Chapter 876 — The Sword Leaves a Faint Fragrance — Please Vote
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After two days' travel, they saw darkness ahead blotting out sky and sun, so that not even sunlight could shine through. In the darkness, atop the peak of a great mountain, a god-devil ten thousand zhang tall spread his wings like a great bird and cried, "Are you Shen Mu of Jingping, Shen the Overlord Body?
" Dragon Qilin halted; Shen Mu looked up and smiled: "I am Shen. " "This is the domain of the Great Black Palace.
" That bird-headed god-devil cried, "Great Black Heaven feared you might not know the way, and ordered me to wait here to point out the road for you. " "My thanks. " Shen Mu bowed, and bade Dragon Qilin go on; before they had gone far, they saw divine light surging to the heavens, and there was a god standing in the darkness crying, "Jingping Overlord Body Shen, Great Black Heaven has ordered me to point the way here!
This way, Overlord Body!
" Shen Mu gave thanks.
Another ten li or more, and there was another god-devil wreathed in flame, fire coiling about his body, crying, "This way, Jingping Overlord Body! " Dragon Qilin went on, and there were as many as a hundred thousand gods and demons greeting them along the road, ranged all the way from the edge of the darkness to the gate of the Great Black Palace, and Dragon Qilin's heart thumped wildly. Great Black Heaven ruled three hundred and sixteen Northern Heavens, and the elite of his gods and demons numbered a hundred thousand; lining the road to welcome them — such a scene frightened him so that he wished he could turn and flee.
Shen Mu remained calm, and bade Dragon Qilin go on.
When they came before the Great Black Palace, they saw numberless gods and demons each bursting with momentum, with ten thousand strange signs; there were even many gods and demons of the Jade Terrace, Jade Capital, and Azure Empyrean realms.
In the sky their strange signs formed all manner of heavenly palaces, towering where they sat; the bodies of the gods and demons stood upon the peaks and ridges, while their primordial spirits sat enthroned in their own heavenly palaces, dharma forms vast as heaven and earth, all of them mighty beyond measure — truly a dance of gods and demons!
And the Great Black Palace stood amid all these strange signs, with a slender flight of steps leading straight to the Great Black Palace, that hall blazing with lamplight!
Dragon Qilin's heart quailed in terror; bearing Shen Mu on his back he climbed the stone stairway, steeling himself as he went toward the Great Black Palace, gods and demons of the Northern Heavens in all their ferocious masks to either side. Shen Mu stood upon his forehead, his face indifferent.
At last Dragon Qilin reached the summit and came before the Great Black Palace.
Before the palace, the blaze of light was like torches; behind the palace, in the darkness, one could faintly discern the mountain-and-river patterns of enormous stars, unspeakably terrible.
Shen Mu paid no heed to the strange signs all around, and said in ringing tones, "Shen Mu, the Jingping Overlord Body, has come to pay his respects to the heroes of the Northern Heavens.
Will you condescend to instruct me?
" The palace gate swung wide, and within, faintly visible, a figure sat with a black sun hanging behind its head. "Feng Huayu, the Overlord Body is here. " That figure's voice came, unhurried: "Three months of cultivation have made you a different man.
Now, do you have confidence?
" "I do! " The voice from within the palace was like thunder.
"Go! " Shen Mu's gaze fell on the figure walking out of the palace, and he saw a youth emerge from the Great Black Palace, and a fragrance of flowers came rushing to his nose.
"Feng Huayu, ability-wielder of the Flower-Brocade Heaven! " The youth bowed.
Shen Mu stepped down from Dragon Qilin's head and said with a smile, "Shen Mu, the Jingping Overlord Body.