Chapter 1777 — The Legacy Scroll of the Blade Sutra

The lower half of Hall Master Chuge is the most suitable thing for it. " Shen Mu let out a long breath.

Xing'an's temper was strange; to make him act, one had to pay a price.

He liked to collect strange and curious things, and the lower half of Hall Master Chuge would be enough to move him.

Xing'an, for all that there was much about him to disdain, conducted himself by firm principles; so long as one acted within those principles, there was no danger from him. "I wonder how my sworn brother is faring.

" As for Shang Jun, he had no worry at all.

Formidable as the hall masters of Miluo Palace were, so long as they had not fully descended, Shang Jun's abilities were enough to deal with them. Moreover, Shang Jun would be the prepared striking the unprepared; in a straight contest he might not be a hall master's match, but in assassination and ambush, Shang Jun was beyond doubt the fastest blade in the world today!

If Shang Jun came to assassinate Shen Mu, even Shen Mu could not stand against him; he would surely be struck, gravely wounded in a single instant!

Shen Mu walked outward, and behind him the blade-dao forest that had been smashed to powder at once began to restore itself; the powder reassembled, becoming broken sword after broken sword, planted exactly where they had been, unchanged.

By the time Shen Mu stepped out of the blade-dao forest, that graveyard of divine swords had recovered as it had been that day, as though nothing had ever changed. The Unchanging Divine Art. For Shen Mu, to use the Unchanging Divine Art and restore this battlefield worth remembering was of great significance, and so he was willing to waste a portion of his mana.

Suddenly a flash of blade-light came from nowhere and flew to Shen Mu's back.

Shen Mu raised his hand, and the blade-light fell into it, becoming a scroll of the blade dao. Shen Mu unrolled the blade scroll.

This scroll was formed of Shang Jun's divine art, and when it was unrolled the inside shone bright as a mirror, recording the whole course of Shang Jun's clash with another hall master of Miluo Palace, from Shang Jun's entry into the painting to the woman's escape from the Heavenly Feather Hundred-Weave Diagram with both legs severed.

The process was plain at a glance.

Shang Jun's blade technique and the dao methods and divine arts the woman had used when ambushed were shown with utter clarity. "With Shang Jun's speed, he should not be able to catch up with this person.

" Shen Mu rolled up the blade scroll; it slowly dispersed, scattering into motes of light.

He thought: "This woman hall master is extremely strong.

If she had fully descended and they met head-on, Shang Jun would not be her match. If she wished to leave, Shang Jun could not hold her; therefore he sent me this scroll so that I might know this woman's techniques and divine arts in advance. And by displaying the move with which he dealt her that dao wound, he means for me to track her by the slaughter-dao ripples the wound gives off.

" He knew Shang Jun's slaughter dao well, and the woman's dao wound was so grave that the ultimate killing intent radiating from it was, to Shen Mu, beyond doubt a bright star in the dark night!

"This woman must be the Hall Master Huanxi of the seventy-two halls of Miluo Palace.

That she escaped is somewhat troublesome. I hope her abilities are not enough to erase the dao wound in her injury. " Shen Mu's expression grew graver and graver and his speed greater and greater as he sped straight toward where Lan Yutian was. "The one I met was Hall Master Chuge, the one Shang Jun met was Hall Master Huanxi; then the one Lan Yutian faces must also be a hall master of Miluo Palace! My sworn brother is in deadly peril this time!

" The three of them had struck at three Dao-achievers of Miluo Palace at the same time, and the weakest link was Lan Yutian! Hall Master Huanxi wounded, Hall Master Chuge dead, the Dao-achiever fighting Lan Yutian would surely be alerted!

If Lan Yutian set his heart on holding that person back, he might well fall to a deadly hand instead! Shen Mu had thought that at most one hall-master-level being would descend this time, and that the other two would be ordinary Dao-achievers; he had never expected that the Third and Fourth Young Masters would send three hall masters at once!

A hall-master-level being was not something Lan Yutian could handle! When Shen Mu had shaken off the Jade Capital Trap, he had been surrounded and hunted by the hall masters of the seventy-two halls, and he had seen this hall master of Huanxi Hall, and Hall Master Chuge as well. "I forgot to tell my sworn brother: if you cannot win, run!

" Shen Mu could not spare a thought for healing the dao wounds on his body; faster and faster he ran at full stretch, driving the Zaiji Void, the teleportation divine arts, and the Lame Elder's Way of Divine Travel all to their utmost, speeding straight for Flywheel Fort on the frontier of the Yuan Realm!

His speed rose to its limit, and Flywheel Fort drew nearer and nearer, when suddenly he sensed Shang Jun's ultimate killing intent coming from one place, and his heart stirred: "Hall Master Huanxi!

" After Hall Master Huanxi was ambushed and gravely wounded by Shang Jun, she would surely have rushed to Flywheel Fort at the first moment to join the hall master dealing with Lan Yutian!

"Go! " The vertical eye at Shen Mu's brow opened, and a ray of Primordial Chaos Dao-light shot forth!