Chapter 1069 — The Five Stars Fall in Succession
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He wished to turn his head and look up at the sky, yet could not turn his head. He could only roll his eyeballs with difficulty, and then he saw that the twin hammers he had forged with the plague way of the Ying Huo Star had become thin sheets of paper.
Not only were his dao weapons crushed to paper, his body too was crushed into thin paper of flesh, and still it grew thinner.
His body was still rising; at that rate he must already have flown out of the Yuan Realm, yet when the Ying Huo Star Lord looked down, he saw that he was still above the Heavenly River, and below him was Shen Mu.
Yet his vision grew ever mistier, as though layer upon layer of void lay between.
He felt himself flying upward without cease, flying longer than he knew, and still there was no end.
He had now become a sheet of paper with no thickness at all, and even his thoughts were stretched and drawn out, become infinitely thin and frail.
At the last he fixed fast at the very top of that vault of heaven, as though branded there forever.
Shen Mu reached out and grasped; the vault of heaven shattered and perished, and he turned around.
This was the fourth heaven of his Dao-entering divine art: Gathering the Round Complete Above the Dalu Heavens.
In the moment Shen Mu turned, the third heaven of his Dao-entering divine art had already taken shape. When this move was performed, the Heavenly River shook violently, and of a sudden its flow was severed; it broke away from the Heavenly River itself and formed a little Heavenly River.
The little Heavenly River pierced the Four Poles Heavens; the Vermilion Bird, the Black Tortoise, the Azure Dragon, and the White Tiger appeared in the Four Poles Heavens, and the Heavenly River formed a great circle.
His body stood at the center of the great circle the Heavenly River formed; the four ancient god emperors that his own dao runes had become stood upon the four poles, and drawing on the power of the Heavenly River and the way of the four emperors, he was like an ancient god emperor who ruled the laws of heaven and earth. The Heavenly River surveys the four poles.
By the time Shen Mu performed this move, he had drawn into the divine art both the Dragon Qilin and the Tai Bai Star Lord, who were locked in battle.
From Shen Mu's surprise slaying of the Zhen Star Lord and Yan'er's devouring of the Chen Star Lord, to the Tai Bai Star Lord's grievous wounding of Shen Mu, the Dragon Qilin's rescue, the Ying Huo Star Lord's and the Sui Star Lord's rescue of the Tai Bai Star Lord, and then Shen Mu's rebirth through creation and his two moves that cast the Ying Huo Star Lord into layer upon layer of void to be ground to nothing — all this was in truth but a brief moment.
In that brief moment, attack and defense had changed hands between the two sides many times over, dazzling the eye.
Above all Luo Xiao the Creator, who had been ready to fight to the death, rolled his eyes this way and that, wholly unable to find a chance to intervene.
When Shen Mu's "Heavenly River Surveys the Four Poles" was performed, he at last found his chance to intervene — but by then Shen Mu had already joined forces with the Dragon Qilin and slain the Tai Bai Star Lord within the divine art.
Shen Mu's breath faltered and he gave a muffled groan; yet just then the Sui Star Lord flung aside the plump, fat dragon sparrow, beat his wings, and rose, charging toward the Sui Star that had already appeared more than halfway in the sky, crying in a shrill voice, "Mu Tianzun, you are doomed!
" "You collude with the Creators, you murder the ancient gods; the Heavenly Emperor will exterminate your nine clans! Your human race will die out as well!
" Yan'er beat her wings in pursuit, but flew ever slower, panting for breath.
The Dragon Qilin hurried after as well, and soon overtook Yan'er, but could not overtake the Sui Star Lord.