Chapter 280 — Poison in the Pot
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" He walked out of the Jade Fragrance Pavilion and drifted away. In the Green Bamboo Garden, the great shaman was utterly bewildered. He waved the singing girls and dancing girls away. After a moment, Ban Gongcuo emerged from the shadows, bloodstained, his face grim. "The Human Sovereign's swordsmanship.
. . " He said in a low voice, "It really is the Human Sovereign's swordsmanship!
Though it seems somewhat different, I would not mistake it.
This junior is wielding the Human Sovereign's sword art, fused with the swordsmanship of Imperial Preceptor Jingping, and further combined with the Thunderclap Mahayana Sutra and the Ling clan's Nine-Dragon Sovereign Art.
He has merged these arts.
. . " Shen Mu had fused so many arts and divine powers, and all of them the most supreme, that the moment he clashed with Shen Mu, his Dao sword was suppressed in the collision, throwing his mind and his bearings into chaos. That was why he dared not fight Shen Mu head-on.
He did not know how many moves of the Human Sovereign's swordsmanship Shen Mu had learned.
The Human Sovereign of the previous era had been a supreme powerhouse; he dared not risk it. In that previous era, many stories had unfolded.
Many figures who walked the world were near deities; he was one of them, and Heavenly Blade was another. Beyond them were countless other brilliant figures, yet none of them were the most dazzling. The Human Sovereign alone was the most radiant star of that era! Apart from the Human Sovereign of the previous era, Ban Gongcuo had seen another Human Sovereign in the era before that, and tracing back another eight hundred years, he had seen yet another Human Sovereign.
Generation after generation of Human Sovereigns had appeared in his long life, each one extraordinarily dazzling, eclipsing his own brilliance. These Human Sovereigns could be traced back even to his first life, and even before his first life there had been Human Sovereigns walking the world! He had once been deeply curious about this ancient lineage.
Each Human Sovereign excelled in different arts and divine powers, yet each was stunningly brilliant. Even many of the sages who appeared once every five hundred years were Human Sovereigns!
He had wanted to make contact with this lineage, but several times he had died at the hands of a Human Sovereign, and so he had abandoned the notion. And now, in Shen Mu he saw the lineage of the previous Human Sovereign. But that Human Sovereign had vanished long ago; rumor had it that he had been dead for three or four hundred years.
He had seen this Human Sovereign's sword, the strongest man of the previous era, the strongest sword. One glance, and that sword light would be forever branded on his heart, impossible to forget. Had it not been so, he would not have panicked so badly as to lose his composure, been gravely wounded by Shen Mu, and lost the initiative.
Thus he first used water escape to avoid Shen Mu's edge, then earth escape to burrow underground, only to be detected by Shen Mu's Azure Heaven Eye. Shen Mu attacked him mercilessly with a bamboo staff, an iron hammer, and the Livestock Slaughtering Knife, wounding him again and again until he had no choice but to flee. His mastery of escape techniques was cultivated to the utmost; the escape arts of Little Jade Capital were absolutely first-rate under heaven. His soul was extremely powerful, nearly that of a deity, and Shen Mu still could not kill him. Moreover, the cultivation of his past lives was still hidden within his body.
Though his current body was still weak and could not withstand that hidden, terrifying power, if Shen Mu pushed him to the limit and that power erupted, it would be enough to slay Shen Mu! After he fled, Shen Mu knew he could not keep him and did not pursue.