Chapter 1340 — Two Champions in Inner Strife
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The Divine Emperor Tai's head was like a mountain range; a moment before, it had felt to Shen Mu like a hundred thousand Great Black Mountains — though that, of course, was the Divine Emperor Tai's divine consciousness meddling with his thoughts and mind, weaving him an illusion. The Divine Emperor Tai did not excel in illusion-realms of the divine consciousness; his attainments in such arts fell far short of Heavenly Venerable Gong's.
His divine consciousness had rippled and set the void swaying a little — and that was precisely why Shen Mu had seen through him. "Heavenly Venerable Mu, you grow more and more brazen.
" The Divine Emperor Tai's long hair hung in clumps; it was naturally curly, and long, and coiled upon itself.
Now, stirred to wrath, the clumps of curls streamed and flew, and he said mildly, "In all my life of several billion years, you are no more than a little grasshopper hopping to and fro, able to leap only from spring to autumn. . .
" Before his words had faded, Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain had already erupted!
The Divine Treasury Domain swelled with a howl; the Divine Emperor Tai laughed coldly, his streaming curls rearing and swaying like great serpents, and he let Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain expand to its very limit — and even so, it did no more than enclose his head within the domain. The Divine Emperor Tai's head occupied near half the space of Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain; before that enormous head, Shen Mu's drifting heavenly palaces and heavenly court looked utterly insignificant, like miniature cities floating before it.
And Shen Mu's true body seemed smaller still. A smile came over the Divine Emperor Tai's face.
Regarding the phantom shapes of ancient gods scattered great and small through the domain, he sneered, "This is your domain.
Not bad at all. But the domain — I created it! From the most ancient of times to this day, of the countless millions of cultivators, I was the first to create a domain.
I am the pioneer!
" "You dare use the Supreme Consciousness Domain before me?
" Shen Mu laughed aloud, his body soaring into the air; the broken sword in his hand was made whole once more, its sword-light flashed, and he thrust at the Divine Emperor Tai!
This sword of his invoked the Sword Dao Domain! The Sword Dao Domain was one among the domains of his Divine Treasury Domain. Now the sword domain erupted, and the gods within the Divine Treasury Domain each unleashed their magic power and cultivation — the Way of Heaven of Xuandu, the Youdu Great Way of Youdu, the Yuandu Great Way of Yuandu, and with them the ancient gods of the Four Extremes Heaven and such ancient gods of the heavens as Tianyin and Guixu — all of it poured into this single sword, raising its might to the absolute limit!
The Divine Emperor Tai's face was expressionless as he watched the flying sword-light.
He truly did not dare employ the Supreme Consciousness Domain; to employ it was the road to death. Shen Mu had already mastered Heavenly Venerable Ling's Unchanging divine art, and if he were to employ the Supreme Consciousness Domain, his domain would in the very first instant become a weapon turned against him, trapping him within it unto death.
But the Supreme Consciousness Domain was not the only thing he knew!
His other body, the Heavenly Consort Qiang — a being who stood among the Ten Heavenly Venerables — did not cultivate the divine consciousness at all!