Chapter 834 — Seizing the Might of the Four Emperors
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"A power is trying to invade me! " "I feel it too!
A very strange power, trying to control me!
" "Not control—it's stripping away our power.
.
. not just our power, but our very flesh! This power is trying to merge us with it!
" "This ship.
.
. it's alive!
It's a trap! " Boom, boom—waves of terrible force swept through the ship as the Four Emperors tried to break Ling Tianzun's divine ability. The Eastern Emperor transformed into an Azure Dragon, shaking its head and tail as it flew out of the ghost ship, its body disappearing into the black miasma outside.
The next moment, the Eastern Emperor Qinglong abruptly reappeared on the ship, landing and taking several swift steps, his face showing astonishment. The Eastern Emperor flew out again, and the next moment he was back on the ship. He flew out dozens of times, yet always reappeared on the ship.
Even an ancient god who commanded an entire heavenly palace could not help but feel some alarm. The other three ancient god Emperors each tried their own methods to leave the ship. The Southern Emperor Zhuque was the fastest: she leaped up, transformed into a Vermilion Bird, and fled—yet no matter how she flew, no matter how fast, she always returned to the ship. The Northern Emperor, master of the Heavenly River, tried to hurl the ship out of the river—but even when the ghost ship was flung away, it returned to the river's surface the next moment.
The Western Emperor manipulated metal qi, splitting and severing the black miasma around the ship, hacking it to pieces—yet the miasma swiftly recovered. This ship held mysteries that even the Four Emperors found unfathomable.
The ghost ship was a vast living entity that locked down everything, and the divine ability surrounding it was one they had never seen or heard of before! The Four Emperors possessed the power to reshape heaven and earth, each commanding an immeasurably mighty Great Dao, their cultivation profound beyond measure—yet before this ship, they were helpless.
"Join forces and break the divine ability around the ship! " The Four Emperors struck as one, attacking the black fog outside the ship. At that very moment, they suddenly felt the power within their divine abilities draining away at incredible speed, as if stolen!
Alarmed, the Four Emperors frantically channeled their magic and attacked with abandon. Within the ship's hull, the Four Phases Tribulation Array activated.
Shen Mu presided over it, siphoning the Four Emperors' power.
The array's might grew stronger and stronger, and at its center appeared the visions of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—roaring and surging! Suddenly, the Four Emperors' power burst forth with a thunderous roar, sending four beams of light that shone upon the pillar bearing Ling Tianzun's verse. Flowers that are not flowers, mist that is not mist.
Coming at midnight, gone by dawn.
Coming like a spring dream of brief duration, departing like morning clouds with no place to be found. The twenty-six characters gradually began to shine, growing ever brighter. "The Four Emperors don't know it is I who am stealing their power.
" Shen Mu smiled. His steps shifted, arms growing from beneath his armpits, runes bursting from his fingertips as he pointed at the twenty-six characters on the pillar, gradually awakening the divine ability hidden within them!
The twenty-six characters grew larger and larger, peeling off the pillar and floating in the air, each one a hundred zhang in breadth, spread across the sky. These twenty-six characters were composed of countless complex and minuscule runes.
Shen Mu studied them and drew upon the power of the Four Phases Tribulation Array to alter the structure of the runes.
The characters remained the same, but the runes composing them were changing, and the power hidden within was gradually awakened!