Chapter 1539 — The Hard Clash with a Heavenly Venerable
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The sword cared for nothing, but she had to avoid cutting the branches, for the two God-Slaying Mystic Blades were so terrible that the moment they touched a bough, the Dao Tree could not withstand even a single blow of the twin blades. All at once the Tribulation Sword whirled around the trunk at furious speed, and the Dao Tree came crashing down.
The Lady of Heaven Qiang blazed with fury as her body plummeted.
The streak of sword-light then stabbed like lightning into the falling God-Slaying Platform, raced away, and howling along the surface of the River of Chaos, caught up with Shen Mu's little boat. Standing on the boat, Shen Mu raised his left hand, and the Tribulation Sword soared up from the river, separating from the platform; the platform dropped into his palm.
He stored it away in the ancestral court of his divine treasury, unfastened the scabbard with his right hand, and watched as the Tribulation Sword slowed, its light paled, and it sank gently downward into the sheath.
He hung the scabbard at his left hip, turned his head, and smiled at the Lady of Heaven Qiang. By now the Lady of Heaven Qiang, together with the woman in the battered Dao Fruit, was falling toward the River of Chaos!
"Heavenly Venerable Mu! " Clutching her two god-blades, she strained to steady herself and keep from plunging into the River of Chaos; yet there was nothing in the chaos to borrow force from, and her body would not stop sinking.
Her beauty drained with terror. She hastily landed on a wooden stump, but down in the River of Chaos below, one strand of white bones after another rose; souls writhed in the chaos, their faces contorted, every one of them reaching for her on the stump!
The Lady of Heaven Qiang's twin blades whirled, hewing through countless broken limbs, when the tattered Dao Fruit came flying through the blade-light.
Suddenly Dao light shone out on every side from within the fruit, and the uncanny presences within the River of Chaos flinched away from it.
The woman within the fruit, her aura growing faint, shouted, "I cannot hold out much longer!
Cross the river at once, or both of us will fall into the past universe! " Shen Mu turned his head and saw this, his gaze strange.
"Who is this woman? Her power is considerable — I wonder how she would compare with the Primal Sage of Miluo Palace.
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" On a devil-sent impulse, he took out the rod of instruction the Primal Sage of Miluo Palace had given him, drove it forth, and sent it flying at the Lady of Heaven Qiang.
Crack! It struck her across the head, and she flew into a rage.
Shen Mu hastily snatched the rod back, thinking, "I forgot — the Lady of Heaven Qiang has no primordial spirit. Hitting her with the rod is completely useless.
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