Chapter 1168 — The Heavenly Dao Moves with Certainty
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Several hundred void beasts could hold back no longer and pounced toward Shen Mu, Hong Heavenly Venerable, Long Qilin, Yan'er, and the others upon the altar, like a pack of wolves fighting over prey! "Half each!
" Dahong swept his sleeve, gathering the pouncing void beasts into it.
These void beasts were immense beyond measure, yet once they fell into his sleeve they seemed pitifully tiny. Shen Mu's divine consciousness erupted, and he visualized countless razor-sharp spikes.
The spikes appeared inside the bodies of the remaining void beasts, instantly riddling them with a thousand holes. The void beasts were fierce and battle-hardened; the herd let out shrill, piercing cries that slammed straight into his mind.
Stunned and muddled by the cries of the void beasts, Shen Mu hastily roused the Mystic Body Three-Core Art, transforming it into supreme Daluo divine consciousness, and formed a domain of divine consciousness to guard his mind, lest his brain burst apart.
The void beasts tried to make their bodies ethereal to shake off the spikes within them, but as they turned ethereal, the spikes turned ethereal with them! This was a divine-consciousness ability unique to the Creator race! Shen Mu strained to sustain the ability, and soon the void beasts fled in a frenzy, slipping away to safety.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. Though his divine consciousness was powerful enough to reach the twenty-eighth level of the void, subduing a hundred or so void beasts at once was still somewhat difficult, so he could only let them escape.
In but a short time the void beasts fled beyond the reach of his divine-consciousness ability, each one hiding itself, not daring to come near.
Shen Mu looked around and saw huge eyes emerging everywhere between the sky and the mountains and rivers below, staring fixedly at them, enough to make one's scalp go numb.
The most terrifying thing about void beasts was not a frontal assault, but an ambush launched from hiding in the void. They might merge with mountains, rivers, and trees, or with rivers and the ground; they might even lurk right beside you without your ever noticing. There were simply too many void beasts here.
A moment's carelessness and one could very likely be left without even a corpse. Shen Mu summoned all his vigilance and manifested three heads and six arms to guard against a void beast ambush.
Hong Heavenly Venerable shook his sleeve, and chunks of shattered bone fell out. Shen Mu glanced at him and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Hong, I used a divine-consciousness ability to subdue the void beasts, and you are not the least bit curious?
" He put away the altar and walked forward with Long Qilin and Yan'er. Hong Heavenly Venerable strode after him, his white brows streaming, and said with a smile, "You have an Overlord Body and have been to the past. What is there to be curious about in your knowing a divine-consciousness ability?
" Unable to fathom the origins of this demon Heavenly Venerable, Shen Mu probed, "I observe that you and Fellow Daoist Gong do not seem to get along.
Since you are not the Grand Emperor, why does Gong Heavenly Venerable bear you such ill will?
" "You know Gong's identity?
" Hong Heavenly Venerable's great sleeves fluttered as he looked below. With a sweep of his sleeve he drove back the void beasts charging at them, and chuckled, "She has mistaken me for someone else.
She pursues me relentlessly and has tried to kill me time and again. But I do not wish to kill her, so each time I meet her I can only yield a little and not stoop to quarrel with her. " Shen Mu looked around, searching for a treasure site, and said carelessly, "Then it was you who killed Dahong back then and erased the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness.
You are an ancient god, and only ancient gods are utterly wary of the Grand Emperor. By that reasoning, you must be Lady Yuanmu. I have been thinking of you constantly, my lady.