Chapter 772 — The Kalpa Fire Descends to Burn the Eight Wastes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
"Ignorant!
" Yan Jiuxi saw Shen Mu charging straight at him and laughed aloud: "Divine Son of Youdu, you truly are ignorant, daring to clash head-on with me. It seems the lesson you learned last time was not enough! You do not know how formidable the bloodline of Lady Earth Mother is!
" Shen Fengqing said hurriedly: "Little brother, this dwarf is formidable—his divine abilities are uncanny, and he wields two fine swords, frightfully heavy. He cut me so badly it hurts.
" Yuan-magnetic divine light spread all around Yan Jiuxi, and his yuan-magnetic divine power erupted. As Shen Mu charged in, he suddenly felt as though countless stars were pressing down upon him, making his very flesh sink with unbearable weight. The yuan-magnetic divine light around Yan Jiuxi at once transformed into two divine swords.
He seized them in hand, and the sword-light flew as he slashed at Shen Mu's three heads and six arms, laughing: "Out of tricks, are you? Lady Earth Mother is my mother; I inherited the Earth Mother's bloodline. In the prime of my manhood, who dares stand against me? " "Yuan-magnetic divine ability?
" Shen Mu raised one palm with immense difficulty; his arm was so heavy he could scarcely lift it.
Yan Jiuxi's sword-light was already upon him.
Shen Mu bellowed, and his palm-force erupted. Countless crystalline heavenly fires gushed forth in a frenzy, splitting outward with a ringing clang-clang-clang, and in an instant, for thousands of li around, there was nothing but crystalline heavenly fire! Yan Jiuxi's yuan-magnetic divine swords pierced through one heavenly-fire crystal after another, and just then the cry of the Great Sun Star Lord came: "Crown Prince Jiuxi, do not touch those crystals!
Retreat at once—" But it was already too late. When Yan Jiuxi's yuan-magnetic divine sword pierced the first heavenly-fire crystal, the might of the heavenly fire erupted at once.
Roaring flames melted the yuan-magnetic divine sword, and the terrifying shockwave detonated the eight heavenly-fire crystals around it.
Those eight crystals burst, and in turn detonated yet more heavenly fire. Boom, boom, boom— Almost all the heavenly-fire crystals detonated in a chain at the same instant. The explosion took Yan Jiuxi as its center; space itself was blasted to fragments, and the terrifying heavenly fire invaded the depths of space. Sky and earth were melted away, exposing cross-sections of space that burned without cease.
Amid the quaking of earth and mountains, a colossal fireball rose slowly, burning all things.
Even the demonic qi of Youdu and the continent beneath Lord Tu's feet were burned through! The fireball swelled; wherever it passed, all was vaporized, leaving only a string of hollows, and around those hollows, cross-sections of space set ablaze. That was the power of Lord Heaven.
Lord Heaven, Lady Earth, and Lord Tu wielded different powers; they were the most ancient of beings. Shen Mu used the Great Way of Heavenly Fire to break Yan Jiuxi's Great Way of Yuan Magnetism, but Yan Jiuxi's fame was not unearned.
Amid the terrifying shockwaves of the heavenly fire, this demigod actually shielded his whole body with countless layers of yuan-magnetic divine light. The explosion tore through untold layers of that divine light, yet could not threaten his origin.
The surging heavenly fire surrounded him in layer upon layer; even the yuan-magnetic divine light melted away ceaselessly within the heavenly fire, unable to pose a threat.
Within the flames, Shen Mu held a sword in one hand and thrust the great blade.
With a hum, the sword-light broke through the yuan-magnetic divine light and, with a ding, nailed itself between Yan Jiuxi's brows. Countless runes whirled madly at Yan Jiuxi's brow, blocking the sword. His yuan-magnetic runes shattered ceaselessly under the sword-light's force; the sword-light pierced into his brow, advancing with immense difficulty. Yan Jiuxi retreated; the heavenly fire swept in and set his primal spirit alight.