Chapter 878 — The Shadowed Maga Codex
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Shen Mu smiled. "That is already quite good. I myself have not entered the Dao through divine power. Entering the Dao through divine power is very difficult; presently I have only achieved entering the Dao through the sword, through the martial path. But the Jingping Reforms that Khan Luandi studied are decrepit beyond measure; the results of the reforms he taught you are long out of date. Bring forth what you have learned and attack me; I will use my divine powers to defend. I admire you. Once you have survived this, go seek out your fellow disciples and account for yourself."
Mo Santong's eyes lit up, and his aura erupted.
Behind him, demon wheels rose one after another. His primordial spirit appeared before the enormous demon wheel, slowly standing, growing ever more imposing.
It was a primordial spirit in the form of a pot-bellied demon god, with four arms, and eight eyes arrayed in a line across its forehead. Streamers formed of Youdu runes fluttered in all directions.
To wield divine powers through one's primordial spirit allowed those powers to be displayed to their utmost. To manifest one's primordial spirit in entering the Dao through divine power was clearly an attainment far beyond the ordinary!
Mo Santong roared. His four-armed, eight-eyed demon-god primordial spirit drove the Great Black Heaven Combat Method and attacked Shen Mu!
In that instant, the might of the Dark Maga Sutra was laid bare in full!
Demonic-path divine powers were already uncanny and unfathomable, yet the Dark Maga Sutra possessed a grand and majestic aspect as well!
The four-armed, eight-eyed demon-god primordial spirit drove its divine power; demon wheels hurtled toward Shen Mu along with all four arms. Not only that—from the eight eyes of the demon-god primordial spirit, more demon wheels flew at Shen Mu as well.
These demon wheels bore exceedingly complex Youdu runes, and the power hidden within them was terrifying in the extreme!
Shen Mu raised a hand, and the divine power he invoked was the Great Yuanci Divine Power created by Granny Zhu. Before and behind him, rivers of stars swirled, and the primordial magnetism erupted as he clashed head-on with the attack.
Shen Mu had not entered the Dao through divine power, but Granny Zhu was a great master who had entered the Dao that way. He had merely learned Granny Zhu's Dao-entering great divine power and wielded it with casual ease.
In the rear courtyard of the Great Black Palace, storms rose in succession. Within that storm, Mo Santong was sent flying backward, slamming hard into a thick pillar.
Then came another thunderous boom. He was crushed flat against the ground, and the earth suddenly gave way into a crater tens of zhang wide and tens of zhang deep!
The power hidden within the yuanci divine power carried the force to warp space itself, stretching and flattening his body and primordial spirit by turns. The various forces shifted countless times in an instant. At the bottom of the crater, Mo Santong was in extraordinary agony, nearly torn apart.
Shen Mu dispersed his divine power, and the rivers of stars around him dispersed with it. Stepping to the edge of the crater, he said, "I am inferior to you in the refinement of divine powers; I merely have several times your depth of cultivation. But because you have entered the Dao through divine power, it is very difficult for me to kill you with divine powers. Now you may go back and give your fellow disciples an account."
Mo Santong struggled to his feet and climbed out of the crater, then bowed to Shen Mu.
Shen Mu returned a slight bow. "Your Youdu runes are still somewhat lacking. You cannot fully bring out the power of the Youdu Dao runes."
Mo Santong had intended to leave, but hearing this, he paused, then bowed slightly and said, "May I presume to ask the Overlord Body to grant instruction."