Chapter 1413 — Co-Lord of the Heavenly Alliance
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"What divine ability is this?"
Heavenly Venerable Hong was somewhat at a loss. He tried to use his Dao heart to break through the Nine Prisons Heart Lock, yet the moment his Dao heart stirred, he felt countless spikes within the Nine Prisons Platform growing wildly, leaving his Dao heart no escape!
His Dao heart felt a stabbing pain.
Shen Mu's Nine Prisons Heart Lock, the Eternal Dao, could not lock down his cultivation, yet it had locked his Dao heart.
His cultivation was too powerful; even the true Nine Prisons Platform could not harm him in the slightest, let alone this divine ability of Shen Mu's, which was born from the Nine Prisons Platform on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court.
Yet the divine ability Nine Prisons Heart Lock, the Eternal Dao, was not aimed at his cultivation, but at locking his Dao heart. Though the Dao heart's effect on a person was not as strong as cultivation, it was still of the utmost importance.
The Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system was for elevating cultivation and mana; it emphasized power, and the Dao heart was of no importance to power.
But Kaihuang had opened a new path, founding the Dao Realm system.
In advancing through the Dao Realm, besides comprehending the great Dao, the Dao heart also played a crucial role.
The strongest Dao heart in this world belonged to Kaihuang; thus he could stand as an equal to the Ten Heavenly Venerables at only the thirty-fourth heaven of the Dao Realm. By locking Heavenly Venerable Hong's Dao heart, Shen Mu had locked his progress in the Dao Realm—he could no longer advance in it.
Only if his comprehension of the heavenly Dao reached the level of the twenty-fourth heaven of the Dao Realm could he possibly break through Shen Mu's seal on his Dao heart.
Yet although Heavenly Venerable Hong was a guardian of the Kaihuang era and had absorbed its achievements, his understanding of the relationship between the Dao heart and the Dao Realm was only half-formed.
He did not know what it meant for his Dao heart to be locked by Shen Mu.
After all, the Dao Realm system was still in its infancy; no one had truly achieved great perfection in the Dao Realm. And Shen Mu's Nine Prisons Heart Lock, the Eternal Dao, was a newly created great divine ability of entering the Dao, revealed to the world for the first time.
Apart from his Dao heart being locked, he felt nothing amiss, nor did he feel weakened.
This weakening was founded upon the Dao heart. It could not be felt now, but if Heavenly Venerable Hong were injured and his cultivation damaged, he would feel it: because his Dao heart was locked, his vital essence, divine consciousness, primordial spirit, physical body, and even the great Dao he had cultivated would all be locked, unable to recover to their peak state!
If he was not injured, then all was well—it was merely Shen Mu locking his Dao heart.
But the moment he was injured, it would be irrevocable doom!
Such was the brilliance of Shen Mu's great divine ability at the twenty-fifth heaven of the Dao Realm!
"How did Heavenly Venerable Mu come to quarrel with Heavenly Venerable Hong?"
Yun Chuxiu walked over, her two braids swaying again as she said with a grin, "That old thing has always been a good sort. How did you offend him?"
Suddenly blood streamed from Shen Mu's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. Yun Chuxiu jumped in fright and blurted, "You looked fine just a moment ago—even shattered, you could be reborn. Why do you suddenly look like you're about to drop dead?"
"You're the one about to drop dead."
Shen Mu snorted coldly and said indifferently, "I was wounded by Heavenly Venerable Hong. Though my body and primordial spirit have recovered, his divine ability was too powerful and left me with Dao wounds that from time to time damage my body and primordial spirit. But it's no matter. I've cultivated the Heavenly Palace of the Medical Dao; this little Dao wound is nothing I can't handle."