Chapter 842 — Who Comes Forth to Die?
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The Daoist Palace was sunk in utter silence.
Those Heavenly Court envoys likewise knit their brows. They had heard of the Overlord Body before—idle talk in the Heavenly Court had spoken of a tiny place in the lower realm called Jingping, which had produced a Jingping Overlord Body, one said to be unmatched through all ages. The gods of the Heavenly Court laughed whenever the matter came up, saying that folk from a backwater bragged so loud their boasting flew up to the Heavenly Court itself; it was taken as a joke, rarely discussed in earnest.
When they heard Shen Mu declare himself an Overlord Body just now, they could not help laughing aloud—yet the response of the Dao Ancestor's statue had truly exceeded all their expectations. The Dao Ancestor would rather destroy his own statue and his own Three Treasures than receive a single bow from Shen Mu. Plainly this Overlord Body was not so simple as the gods of the Heavenly Court imagined.
Suddenly the youngest of the Heavenly Court envoys, a young Daoist priest, clapped his hands and burst out laughing, and the sharp slap of his palms startled everyone awake. "Impressive, truly impressive!
" the young Daoist said with a laugh. "Shen the Overlord Body of Jingping dares to destroy the Dao Ancestor's statue in Azure Cloud Heaven, and wrecks the sect-guarding Three Treasures before the Sect Master's very eyes.
He is indeed worthy of the name Overlord Body! " The Daoists came to their senses.
An old Daoist raised a finger at Shen Mu and cried fiercely: "You wretch! You have ruined the Dao Ancestor's statue of our Azure Cloud Heaven, and by some treacherous scheme shattered the Three Treasures of our Daoist sect! Our sect will not live under the same sky as you!
" The other Daoists were about to add their own denunciations when the Azure Cloud Sect Master suddenly barked: "Silence—" The Daoist Palace fell silent once more. The Azure Cloud Sect Master was in a wretched state. Within him there was nothing but shock upon shock, and not a trace of fury—because he did not dare.
He had thought one layer deeper than the other Daoists.
Shen Mu's cultivation was by no means weak; he ranked among the very finest experts below the Divine Realm.
But he could not have damaged the Dao Ancestor's statue, nor the Three Treasures. The Three Treasures of the Azure Cloud Sect belonged to the Dao Ancestor, and the Dao Ancestor was an existence of the Imperial Throne realm.
Though those three treasures were mere everyday articles to him, the everyday articles of an Imperial Throne expert were no small matter; there was no way Shen Mu could have used some uncanny divine art to destroy them.
And besides, had Shen Mu tampered with them, he could not have hidden it from the eyes of the experts present.
The one that had destroyed the Three Treasures was the Three Treasures themselves. These three treasures had in truth destroyed themselves!
The Dao Ancestor's statue was no different. That is to say, the Dao Ancestor truly believed himself unworthy of a single bow from Shen Mu, and so destroyed his own statue and his Three Treasures! "Pay your respects! " the Azure Cloud Sect Master said abruptly.
The many Daoists in the Daoist Palace were taken aback, but with the Sect Master speaking, there was no room for them to object.
They rose one by one, formed two rows, and bowed to Shen Mu.
Shen Mu glanced at the Heavenly Court envoys.
The youngest of them, the one who had spoken, frowned and murmured a few words to the young men and women beside him—what he said, no one could tell.
"This one, who looks the youngest, is their leader. " Shen Mu took it all in, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Rise.
Where is my seat?