Chapter 1778 — The Warrior's Gelding
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Palace Lord Huanxi was flying at full speed, and only her upper body remained, for Shang Jun had struck at her out of the painting and worsted her, forcing her to roll up her own Dao tree and Dao fruit and flee. Yet even so she had been gravely wounded by Shang Jun, both her legs hewn away.
She had meant to seek out Palace Lord Chuge nearby, but before she could reach the place of Chuge's descent, Palace Lord Chuge was already dead.
She therefore decided at once and went instead to meet Palace Lord Changfeng.
Suddenly a Hongmeng Dao light came flying toward her, and Palace Lord Huanxi started in fright.
Wounded by Shang Jun, she was like a bird startled by the bow, and hastily dodged, only to see that Hongmeng Dao light bend in midair and give chase after her. "The Seventh Young Master!
" Palace Lord Huanxi felt a chill to the bone, for word that Shen Mu had slain Palace Lord Chuge had already reached her ears.
She had not yet fully descended into the Seventeenth Era, and a part of her still remained in Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court in the Sixteenth Era, and thus she knew that Palace Lord Chuge had died at the hands of the Seventh Young Master Shen Mu. That Hongmeng Dao light from Shen Mu looked to have no great power, yet she dared not meet it head on, and could only abandon all thought of meeting Palace Lord Changfeng and rush with all her strength toward the Ancestral Court. "Changfeng must also have had news that the Seventh Young Master struck and killed Palace Lord Chuge, and he will not linger.
I need not join him, I will go straight to the Ancestral Court. Once there I will be safe!
" Her speed was extreme, and as her magic power turned, space folded layer upon layer and she tore through the void. And that Hongmeng Dao light of Shen Mu vanished together with her.
Palace Lord Huanxi left the Yuan Realm far behind, folding the starry sky as she went, faster and faster.
Each of the seventy-two Palace Lords has his own divine power, and Palace Lord Huanxi cultivated the Dao of space above all, so that the vast universe could be reached with ease, only the Ancestral Court was too far, and even with her terrifying skill she would need days to arrive.
Yet to her surprise, that light followed always behind her, and however fast she went she could not shake it off.
Palace Lord Huanxi grew secretly anxious. "The Seventh Young Master's power is so swift, I fear that before I reach the Ancestral Court his power will catch me.
More crucial still, I do not know how many strokes of his power he has sent.
If I stop to meet this one blow, but a hundred more follow behind it, must I not die? " Her speed was unmatched in the world, or Shang Jun would never have given up hunting her. It was precisely because he had seen her speed and knew he could never catch her that Shang Jun had returned to the supervision yard to keep laboring for pay.
But this Hongmeng Dao light of Shen Mu had a speed no less than hers, even surpassing it, leaving Palace Lord Huanxi both terrified and bewildered.
"I attained the Dao by the art of space, and if I wish to leave, no one can hold me, nor should the Seventh Young Master's power be able to catch me.
Could it be.
.
. " With a stirring of thought her Dao tree appeared, and a leaf fell from the tree and flew out.
That leaf drifted through the starry sky and suddenly took on the form of Palace Lord Huanxi to meet the Hongmeng Dao light.
With a swish, that Hongmeng Dao light passed straight through the body of the leaf-turned Huanxi as if it had touched nothing at all.
"It is divine consciousness!
" Palace Lord Huanxi's mind went blank, and then she halted her flight, only to see that Hongmeng Dao light come with a swish before her and pass straight through her own body.
She saw herself smashed to pieces by the blow, her soul ground away, her Dao tree cut down, all swept into nothing.
And yet she felt herself still alive and whole.
This was divine consciousness at mischief.