Chapter 971 — Supreme One, Please Perish Here
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Shen Mu asked curiously: "What is life-borrowing? What is the difference between life-borrowing and body seizure?"
"The difference is great."
The Tai Emperor's phantom said calmly: "Body seizure is devouring your soul and using my soul to occupy your physical body. Life-borrowing, however, has nothing to do with the soul—it is a level above body seizure. The soul is supremely important to you, but for us, what we rely on to live is not the soul but divine consciousness. Divine consciousness is the root of life."
He smiled gently: "I use my own powerful divine consciousness to erase your divine consciousness, yet your soul remains. Strictly speaking, after life-borrowing, only your consciousness dies. You as a person, including your soul, do not die. Consider that a small consolation."
Shen Mu's gaze flickered. He said with a smile: "Very well, very well. To go through fire and water for Your Majesty and offer my body—I am deeply honored. But how did Your Majesty come to such an end?"
The Tai Emperor's phantom's expression shifted slightly. It shook its head and said with a smile: "There's no harm in telling you, but not telling you is more convenient."
He stepped forward and said: "You should sleep now."
His form suddenly transformed into rolling streams of divine consciousness, hurtling toward Shen Mu's brow like a wisp of blue smoke, seeking to burrow into Shen Mu's spirit fetus!
Suddenly, the sky became incomparably bright. Countless starlights shone, converging into a pillar of light that descended from the heavens, landing before Shen Mu and transforming into a Tiangong with white brows and white beard, who raised his hand to block the stream of divine consciousness formed by the Tai Emperor's phantom.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—countless rays of light fell. One after another, the Celestial Stars True Gods rose slowly from the Taiji Diagram, trapping the stream of divine consciousness.
That stream of divine consciousness coalesced, once again becoming the Tai Emperor's phantom, which looked around with a grave expression.
At the same time, beneath his feet, he saw Tubo on the reverse side of the Taiji Diagram.
Whether Tiangong or Tubo, even these Celestial Stars True Gods—all of them bore Shen Mu's face!
The Tai Emperor's phantom's eye twitched. It laughed despite itself: "Mu Tianzun, do you intend to reenact the ancient gods' siege against us Primordial Creators? What a grand spectacle. Only, your spectacle seems to be missing quite a few ancient gods."
"Is Your Majesty looking for the Earth Mother, Tianyin, and the Four Directions Four Emperors of the ancient gods?"
Shen Mu smiled faintly. Behind him, a primal wood took root and sprouted, in an instant growing into a tree that reached the heavens. As the primal wood grew, a woman walked out from the tree—and she too bore Shen Mu's face, a male visage on a female body.
At the same time, from the shadow of Tiangong Shen Mu emerged a goddess, likewise a female body with a male visage.
Then, the four emperors—Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger—walked over from the four directions of the Taiji Diagram, east, south, west, and north. Only, all of them wore Shen Mu's face.
The Tai Emperor's phantom's expression shifted slightly. It said with a smile: "It seems Shu Jun passed his Three Enclosures Higher Consciousness to you, and you merged the Three Enclosures Higher Consciousness with the Rune Great Dao—that is how you managed this. Unfortunately, you never witnessed the Battle of the Blood Rust Zone. You are missing the two goddesses of Guixu, and you are missing the Heaven Emperor. You cannot do anything to me."
Shen Mu smiled: "In the world of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury that I opened, I am the Heaven Emperor here."