Chapter 587 — The Demon Race's Tempered Body

The residues of divine ability formed from the runes and marks of gods and demons were hard to disperse with the passage of time, and so this place had become exceedingly dangerous. He had seen similar things in the Land of Ill Omen, but had fortunately avoided them all.

Presumably the Venerable God Sang Ye had also spent no small effort to clear a safe zone and build this watchtower here, for the divine ability users of Taihuang Heaven to lodge in. Grandmother Zhu, the Blind Elder, and the others studied the divine abilities here in fine detail, utterly absorbed. The Blind Elder's Sacred Eye could unravel the mysteries of these abilities, and he explained them to the others. Their path of cultivation was already very different from that of divine ability users like Shen Mu and Xu Shenghua.

For Grandmother Zhu, Zai Fu, the Deaf Elder, and the rest, there was no need to fight in order to witness the divine abilities of gods and demons; they had only to examine the residue left behind to see the mysteries within, to absorb the essence of another's art and make up for their own shortcomings. "These divine abilities of the gods and demons are still rather crude, lacking in polish.

" Grandmother Zhu examined them closely and shook her head.

"Because for twenty thousand years the divine ability users of Jingping had no path to godhood, they instead spent those twenty thousand years polishing every kind of divine ability to a peerless fineness and refinement, ceaselessly creating new ones. So they are more exquisite than the divine abilities of Taihuang Heaven.

" "But their methods of cultivation are stronger than ours; their arts can temper every aspect of the fleshly body. " The Blind Elder examined them a while and said, "The gods and demons wield such crude divine abilities, yet can bring their power to an unimaginable pitch.

Clearly their physical functions, the strength of their primordial spirits, the surging abundance of their vital essence, all far surpass Jingping's. Shen'er, you must not look down on them just because you have an Overlord Body. " Shen Mu nodded gravely and said with solemnity, "Rest easy, Blind Grandpa. I will not look down on anyone.

" Snow Fox hesitated, and said nothing.

The Blind Elder and the others had only just arrived in Taihuang Heaven and did not yet know what Shen Mu had done. Ever since the battle at Licheng, Shen Mu had already been the strongest Seven-Star realm divine ability user in Taihuang Heaven; and after a flight of a hundred thousand li, he had all but wiped out the Demon Race's Six-Harmony realm disciples of the demon gods, so that even ordinary Demon Race masters of the Heaven-Man realm did not lightly dare to match themselves against Shen Mu. One had only to ask around to learn of Shen Mu's fearsome reputation today. Suddenly Shen Mu gave a slight start, staring at a dark figure among the ruins.

The figure wove through the ruins as though the various residues of divine ability here had no effect on him at all.

"Shen'er, what are you looking at? " the Deaf Elder asked curiously. Shen Mu's body trembled slightly, and he abruptly left the others and ran toward the dark figure. The people of Yincan Village were greatly alarmed - divine ability residue was everywhere here, and one careless touch, and with Shen Mu's strength he could not withstand it.

If it set off a chain reaction among the divine abilities, the residue throughout the ruins of Wuwang City would likely all detonate; even they would not dare to blunder about recklessly here!

The Blind Elder hurried after him, saying, "Stay here, all of you.

I'll go find him! " Shen Mu followed the dark figure, all the while urging on the Nine Heavens Far-Sight Art, dodging one residue of divine ability after another as he drew near the figure. The dark figure flickered in and out of sight in this forbidden ground like quicksand, now scattering, now gathering. But the figure seemed to notice him too, and suddenly halted.

Shen Mu avoided the residue of the gods' and demons' divine abilities and at last came before the dark figure, his eyes bright and piercing as he stared at it.

The dark figure was staring at him too, seemingly full of curiosity. Neither could see the other's features; they could see only a body like black sand.

Shen Mu reached out a hand, and the dark figure reached out a hand as well.

Their palms touched - yet there was no resistance at all; his hand passed straight through the other's palm. Shen Mu's body shook violently, and he stood stiff, gazing silently at the dark figure. The Blind Elder hurried to his side and swiftly pulled him back, saying in a low voice, "Shen'er, this dark figure must be a residue of the gods' and demons' divine abilities.

How could you be so careless? Why did you go blundering into this forbidden zone?

" A rustling sound came, like monsters whispering in the dark.

The Blind Elder's body trembled slightly, and he turned his head in astonishment to look at the dark figure. The sound was the dark figure speaking!

"Blind Grandpa, he isn't a residue of divine ability. He's a person.

" The astonishment on Shen Mu's face had not yet faded.

He murmured, "Like me, he can walk through the darkness of the Desolate Ruins.

He is of my kind.

. .

Only a demon who can merge into the darkness can be seen by the people of Taihuang Heaven!

I think I may have met an Overlord Body among the Demon Race. Strange - why would this Demon Race Overlord Body appear in the Desolate Ruins.

. .

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