Chapter 1503 — Relentless

Shen Mu was beaten dizzy and disoriented. Gritting his teeth, he stopped trying to block the rods and focused solely on unleashing the Azure Heaven Banner's power, slaying one schoolmaster after another!

More and more schoolmasters poured from the Dao Fruits, rushing at him like a tide. Many broke through his defenses and reached him, grabbing for the willow leaf at his brow.

Just as they were about to pluck the willow leaf, Shen Mu's primordial spirit suddenly rose from behind him, a great hand pressing over his forehead.

The schoolmasters were enraged. Teaching rods flew up one after another, and they clubbed Shen Mu and his primordial spirit together until their heads were covered in lumps.

Outside the hall, Granny Zhu, the Blind Elder, the Silent Craftsman, and the others watched the great hall with anxious eyes. The hall shook without cease, as though enormous demons were battling and slaughtering within. The crowd outside could not help but be appalled.

This shaking continued for six or seven days, until at last the commotion inside fell silent.

"So there are still things in this world that Sect Master Shen cannot tear apart," Xu Shenghua remarked with a sigh.

Inside the hall, beneath the Dao Tree, the scholar's figure grew increasingly faint. These six or seven days had consumed no small amount of his energy, and yet he still could not kill Shen Mu—a truly vexing headache. He had no choice but to recall the schoolmasters and cease the assault.

Shen Mu came to harass him again, shooting arrows at the Dao Fruits. The scholar had grown afraid of him too. One schoolmaster said, "You—you have no shame, no face, pestering and hounding without end, utterly without decorum. I will not fight you. Which people do you wish to save? I will send them out for you. But the others must remain."