Chapter 1342 — The Mystic Fruit and the Divine Tree
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Guixu Primordial Qi Genesis was the twelfth heaven of Shen Mu's divine-ability entry into the Dao, and its greatest power lay in the Guixu abyss devouring the enemy's strength. The twin lotus flowers in the great abyss beneath his feet would sway, and the power of the opponent's divine ability would be drawn into the abyss, transformed into Primordial Qi that fell from the lotus above his head to feed his own body. As the Primordial Qi swelled, the might of the divine ability grew stronger, inflicting even heavier wounds upon the enemy.
It was a divine ability that Shen Mu had created based on Heavenly Venerable Hao's methods in the Taixu Demon Realm, absorbing, one might say, Heavenly Venerable Hao's wisdom.
But Shen Mu was, after all, not Heavenly Venerable Hao, and lacked the bloodline of Celestial Emperor Taichu and Empress Yuanmu.
Yet his study of Primordial Qi and the Way of Guixu was in no way inferior to Heavenly Venerable Hao's—indeed, it had surpassed it in some respects! He had obtained the Great Dao runes in the Dao Ancestor's Archive Pavilion; the runes of that pavilion used numerology to dissect the Great Dao of the ancient gods, including the Great Dao runes hidden within Celestial Emperor Taichu's body.
He had also obtained the bodies of the Empress and Lady Yuanmu, thoroughly fathoming the bodily Great Dao of those two ancient gods, and at the same time used microscopic numerology to fill the gaps in the Dao Ancestor's work. On this point alone, Heavenly Venerable Hao's understanding of Primordial Qi and the Way of Guixu might not necessarily measure up.
Add to this the Celestial Emperor's eggshell within Shen Mu's brow, and he had even begun to touch the Way of Taichu! If the two were to clash at the same realm, both employing Primordial Qi and the Way of Guixu, Heavenly Venerable Hao would hold the advantage of bloodline, making his divine abilities fearsomely mighty; but Shen Mu held the advantage of a deeper understanding of both the Way of Taichu and the Way of Guixu, and would not necessarily be weaker than Heavenly Venerable Hao.
In the instant the two collided, the Grand Emperor immediately felt his own power draining away, devoured by the great Guixu abyss beneath Shen Mu's feet. As one lost and the other gained, he was sure to grow weaker and weaker!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Their fists moved like light and lightning, incredibly fast, and their bodies shifted even faster; in the blink of an eye they fought from one end of the void to the other.
Relying on his three heads and six arms, Shen Mu attacked with a speed that dazzled the eyes, and in an instant countless fists came raining down.
Every blow the Grand Emperor received, every punch that landed, he felt his own power draining away, devoured by the enemy.
His power followed the other's fists and arms into that body, ran down through the legs, and surged into the Guixu abyss.
Once it entered the abyss, he immediately lost all sensation of it; it must have been swallowed and refined into Primordial Qi. Since his resurrection, he had established contact with his other body, Qiang Tianfei, and with an incomparably mighty cultivation had opened the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palaces, leaping all the way to an existence of thirty-four heavenly palaces and making up for his lack of primordial energy.
Yet in the battle against the Four Heavenly Venerables, his heavenly palaces had been almost completely destroyed, and now vital essence was pouring madly out of those shattered palaces, surging into Shen Mu's body!
And at this moment he had no means left to stop the loss.
BOOM! He took another of Shen Mu's blows, and his towering frame crashed through layer after layer of the void with a series of booms, tumbling from the twenty-seventh layer of the void down to the tenth, blood spurting from eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.