Chapter 1333 — Sovereign of All Beasts
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Joy turning to sorrow, Shen Mu was instantly crushed and rendered ethereal by the twenty-ninth void. His form sank, plunging into the twenty-eighth void; then his divine art erupted, he hoisted sail once more and slipped back into the twenty-ninth void.
With the power of his divine art he could have carried himself into the thirtieth void, but if the art dispersed, the thirtieth void would be far too perilous for him; staying in the twenty-ninth void was the safer course.
The aftershocks of the Great Emperor's and Divine Emperor Langxuan's divine arts, by the time they reached this place, were exceedingly faint and posed little threat to him. But should he fall into the twenty-eighth void, the threat to him would rise greatly.
Though the Ancestral God King's forty-nine treasures of the heavenly dao had battered the Great Emperor until he staggered, they had not yet threatened his life.
Yet the next moment the forty-nine treasures joined in perfect union, merging two by two, and combined into a single supreme treasure.
It was a strange treasure with the Heavenly Pillar for a shaft, the various treasures — the Heavenly Well, the Heavenly Mystery, the Heavenly Cord, the Heavenly Origin, the Heavenly Disk, the Heavenly Weft — clinging to the pillar, so that this weapon was thick in some places and thin in others, in some places like a saber and in others like a spear. A great hand seized the middle of the Heavenly Pillar.
The Ancestral God King's crimson cloak snapped and flapped; he whirled the supreme treasure aloft, his body suddenly spinning, the weapon shifting form, and with the Heavenly Saber at its head it rang out with a clang and slashed into the Great Emperor's waist. The Great Emperor grunted, staggering back, blood flowing at his waist. The supreme treasure formed of the forty-nine treasures of the heavenly dao was terrifying in power, enough to threaten him.
The Ancestral God King swung up that supreme treasure of the heavenly dao, reversed the blade, and smashed the haft at the Great Emperor. At the haft the Heavenly Bell floated and swayed; with a great boom the heavenly note reverberated, blasting the Great Emperor's divine consciousness and scattering it into disorder.
The Ancestral God King stepped forward; the Heavenly Bell fell back to the second line, and he took the Heavenly Ridge as his weapon.
The Heavenly Ridge was like a tower, and he used it as a hammer, bringing it down on the Great Emperor's crown.
On the other side, Langxuan recovered his senses, reattached his neck, and again drove the One Finger of Divine Origin into the Great Emperor's brow. With the two Heavenly Venerables joining hands, the tide of battle turned at once.
The Great Emperor retreated again and again, fending off the attacks of the two great Heavenly Venerables, but he attacked little and defended much, and wound after wound opened on his body. Shen Mu clenched his fists in elation, his eyes fixed on the Great Emperor's brow.
The Taichu Primordial Stone was there.
It would not be long, surely, before that stone was crushed out, and then he could take it back. Suddenly his gaze inadvertently caught the Void Mother Beast in the distance, and he was startled.
The Void Mother Beast had hidden herself in the seventeenth void, and countless void beasts were surging toward the seventeenth void like a tide.
"The Great Emperor still has strength to spare to command these void beasts?
What does he intend? " Scarcely had the thought crossed his mind when he saw the Void Mother Beast's eyelids roll upward, revealing an enormous maw — and those giant void beasts, in neat ranks, were filing into the Mother Beast's mouth.
Within the Mother Beast's maw countless sharp teeth revolved of themselves, shredding and devouring the void beasts that walked into her mouth.