Chapter 349 — Weaknesses Everywhere
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The corner of Long Yu's eye twitched wildly.
Shen Mu's swords were planted over every slope and field of the mountain; how was this battle to be fought?
The mere weight of those swords would likely be enough to crush him to death! Long Yu looked toward the Hermit of Qingyou, who pretended not to see him. That seemingly simple feat of lifting eight thousand swords into the air and planting them in the ground would likely drain the dharma power of many an adept of the Six Harmonies realm utterly dry; only a fellow as outrageously savage and mighty in dharma power as Shen Mu could drive so many flying swords at a single breath, surely? And to command so many flying swords demanded an exceedingly high mastery of the arts of number and of calculation; it required a brain of lightning response, one able to give every single sword a trajectory of its own, so that none interfered with another.
To merely reckon the trajectories of eight thousand flying swords demanded a monstrous attainment in the arts of number! Clearly, Shen Mu had fused the Daoist Sect's Dao Sword with Li Zheng's sword art; only so could he command so many flying swords. "Can it be that an Overlord Body truly exists in this world?
" The Hermit of Qingyou was full of doubt.
If an Overlord Body existed, it would surely appear in the records of Little Jade Capital; yet ever since he had returned to Little Jade Capital in his despondency and begun reading through its entire library, he had found not a single mention of any Overlord Body!
The library of Little Jade Capital embraced all things under heaven, and the ages it reached back to were more remote than any other sect or holy land could imagine.
If there was no record of an Overlord Body here, then it proved that no Overlord Body existed at all! That was why the Hermit of Qingyou had been so certain that Li Zheng was deceiving them; but now, seeing Shen Mu's performance, his confidence was shaken. "Senior Brother Long Yu, please," Shen Mu said again.
Long Yu steadied himself and said in a low voice, "Human Sovereign, after you! " Firelight glittered in his eyes as he thought, "This Human Sovereign must expend enormous dharma power to control so many flying swords. Driving eight thousand swords through a sword move, one or two moves and his cultivation will surely be spent entirely.
I need only hold out for a move or two, and I can turn defeat into victory! " No sooner had the thought formed than he realized it had been wishful thinking.
Shen Mu gave him no chance to hold out at all: with his very first move he invoked the fourth form of the Dao Sword—Silently turning the wheel of heaven's circuit, beholding the myriad constellations shift and change!
In the blink of an eye, the eight thousand swords set the stars of the whole heaven revolving; the myriad constellations unfolded in all their transformations!
This was the fourth chapter of the Dao Sword. When Dao Lord Lin Xuan had tested Shen Mu's attainments in the arts of number, he had used the Celestial Star-Sprawl Chessboard Algorithm; the mathematics within it was precisely the fourth form of the Dao Sword! Shen Mu drove the fourth form of the Daoist Sect's Dao Sword: the stars of the whole heaven, spread like chess pieces, the celestial signs marshaled, the myriad forms in change—he brought the turning of the starry sky and the Milky Way to its fullest, most dazzling expression!
The Dao Sword had fourteen chapters, each form stronger than the last; by the fourth, the eight thousand swords had become a skyful of strewn stars, wheeling and transforming, trapping Long Yu inside the sword formation.
Long Yu had no time to think further. Firelight burst from his eyes; his eyelids opened and closed, and two snow-white blades of sword light flew out!
His sword art was unlike any other, one of the supreme secret teachings of Little Jade Capital.