and abilities.
The combat arts of such masters as Old Master Huo, the Butcher, the Blind Elder, and the Human Sovereigns of past ages became in his hands a succession of strange peaks, each with its own fist intent; thoroughly mastered and made one, they were the Strange Peaks Beyond the Heavens, a Thousand Palms Returning.
That single divine ability of his was meant to display those varied and splendid scenes of strange peaks.
Behind him emerged the divine treasures of the Spirit Fetus, the Five Luminaries, the Six Harmonies, and the Heaven-Man. Yet strangely, not only was he missing the Seven Stars divine treasure; beneath those divine treasures there ought also to be mirrored another whole set of Spirit Fetus, Five Luminaries, Six Harmonies, and Heaven-Man divine treasures!
The upper were the divine path; the lower, the demonic path.
God and demon, mirroring each other, gathered in a single body.
The thirty-six War Gods of Jade Capital City finally understood why Shen Mu, at the Heaven-Man realm, could stand against Hu Bugui's great martial dao divine ability.
Hu Bugui was of the Life and Death realm, and had refined that realm to perfection. Because everyone in the Dou Niu Realm was trapped at the Life and Death realm and could advance no further, the martial artists of the Dou Niu Realm had developed every realm to a perfection of the utmost extreme.
Hu Bugui was the finest among them.
It could be said that in the Life and Death realm, no one's cultivation ran deeper than his.
And yet when Shen Mu fought Hu Bugui, he matched him evenly — proof that Shen Mu, at the Heaven-Man realm, was not far behind Hu Bugui in cultivation.
Only upon seeing Shen Mu's divine treasures did the thirty-six War Gods understand the reason for the extraordinary depth of his cultivation.
To cultivate god and demon alike, and to possess two sets of divine treasures corresponding to each other — such a being had likely never existed before or since.
"So it truly is an Overlord Body; the Grand Heavenly Master did not lie!" The thirty-six War Gods were stricken with awe.
When the Woodcutter Sage came to their little mountain village seeking the Old Farmer, urging him to leave the mountains, he had spoken of the Overlord Body and of the Sage that appears once in five hundred years.
The villagers had all been present and heard it, and they were most curious about the Jingping Reforms, and no less curious about the Overlord Body and the once-in-five-hundred-years Sage.
But the very next moment the Woodcutter Sage was beaten by the Old Farmer into a stinking ditch, every bone in his body broken; luckily the Old Farmer had struck lightly and spared his life, so they could not be clear which of the two was the Overlord Body and which the Sage.