Chapter 1600 — The Peerless Elegance of That Sword
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
In other words, Shen Mu knew her to the very marrow, while she knew all too little of him. "If our cultivations are at all close, then I am doomed beyond question!
" she said inwardly.
"But my strength lies precisely here: my cultivation is more profound than his! He has not yet reached the Jade Capital realm, while I am already halfway into the Heavenly Court realm! If I sound the War Horn and swell my qi and blood, my explosive power within a short span will increase severalfold — a single killing blow!
I may be wounded, but I will not be mortally wounded. As for him — though he may keep his life, he will be knocked by me into Guixu!
" "Strike fast, settle fast!
" "I must strike fast and settle fast!
" "The longer this drags out, the more possibilities he can calculate against me! " As she thought this, her brows shot up; and at that very moment, the voice of Her Highness the Empress came suddenly, shrieking shrilly: "Wrong, wrong! Something is wrong with this reincarnation art! Done this way, the little hussy can never be refined!
Mu Tianzun!
Mu Tianzun—" At the Empress's cry, Shen Mu's aura suddenly rippled; Gong Tianzun seized this opening instantly, driving her Grand Heavenly Court with everything she had!
Her Heavenly Court was arrayed like a war horn, and the moment the art was activated, the horn rang long, sending her qi and blood rocketing upward in a straight line in less than a breath!
In that instant, throughout the entire twin-lotus sacred ground of Guixu, a monstrous tide of qi and blood raged everywhere! Gong Tianzun's strength and her mana were likewise climbing in a straight line. She moved a single step, and it was as though she burst through the limits of space and time — passing through Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain, she was before him!
The dragon whip in her hand transformed into a dragon spear. The great spear shook violently, spun, and with a hiss stabbed toward Shen Mu!
At the very moment she moved, a smile surfaced on Shen Mu's face — a smile that, in Gong Tianzun's eyes, held something sinister, the savor of a scheme achieved.
Ding— Shen Mu ignored her utterly imperious strike and, instead, raised his hand to flick his sword.
Gong Tianzun's heart leapt; the sword wound left in her chest when Shen Mu's blade had pierced her through moments ago erupted at once! Countless sword-lights burst outward from that wound, like a silver vase overflowing with quicksilver dashed upon the ground, quicksilver splashing in every direction!
The silver vase shatters — the waters gush forth!
"Kaihuang's sword Dao? " Gong Tianzun's heart trembled in terror.
Even as the spear thrust out, she frantically marshaled her qi, blood, and mana to suppress the wound in her chest!
She had once been defeated beneath Kaihuang's sword, and Kaihuang's sword Dao had left an ineradicable shadow upon her — a wound not only to her flesh, but to her Dao heart as well! Shen Mu's flick of the sword forced her to awaken, against her will, that dread of Kaihuang; and once roused, instinct instantly overrode reason.
Her mana was dispatched to the wound, and the power of this spear-thrust at once declined.
Then, in the next breath, she found that the sword-light and sword Dao bursting from the wound Shen Mu had given her were not so dreadful as Kaihuang's.
Kaihuang had only to flick his sword for the sword wound in her Dao heart to transform into sword Dao, which fed upon her own mana and power until it sliced her into fragments.
But this stroke of Shen Mu's merely stirred the residual might of the sword Dao remaining within the wound.
"Damn it! " No sooner had she thought this, and moved to raise the power and might of the spear-thrust once more, than Shen Mu was already stabbing his sword to meet her dragon spear.
In the span of a single breath, twenty basic sword forms danced amid the sword-light, striking the spear in succession.