Chapter 279 — Warm a Pot of Wine
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Scriptural runes surfaced all over Shen Mu's body, revolving around him like a great bell cast down over him; the five great heavens of the Thunderclap Mahayana Sutra dimly emerged, and the hum of Buddhist chants wreathed about him. At the same time, he drove the Nine-Dragon Sovereign Art, and the dragon essence of the nine great dragon veins around the capital came swarming toward him, pushing his momentum through another breakthrough!
The Nine-Dragon Sovereign Art—the supreme lore of the imperial Ling clan, personally transmitted by the Yanfeng Emperor—now, as Shen Mu activated it, the dragon essence surging in from the nine veins even took form, invaded the river, and dragons leaped out of the water to rush at Shen Mu!
He had seized the initiative. Whether or not Ban Gongcuo had shown a flaw, as long as he held the first hand he could attack first, crush Ban Gongcuo with an exceptionally vast and vigorous primordial qi, suppress every exquisite move with sheer weight, and grind him down, grind him to pieces with unmatched force!
The best way to deal with Ban Gongcuo was to overwhelm him with absolute dharma power, not to trade moves with him! Boom—the river surface burst open, towering water stood upright, turning into the image of a giant Buddha. Water dragons coiled about the Buddha, whose body rose more than ten zhang tall, like a water mountain on the river.
The five fingers were like five peaks, palm and fingers bearing the Five Elements, and with a thunderous boom a palm came slamming down over Ban Gongcuo!
The nine dragons bellowed.
He had fused the Nine-Dragon Sovereign Art with the Nine Dragons Riding Wind and Thunder from the Eight Thunderclap Methods into one, and this blow displayed the vast spiritual power of the Buddhist school and the invincible bearing of the imperial house to the fullest! The nine dragons pounced—boom, boom, boom—the water outran sound and burst into thunderous spring roars, shattering everything in the way!
What is divine power? This is divine power!
Dharma power—Shen Mu's mightiest asset was dharma power, more than double that of his peers; even such an old monster as the ward chief, at the same realm, was far inferior.
Now even Ban Gongcuo could not come close.
He would overwhelm Ban Gongcuo with absolute force, so that all the cultivation of his former lives—eleven thousand years of experience—became utterly useless!
The instant Shen Mu's attack exploded, Ban Gongcuo's counterattack exploded as well. What he used was a sword—a sword core the size of a fingertip, but the next moment, sword light burst from it, so brilliant!
The second chapter of the Fourteen Chapters of the Dao Sword: "Five qi and three primordials knot in splendor; where they rise, cloud chariots intertwine! " He directly called on the Daoist school's supreme art, the Primordial Grand Mystery Art, and with the purest Primordial Grand Mystery driving the second sword of the Dao Sword, the sword light held the Five Qi—Yang Wood, Yang Fire, Yang Earth, Yang Metal, Yang Water—and the Three Primordials of Heaven, Earth, and Water.
Heaven Primordial is the sun, called the Great Yang; Water Primordial is the moon, called the Great Yin; Earth Primordial is the harmonious mean. The move unfolded, and sword light built the Daoist ideal world: sword-sun, sword-moon, sword-earth, Five Qi paying court to the Origin!
The Daoist sword arts were profoundly accomplished in the art of numbers.
This sacred place took the art of numbers as its foundation, believing that every great Dao between heaven and earth could be solved by numbers. As the saying goes: Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things. Numbers constitute everything under heaven; anything, even life, can be constructed from numbers, and in the end, all is merely wonderful numbers.