Chapter 967 — Frenzy and Demonic Possession
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
"There are only eighteen methods in the Mu-Slaying Arts, and every one he sees through is one fewer sure kill against the Heavenly Venerate Mu. Your skills were too slight, and you were foolish besides. Rather than wait for the Mu-Slaying Arts to be unraveled one by one and let him grow ever stronger, it is better to keep those arts in reserve.
" Lian Huahun said softly, "Without resorting to my own ultimate arts, I too would find it hard to kill him. So I cannot allow the Mu-Slaying Arts to be exposed, and therefore I had no choice but to dispose of you.
Does this explanation satisfy you, Senior Brother Liao? " One after another, Senior Brother Liao's heavenly palaces gave out thunderous roars; thousands upon thousands of halls plunged into the abyss.
His primordial spirit could not escape either, and fell into the abyss together with his collapsing body!
In the end he vanished utterly from the world, leaving not the slightest trace; his soul too disappeared without a shadow — no soul fragments, no black soul sand.
He had been wholly digested by the abyss.
And that abyss divine art came flying back and entered Lian Huahun's brow.
A red mark surfaced on the girl's brow, then vanished. She took out a mirror. Upon it appeared five red dots, four of which were moving.
This was a treasure the Heavenly Venerate Hao had refined for the nineteen disciples on this expedition. It was called the Soul Mirror, and through the red dots upon it each disciple could swiftly find the others, so that they might gather and join hands to kill Shen Mu.
But the Heavenly Venerate Hao had never once dreamed that the Soul Mirror would become the death warrant of his own disciples! "Of the Heavenly Venerate Hao's eighteen disciples, five have already died by my hand.
There are four left; once those four are dealt with, I can go and deal with the Heavenly Venerate Mu. " A smile came to Lian Huahun's face. Holding up the Soul Mirror, she flew toward one of the red dots: "The other nine either perished on the road or entered Taixu and perished in its uncanniness. I only do not know whether any were disposed of by the Heavenly Venerate Mu, nor how many of the eighteen Mu-Slaying Arts remain. But to kill the Heavenly Venerate Mu, I will not need many of them.
" Soon she caught up with one of the red dots, and saw a young woman racing across the wilderness, a mirror held up in her hand as well. "Senior Sister Li!
" Lian Huahun called out loudly.
Senior Sister Li's face changed drastically, and she flew on faster, racing away, and said with a cold laugh, "Lian Huahun, just now I saw on the Soul Mirror that after the dot representing you touched another dot, that dot went out. You killed that senior brother, and now you have come to kill me too, have you not? " Lian Huahun's expression shifted slightly, and she gave chase: "Since Senior Sister knows, then all the more I cannot let Senior Sister live. Stop running — you cannot escape my grasp.
" Though Senior Sister Li was a True God, she did not dare cross swords with her, and fled in panic for her life. Lian Huahun pointed a finger, and ahead of her a black vortex appeared; she threw herself into the vortex and vanished.
Senior Sister Li was in full flight when of a sudden a black vortex appeared beside her.
She was about to halt when the vortex abruptly swelled and swallowed her. The vortex trembled violently in midair, as though two monstrous beasts were within it, fighting to the death, a slaughter most savage.
Before long Senior Sister Li suddenly burst out of the vortex and fled at speed; but as she ran her body grew lighter and lighter, until at last she became a sheet of human skin, which the wind caught up and sent tumbling and rolling away. Her flesh was hollow: the blood and flesh and bone beneath that skin, and even her divine repositories, her heavenly palaces, and her primordial spirit, had all been devoured!