Chapter 1356 — Terror in the Night
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At the sight Shen Mu could not help but break out in a cold shudder, his scalp going numb, even his bones trembling! This sort of spirit pill was no spirit pill at all but a poison to take life, one that could even dissolve away the cultivation another had toiled so bitterly to build; it was a virulent poison of dao-dissolution!
"Rest easy.
This spirit pill strikes only the dao wound the Ancestral God King left behind.
" The Alchemist's voice came in the nick of time, dispelling his terror.
Shen Mu steadied himself.
Just then the Alchemist took out two more spirit pills; they flew up, one coming to the spot behind Heavenly Venerable Yue's heart where the dao wound left by Heavenly Venerable Hao lay, the other coming to her face, where lay the dao wound left by Heavenly Venerable Huo. Again one or two surges of primordial qi rushed up from Shen Mu's crown, turning into two heavenly palaces, one the Innate Heavenly Palace and the other the Creation Heavenly Palace.
With the Creation Heavenly Palace he remade Heavenly Venerable Yue's features and restored her former looks, while the Innate Heavenly Palace was prepared because Heavenly Venerable Hao's Way of Returning to the Void and the Innate One Qi were simply too strong: should the Alchemist's spirit pill fail to work as hoped, he would have a fallback ready.
The medicinal power of the Alchemist's two spirit pills took effect, and Shen Mu's body shook; he manifested three heads and six arms, watching intently every shift of every dao pattern. And at this moment the Alchemist took out yet another spirit pill, to heal the dao wound caused by Heavenly Venerable Xiao!
Shen Mu frowned and said in a low voice, "Grandpa Alchemist, Heavenly Venerable Yue is not thick-skinned and tough-fleshed like me.
Do we truly have to alarm every Heavenly Venerable at once?
" The Alchemist roused the medicinal power of that pill and said in a low, deep voice, "If the other Heavenly Venerables are alerted, then it certainly cannot be hidden from Heavenly Venerable Xiao either.
Rather than wait for him to strike first, we may as well alarm them all. " Shen Mu's frown deepened.
His body shook, and one heavenly palace after another surfaced behind him, forming a whole heavenly court, divine light blazing.
His Primordial Spirit split into eighteen, each standing within one of the heavenly palaces, closely watching the changes in the dao patterns of Heavenly Venerable Yue's wound.
That spirit pill had already begun to erode Heavenly Venerable Xiao's dao patterns; the first dao pattern shattered.
Shen Mu's eye twitched.
In the instant that dao pattern broke, he sensed that something in the Yuan Realm was awakening!
Like an unimaginably frightful demon opening its eyes in the dark of night!
Heavenly Venerable Xiao had been alerted!
Then the Alchemist took out a fifth spirit pill. The veins at Shen Mu's temples writhed, yet he endured it and did not disturb him, letting him give himself wholly to healing Heavenly Venerable Yue.
Heavenly Venerable Yue's zither music remained leisurely and slow, an idle plucking of the strings, a slow setting down of the chess piece; as Shen Mu and the Alchemist healed her, the dao wounds on her body struck back and caused her still greater pain, but her fingers remained steady, and every finger that plucked the strings was full of strength!