Chapter 261 — The March of Blades and Armies
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" He talked for a long while, and still no one understood. Old Master Huo said: "Blind old man, get to the point. " The blind old man scratched his head and said: "This woman is the widow of the former sect master of the Dark Demon Sect, and its former Holy Maiden. Tathagata wants to kill the emperor, so he let her go.
" Tathagata said with a chuckle: "This old monk cannot be in two places at once, and is powerless to help.
" The blind old man said angrily: "If you could not do it, you should have said so earlier. Now look — she is nowhere to be found.
Fellow Daoists, has anyone seen the widow of the former sect master of the Dark Demon Sect?
Extraordinarily good-looking; one word from her and she will charm you to the marrow. Has anyone seen her? " Everyone shook his head.
Hope stirred in Xue Bi'e's heart, and she called out loudly: "We are of the Heaven-Sage Sect; we beg the two of you to lend us aid!
" Tathagata was startled inwardly.
The old Daoist Lord asked: "What is their background?
" "My eldest disciple, and the Halberd God," said old Tathagata.
The old Daoist Lord said in surprise: "So it is the three-eyed constable Ma, and the Sacred Eye of those years — grown so old? " Old Master Huo shook his head: "Your business is not as urgent as our search for a person.
We do not care to bother with it.
" "Your killing an emperor or saving an emperor is truly not as urgent as our search for a person.
" The blind old man said with feeling: "If an emperor dies, another emperor takes his place. But if that demoness gets out — tsk, tsk — the whole world will suffer.
Emperor, have you seen this sect master's widow?
" Emperor Yanfeng's face was grave; slowly he shook his head: "I have not seen her. Might I beg the two seniors to lend aid?
" The blind old man was somewhat disappointed: "Not interested.
It is just as well you have not seen her; if you had, you could wait for the nation to be ruined, the people destroyed, the state broken, the family extinguished.
Old Master Huo, let us go.
She cannot have gotten far! " Old Master Huo nodded, and the two of them went off with a whistle, vanishing without a trace. The crowd was astonished: "Truly strange senior masters. " The sounds of slaughter rose again.
Tathagata released the light of his golden alms-bowl, and the Twenty Heavens soared into the air; the Daoist Lord released his sword-light, and the might of the fourteenth chapter of the Dao Sword blossomed; the sword-light expounded the great Dao of heaven and earth — the sword as heaven, the sword as earth, the sword transforming into the ten thousand laws, the sword transforming into the stars and the whole circuit of the heavens. This one sword held within it the grand unification of the world's great Dao! Emperor Yanfeng urged on the Nine Dragons Emperor Art, nine dragons of auspicious vapor coiling about his body, his feet treading rosy light; every single blow was inconceivably powerful, splitting mountains and cleaving seas, reversing heaven and earth. He was master of an immense number of Daoist arts and divine powers, and could even casually employ the Daoist sect's Dao Sword, or Great Thunderclap Temple's Dharma of Victorious Battle; any divine power or Daoist art in his hands seemed able to turn the rotten into the miraculous, possessing inconceivable might. Even the Palace of Parting Sorrow's Heaven of Parting Sorrow Sword Formula, a sword art only women could cultivate, he could bring forth in his own hands, and with greater power still.
Even the most ordinary move became enormously powerful! Spells, sword arts, even bodily divine powers — all of them could be displayed through him, and the might of every blow was like moving mountains and overturning seas!
The Nine Dragons Emperor Art he had already cultivated to the level of a god!