Chapter 1340 — Two Champions in Inner Strife
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Ever since Heavenly Venerable Yun, Heavenly Venerable Ling, and Heavenly Venerable Yue had slain him in the Great Void, he had understood that his divine consciousness harbored enormous flaws; and so, after he transformed into Heavenly Consort Qiang, the path he walked was not the old road of attaining the Dao through divine consciousness. In truth, the path he walked was the same as the other Heavenly Venerables': borrowing the Heavenly Consort's identity, gathering the divine arts and methods of the world, taking the cultivation of vital qi as his foundation, studying the Way of the Innate, and perfecting himself thereby.
On this path, he was already one of the ten most accomplished beings of the present age! His long hair streamed and flew like great dragons in flight, meeting Shen Mu's sword domain; the sword domain erupted at once — clang, clang, clang — countless crisp rings like steel striking steel came forth!
Strand after strand of long hair was severed by Shen Mu's sword domain and fell from his head!
Those severed strands writhed, and the tips of the hairs suddenly twisted into hideous forms, transforming into ferocious black dragons that lunged at Shen Mu, fangs bared and claws outspread!
More of the Divine Emperor Tai's long hair came flying, dancing like long dragons, piercing to and fro with incomparable keenness, meeting Shen Mu's sword domain head-on — and even turning defense into attack; strand upon strand of hair, like the sharpest swords in the world, the fiercest dragons, the most piercing spears, struck at Shen Mu and pierced through his sword domain!
Shen Mu held the sword in one hand and pressed a finger to the point between his brows; the vertical eye at his brow opened, and at once the black dragons transformed from those black hairs turned back into strands of hair and dropped from the air.
"The Unchanging divine art? " The Divine Emperor Tai frowned.
The divine art Shen Mu had employed was the Unchanging divine art, striking his transformed hairs directly back to their original form!
"Can it be that before this brat, no divine-consciousness art can be used at all?
" Shen Mu's sword-light had already arrived, come right before him; the radiance of the blade cut through strand after strand of long hair and was about to pierce into the hollow between his brows!
"I will waste no more words on you!
" The Divine Emperor Tai abruptly opened his mouth and roared; the dreadful waves of sound shattered space, and Shen Mu's sword domain collapsed in an instant!
And it was not only the sword domain that shattered, but Xuandu, Youdu, and Yuandu as well!
Within Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain the gods great and small crumbled one after another; the starry sky was annihilated, the earth vaporized, earth, water, wind, and fire gushed forth — a veritable portent of the end of the world!
Shen Mu faced his ferocious might and smiled; the sword-light in his hand scattered abruptly, and his fleshly body swelled madly!
His flesh and sinews coiled and knotted, like a giant who had split heaven from earth; spirit and flesh as one, god and flesh as one, he stood front to front against the roar of the Divine Emperor Tai's head! Upon the surface of his body, sinews and flesh built themselves into patterns of runes; a great bell hung suspended above his head, and its tolling shook the air, its creation majestic and strange, so that the shattered Divine Treasury Domain was restored whole in the space of a breath, and the destroyed deities were reborn one by one!
The fifteenth heaven of divine arts: Creation Unfolds the Primeval Dark!
His entire Divine Treasury Domain suddenly contracted in the span of a single turn and entered his body; the gods of the heavens, great and small, took up their dwelling in the various orifices of his flesh!