Chapter 1266 — The Rising Star Surpasses His Predecessors
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
The Innate Heavenly Palace was unquestionably a great heavenly palace surpassing even the Spirit Consciousness Heavenly Palace, and the Reincarnation Heavenly Palace besides; and the benefits it would bring Shen Mu would likewise exceed those of any other heavenly palace. Should this palace be fully refined, the enhancement to Shen Mu's cultivation and strength would be beyond all reckoning!
Yet the zither string of the Dao soon ceased its playing, and gazing along that string, Shen Mu saw the lotus continent beneath Tai Di's feet split asunder, shattered into finest powder!
Tai Di had at last broken entirely free! By his own strength alone, Tai Di could scarcely have undone the restrictions left by Heavenly Venerable Ling and Heavenly Venerable Yun; but the purpose of Tai Di's first strike had been to borrow the power of Heavenly Venerable Hao and the Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable to shatter the cage that imprisoned him!
Though he broke the restrictions by borrowed force, he was gravely wounded by Heavenly Venerable Hao in turn, blood at the corners of his mouth.
"Hahahaha! " Tai Di laughed with unrestrained joy, broken root tendrils trailing from his legs, and cried in a harsh voice: "Out at last, out at last!
What shit of a Heavenly Venerable Yun, Heavenly Venerable Ling — you schemed against me, did you not, and yet did you not both die at my hands?
And I — I have come back to life!
" The thick root tendrils upon his legs had snapped; these tendrils were the roots of the sacred objects of the various Creator clans — spirit roots the Creators had found in the Ancestral Court and raised into sacred objects through countless ages of sacrifice. Some sacred objects grew into sacrificial gods; others kept their original form. In the battle to destroy Tai Di, the Creators of the Great Void had all but exhausted their sacred objects, using them all to lay traps, and only thus had they broken through Tai Di's physical body, giving Heavenly Venerable Yun and Heavenly Venerable Ling their opening.
But now, the sacred objects that had bound Tai Di's flesh were dead as well. Tai Di's wounds healed with astonishing speed, until no wound remained.
His spirit consciousness was mighty; under its visualization, even a severed head could be conjured back with ease.
For a being such as he, his vital gate was neither his soul, nor his primordial spirit, nor his flesh — his vital gate was his spirit consciousness; so long as his spirit consciousness did not perish, he could not truly die. And he had already lodged his spirit consciousness in the Ultimate Void, which cut off all possibility of his death.
The strongest fleshly body in all history, as the Creators called it, was at last free to unleash its full power!
Tai Di laughed aloud, and his incomparably dreadful spirit consciousness burst forth.
His spirit consciousness was unmatched in all the world; even before he had fully escaped, it had been able to sway an entire divine city, and even such an Emperor Throne existence as Shang Pingyin.
True, Shang Pingyin had been so easily controlled only because of the flaw in his Dao heart, yet to command an Emperor Throne so lightly was still an inconceivable power. Yet Tai Di's spirit consciousness was not merely a matter of controlling others — it was visualization!
"Heavenly Venerable Hao, let me show you what visualization truly means!
" Tai Di's long hair twisted into knots, many strands tangled together, thick and dense, his bearing wild.
In that moment, not only did Heavenly Venerable Hao sense the fluctuations of the Dao hidden within his spirit consciousness — even Shen Mu and the others, far away, felt that Tai Di's spirit consciousness was transforming into the Dao! Spirit consciousness transforming into the Dao was a realm Shen Mu had never touched!