Chapter 1601 — The Death of a Godking
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That sword-light was the Sword of Calamity, the nineteenth form of the sword—a foundational sword form. The blade of light began at Gong Tianzun's primordial spirit and plummeted straight down, piercing the Lingxiao Treasure Hall of Gong Tianzun's most magnificent and imposing Heavenly Court.
The Lingxiao Treasure Hall collapsed.
This great hall was the fountainhead of Gong Tianzun's supreme power. When this power crumbled, terrifying energies came surging and rushing in all directions, destroying hall after hall of the Jade Capital City!
Gong Tianzun knew things had turned dire. She acted decisively, urging her divine consciousness into motion.
Yet another sword-light from Shen Mu erupted within her brain, shattering her divine consciousness into fragments. For a time, she could not gather it back together.
This sword-light was the Primordial Chaos Dao Wanderer, bursting forth as Shen Mu bowed deeply. It shook her brain and her divine consciousness into a mass of primal chaos.
Her divine consciousness was powerful, and it was not completely destroyed by Shen Mu's bow. But it was scattered and in disarray, impossible to coalesce.
The power fluctuations from the collapse of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall swept across in every direction. Her Jade Capital City was collapsing faster and faster. Within the surging tide of energy that engulfed everything, sword-light also surged along with it, and wherever it passed, all things were reduced to fine dust!
Soon, the collapse destroyed the entire Jade Capital City and rushed outward, slamming into one heavenly palace after another.
Had Gong Tianzun's divine consciousness still been at its peak, with her strength she could have abandoned her main Heavenly Palace, abandoned the Jade Capital City, even abandoned her own primordial spirit—cutting off her wrist to survive.
But now her brain had been shaken by another of Shen Mu's sword-lights into a mass of primal chaos, her divine consciousness in complete disorder. She could not accomplish such a feat at all.
She could only let the Heavenly Palaces collapse.
If one stood within her Heavenly Palace, one would witness a spectacular and breathtaking sight.
Those towering, majestic structures that composed the celestial divine city were shattered and disintegrating within the terrifying energy fluctuations and sword-light, thereby giving rise to even more powerful and dreadful tides of energy and sword-light, destroying even more divine cities at ever greater speed and with ever more terrifying force!
One heavenly palace after another tilted, collapsed, fell, and in the midst of falling transformed into even more violent energy!
Her primordial spirit floated and dissolved within this energy.
Gong Tianzun's dao arts and divine powers had their own unique aspects. Her Heavenly Court was formed from layer upon layer of heavenly palaces stacked together, and viewed from afar, it resembled a curved horn—utterly different from the layout of others' Heavenly Courts.
The Heavenly Court collapsed from its highest point, falling and crushing the heavenly palace beneath it, gradually building an unstoppable momentum.
Within these heavenly palaces were towering, majestic divine statues—primordial divine saints she had visualized using the Creator's unique method of visualization.
This was her unique trait. As her Heavenly Court collapsed, one divine statue after another awakened and revived. These visualized ancient gods struggled desperately to flee outward, yet even the ancient gods she had visualized—the Heavenly Duke, the Earth Earl, and others—could not escape this calamity of annihilation!
Shen Mu's Sword of Calamity was a sword dao he had created after the outbreak of the Jingping Calamity, born of his sense of his own powerlessness, of having no soul and being reduced to a walking corpse, of his impending death. It was also the nineteenth foundational sword form.