Chapter 1352 — The Fall of the Moon God
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The two of them stepped behind the screen.
Behind it sat a woman, her hair loose and wild about her face.
At last Shen Mu laid eyes upon the Moon Heavenly Venerable.
At her waist there was a sword wound, ghastly to behold — the wound the Dawn Heavenly Venerable had left upon her. The Dawn Heavenly Venerable was Xiao Weisu; he wielded a sword, and his sword was an emperor's sword.
And as the reincarnation of the Heavenly Emperor Taichu, he was likewise master of every divine ability and dao art. The Moon Heavenly Venerable's long hair covered her face, so that none could make out her features; and beneath that long hair flame drifted and flickered, scorching her face without cease.
Those were the dao wounds left by the Fire Heavenly Venerable's fist prints.
The Fire Heavenly Venerable's divine powers shook heaven and earth — he could slay the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird within its own ancestral land!
There was also a great pit upon the Moon Heavenly Venerable's head, her skull split open and her brains laid bare: a wound the Ancestral God King had dealt her.
The Ancestral God King had refined forty-nine treasures of the heavenly dao, which could be freely combined to become the mightiest supreme treasure of the heavenly dao!
Shen Mu walked round behind the Moon Heavenly Venerable; upon the back of her garment there was the print of a great palm — the palm print of the Hao Heavenly Venerable.
The Hao Heavenly Venerable had cultivated the Innate Primordial Qi and the Great Way of Guixu to perfection; and though this palm print had not fused the Innate Primordial Qi and the Great Way of Guixu into one, it hid two divine powers within a single strike: the Great Way of Guixu turned into a vast abyss, devouring the Moon Heavenly Venerable's cultivation and swelling the destructive force of the Innate Primordial Qi. Shen Mu stepped forward and came before her once more, and gently parted the long hair that covered her forehead and hid her face. Then the Moon Heavenly Venerable raised her hand and caught his wrist, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't.
I am hideous.
.
.
" With his other hand Shen Mu gently pushed her palm aside, and said softly, "In my heart you have never been hideous.
Let me look. " The Moon Heavenly Venerable made no further attempt to stop him.
He gently parted the long hair before her brow, and his gaze fell upon her countenance.
The Moon Heavenly Venerable's face was ruined; not a patch of skin was left to see.
The mightiest fire-art divine power of the present age ran riot across it, tracing out one dreadful flame-pattern after another.
Shen Mu's gaze then fell upon the space between her brows: amid the burn marks there was a deep, small hole. That hole had been made by the impact of divine consciousness.
The divine consciousness of the Divine Emperor Langxuan was overbearingly strong; save for the Heavenly Consort Qiang and the Palace Heavenly Venerable, who dared not reveal their identities, he was the first man of the Heavenly Court.
His divine consciousness had pierced in through the Moon Heavenly Venerable's brow, attacking her brain, attacking her primordial spirit! The Moon Heavenly Venerable's Way of Space and her space divine powers had all reached their utmost; though her fighting strength was not the greatest among the Heavenly Venerables, she stood upon ground that could not be defeated — no one could wound her.
The one chance to wound her was the moment when the Moon Heavenly Venerable had no choice but to strike out in defense of the Ling Heavenly Venerable.
Though Shen Mu had seen that battle, he could well imagine the scene at the time.