Chapter 1437 — Peerless Divine Art
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
All his heavenly palaces abruptly drew in, and flew in perfect unison into the space between his brows. Shen Mu's mortal body at once blazed with a brilliance beyond compare; in the hundred orifices of that body, the power of ancient god imprints was roused one after another, raising the strength of his flesh to its utmost.
At this moment, in the heavenly court between his brows, the positions of the heavenly palaces shifted, so that the Creation Heavenly Palace became the main body and the leader, with the other heavenly palaces assisting it.
In a single instant, his strength was unified! His bodily frame surged section by section, his sinews and flesh turned hideous, and his power in that instant rose to an incomparable height!
The Chiming Divine Body Art!
His body, which had lain almost flat upon the desert, sprang up at once; the Divine Treasury domain made it meaningless for the Empress to appear behind him, and Shen Mu drove a fist into the Empress's sleeve, striking straight at her vital point; no matter how the Guixu abyss might strangle and slay, it could not extinguish the might of that fist!
As his eighteenth heaven of the Dao realm, the Chiming Divine Body Art unified not only his Dao of Creation, but also his martial Dao and his battle arts.
The ancient gods were famed for the strength of their bodies, and by nature they mastered the great Dao; yet martial Dao has always been the peerless art that excels in close-quarters slaughter!
He was like a great emperor of the martial Dao, wrestling dragons and rending phoenixes at close range, his tyrant body surging to the heavens, and at the same time he possessed the deathless body and deathless primal spirit of the Vermilion Emperor and the Bright Emperor!
From within the Empress's sleeve her palm flew out like a spirit serpent, crashing into his fist, displaying to the fullest the incomparable strength of an ancient god's body!
This true body of hers had died young, slain by Lady Yuanmu's treachery in the early-to-middle Longhan age, and had been pinned down upon the ghost ship ever since; but after she obtained a body from Shen Mu, she used the cultivation of these years to raise the strength of that true body, and it was no small thing!
Yet in a head-on clash with Shen Mu she gained no advantage at all: Shen Mu's body and primal spirit were highly unified, his divine consciousness and vital qi fused into one, his flesh compact, and the various ancient god imprints transformed into the strength of his body. In that instant of collision, within each of his bodily orifices the ancient god imprints blazed, turning into two thousand ancient gods that howled and danced around him, then sank back into the orifices.
Each time his power made its circuit, the Dao-sound within him rumbled and shook, and even the shrieking wind and sand of the Great White Sand Desert could not drown out that ringing Dao-sound. Her Majesty the Empress's gaze was cold; her bearing was like a dance, her long sleeves flying like spirit serpents, her sleeve like an abyss; now and then a slender jade hand came forth from the sleeve, and each strike was full of beauty, yet murder was hidden deep within.
The two collided once more, and each drew back.
Crash!
From behind Shen Mu's head nineteen heavenly palaces flew out and became one great heavenly court; both hands raised before him, he bowed deeply. Her Majesty the Empress's expression changed slightly, and she flew up at once to dodge that strike.
As Shen Mu bowed, the countless grains of white sand before him were annihilated in a rush, turning into strands of chaos qi. Yet in that instant when the Empress dodged, she realized that no matter where she fled, Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain made her forever face him head-on.
Amid rumbling, shaking booms, with Shen Mu at the center, all the white sand around him returned to chaos in the violent trembling, becoming chaos qi that gushed and coursed!