Chapter 1078 — Old Tales of the Sovereign of Yore
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Strange to say, the spear was very long, yet his sleeve was barely a foot or so; when the spear came out it was already more than three zhang in length. This great spear was not neat and regular. Ordinary divine spears had perfectly straight shafts, but the shaft of his great spear was crooked and winding, like a dragon-vein.
The great spear was forged from the Ancestral Dragon dragon-vein of the Ancestral Court. Seized in his hand, thrust out in a single strike, it set off in the minds of everyone outside the lode an incomparably resounding dragon's roar!
And the file in Gu Xiao's hand changed as well. The file was shaped like a sword, yet covered densely with tiny dots; when the file revealed its true form, it had already become an Emperor Sword symbolizing the Heaven Emperor's pacification of the four quarters!
The tiny dots on both sides of the blade had also transformed into marks formed of bird-seal and worm script; both sides of the blade were covered with countless marks — those were the steel seals of the Great Way! When Gu Xiao had been filing his nails with that file, no one could have made out the sword's true form, and no one could have known that the neatly arrayed dots upon it were in fact the steel seals of the Great Way!
The steel seals on the sword numbered nearly two thousand kinds, representing the blessings of nearly two thousand Ancient Gods from before history upon the Heaven Emperor, their submission to this emperor of the Ancient Gods! The precious sword met the Ancestral Dragon divine spear.
Sword and spear collided, and in an instant the sound of the Way rang out, as though ten thousand ancient gods chanted in unison, lending the Great Way's blessing to their mightiest emperor!
The eight Ancient God skeletons bore the golden coffin upon their shoulders, and above the golden coffin, two dreadful figures clashed for the first time. The shockwave quickly reached Shen Mu and the others.
Yan'er flashed to the rear of the chariot, her primal spirit merging with her fleshly body, transforming into the Dragon Sparrow Holding Heaven stance to shield the treasure chariot.
Boom — she let out a stifled groan, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth; in an instant her fleshly body and primal spirit were riddled with a thousand wounds, and she was beaten back into her original form, becoming a plump girl. The dreadful shockwave pressed this three-to-five-hundred-catty plump girl flat against the rear of the treasure chariot, pushing her and the chariot forward together.
The six Heavenly Dragons strained with all their might to hold the chariot back, but they too were crushed by the dreadful force, retreating without cease. Because they exerted themselves too greatly, their hide split open from the straining of their great sinews, and dragon blood flowed freely. Shen Mu swept out his hand, and his teleportation art burst forth, forming a great ring behind the treasure chariot that shed off the aftershocks of Dahong's and Gu Xiao's divine arts — though his teleportation art shattered immediately after.
Shen Mu's fingers spun again and again, drawing one great circle after another; from within the circles countless teleportation runes flew out, forming one teleportation art after another, each shattering as the next took over, helping Yan'er withstand the aftershocks of the divine arts.
Luo Xiao at once commanded the void beast to block behind the treasure chariot, but it too was crushed and forced back without cease. At last, after the first wave of impact passed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking into the distance, they saw that the treasure chariot had been pushed out several hundred li. "Dahong is no match for Gu Xiao. " Shen Mu's sage pupils were unmatched; he immediately saw the scene within the lode.
Dahong was already wounded — compared with Gu Xiao he was still a little weaker, for this time he had come in a demon's fleshly body.