Chapter 1187 — Slaying the Beast Mother
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The Void Mother Beast thrust another portion of its body down and gave chase into the ninth heaven, but the Heavenly Sphere sank again, to the tenth. It chased into the tenth, and the Sphere sank to the eleventh; the Mother Beast pressed close behind and soon reached the eighteenth heaven, and now its whole body was about to emerge entirely from the seventeenth void.
At that moment Shen Mu abruptly changed the formation of the heavens; the twenty-eight heavens whirled madly, seething like molten rock, tossing the countless giant Void Beasts that had invaded them into such confusion that they could not keep their footing and were flung off the treasures one and all! "Stop! " Shen Mu bellowed, and the twenty-eight heavens stopped dead; countless Void Beasts were hurled against the barriers of the heaven-worlds, smashing layer upon layer of those world-barriers to fragments!
Shen Mu bowed low and cried, "Treasures, slay the mighty foe!
" The twenty-eight heavens were on the verge of collapse, and the supreme treasures were about to fall from them, when of a sudden the Heavenly Sphere quaked, and a vast, primeval power burst forth; the might of the treasures of every heaven bloomed and came surging in from all directions, hammering into the Void Mother Beast! BOOM— A thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth rang out; radiance of every hue gushed forth, the sound of the Dao reverberated, and the Void Mother Beast's colossal body shattered and burst apart in the light, its enormous head tumbling from its severed neck!
BOOM BOOM BOOM— Countless explosions joined into one, blasting the Mother Beast's head and body to powder; blood poured down from the sky, a rain of blood descending like a waterfall.
Then the two legs the Void Mother Beast had kept hidden in the nineteenth void came falling too. Seeing this, Shen Mu was overjoyed, but all at once he felt dizzy and his vision swam; he knew that in pitting all his wit against the horde of Void Beasts he had damaged his spirit.
Still, the horde was now headless, and this was the perfect chance to slaughter the Void Beasts. He forced his spirits up, roused the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner, and borrowing the might of the Heavenly Sphere, called upon the power of treasure after treasure to cut down the Void Beasts that had invaded the twenty-eight heavens. The horde fell into chaos, each beast fighting alone, and soon he had slaughtered more than half; but the twenty-eight heavens were damaged, and quite a few Void Beasts still escaped.
Shen Mu held on by sheer force of will, rousing the treasures again and again, and at last swept the twenty-eight heavens clean of Void Beasts.
His vision went black; he knew his spirit was spent to the last drop, yet he gritted his teeth, bowed low to the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner, and said in a hoarse voice, "Treasures, mend yourselves. " The damaged places in the twenty-eight heavens began slowly to heal.
Shen Mu let out a breath.
He knew that with such a commotion here, it could hardly be hidden from the other Heavenly Venerables. He was about to speak when the nausea in his chest became unbearable and he began to retch. He hastily roused the Mystic Body Three Cores Art to recover his spirit, and then saw familiar figures walking from the distance, drawing near the Blackwood Mountains.
The Blackwood Mountains were now completely covered by the corpses of Void Beasts, their original appearance lost beyond recognition, and Shen Mu could no longer muster the power of the Glazed Azure Heaven Banner to bar the Heavenly Venerables' entry.
The eight Heavenly Venerables — Hao, Xiao, Gong, Qiang, Hong, Yan, Langxuan and the Ancestral God King — walked without their feet touching the ground to the Great Black Peak. Shen Mu forced down his retching, greeted them, and said mildly, "Greetings, fellow Daoists.
" Heavenly Consort Qiang said with concern, "Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, your face is pale; clearly you have spent too much of your spirit.