Chapter 1851 — The Peerless Sword-Dao Young Master

Dao fruit after Dao fruit came whistling back from the chaotic mist, and the Dao Tree, the Da Luo Heaven, and the Lingxiao Treasure Hall arrived behind him almost simultaneously. Young Master Lingxiao followed those terrifying waves of divine-ability fluctuation and raced forward.

Beneath his feet, the Chaos Long Rivers kept shifting without end; the sixteen rivers transformed, drawing him now closer to, now farther from, the place from which the fluctuations came—at times he could not even sense them.

Young Master Lingxiao's face darkened, and his speed grew ever greater.

"No—they should not be upon the Chaos Long Rivers, but at the center of the sixteen long rivers, inside the Miluo Palace!

We.

. .

we are still in Yujing City at this very moment.

It is only that Seventh Brother's divine ability has disturbed the positions of the Chaos Long Rivers.

I have landed on the river's surface, while Fourth Brother Zixiao has landed in the Miluo Palace!

" "As long as I know where they are, Seventh Brother's divine ability cannot trap me! "

At the ancestral court of Yujing City, the Miluo Palace stood at the center of the sixteen Chaos Long Rivers.

This ancient complex consisted of the Miluo Palace master's own Miluo Palace and the Dao halls of the seven young masters: Eldest Young Master Taishang's Taishang Hall, Second Young Master Wuji's Wuji Hall, Third Young Master Lingxiao's Lingxiao Hall, Fourth Young Master Zixiao's Zixiao Hall, Fifth Young Master Wuzong's Wuzong Hall, Sixth Young Master Zhanji's Zhanji Hall, and Seventh Young Master Hundun's Hundun Hall.

After the Sixteenth Epoch was annihilated, the master of the Miluo Palace was overcome with despair. He ordered the young masters, hall masters, and Dao-achievers to return to their respective eras, while he himself returned to the Miluo Palace of the First Epoch and dissolved into the Dao.

But the seven young masters did not heed his words and return to their eras. Taishang went into seclusion; Wuji was suppressed; the Third and Fourth Young Masters schemed to descend upon the Seventeenth Epoch; the Fifth and Sixth Young Masters vanished without a trace; and the Seventh Young Master, Hundun, behaved in ways mysterious and unfathomable—a dragon that showed its head but never its tail. At this time, only the Wuji Hall, the Zhanji Hall, and the Wuzong Hall remained in the Miluo Palace. The Taishang Hall had also been moved away by Young Master Taishang, relocated to the Second Epoch.

Just then, two great halls suddenly flew over and crashed down into the Miluo Palace with a thunderous boom.

Young Master Zixiao stood atop a hall roof, pressing the hilt of his Dao sword, and slowly raised his head. Across from him, atop the roof of the Hundun Hall, stood Shen Mu, his palm resting on the hilt of the Chaos Sword.

The two faced each other from afar. Whoosh—

An earth-shaking boom rang out from beyond the Miluo Palace. The Chaos Long Rivers encircling the palace revolved in a bizarre fashion, extremely similar to the divine ability of Shen Mu's thirty-sixth heaven of the Dao realm.

The sixteen Chaos Long Rivers interlaced and intersected around the Miluo Palace, their order constantly shifting, creating a sense of magnificent, uncanny beauty! "Seventh Brother, in three and a half billion years, has your dharma power truly risen to such heights?

" Young Master Zixiao pressed his sword; the might of his Dao sword could barely be restrained. Countless violet sword lights spread out into heavens of sword Dao. Within his Dao hall, the Zixiao Hall, the torrent of the sword Dao roared with a sound that shook heaven and earth, one that even the Annihilation Tribulation could not suppress.

"But what astonishes me even more is your Chaos divine ability.

" Young Master Zixiao said in a low voice, "No wonder the teacher said that even he could not quite understand your Way of Chaos.

It is truly transcendent and sublime, a refreshing departure.

But choosing me as your first opponent is a mistake—because you, too, cultivate the sword Dao.

"

Shen Mu's palm rested on the Chaos Sword, a smile on his face.

Behind him, atop the World Tree, a Dao fruit blazed with brilliant light—his sword-Dao fruit.

Though he had not yet attained the Dao through Chaos, his sword Dao had attained the Dao one step earlier.

The sword-Dao fruit resonated with his Chaos Sword, making the Dao sword forged of Chaos Stone grow mightier and mightier. "The reason I chose Fourth Senior Brother is that Fourth Senior Brother is a fraction weaker than Third Senior Brother.

It is not that your strength is weak—it is that your Dao heart is a fraction weaker. " Shen Mu smiled.

"Against Third Senior Brother, I have no means whatsoever to prevail.

But against Fourth Senior Brother, I can win! "

"That is because you have never seen my true strength. " Young Master Zixiao drew his sword, and the Dao sword tore through the air.

The moment he moved, he unleashed the sword of attained Dao.

A gleam of sword light reflected in Shen Mu's pupils; the might of the sword Dao made his pupils contract sharply, leaving nothing else in his field of vision. Sword Style Twenty-Three! He, Kaihuang, and Jiang Baigui had perfected the sword Dao and deduced it to Sword Style Twenty.

Sword Style Twenty was the sword of domains. After that, the progress of the sword Dao had slowed; few under heaven could comprehend Sword Style Twenty.

In the time that followed, Kaihuang Shen Ye deduced Sword Style Twenty-One and thereby became a hall-master-level existence, cultivating his Dao hall.

He conjectured that Sword Style Twenty-Two existed, and even Sword Style Twenty-Three. He even held a startling conjecture: Sword Style Twenty-Three was the sword of attaining the Dao.

Anyone who could master it would directly attain the Dao through the sword with that single move!

Shen Mu, Jiang Baigui, Kaihuang Shen Ye, and Lizheng Su Muzhe—the most powerful sword cultivators of Jingping—had gathered to complete Sword Style Twenty-Two, but to this day they had finished only a little over half.

As for Sword Style Twenty-Three, they had not even touched its shadow!

Little did Shen Mu imagine that here he would witness the very Sword Style Twenty-Three that Kaihuang Shen Ye and the others yearned for in their dreams!

No wonder Young Master Zixiao had found it so difficult to attain the Dao, and had needed the Zixiao Dao-Attaining Melody, created by his wife, to succeed.

In his own era, he must surely have been a fanatically devoted sword cultivator, utterly obsessed with the sword—deducing the sword Dao to Sword Style Twenty-Two, then setting out to create Sword Style Twenty-Three and attain the Dao in one stroke!

What Shen Mu, Kaihuang, and the others had failed to achieve in three and a half billion years, he had achieved! Every one of the seven young masters of the Miluo Palace was unique in the world! He had accomplished what even the master of the Miluo Palace had never accomplished—he deserved more than ever to be called the Sword Young Master!