Chapter 1694 — Drawing His Sword to Subdue the Champions
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
His combat techniques had not attained the Dao, yet his killing intent was so dense it surpassed even Tiansha and the God-Slaying Mystic Blade; he must have attained the Dao through slaughter and cultivated the Dao of Slaughter.
Even so, he had killed too many living things; his combat cultivation joined to the Dao of Slaughter made him, by any measure, the most fearsome existence in the village.
Even with his cultivation suppressed by the First Young Master's seal, his strength was enough to threaten Shen Mu.
With the blade in his hand, his blood and qi blazed, and behind him arose the vision of countless floating corpses drifting upon a sea of blood!
Within that vision were Dao trees hacked in two, Dao fruits split open, the corpses of Dao-attained beings slain — a horror beyond reckoning.
Shen Mu at once paid no heed to the pig charging toward him; turning his palm, the Tribulation Sword appeared, and he cut level and even to meet Xiao Shang's blade.
Tiandu's Chapter of Opening Heaven.
Xiao Shang struck vertically; Shen Mu cut horizontally.
At that one slash, every countenance present changed drastically. The old man and the old woman instantly ceased pressing upon the table, and four hands together attacked Shen Mu, four arms wheeling, the assault like a storm of wind and rain!
Even beneath the table, their four legs lashed wildly at Shen Mu.
As they attacked, suddenly around Shen Mu appeared five great ore veins — Taiyi, Taichu, Taishi, Taisu, Taiji — and the five mines pressed down together, pinning the two elders fast.
On the other side, the girl, struck down upon the Dao tree, at once plucked a Dao fruit, bit hard upon her tongue, and spat a mouthful of Dao blood over it; the power within the fruit erupted and rushed at Shen Mu.
Where the Dao fruit flew, a vast abyss of Guixu surfaced and swallowed the fruit into its depths.
And that pig, its body whole again, planted its two hind legs and rose upright like a man, tusks bared, eyes like bronze bells, fire spewing from snout and mouth, its bristles keen as steel needles; it reached out a great hand, seized a Dao tree, and smashed it down at Shen Mu with all its might!
Boom —
Shen Mu still sat unmoving, yet behind him the World Tree appeared, its crown a canopy, blotting out sky and sun, and it blocked the pig's Dao tree!
The woman flitted at furious speed, the paddle smashing down again and again, but for all her boundless brute strength, the Chaos Palace ever stood before her, barring her from closing in.
This single slash of Shen Mu's was as though the Dao itself had come, as though a whole and complete great Dao were unleashing every ounce of its potential.
And the potential of that great Dao was chaos cloven, heaven and earth opened.
What is a Dao sword?
This is a Dao sword!
All the visions behind Xiao Shang vanished utterly, and new visions appeared!
That scene was as if heaven opened and earth split apart, a single ray of light dividing the boundless sea of blood, and within that vast thin line a new heaven and earth was born.
A line of blood appeared at his waist.
The Dao-might stored within Tiandu's Chapter of Opening Heaven erupted, violent waves surging in every direction, blasting the crowd away.
The pig-god set the Dao tree upright, both feet gathering strength, pouring all its power into bracing against the tree, yet the tree, and it with it, kept retreating, plowing three deep furrows in the earth.
Boom!
It crashed into the house behind, and at once the house collapsed.
Elsewhere, the old man and the old woman soared into the air, uttering harsh shout after shout; aged as they were, their hands and feet moved with startling swiftness, and they shattered the seal of the five mines.
The two parted, each alighting upon a Dao tree, killing intent roiling, and cried in stern tones: "Lord Shang —"