Chapter 1784 — Two Sounding in Unison

The Three-Incense Pavilion was Yan Xiuge's Dao-attainment treasure, and within the pavilion dwelt a hall-swallow that flew forth to meet him face to face, its twin talons clawing for Shen Mu's eyes and its beak pecking for the vertical eye in his brow.

That swallow was one incense of the Three-Incense Pavilion, a divine swallow she had raised since youth and that had borne her through calamity after calamity of destruction, yet the instant it reached Shen Mu's face, light blazed from his three eyes and refined the divine swallow straight to ash!

Hiss! Shen Mu's great axe came down and split the Three-Incense Pavilion, and the second incense within the pavilion was a mirror that, as the pavilion cracked, faced Shen Mu squarely and with a flash drew him into the mirror.

Yan Xiuge lifted the third incense, a powder compact, and blew toward the mirror so that powder drifted thick, crying sternly, "Die!

" The Shen Mu fallen into the mirror saw his flesh collapse at once and shatter to countless dust, like the very powder scattered from the compact.

Having struck home, Yan Xiuge was about to slay Emperor Haotian when chaos suddenly billowed within the mirror and with a crack the bright mirror split.

Yan Xiuge turned to see Shen Mu striding from the chaos, swinging an axe down, and in haste she urged her dao tree to block, only to have the tree snapped by the axe!

Alarm seized Yan Xiuge's heart and she cried shrilly, "Second Brother!

" Huang Tang was dealing death to the Mistress of the Hall of Joy, and hearing this he at once abandoned her and strode to the kill, his precious banner mighty in power as he swung it to pound straight in, the banner spinning while every manner of Dao art howled forth to spin with it.

The Taiyi divine axe scattered from Shen Mu's hand, and with hand for sword he cut levelly forth, and amid hissing the rain of blows flew wild until nothing remained of Huang Tang's precious banner but a bare pole. The bare pole of Huang Tang's banner pounded in and struck Shen Mu's chest with a thud, sending Shen Mu hurtling back from the heart of the Heavenly Court all the way to the South Heavenly Gate, smashing that half of the South Heavenly Gate to powder!

Clang, clang, clang!

Music swelled great as the space of the Heavenly Court folded and twisted in an instant, and amid Yue Tianzun's music the fallen South Heavenly Gate appeared beside the altar, Shen Mu delivered back by her art.

"Careful!

" Shen Mu had just landed when his face changed greatly and he threw himself before Yue Tianzun, for to rescue Shen Mu Yue Tianzun had let her music fall into disorder, and the Fourth Young Master, recovering himself, sent an art across time and space through the string to slay her!

Shen Mu too was sorely wounded and had not yet caught his breath, so with a thunderous shout he could only raise the Taiyi coffin upright to shield them both.

Hiss!

An formless force sliced past, and the lid of the Taiyi coffin thinned by a great slab in an instant!

Shen Mu and Yue Tianzun ducked as the formless art flew over their heads, and though the Taiyi coffin had blunted it, it still shaved away a lock of their hair. The Mistress of the Hall of Joy came killing on, her figures on every side, the woman so overbearingly strong that while holding off Li Shu she still dealt them murderous blows.

Yue Tianzun at once laid her lute across her knees and sat, glancing up at Shen Mu, and Shen Mu understood and stood beside her and pointed a finger forth.

The might of the Hongmeng Finger erupted like a universe new-opened with the Five Tai revealed, and the universe at his fingertip spread outward bell-shaped!

Toll!

Great bells boomed without cease, bearing down upon Yue Tianzun's music.

Yue Tianzun entered the境, passing into the dao realm of the killing melody, and Shangjun's Killing Dao Melody flowed at once from her fingertips, one kill, two kills, three kills, rising in an instant to the thirty-seventh kill!

Before the Mistress of the Hall of Joy could reach them, her dao wound burst forth and blood gushed in streams below her waist! With a shriek she was smothered face-down upon the shattered altar by Li Shu's mu of yellow field.

Warmth filled Yue Tianzun's heart, and listening to the quaking bells she thought to herself, "If I could join bell and zither with him for a single tune, it would be worth it.

" At the same time Huang Tang and Yan Xiuge fought ringed about Emperor Haotian while the Fourth Young Master's music quaked unceasing, holding off the arts of the two who had attained Dao and shaking both till their hands streamed with blood, yet like mad demons they fought to the death and would not retreat.

Hiss.

A string suddenly pierced Huang Tang's skull and scored across his dao tree.

His skull split open and his dao tree toppled.

Shen Mu frowned, then his eyes suddenly lit as he saw a chest, and he whispered, "Yue, the one we seek is found.

Withdraw at once!

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