Chapter 943 — The Trump Card Revealed
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"You grant it to me?"
Shen Mu was furious. His body shook, and starlight descended from all the heavens, swelling his flesh until it rose joint by joint; his brows and eyes turned snow-white, radiating endless starlight. He was like a miniature Lord of Heaven, lifting a hand to shift the stars and turn the Dipper, his voice like a great bell: "Every pot of filth dumped on my head, I earned by my own ability. Did I need you to grant me anything?"
He was as though the Lord of Heaven had descended. His fists and feet opened and closed in great sweeps, starlight surging to the heavens from the crown of his head, transforming into the Seventh Heavenly Dao, the Vault of Heaven.
The Vault of Heaven was vast, azure as washed silk, canopied over a hundred li of space, giving one the feeling that within those hundred li he was the invincible being who governed the Heavenly Dao!
His palm was the Fourth Heavenly Dao, the Seal of Heaven.
Every blow of his was like the Lord of Heaven punishing evil and exalting good, striking into Yun Chuxiu's Dao-heart, striking out the sin in her heart, striking out her weakness, striking out her divinity, beating her into a mortal, beating her until she wept and wailed!
Behind him, the Heavenly Net was like the Dipper, the Heavenly Mechanism like a parasol, the Heavenly Yang the Great Sun, the Heavenly Yin the Bright Moon.
Beneath his feet was the Heavenly Terrace; above his head his vital essence became a canopy; his eyes were the Heavenly Eye, spouting the wrath of the Heavenly Dao.
Qi Jiuyi looked at Yun Jianli in surprise and said in a low voice, "This divine power of Sect Master Shen's bears some resemblance to your Yun family's arts, likewise ever-changing, every kind of divine power plucked at will."
Yun Jianli too showed astonishment. "There is still a difference. Heavenly Venerable Mu seems to have only just groped his way to this method; his use of it is not yet skilled. It is not my Yun family's art. I understand now!"
He said in a low voice, "Heavenly Venerable Mu is a master of the art of creation and has studied the Heavenly Dao deeply as well; that is why he can wield a method akin to my Yun family's!"
Yun Chuxiu fell back step by step, and anger rose in her heart.
In her view, Shen Mu truly did not know when to advance and when to retreat. Shen Mu's very life had been granted by her; had she not appeared at the Jade Pool and helped Heavenly Venerable You hold off those two Heavenly Venerables, Shen Mu would long since have been a corpse.
What did it matter if she clapped a great pot of filth on his head?
Yet Shen Mu's attacks only grew fiercer, every kind of Heavenly Dao divine power plucked at will and scattered about freely, and each move was of enormous power. Plainly his mana was boundless and mighty, far beyond his peers.
Yun Chuxiu was furious, yet she could not well unleash a greater power.
She could sense that many gazes were fixed on this place at this moment. Shen Mu was a hothead who did not know the weight of things, but she knew that the owners of those gazes were likely other Heavenly Venerables.
If she killed Shen Mu, or displayed her true ultimate art, the other Heavenly Venerables would likely get a hold over her.
Especially her true ultimate art.
At present all Ten Heavenly Venerables were striving to complete the art of the Heavenly Court realm, but the Ten Heavenly Venerables were not as they once were; there were many rifts among them, and they could hardly trust one another, so each groped his own way.
Never had the Ten Heavenly Venerables come so close to the realm of the Heavenly Court. Whoever first perfected the Heavenly Court realm would be the sovereign of this world!
If one could obtain another Heavenly Venerable's complete art, first, it would greatly benefit oneself and help one create a complete Heavenly Court art; second, it would allow one to find the other's flaws!