Chapter 942 — The Old Senior Descends
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Qi Jiuyi blurted out, "Second Brother, have you not been asleep this whole time? How do you know so much?"
Long Qilin glanced at him with contempt and said, with maddening composure, "You see only that I sleep; you do not know how diligent and eager to learn I am. I was feigning sleep to cultivate! The most diligent man in this world is the Sect Master; the second most diligent is me."
Yan'er praised him lavishly and took out a spirit pill. Long Qilin opened his mouth at just the right moment, and Yan'er's spirit pill arrived at just the right moment, delivered into his mouth.
Chewing the spirit pill, Long Qilin narrowed his eyes and said mildly, "I have followed the Sect Master for so many years, and the people I have seen are all gods of great renown, some of unfathomable cultivation, some of unfathomable cunning, some mighty in the arts of transformation, some Heavenly Venerables and holy ones. So naturally my own vision and knowledge have risen with the tide!"
Yun Chuxiu's Great Abyss of Guixu devoured Shen Mu's divine ability along with those shattered buildings. The abyss quaked and twisted, then suddenly erupted, and all that it had swallowed became a dark torrent about to spew toward Shen Mu, when the river of stars that followed on its heels abruptly transformed into a phantom of the Lord of Heaven, and a fist smashed down into the Great Abyss of Guixu!
Yun Chuxiu's expression shifted slightly. Shen Mu had first used primordial magnetic power to unleash his art; the primordial magnetism between the stars was exceedingly strong, yet unexpectedly he had borrowed the stars to evolve the Lord of Heaven.
That earlier move had seemed to be one technique, but in truth it was two!
Between the Earth Mother Sovereign and the Lord of Heaven there had always been many murky relations. Mother Earth had even stolen into Xuandu and robbed the Lord of Heaven of his vital essence, bearing several children by it.
The Great Daos of these two ancient gods complemented each other. Yet the Earth Mother Sovereign also had murky relations with other ancient gods. This Mother Earth had likewise stolen into Youdu, robbed Tubo of his vital essence and borne several children, and other ancient gods too had repeatedly suffered the theft of their essence at her hands. Hence the Lord of Heaven did not much care for Mother Earth.
Shen Mu's move succeeded, and his body had already arrived in the air above Yun Chuxiu. The great divine ability of the martial path erupted, and he struck down with his fist!
"Did you not say you had already broken free of the shackles of the ancient gods?"
Shen Mu's whole cultivation burst forth, free and uninhibited, and he sneered, "Then why do you still wield the divine abilities of the ancient gods?"
The great hall beneath Yun Chuxiu's feet split into four and shattered. With a whistle, the two of them crushed the hall and fell like meteors, vanishing from everyone's sight.
The next moment, a long river appeared. Yun Chuxiu stood upon the long river, and the five great cloud thunders became firebell divine weapons. Great bells, one after another, quivered around Shen Mu, and the Heavenly River coiled about, locking him in tight.
Behind her the dragon turtle and the flying serpent coiled and roared in fury. The thousand-feathered great serpent merged with the Heavenly River; the great river revolved, its wings like blades, slashing through the water with swish, swish, swish at Shen Mu trapped at the center, swift as lightning, fierce as rolling thunder!
And the firebell divine weapons formed by the five great cloud thunders quivered without cease, pounding the space around Shen Mu until it crumbled and cracked.