Chapter 331 — One Meeting Outshines All the Splendors of the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"How is a great Dao created?" the Imperial Preceptor asked.
"Go to the utmost, and it can be created," said Li Zheng. "Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, has your sword art reached the utmost?"
The Imperial Preceptor was slightly taken aback. "Only a little short."
Li Zheng's face broke into a smile. "I will help you."
He thrust a single sword stroke toward the Imperial Preceptor, and at once the scenery all around them changed; a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers came rushing at their faces. In an instant it seemed that what surrounded them was no longer Qingmen Pass, no longer a battlefield running with rivers of blood, but another world, another heaven and earth: verdant peaks, plants green and overflowing with life, rivers racing, foam in blossom upon blossom of waves, and every blossom of foam so clear, so true, every vein in every leaf so intricate, so unlike the next.
Everyone rose to their feet. Some climbed the high mountains, some leapt into the river, some plucked a flower woven of sword-light; and Shen Mu reached out his hand and caught a drop of dew falling from a leaf.
Sword Treads Rivers and Mountains.
This was the "Sword Treads Rivers and Mountains" that Li Zheng had unleashed—plainly a move of the utmost power, yet in Li Zheng's hands it held no lethality at all; instead it bore them into a strange world.
It seemed a true and certain world, a world composed of the Sword Dao.
Great as the shock of this scene was to them all, it was greatest for the Imperial Preceptor. His body shuddered, his soul quivered; he crouched down and stroked the earth, he lifted his head and gazed at the starry sky. Li Zheng had let him see the face of the Dao, had let him touch the Sword Dao.
Suddenly he felt a door boom open, and he stood there dumbstruck, utterly still.
Seeing this, Li Zheng sighed inwardly: "A sage who appears once in five hundred years—his gifts are indeed far above little Shen's. To awaken to the Dao so quickly."