Chapter 1238 — The Flower Guest of the Red Dust: Weighing the Real and the Unreal
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
His Divine Treasury Domain spread open; the Mysterious Capital, the Nether Capital, the Four Pole Heavens, the Primal Capital, and other worlds, some above and some below, burst forth together with a brilliant starry firmament. The Heavenly River ran crossways through every great world, linking them all into one body. The ground beneath his feet was the Ancestral Court, and sixteen Heaven Palaces formed a boundless Heavenly Court!
Since his cultivation had matured, he had never had occasion to exert himself to the utmost; even in his clashes with Lin Xuan and Xu Shenghua, he had held his own strength in check.
And now, at last, he had the chance to let his power bloom in full!
In past days, when he unfolded his Divine Treasury Domain, he had still been wary and guarded, for if the Divine Treasury were broken, it would be exceedingly difficult to cultivate it back—and the Divine Treasury was his very root.
But he had already realized the Immutable Divine Ability of Celestial Venerable Ling; unless someone struck him dead with a single fatal blow, no one could bring about his true death!
"Heavenly Lord Han, your body is too huge—you have lost the agility that a practitioner of divine abilities ought to possess!
" Shen Mu stepped into the dim void, crossed through the emptiness, and evaded the utterly frightful combined strike of the five Heavenly Lord Hans, calling out with a ringing laugh: "You have matchless power and nothing else, yet it never occurred to you that a formation takes time to operate—and I will not give you that time!
" The five Heavenly Lord Hans' magic power was truly vast and their strength truly appalling; one of his palms, bearing irresistible force, actually smote into the void.
Shen Mu vaulted out of the void, appeared behind the head of one of the Heavenly Lord Hans, and struck backward with a move—Flower Guest of the Purple Path.
This was his fifth Dao-Entry divine art.
His finger trembled, and a lotus appeared; the lotus split from one into two, from two into four, and by the time it reached that Heavenly Lord Han it had become a sea of blossoms, countless flowers pressing against every part of his body.
The cubes composing Heavenly Lord Han's body, and the gods and demons within them, immediately felt their power draining away at flying speed, absorbed by the lotuses. Flower Guest of the Purple Path was best at breaking the divine abilities and formations of others; Shen Mu had once used this very move to break all the experts of Dragon Island in the Eastern Pole Heaven, leaving the experts of the Eastern Pole Heaven without the least ability to fight back.
"Ninefold Empyrean of Li Fire!
" Another Heavenly Lord Han came lunging; with a flick of his body, countless cubes flew out from him and turned into the great formation of the Ninefold Empyrean of Li Fire, enveloping that first Heavenly Lord Han.
Shen Mu's Divine Treasury spread itself completely open, and in the sixteen Heaven Palaces one primal spirit after another called up the power of its palace in unison, joining hands to unleash the selfsame divine ability.
The sixteen Heaven Palaces howled and spun, taking on the form of a taiji diagram, and enveloped the second Heavenly Lord Han! That Heavenly Lord Han had only just deployed the Ninefold Empyrean of Li Fire and broken Shen Mu's Flower Guest of the Purple Path when he was immediately caught beneath this grand divine ability of Shen Mu's.
The Taiji vein in the Ancestral Court suddenly shook; the twin breaths of yin and yang—the very Dao of yin and yang—burst out from the Taiji vein, and in an instant the body of that Heavenly Lord Han turned into two currents of qi, one black and one white, unable ever to fuse again.