Chapter 1070 — A Sudden Upheaval
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"A Creator indeed!
" Gripped in Luo Xiao's hand, the Sui Star Lord started in his heart. This Creator was very strong, far stronger than any Creator he had ever met before, and must be an outstanding genius among Creators.
Yet against Creators, the ancient gods each had their own means.
Creators cultivated no techniques of the Way and no divine arts; they cultivated only divine consciousness, tempered their flesh with that consciousness, and visualized outer things, having no prime spirit, which left a great weakness in soul and spirit. Creators were mighty, and likewise frail. What the Sui Star Lord commanded was the way of life and sacrifice.
In the instant Luo Xiao seized him, his palm began to swell, and in a short moment that palm grew four or five times larger, exceeding the limit his flesh could bear. His palm began to collapse, the weight of muscle crushing bone! Nor was that all.
His arm too began to swell like a torrent, spreading ceaselessly upward along his arm, making his flesh ever larger.
Luo Xiao's flesh in its complete form was already immensely towering, and the Sui Star Lord used the way of life to rouse its functions, making it grow without limit until it crushed itself. As early as the primeval Hongmeng age, this trick of the Sui Star Lord had never failed.
In the Bloodrust Campaign, countless Creators surged toward him, yet before they could reach his side they swelled one after another, until at last they crushed themselves to pieces and became pools of rotten flesh drifting in the starry void of the universe. Though untold hundreds of thousands of years had passed, the Bloodrust Campaign remained the grandest, most magnificent, and most staggering battle in all history.
In that battle, ancient gods from every quarter blazed with splendor, and from then on laid the pattern of ancient god rule. Even through the million years from Longhan to Jingping, the pattern of ancient god rule had never wholly perished. That was the effect brought by the Bloodrust Campaign. Luo Xiao also knew the ancient gods had ways to counter him, so in the instant he seized the Sui Star Lord he flung him backward.
The Sui Star Lord flew from his grasp and fell downward, while Luo Xiao's arm had already become white bone, the muscle upon it wholly rotted away, and the rot still creeping toward his shoulder. Luo Xiao acted without hesitation.
Raising his other arm, he visualized a divine blade, and with one falling stroke cut off his own arm to stop the spread of the rot.
The Sui Star Lord was hurled toward the Yuan Realm, then beat his wings without cease, trying to halt his form, when Luo Xiao's divine consciousness rushed upon him, visualizing meteors that struck his body one after another, beating him ever backward so that he could not check his fall at all.
Luo Xiao's body shrank rapidly as he strode after him, visualizing ever more meteors that bombarded the Sui Star Lord without pause.
Shocked and enraged, the Sui Star Lord suddenly took two divine pearls full on the back of his skull, for the Dragon Qilin had already come behind him. Battered into stupor, his three souls scattered, Yan'er flew to him, thrust out her sharp claws and tore him apart alive, and at the same moment Shen Mu's sword light arrived and with one stroke wiped out his heaven, earth, and god souls. Luo Xiao ceased his visualization and descended, tore his robe to bind his severed arm lest the wound bleed, and bowed to Shen Mu, saying, "Mu Tianzun, now that my identity is exposed, the ancient gods will surely come to kill me and seek out my people. My life will not last long.
Only I am ashamed to have entangled you, and I fear in this life I shall have no chance to repay you. Farewell!
" Shen Mu smiled and said, "Luo Xiao the Creator, you and I walk the same road. Why be in such haste to leave? Do you not wish to find your people's Ancestral Court?