Chapter 802 — The Numbering of the Great Dao Hides a Mystery
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He also "saw" the four-phase ancient gods, the four directions and four emperors — the Dark Warrior, the Vermilion Bird, the Azure Dragon, the White Fox.
Most terrifying of all, Shen Mu saw an ancient, ancient Heaven Court, and a blurred and indistinct Great Emperor seated in the Lingxiao Hall, ruling over the ancient Heaven Court.
With his naked eyes he could not see Yan Qiling's position, could not see Yan Qiling's divine art, yet through her aura he sensed such a terrifying and magnificent vision!
That was the vision brought about by the Great Dao being mobilized. The celestial star gods represented different Great Daos of stellar power; the sun and moon and the five luminaries, the four directions and four emperors, also represented different Great Daos.
And the Primeval Capital's Earth Mother, the Mystic Capital's Lord of Heaven, the Nether Capital's Earth Lord also represented their respective Great Dao systems.
These visions appeared because Yan Qiling's divine art encompassed all these Great Daos, transforming them into a complete system and forging them into a single divine art.
"Dao One — not the Nether Capital's Dao One, nor the Mystic Capital's Dao One, but the Dao One of all Great Dao systems!"
Shen Mu came to his senses. His steps shifted, his body shook, and he manifested three heads and six arms.
"Yah—!"
His three heads opened their three mouths and roared. His hair stood on end in fury, the band binding his hair bursting apart with a crack, and the Three Pellets Art of the Mystic Body surged to its utmost in an instant!
Shen Mu was like a god, like a demon. Before him, the great mountain had already grown brittle and cracked beneath the power of Yan Qiling's divine art. Massive boulders, like magma surging up from the depths boiling rock into chunks — and yet in the next instant, countless rocks were shattered into fine powder!
The great mountain began to fall. Not sinking into the earth, but its base had completely shattered, unable to support the colossal mass.
Yet no matter how much the mountain fell, its body was in an instant shattered to pieces by that incomparably terrifying power.
In a single moment, the mountain peak lost a third of its height!
Yet the power of this one divine art of Yan Qiling's seemed not to diminish in the slightest. It came surging from the other side of the mountain, pressing down on Shen Mu with unmatched crushing force!
Amid the swirling smoke and dust, Shen Mu seemed to see in a daze the ancient Heavenly Emperor extending his palm and slapping down at him!
The smoke and dust shrouded the space around him, so that he could see nothing else — before his eyes there was only a great hand slapping toward him!
"Yan Qiling, I know your origins!"
Shen Mu roared with all his might, both hands controlling his sword, his sword fingers changing at flying speed, unleashing countless sword moves. At the same time, his other four arms grew incomparably thick, muscles bulging, blood vessels standing out beneath the skin, pulsing like azure dragons and giant pythons. In an instant he threw countless punches, each strike exhausting all his strength, freely releasing the terrifying destructive power within his flesh!
A Wondrous Peak Beyond the Heavens, a Thousand Palms Return!
His great martial Dao divine art erupted at this moment, meeting the great hand of the ancient god Heavenly Emperor — yet it was immediately crushed by that unmatched power.
The martial Dao founded by the Martial Combat Heavenly Master was utterly useless before this palm filled with vast heavenly majesty.
Shen Mu was blasted backward, and behind him the Gate of Heaven's Inheritance emerged. Demonic qi of the Nether Capital poured from the gate, madly drilling into the vertical eyes at the center of his three heads' brows. Those three vertical eyes opened, and light that could slay all flesh and soul shot out, slicing black wounds into space itself.
Yet still it could not block that palm.