Chapter 1400 — The Prison Shackles the Dao Heart
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Shen Mu's mind roared as though a billion inner demons were clamoring and brawling, making it hard for him to maintain his usual Dao heart. His eyes were blood-red, and everything he looked at appeared twisted; the whole world was warping, sky and earth and his own self, all of it twisted out of shape.
"This is bad, the Heavenly Prison is shackling my Dao heart!
If my Dao heart collapses, I fear I will be like these corpses here, able only to wail, never able to leave!
" He hurriedly shut his eyes. The prison's shackling of the great Dao was more terrifying and more vicious than he had imagined.
The vertical eye at the center of his brows opened, and when he looked around again, that sense of the whole world warping vanished at once.
"Heavenly Venerable Mu, you have come to a sinister place. " The Great Origin's voice came from his divine treasury.
The Great Origin in the Egg had spent these days quietly refining the Great Origin primal stone, seldom emerging, and Shen Mu's arrival here had finally roused him. "This place is like an incomparably perilous region within the Ancestral Court; it is not somewhere you can come.
There is still time to retreat now.
" The Great Origin in the Egg surveyed the surroundings through the vertical eye at Shen Mu's brow, and his heart lurched.
He said gravely, "There are several places in the Ancestral Court that even I cannot probe, and this is one of them.
Beyond this, I sense several other places as well, and one of them is your Great Black Wood. " Shen Mu was slightly taken aback.
"Then, Brother Dao, which level do you sense?
" "The lowest level. " Shen Mu came to the edge of the eighth terrace and craned his head to peer down. The Great Origin in the Egg shouted hastily, "Whatever you do, do not look! " But by then Shen Mu had already seen the ninth terrace of the Heavenly Prison: there was only a stretch of white radiance, like a well reflecting moonlight.
The water in the well was utterly still, mirroring Shen Mu's face.
The ninth level of the Heavenly Prison was not large, only two zhang square.
Shen Mu laughed.
"There is nothing here at all. What is there to make such a fuss over?
" The Great Origin in the Egg sighed.
"You are already on the ninth terrace.
" Shen Mu was stunned.
Only then did he realize that he was not looking down at the ninth terrace, but looking up at the sky!
At this moment he was already standing upon the ninth terrace of the Nine Hells Terrace of the Heavenly Prison, gazing up at a sky like the mouth of a well!
He himself did not know when he had descended.
"You are finished.
Your Dao heart has been shackled.
" The Great Origin in the Egg sighed. "Heavenly Venerable Mu, with the Dao heart shackled, the divine abilities shackled, the great Dao shackled, the vital qi shackled, and the strength of your fleshly body shackled as well, you now have nothing left but the consciousness hidden in the Ancestral Court of your divine treasury. " Shen Mu's primordial spirit was dull, his vital qi congealed, the Dao runes in his heavenly palaces had ceased to change, the stars of the heavens in his divine treasury, the imprints of the ancient gods of the heavens in the hundred orifices of his body, everything, all of it, was shackled!
In the vertical eye at his brow, the two qi of yin and yang still circulated, but Shen Mu could not summon the power of that vertical eye at all now. He was now utterly and completely a mortal man, without a single divine ability.
"Brother Dao of the Great Origin, what do we do now? " Cold sweat rolled down his forehead.
The Great Origin in the Egg said icily, "The you of before would never have asked me what to do!
You always had some clever scheme to get through a crisis, and now you have begun to run out of ideas and ask me, has your Dao heart vanished entirely?