Chapter 1683 — Unrivaled in This World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Haotian Zun's gaze slid off Ling Tianzun and settled once more on Shen Mu. He studied those two stubby little legs, then suddenly burst out laughing. "It seems the Retired Emperor did not come away empty-handed after all. I had thought him beaten beyond recovery, yet he still left you a lesson worth remembering.
" Shen Mu roared with laughter, climbed to his feet, and came striding over on his short little legs.
He tipped his head back and looked up at the man.
Haotian Di lowered his head, and their eyes met.
Once, Shen Mu had stood a little taller than Haotian Di; now he came barely to his chest.
Haotian Di stifled his smile.
"Mu—" BOOM! Smiling, Shen Mu drove a fist into his chest, and Haotian Di went flying backward.
A string of thunderous crashes followed as that receding figure smashed through one void after another!
Lady Yuanmu turned her head and stared blankly at the rents torn through the thirty-six voids, struck dumb. The force of that single blow was truly dreadful, and it had come with no warning at all.
How mighty was Haotian Di? Yet one punch had driven him into the ultimate void!
Shen Mu walked over to her on his short little legs, looked up, and said with a laugh, "Lady Yuanmu, under my Dao of Reincarnation, you would not last a single move against me.
" Lady Yuanmu giggled and retreated; Guixu split open behind her, and her figure vanished in an instant. Shen Mu tilted his head.
"Ling, Lady Yuanmu is the sort who will not shed a tear until she sees the coffin.
I will go have a word with Haotian Zun. Look after yourself.
" Ling Tianzun walked out of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and said calmly, "Go, by all means. " Shen Mu drew a long breath.
A great door plank came whistling toward him through the hall; he leaped and landed on it, and the plank carried him hurtling into the void!
The layers of void Haotian Di had shattered were closing at furious speed, yet the plank flew faster still, plunging into the ultimate void before the thirty-six voids could seal. The plank halted. Shen Mu looked around: the void lay silent and empty, with no sign of Haotian Di.
In the distance two Daluo Heavens suddenly came into being and collided, all but overlapping. Beneath two Dao trees, Taichu and Yun Tianzun clashed, and the dao flowers and dao fruits formed of Innate Qi and supreme consciousness seemed on the verge of fusing into one!
Each sought to devour and refine the other's attainments into a Taichu dao fruit, and so both struck with utter ruthlessness—this collision was perilous in the extreme! Shen Mu swept it a glance, and abruptly his heart went on alert.
The next moment a Dao tree lashed over and, with a thunderous crash, struck him and sent him flying! Man and plank together went tumbling through the air, and there was the Dao tree rocking, its branches whipping, like a giant octopus grown countless tentacles, coming hard on his heels.
Haotian Di stood upon a jutting treetop. A dao flower flew out and arrived before Shen Mu's face; before he could react, it spun and bloomed.
The flower's interior was like no other—ring upon ring of darkness, layer of dark paired with layer of light, revolving without cease. Shhk—Shen Mu was swallowed into the dao flower.
Haotian Di raised his hand; the flower flew back and he pinched it between his fingers.
"Striking from hiding, my dear Minister Mu—you go too far.
" Suddenly his expression changed drastically.
The dao flower had split open; Shen Mu swung the massive plank and carved it apart. Haotian Di's fingers bled, and he hurriedly let go as Shen Mu broke free.
Haotian Di sneered, and behind his head seventy-two heavenly palaces suddenly appeared: one the Great Heavenly Court of Innate Qi, one the Dao of Guixu's Destruction. They merged, revolved like a wheel, and were refined into one!
His magic power climbed in a straight line.