Chapter 1253 — One Move That Claims a Life
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Shen Mu activated the Reincarnation Heavenly Palace, and the Way of Reincarnation in that instant released him from the cycle, restoring his true self.
On the other side, Yu Wufei strained with every last shred of her strength to withstand the blow, yet still she could not hold.
She was a grandmaster of the Lingxiao Realm, pouring out everything she had—but Shen Mu's strike had likewise been delivered with everything he possessed. How terrifying, then, was the Dao's might within a Divine Treasury Domain?
Shen Mu rarely encountered a well-matched opponent; either the other's cultivation realm surpassed his by too far, or their strength fell too far short. Yu Wufei's cultivation base and mana both towered far above Shen Mu's, yet her comprehension of the Dao was shallow, and she had trained in the traditional Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system.
She certainly had the power to slay Shen Mu—but Shen Mu had the power to slay her as well. However, Yu Wufei did not recognize Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain, and she had rashly charged into it, losing the initiative. This strike of Shen Mu's summoned every thread of great Dao power within the Divine Treasury Domain, and the first to hit Yu Wufei were the Forty-Nine Heavenly Daos.
The Heavenly Daos descended from the heavens, manifesting into forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures!
The Heavenly Cord was shaped like a dipper and the Heavenly Mechanism like an umbrella; there were also the Heavenly Seal, Heavenly Fire, Heavenly Beggar, Heavenly Mystery, Heavenly Vault, Heavenly Wind, Heavenly Pole, Heavenly Time, Heavenly Square, Heavenly Yang, and Heavenly Yin—taking the forms of seals, crystals, fans, ladles, canopies, spurs, awls, sundials, square plates, sun pearls, and moon pearls, forty-nine treasure forms in all. As these forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures came thundering down, the Heavenly River pierced through, fusing the power of the Forty-Nine Heavenly Daos into one—a might vast beyond measure!
Yu Wufei was pinned fast to the ground.
She tried to resist, but the Thirty-Six Great Daos of the Primordial Realm overflowed and locked her feet in place. Strand after strand of Primordial Capital Dao pierced her skin like roots, boring through her flesh and growing firmly into the earth of the Primordial Realm. Nor was that all—the Sixty-Four Great Daos of the Nether Capital swept in, sealing her primordial spirit so that it could not escape.
Nor was that all—the great Dao arts of the Four Extremes Heavens howled in and slammed down from every direction. Then the Dao arts of the Heavenly Yin Realm invaded her primordial spirit, and in a single blow her three souls and seven spirits nearly shattered.
Her soul broke apart, scattering into black soul-sand that burst from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. And this was not the most terrifying part. The power of Shen Mu's seventeen heavenly palaces coiled into a single force and thundered forth alongside the Profound Body Three-Elixir Art—containing not only the supreme divine-sense art of the Great Luo, but also Shen Mu's reincarnation art and his Sword Domain!
Even the five great mineral veins within his ancestral court trembled, each surging with strange and marvelous power.
Yu Wufei and the many female generals within her heavenly palace wore looks of utter despair; countless among the divine arts hidden in Shen Mu's strike were things they had never seen nor heard of before!
Just then, they heard the sound of a bell. The bell's chime threw Yu Wufei into ecstasy, and hope of survival unconsciously bloomed within her.
"Zhaojin has come to save me.
. . " She drove her cultivation with everything she had.
The female generals in her heavenly palace recoiled in horror, feeling their own power draining away at a terrifying speed, devoured by Yu Wufei!