Chapter 956 — The Peerless Flesh Since Time Immemorial
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Yun Chuxiu smiled. "They are prisoners of the Heavenly Court, refined away of all emotion, retaining only their capacity for battle. When the Heavenly Court discovered the Great Void, its losses were grievous, and so it thought to make use of waste — placing these prisoners here to guard the void fortresses, so that the Heavenly Court might gain a foothold. Because they have no emotions, they are a pack of walking corpses, and thus no inner demons are born in them."
Shen Mu looked at these three-headed, six-armed gods and demons, and his heart stirred slightly. "They are people of the Chiming era?"
Yun Chuxiu summoned a Daoist and said: "This is Heavenly Venerable Mu, ordered to come and receive Heavenly Venerable Fire and Heavenly Venerable Void. Go and bring out that big fellow from the void fortress."
That Daoist had likely not been stripped of his emotions; he remained clear-minded, responsible for the stability of the void fortress and the control of those Chiming-era prisoners.
The Daoist looked at Shen Mu, astonished that Shen Mu's cultivation should be so low, but still saluted him and said: "Heavenly Venerable, please wait a moment."
He gave a shout, his voice carrying a wondrous rhythm — likely a Dao sound used to control some treasure.
Suddenly, from outside the void fortress came the sound of chains shaking, and space itself trembled. Shen Mu looked toward the sound and could not help but be aghast: behind the void fortress, a god-demon even more immense than the fortress itself was slowly rising to its feet, gradually lifting its head!
That colossal deity had three heads and six arms, its face expressionless, its three heads facing in different directions!
Its whole body was bound in chains of divine script — chains transformed from its own vital essence. Link after link flickered with符文 runes of shifting light, flowing ceaselessly around its massive frame!
Its runes interwove, spreading ever wider in scope, until they shrouded the entire void fortress.
This was a powerhouse of the Imperial Throne!
Judging by its cultivation, it was likely a peak existence even within the Imperial Throne realm!
Shen Mu looked at the rune-light upon those chains and felt a certain familiarity — like the runes of the Wulou Zaohua Xuanjing — and could not help but exclaim: "Who is he? A Great Emperor of the Chiming era?"
Yun Chuxiu giggled. "Guess!"
Shen Mu's heart shook, and he shook his head. "It cannot be Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming already died in the battlefield ruins outside the Heavenly Court; on my way to the Heavenly Court I heard Qi Jiuyi say he had passed through the Ming Emperor battlefield!"
Yun Chuxiu smiled. "Naturally it cannot be Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming possessed the strongest fleshly body in history, and nearly stormed the Heavenly Court. In those years countless legions of gods and demons besieged Emperor Ming and struck off his head more times than can be counted, yet each time it was cut off it grew back, and he could not be killed. Even the Heavenly Venerables found it exceedingly difficult to refine him to death. That battlefield ruin you passed through holds countless corpses of Emperor Ming and of other gods and demons; more than ten Imperial Throne powerhouses of the Heavenly Court died there as well — a scene of unparalleled savagery."
Shen Mu gazed up at that giant deity behind the void fortress. The giant was too powerful; standing there, it pressed the surrounding space into the shape of a funnel, collapsing inward toward him as its center!
"Utterly ignorant! Great Emperor Ju Yusheng of the Tai had the strongest fleshly body in history!" Shujun's voice sounded in his mind.
"Other than Emperor Ming, has anyone else possessed such a powerful fleshly body?" Shen Mu asked Yun Chuxiu.
"Emperor Ming is already dead."