Chapter 1344 — Refined into a Treasure
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
The Grand Emperor's head was just about to struggle free and flee when suddenly the ground around him began to undulate—booming sounds rang out on every side as the earth swelled upward into five mineral veins! One vein held the Dao of Taichu swirling within its depths; one held the two qi of yin and yang intertwined; one held the Dao of Taisu in the transformation of form and substance; and one held the Dao of Taishi, the mountain range itself turning into a phantom mountain with form but no substance.
Only the last vein, though risen, carried not the slightest aura of any Dao. Four of the five veins pressed down upon the Grand Emperor's head, and four different Daos invaded his body, suppressing his spiritual consciousness and branding seals of four innate Daos upon the consciousness within his mind! The Grand Emperor's spiritual consciousness was instantly locked—he could no longer mobilize it in the slightest—yet he burst out laughing.
"Mu Heavenly Venerable, was your divination taught by the Battle Martial Heavenly Master?
There are plainly only four veins here, and yet you insist on calling it five mines! " Shen Mu's face went black. He had never once comprehended the Dao of Taiyi, so naturally he could not use the Dao of Taiyi to seal the Grand Emperor.
The reason he had said "Five Mine Great Seal" was simply that the Ancestral Court had five mineral veins—it had slipped off his tongue. Suddenly he gave a muffled grunt; blood sprayed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, and wounds burst open across his body, gushing blood in every direction. The Grand Emperor struggled with all his might, desperately gathering his disordered spiritual consciousness in an attempt to break the seal.
Seeing this, he could not help laughing aloud in mockery: "Mu Heavenly Venerable, so you've sealed me—but what of it?
Your wounds are even heavier than mine!
" Shen Mu's expression grew darker still.
Trembling, he fished out a small basket—inside were the spirit pills the Dan Master had refined for him. That night when the powerhouse of the previous epoch had invaded, the Dan Master had specially refined a basket of spirit pills.
Shen Mu and the others had not used them all; a few remained, so he had tucked the basket away against future need. The Grand Emperor's spiritual consciousness could not concentrate or congeal in the least. His head fled this way and that, yet the Four Mine Seal kept refining it smaller and smaller, and the pressure pressing in from all around grew heavier and heavier, leaving him no way to escape.
Still he laughed: "Shen! To have come this far is already quite an accomplishment.
But unfortunately, you cannot kill me—you can only suppress me. Once I've ground you down to death, I'll still be the winner! " Shen Mu kept refining the medicinal power, saying not a word.
The Grand Emperor laughed. "Cloud Heavenly Venerable killed me—so what? After his death, I still cast his primal spirit into the ultimate void and suppressed it within the Spiritual-Consciousness Great Luo Heaven. Ling Heavenly Venerable had the means to check me—so what? She was still slain by my hand and could only seal herself within the Heavenly River.
Mu Heavenly Venerable, you will come to the very same end.
" Shen Mu drove the medicinal power, suppressed his wounds, and only then released a breath. The Grand Emperor's head had already been refined down to the size of a bushel basket by the Four Mine Seal, and the four veins themselves had shrunk smaller and smaller. Shen Mu drove the remnant sword, cutting this way and that, shaping the ground into a round disc. He then drove Taishi runes into it, altering the material structure of the Xirang, and refined the Four Mine Seal into a great seal a little over a zhang square.
Upon this precious seal were four dragon-shaped mountain ranges, and at the center of those four dragon-shaped mountain ranges sat the Grand Emperor's head—like a pearl held fast within the jaws of four dragons.