Chapter 943 — The Trump Card Revealed
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The Heavenly Venerables schemed against one another, even sending men to infiltrate each other's sects to try to steal their arts, so that now, when the Ten Heavenly Venerables took disciples, they did not dare transmit even their own true arts in full.
"This brat is so hard to deal with; without using my true arts and divine powers it will be hard to defeat him! But this body is not the flesh I had aboard the Ghost Ship; it is a body I remade with a creation divine artifact, and at present it cannot hold much mana..."
Several times Yun Chuxiu came near to being wounded, and rage burned in her heart.
Her present body had reached only the Spirit Bridge realm and had not ascended to the Heavenly Palace. The sudden surge of power in the core of the Primal Wood just now had merely been mana transmitted from her true body, seizing the chance to suppress the lineage of Heavenly Venerable Lang.
With only this body's own strength, unless she used her true ultimate art, it would be hard to hold off Shen Mu.
The two moved faster and faster. Shen Mu wanted to force out her true divine power, but Yun Chuxiu was slippery as an eel; however fierce his assault, she could take it.
Just then, a great hand suddenly seized at the space, shattering countless drifting palaces of the Langxuan Divine Palace into powder and hurling them at Shen Mu!
Shen Mu's body changed, becoming Tubo, ox-headed, man-bodied, tiger-faced, horns on his head piercing straight into the Vault of Heaven and turning into rolling demon-fire and magma that streamed down like two Yellow Springs. He raised a hand and drew it across his brow, and the vertical eye at his brow split apart to either side!
Chi —
A ray of light sliced across; the great hand was split clean in two head-on. A muffled groan came from the void, then divine blood gushed forth, and an arm, split in two, fell from the air.
That was a god-devil hidden deep in space, who had tried to take advantage of the two's struggle to ambush and kill Shen Mu, only to have Shen Mu transform into Tubo and sever his arm with Tubo's Eye!
The power of Shen Mu's vertical eye was truly rare. Yet that god-devil was formidable too: having lost an arm, he immediately withdrew and fled, never showing himself.
Yun Chuxiu seized the chance to attack, coming up behind Shen Mu and pressing a palm to the center of his back.
Bang!
Her palm force landed on Shen Mu's back, and the energy burst forth; her palm was like the great abyss of Guixu, and in an instant it twisted Shen Mu's body and primal spirit and drew them into her palm!
Suddenly the back of her hand split open, and a ray of sword-light came straight from the back of her hand, stabbing at her brow!
Yun Chuxiu was startled and retreated swiftly, but Shen Mu seemed to have grown onto the back of her hand, only a foot or so tall, as though fused with her flesh and blood; however she retreated, she could not shake him off, nor shake off that sword!
Yun Chuxiu clenched her fist and struck out, smashing a ruined shrine to powder. Suddenly saber-light flared within the hall and chopped at Shen Mu — another deity hidden there, waiting for the chance to strike and kill Shen Mu.
Yun Chuxiu had seen where he hid, and so forced him out with a punch, to break her own peril.
Shen Mu's form abruptly vanished from her hand, and that deity's saber stroke became a chop at Yun Chuxiu.
Yun Chuxiu frowned slightly and pointed a finger. Horror showed in the deity's eyes as his body collapsed inward, crushed in the blink of an eye into a tiny ball of flesh, which burst with a bang!
By then Shen Mu had come up behind Yun Chuxiu. A chill ran through her; a vast, wild aura of the Great Dao surged to the heavens from Shen Mu behind her, an aura as though of the ancestor of ten thousand Daos, the progenitor of ten thousand arts!
If one closed one's eyes, by that aura alone one could feel a vast and magnificent Heavenly Court rushing at one's face, and Shen Mu seemed the sovereign of that Heavenly Court!