Chapter 1777 — The Legacy Scroll of the Blade Sutra
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Moreover, his primordial spirit had already entered the Chaos Hall; on the road of the Dao-achiever he was a single step away! To become a young master of Miluo Palace was not so simple as attaining the Dao; one had to have terrifying achievements, to reach the utmost in some domain, an utmost no one else could attain, an utmost beyond even the master of Miluo Palace.
Such a one's Dao would condense into a main hall that upheld Miluo Palace. So it was with First Young Master Taishang, so with Second Young Master Wuji, and so with every other young master.
The seven great main halls of Miluo Palace, Taishang, Wuji, Lingxiao, Zixiao, Wuzong, Zhanji, and Chaos, each stood for an achievement the master of Miluo Palace could not attain. And Shen Mu was no longer far from such an achievement.
Third Young Master Lingxiao examined every wound on Hall Master Chuge with the utmost care; the best way to defeat an opponent was to know him as thoroughly as possible, to know everything about him.
That was what he was doing now.
Though Shen Mu's present strength was not yet worth a glance before him, he remained cautious, remained earnest. "Fellow Daoist Chu is dead, yet his three dao fruits and one dao flower remain.
" Third Young Master Lingxiao raised his palm, and the Chu Sage's three dao fruits and one dao flower flew to him and hung suspended above his palm. The Young Master Lingxiao's face was as still as an ancient well.
"Though your body is dead and your soul scattered, fellow Daoist, your consciousness and your Dao remain. You need only reach the Seventeenth Epoch and find a fitting body and primordial spirit, and you may be reborn by borrowing body and soul.
" The other hall masters' faces darkened.
Without flesh, without soul, reborn by borrowing life through the consciousness in his dao fruits and dao flower, would he still be the Chu Sage of old? Yet matters had come to this, and they could hardly say more.
"Hao of the Seventeenth Epoch is already on his way.
When he reaches the skies above the destruction kalpa of the Sixteenth Epoch, the Fourth Young Master will go to meet him and give him a zither string.
" The Third Young Master's face was calm.
"The struggle with Old Seven has only just begun; there is no need for any of you to worry. Old Seven means to block Miluo Palace alone and keep it from descending; he is fated to be crushed until his head runs with blood. If Miluo Palace cannot descend into the Seventeenth Epoch, that is the one true road to death!
" At his last words, every face grew grave.
Though Miluo Palace was unshakably firm, it had lingered all this while within the great kalpa of destruction, and sooner or later it would collapse and crumble because of it!
If they did not enter the Seventeenth Epoch, they, the Dao-achievers, would likely all be ground away within the great kalpa of destruction. After all, not everyone was a young master of Miluo Palace, with the means and the strength to evade the great kalpa or to withstand it head-on!
Shen Mu suppressed his injuries. Hall Master Chuge had still been formidable; his final blow had wounded Shen Mu as well, leaving him no small number of dao wounds. Yet these wounds were not enough to kill him; they would only cause him some trouble.
He would have to parse the divine arts and dao methods lingering in those dao wounds, break them one by one, and only then heal himself.
Before him, Hall Master Chuge's two legs still stood steadily upon the ground.
Hall Master Chuge had been struck back by Shen Mu into the destruction kalpa of the Sixteenth Epoch, yet these two legs had remained behind. Shen Mu suppressed his injuries, stepped forward, and put away Hall Master Chuge's legs.
He had no such habit; the one with that habit was Xing'an. "Hall Master Chuge was, after all, an ancient Dao-achiever, and there is something extraordinary about his flesh.
I want to ask Xing'an to do something for me, to break open Taiyi's coffin and free Taiyi.