Chapter 1852 — The Origin of Chaos Runes
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Most of his Sword Dao moves were, in truth, divine abilities. Young Master Zixiao flicked the blade with his finger and said evenly, "Old Seventh, I learned of the Sword Dao's weakness earlier than you, and I have gone deeper in understanding it. " "Ding!
" The sword's note was piercingly clear, and Shen Mu's face changed drastically. "Therefore I have used Hongmeng runes to make good the Sword Dao's weakness.
Every one of my sword moves rests upon a Hongmeng rune at its foundation.
I fused the Sword Dao with our master's Hongmeng Dao to create the Hongmeng Sword Dao. " Young Master Zixiao fixed his gaze on the tip of his own Dao sword.
At the tip trembled a speck of purple light, and as the sword vibrated, the purple light wavered without stop. Shri!
Shri!
Shri!
Shri! Innumerable sword intents suddenly burst forth from Shen Mu's body, tearing him to shreds! Young Master Zixiao said flatly, "Once you are struck by my Hongmeng Sword Dao, every Dao within your body will be sliced apart.
Even if you revive, you will be sliced apart once more. " Shen Mu dissolved into Chaos Qi once again, and rolling Dao tones came from within: "I have cultivated the Hongmeng Dao Body and the Hongmeng Primordial Spirit, refined the Dao of Guixu, and possess the World Tree—undying, indestructible.
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" Shri! Countless Hongmeng sword beams shot out in all directions from the mass of Chaos Qi, rending him apart yet again.
Young Master Zixiao shook his head. "Once my sword has struck you, you will remain forever in that state. Old Seventh, this is my Dao-attainment sword, and it can only be accounted my thirty-sixth sword.
Above it, I still hold four more.
If I cannot kill you, what can you possibly do to me?
" The Dao Tree sword, the Dao Flower sword, the Dao Fruit sword, and the ultimate fortieth sword—the sanctum of the Sword Dao that even the Master of Miluo Palace could never cultivate: his Dao Hall sword! The Dao-attainment sword alone was already beyond Shen Mu's power to stand against! The mass of Chaos Qi roiled without cease. Over and over, Shen Mu strove to restore his physical body and primordial spirit, only to be annihilated anew each time.
"You and I came from the same school, Old Seventh. Had you achieved the Dao through Chaos and cultivated a Dao Hall, I would have no means to deal with you.
But you have never truly become the Seventh Young Master.
" He put away his sword and turned around. "Without becoming a Young Master, you are no match for me.
Yet if you did become one, you could only sit with folded arms and watch us annihilate the Jingping Dao-achievers and descend into the Seventeenth Epoch. Old Seventh, you have lost.
" He raised his head, looking toward the Chaos Long Rivers outside the Miluo Palace, and his face changed slightly. Though Shen Mu still writhed in the might of his Dao-attainment sword, annihilated and reborn again and again, strangely, the spectacle of the sixteen Chaos Long Rivers sealing the Miluo Palace still had not ceased! If Shen Mu had been wholly imprisoned by this sword of his, the chaotic motion of the destruction calamity across sixteen cosmic epochs would have come to rest, and the place would no longer have been sealed.
But the chaos continued—and that could mean only one thing.
This sword of his had not wholly trapped Shen Mu; Shen Mu still had strength in reserve! Young Master Zixiao whirled around, and there he saw the mass of Chaos Qi no longer changing at all. It was perfectly still.
"The seven Young Masters of the Miluo Palace seem each to have made their own great accomplishment, but in truth, all of them stand on the foundation of Hongmeng runes. " Shen Mu's voice came from the mass of Chaos Qi. "The shallowness or depth of one's comprehension of the Hongmeng runes and the Hongmeng Dao marks the height of one's cultivation.
Eldest Young Master Taishang's Dao attainment is the deepest.