Chapter 1481 — The Nine Nether Great Prison Suppresses High Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
The Lord of Heaven's primal spirit remained as calm and aloof as ever, speaking without haste: "The Grand Heavenly Venerable is me; his thoughts are my thoughts. Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, do you think the Grand Heavenly Venerable is merely one of my souls, that he wandered too long in the red dust of the mortal world and was tainted by it, and so became one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables? Do you think he and I are not of one mind, that his thoughts and mine are not one? Do you think he did those things behind my back? Then you are wrong — utterly wrong."
The white light in his eyes drifted like floating clouds of dawn, and his voice rang out like a heavenly bell: "The Grand Heavenly Venerable is me. Every thought of his is my thought! Every deed of his is my deed; every notion of his is reflected without reserve in my heavenly heart. His desires and his pursuits are my desires and my pursuits!"
Shen Mu clenched his fists and said, his voice hoarse: "His desires and pursuits are a part of your desires and pursuits — is that not so?"
The Lord of Heaven's primal spirit smiled: "You have finally grasped this point. That is right: every thought of the Grand Heavenly Venerable is only a part of my thoughts. He is a part of me; he cannot take my place. When I die, when I break free of the Heavenly Dao's control and my mind descends, all his thoughts and desires will become a part of me."
"Then do you still have a heavenly heart? Do you still have the heart of the Heavenly Dao?"
Shen Mu pressed him: "At that time, will you become one of the Ten Heavenly Venerables, or will you still be the Lord of Heaven?"
The Lord of Heaven's primal spirit thought for a moment and said: "What is the heavenly heart? What the heart of the Heavenly Dao seeks is that the heavenly heart be my heart; what I seek is that my heart be the heavenly heart."
The instant his words fell, Shen Mu struck — and his very first move was the twenty-fifth heaven of the Divine Ability Dao Realm: Nine Hells Lock the Heart, the Dao Endures!
Countless keen thorns erupted upon the Lord of Heaven's spirit platform; sharp and piercing, they began to swell the instant they touched the ground, turning into leaning mountain peaks one after another, becoming hell platforms!
Layer upon layer of hell platforms revolved, dancing around the Lord of Heaven's primal spirit, binding him fast within the Nine Hells Platform!
Nine Hells Lock the Heart — what it locks is the Dao heart!
The Dao heart is not the same as the Dao realm. Once the Dao heart is locked, it affects one's performance in the Dao realm, one's perception of the Dao, one's power of recovery, one's advancement in cultivation!
In the instant Shen Mu unleashed Nine Hells Lock the Heart, the Dao Endures, the Heavenly Dao rune marks on the ground of the Lord of Heaven's spirit platform hummed, and the treasures of the Heavenly Dao standing upon the spirit fetus roared and shook — this was the wrath of the Heavenly Dao!
Should anyone dare raise a hand against the Lord of Heaven, the Heavenly Dao would take control of the Lord of Heaven and wipe that person from existence!
When Shen Mu moved, Zai Fu, Zhe Huali, Tian Shu, and Luo Wushuang all drew their blades and rose; four blade-sounds rang out, and four figures were hurled in four directions. Their cultivation was still not enough — before the surging, overwhelming might of the Lord of Heaven and the Heavenly Dao, any exquisite blade art or divine ability would be shattered with ease!
Just as Shen Mu seemed about to be buried in the might of the Heavenly Dao, suddenly all those treasures of the Heavenly Dao and Heavenly Dao marks froze.
The Lord of Heaven's primal spirit trembled, straining every fiber of his will against the will of the Heavenly Dao, and said hoarsely: "Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, disperse your divine ability and you may yet live — I cannot withstand the will of the Heavenly Dao!"