Chapter 867 — A Lone Sword Soars the Heavens
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The Heavenly Dragon King's head was monstrous beyond reckoning, hovering between the two of them. That dragon king's head had long since undergone corpse transformation, gone glistening green; even his long dragon whiskers had turned green, drenched and dripping with corpse fluid.
Shen Mu and "Heavenly Venerable Yu" unleashed their divine abilities across the Heavenly Dragon King's head. Shen Mu raised a hand and seized one of the flying swords that orbited him, thrust it out, and the countless flying swords circling him moved with that single thrust; the tide of swords hugged the dragon king's head, every blade smeared with corpse poison.
When his swords reached the far side of the dragon king's head, the green sword tide became a sword formation that drowned "Heavenly Venerable Yu.
" At that same instant, "Heavenly Venerable Yu" deployed the divine abilities of the Heavenly Dao direct: the Heavenly Dao numbers forty-nine, and forty-nine daos of heaven he drove forth, becoming forty-nine different forms of divine ability.
Countless gods and demons dwelt within the body of the Xuandu Heavenly Lord; observing and measuring them day and night, the Heavenly Court had come to know the divine abilities of the Heavenly Dao inside and out. The Heavenly Lord's very body had been built up by the Heavenly Court, and from it those divine abilities were deduced as well.
Shen Mu had derived only the Dao of Heavenly Fire from the Heavenly Fire Prism Crystal, while the Heavenly Court had long since deduced every other dao of heaven in full; the one thing it lacked was this—the Heavenly Court's daos of heaven were constructed through macro-scale divination arts, and wanted construction at the micro scale. The divine abilities "Heavenly Venerable Yu" wielded split into different forms: the Heavenly Cord like a net, Heavenly Fire like a crystal tower, the Heavenly Beggar like a boat, the Heavenly Order like a stele, the Heavenly Vault like a canopy, Heavenly Yang like the sun, Heavenly Yin like the moon, the Heavenly Cavern like an abyss.
All these divine abilities of the Heavenly Dao suddenly gathered and became a single seal, and the fine, dense runes composing that ability passed with a swish straight through the Heavenly Dragon King's head, meeting no obstruction whatever, and blasted straight at Shen Mu! The two men's abilities did not meet; each drove at the other's true body in the first instant, bent on finishing his opponent at once. For between them still lay the corpse-transformed head of the Heavenly Dragon King; muddled and turned corpse fiend though he now was, his strength remained.
Should the corpse fiend set upon them, neither could withstand it; so only by killing his opponent in the first instant could a man be sure of withdrawing whole.
The Seal of the Heavenly Dao was as though the Heavenly Lord himself had come down—vast and mighty, heavenly majesty covering the world, matchless beyond compare!
And on this side of the dragon king's head, Shen Mu faced that great divine ability of the Heavenly Dao head-on and abruptly tore the willow leaf from between his brows; his third eye opened, its gaze deep as an abyss.
"Where my body stands is the Nether Capital!
" A violent dark demonic qi of the Nether Capital poured out, and in an instant he seemed to sink into its darkness; flames blazed above Shen Mu's head, two demon horns formed of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
He was like Tubo walking out of the Nether Capital, stirring the great Dao of that place; the rules of the Nether Capital's Dao became numberless chains that coiled about his body.
Trailing those chains, Shen Mu reached out a great hand and met the Seal of the Heavenly Dao!