Chapter 880 — The Everlasting Undying Body
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"Heaven Venerable" had not used his full strength, and neither had he.
His aim was precisely to force "Heaven Venerable" to bring out his full strength, and to see whether the man behind this "Heaven Venerable" was one of the Nine Heaven Venerables of those years. Even if the man were not one of the Nine Heaven Venerables, he could still judge from his divine abilities what attainments he had won.
When Shen Mu had defeated the previous "Heaven Venerable," that "Heaven Venerable" had not displayed his true arts even unto death, unwilling to expose his identity; but this Heaven Venerable meant to unleash his supreme learning, and that filled him with anticipation.
In the Heavenly Court, few were qualified to receive the body of a Heaven Venerable and to wield it in descent to the lower realm; only the leaders and the chiefs of the Heavenly Alliance held that qualification. He wanted to see just how powerful the existence that controlled the Heavenly Court truly was!
Within his body, the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art was already running at full power, linking all fourteen of his divine treasuries into one!
The Heavenly River surged vast and mighty, piercing through Life and Death, Heaven and Man, the Seven Stars, the Five Luminaries, and the Spirit Fetus, then flowing on through Xuandu into the Demon Dao divine treasury; fourteen divine treasuries become one!
His primordial spirit unified the divine and the demonic; the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art fused all powers into one; his primordial spirit stood towering above the Heavenly River, ready at any moment to erupt with all his strength and all his potential!
This would be the mightiest blow of his life!
The darkness around the Great Black Palace swept in once more, drowning him and "Heaven Venerable. " Suddenly a tremendous sound came from behind the Great Black Palace, and that enormous celestial body split open with a long canyon running east to west across the planet.
The canyon parted to either side, the mountain ranges fell back, the seas ebbed; it grew ever larger and wider, revealing an eyeball beyond all imagining.
This enormous demon eye gazed into the darkness, waiting for the movements of "Heaven Venerable" and Shen Mu within it, deeply anticipating this battle.
This eye was the eye of Great Black Heaven's true body.
The Great Black Heaven who appeared before the crowd was not his true body; he was, after all, the first demon god, and his true body was too vast.
Were he to show himself in his true form, even gods and demons would find it hard to take in his entirety.
So he showed himself in a false body, while his true body lay hidden in the darkness.
When Shen Mu had come to the Great Black Palace and settled here, he had once walked into the darkness and groped about within it, touching some dreadful colossus in the dark, and then returned to the palace smiling. At that time he had sensed that the true Great Black Heaven was hidden in the darkness, knew he could not leave, and so simply turned back cheerfully.
In the darkness, a violent upheaval came without warning, as though space had shuddered countless tens of thousands of times on end, and even the crowd before the Great Black Palace could not keep their footing!
This was no clash of Shen Mu's divine ability with "Heaven Venerable"'s, but the energy bursting forth as "Heaven Venerable"'s divine ability awakened. It was hard to imagine that a body at the Divine Bridge realm could contain such vast and boundless power within it!
In the darkness Shen Mu stood at the center of the upheaval; "Heaven Venerable"'s divine ability was like a great heavenly tribulation erupting, bearing endless wrath, punishing all the treason in this world!
Shen Mu erupted as well, no other thought left in his mind, no other notion at all.
His qi and blood were like a raging tide, as if the spirit of an age were burning in his blood, blazing fiercely, a roaring fire fed with oil!