Chapter 1238 — The Flower Guest of the Red Dust: Weighing the Real and the Unreal
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At once Shen Mu's expression turned grave; he was compelled to admit that Heavenly Lord Han was indeed powerful beyond all measure—in the very instant the five great treasures collapsed, Heavenly Lord Han had already detected that Shen Mu had poisoned the soldiers of this Fortress Wall Formation. The Dao of poison and the Dao of medicine were fused within Shen Mu, inherited from the Pillmaster; and the Pillmaster was the founder of the Heaven Palace of the Medical Dao, a man who, in poison or in medicine alike, had reached pinnacles no one before him had ever touched.
Shen Mu's medical Dao had come down to him from the Pillmaster—not, to be sure, through his own comprehension, for it was the Pillmaster's single spirit pill that enabled him to complete the Heaven Palace of the Medical Dao.
Yet once that Heaven Palace was complete, realizations concerning the medical Dao and the poison Dao had come thronging upon him.
In medicine and poison the Pillmaster stood first; Shen Mu might be his inferior, but he, too, was exceedingly powerful.
Combining the Art of Creation with his art of divine-consciousness contemplation, he could create spirit pills and deadly poisons without having to use a single medicinal herb or toxin—using the Dao runes of extreme venom to slay his opponents, and the Dao runes of healing medicines to cure the sick!
He had only just set foot upon the threshold of the medical Dao. The reason he had not poisoned Heavenly Lord Han himself was precisely that Heavenly Lord Han was powerful beyond all measure—a great master who had cultivated the formation Dao to the Lingxiao realm—and so Shen Mu had chosen first to cut off his wings, poisoning the soldiers of the Fortress Wall Formation to death.
In this way he would strip the man of the greater half of his abilities.
Yet in the next moment Heavenly Lord Han altered the formation arrays of the assembled armies, severed the Dao runes of the poison Dao, and in no time cut away the poison runes within the bodies of the soldiers, refining them to ash! "Celestial Venerable Mu, I will show you the ultimate profundity of the formation Dao!
" Heavenly Lord Han bellowed, and abruptly the swarm of cubes surged toward the five Heavenly Lord Hans.
Countless cubes and the gods and demons within them clashed and clattered, joining together to form, around the five Heavenly Lord Hans, a formation in the shape of a man.
The five Heavenly Lord Hans stood up slowly, their bodies growing taller and taller, vaster and vaster.
"Celestial Venerable Mu!
" The five Heavenly Lord Hans, lofty as hills, looked down on Shen Mu, their voices rumbling and deafening: "A junior, an insignificant True God, has actually forced me to bring out the battle arts of the formation Dao—you may well pride yourself!
" The formations upon and within these five giants' bodies clattered and shifted; in this very moment, every divine being within them was composing a different set of foundational formation runes.
Each of them was like a basic particle of the human body, and the primordial qi that flowed through them went racing through the giants' frames.
Such magic power nearly rivaled that of an Imperial Throne expert! Nor was that all: their divine consciousnesses also merged into one in that same moment, and their divine abilities became part of a single grand divine ability!
It was the first time Shen Mu had ever seen anyone cultivate the formation Dao to such an altitude, and he could not help exclaiming: "If Blind Elder were here, and met so peerless an expert in the formation Dao as Heavenly Lord Han, he would certainly cheer and leap about like a child, then defeat him honorably with formations.
But I am not Blind Elder!
" Rather than retreat, he advanced, charging at one of the Heavenly Lord Hans; even as he sprinted, he fully unfurled his Divine Treasury Domain!
Heavenly Lord Han's immense power only fanned his fighting spirit.