Chapter 1776 — Death to Trespassers
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu walked into the forest of swords, his form passing straight through broken blade after broken blade as if he had no substance, and said calmly: "Go back. Return to the Miluo Palace, and I will grant you a way to live.
" The ever-shifting nature of Taishi was embodied in him to the fullest.
The man in the mirror burst into wild laughter, and in an instant his unruly figure appeared upon the mirrored faces of every divine sword in the forest of swords, saying with a smile: "Seventh Young Master, now that I have come, I will not go back. This is my sole chance at life, and I cannot abandon it no matter what. You have yet to attain Dao, you are not yet the Seventh Young Master, and you may not be my match. " Shen Mu raised his hand, and in a sudden flash every divine sword in the entire forest of swords shattered!
The fragments numbered in the hundreds of millions, yet upon each mirror-like surface emerged the figure of Palace Master Chuge, countless Palace Master Chuges speaking as one: "Seventh Young Master, you have not yet attained Dao, and you do not know how vast my Dao arts and divine powers are.
My inheritance is extremely ancient. As early as the Eleventh Era I had already attained Dao, in the time of the Prison Emperor, yet even the invincible Prison Emperor perished in the Calamity of Destruction, while I survived. Upon my Dao tree hang five Dao fruits and one Dao flower. Though I am no Young Master of the Miluo Palace, my skill should fall little short of a Young Master's. " Shen Mu gazed at the countless mirrors upon the ground and smiled: "It seems you attained Dao by fleeing for your life. If that old friend of mine were still alive, he would be delighted to see you and take you for his fellow Daoist.
" Amid the countless mirrors, the figures of Palace Master Chuge vanished, leaving only a final figure stepping from one mirror into another, saying: "The Seventh Young Master jests. My skill was never meant for fleeing, it is only that you cannot comprehend my skill.
After all, you have yet to attain Dao. Of course, once you attain Dao in the future, even our Master will sing your praises, and then I will be far from your match. " His figure suddenly split in two, appearing in two mirrors with different movements in each, smiling: "Since that is so, why does the Young Master not return to the past and become the Seventh Young Master in the past? This Seventeenth Era holds too many cares, clouding your wisdom.
Return to the past, and all this will have nothing to do with you, and you may attain Dao in peace. " Shen Mu laughed aloud, his form suddenly vanishing to appear within a mirror, face to face with Palace Master Chuge, smiling: "I will return to the past and become the Seventh Young Master of the Miluo Palace. But before that, I must first settle accounts with the Miluo Palace. " Palace Master Chuge's expression shifted slightly, and with a flash he stepped out of that mirror and vanished.
He arrived in another mirror, only to find a Shen Mu already waiting for him there. "I always believed I would attain Dao in the Seventeenth Era.
" Shen Mu said to him: "But not long ago I realized our Master was right.
Without enduring one Great Calamity of Destruction after another, my attainment of Dao can never be complete.
If I wish to attain Dao, I must return to the past and witness the chaotic Calamity of Destruction with my own eyes.
" Palace Master Chuge flickered onward, flashing through countless mirrors, and to his astonishment, in every mirror stood a Shen Mu, calm and unhurried, awaiting his arrival. "Therefore I have made a decision, which is to crush the Miluo Palace while I am still not its Seventh Young Master! " Cold sweat broke out on Palace Master Chuge's brow, and he suddenly transformed into countless selves appearing in all the mirrors at once, yet to his shock, in every mirror there was a Shen Mu!