Chapter 561 — The Tyrant Body First Revealed

"My cultivation art is still not perfect! There are still many places in the demonic essence circulation that can be improved! And the vital essence circulation in the Holy Pupil is also an extremely complex area."

Through his own experiments, he discovered many more deficiencies and immediately devoted himself wholeheartedly to repairing them.

"Shen Mu!"

Suddenly, several demons appeared ahead and immediately spotted him. One of them, a demon with divine abilities, was overjoyed and laughed loudly: "Wearing through iron shoes in search of it, yet finding it without any effort at all! Today is the day Tuoshu earns his merit! Shen Mu, fight me!"

Shen Mu turned a deaf ear, his ten fingers dancing as he continued improving the vital essence human network before him while continuing forward.

Tuoshu frowned, leaped into the air, and two enormous black wings suddenly spread from his back as he flew over with a beat of his wings.

Shen Mu was completely unaware. Tuoshu let out a shrill cry and killed his way to within several dozen zhang of Shen Mu, then suddenly flipped his body, and countless feather swords flew from between his wings, stabbing toward Shen Mu!

"Disciple of the Demon God Xiuqi, Tuoshu of the Shura Division—here to learn from you!"

Tuoshu announced his name, yet saw that Shen Mu's footsteps still had not stopped, and he paid no heed to the feather swords. But when the rain of swords reached Shen Mu, his footsteps suddenly shifted in an eerie manner, evading through the countless feather swords. His sword technique had not managed to wound Shen Mu in the slightest.

Whoosh—

Shen Mu walked past him, his eyes still fixed on the vital essence human network ahead, bright and piercing. His five fingers tapped lightly, and the vital essence human network dispersed, leaving only two Holy Pupil formation networks constructed from vital essence.

At the center of the Holy Pupil formation network was a star cluster composed of countless stars, with the sun at its center, and beyond the star cluster was the system of heavenly formation patterns.

This was the Holy Pupil art that the Blind Old Man had created by fusing his Nine Heavens Gazing Eye Art with the formation of the First Holy Pupil of the Goddess Ziqing.

Shen Mu was highly excited and intensely focused, continuously improving the vital essence circulation trajectories, paying no attention to Tuoshu who brushed past him.

Tuoshu's wings were like blades. He swung and slashed continuously, unleashing hundreds of strikes in the blink of an eye, his body tumbling and rolling, sometimes leaping to slash with both wings, sometimes spinning horizontally to cut, sometimes sweeping like a spinning top. His blade technique was incomparably exquisite.

The feather swords also came whistling, whirling around Shen Mu with a chi-chi-chi sound. The sword technique was also extremely exquisite.

The Demon God Xiuqi was originally renowned for being peerless in both blade and sword. Tuoshu was the Demon God Xiuqi's disciple and also cultivated both blade and sword.

Yet Shen Mu's body twisted, his footwork growing ever more eerie, and he walked out of Tuoshu's attack range. Not a single one of Tuoshu's moves had landed, and he could not help but stare blankly.

The other demons rushed over at high speed and all struck to kill. These demons were also experts, prized disciples carefully trained by one Demon God after another of the demon race. One demon roared and transformed into a lava giant, demonic fire blazing all around his body, balls of demonic fire dancing around him. He threw a punch, and the demonic fire suddenly exploded with earth-shaking power.

Another demon with divine abilities had a demonic dragon coiled around him. The demonic dragon came and went like the wind, traversing several dozen zhang in a whistle, swallowing and spitting, its attacks bizarre and unfathomable.

There was also an eight-clawed woman who opened her mouth and spat out a net of heaven and earth. Each strand of spider silk was incomparably sharp, laying down a great formation.

After a moment, the several of them were stunned. They had not touched Shen Mu's body at all. They saw Shen Mu swaying as he stepped on the spider silk into the killing formation, dodging the spider woman's storm-like attacks, then walking out of the formation, leaving the bewildered spider woman behind. He then met the lava giant, stepped on his fist, walked from his arm to his face, and then walked down from his back.

And that demon expert who cultivated the demonic dragon divine ability had not touched Shen Mu in the slightest before he saw this excited human youth brush past him.

Cold sweat rolled down everyone's foreheads. Tuoshu chased after Shen Mu ahead and said sternly, "Notify the other experts!"

The lava giant roared and threw a punch at the sky. A ball of demonic fire exploded in midair, transforming into a demonic eye several dozen mu in size, burning fiercely.

In the distance, one demon expert after another was alerted and came whistling over.

Before long, over a hundred demon experts were seen pursuing and killing Shen Mu. In midair, a great river surged—that was the water of the Yellow Springs, refined into a primal weapon by the demon experts, rushing toward Shen Mu. Yet Shen Mu stepped on the tip of the great river and was carried far away.

"Earth-Shaking Heavenly Stars!"

A demon powerhouse raised both arms, and meteor after meteor fell from the sky, trailing thick smoke and crashing down with a rumbling that shook the earth. Shen Mu walked among the meteors, completely unharmed.

"Yin Souls Claim Lives!"

An old woman shook a white bone banner, and countless yin souls flew out from it, weaving back and forth like a shuttle, drowning Shen Mu—and then Shen Mu walked out.

"Blood Skulls!"

Another person opened a gourd, and countless blood skulls flew out, pouncing toward Shen Mu, but still could not hold him back.

"A bunch of fools!"

Suddenly, a demon expert sneered, "Attacking him is useless. He is currently in a state of enlightenment. That strange vital essence eye before him is where his enlightenment lies. Shatter that vital essence eye!"

Everyone's spirits lifted, and one divine ability after another blasted forth. The great eye constructed of vital essence before Shen Mu was instantly shattered to pieces.

Everyone was overjoyed, but then they saw that Shen Mu, who had been walking in a daze all along, stopped his footsteps and slowly raised his head.

"You..."

Shen Mu's pupils still held a trace of confusion, which gradually turned to anger, a smile that was not a smile, a cry that was not a cry: "You dare to disturb my comprehension of my cultivation art..."

That demon expert who had awakened everyone and had them interrupt Shen Mu's enlightenment immediately became excited and said loudly, "His state of enlightenment has been broken. He is no longer in the Dao realm. Both his movement technique and divine abilities are much weaker. Kill him!"

Everyone surged forward with a roar.

Sword light blazed.

"You're courting death!" From within the sword light came Shen Mu's furious voice.