Chapter 352 — A Single Sword Stuns the Age
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"Magnificent," the True Man of Heaven Origin marveled from within the great sun. When the power of those two moves had spent itself, Shen Mu and the youthful deity were blasted backward and crashed to the ground. Their bodies still could not stop rolling backward, like rag dolls tumbling down a slope, arms and legs flailing helplessly.
Smack— Shen Mu was pressed against a cliff.
Sword wounds burst open across his body, and his blood smeared plum-blossom marks on the rock. "My sword art. . .
" Shen Mu coughed blood and slid slowly down the cliff.
With a thud, he sat on the ground, the shock on his face impossible to hide. "I lost.
.
. " It was the first time he had used his perfected sword art, and he had been thoroughly defeated; the other side had broken it.
Across from him, the youthful deity smashed into a mountain peak with a boom. Great boulders were shaken loose and fell from the cliff.
There were no sword wounds on him, but the force of Shen Mu's move had been too great, beyond anything he could withstand. In pure sword art, his skill was indeed above Shen Mu's. Although Shen Mu's Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers controlled more than a hundred flying swords plus countless beams of sword-light, not one beam or one flying sword struck him. Yet the immense force of Shen Mu's move had gravely wounded him.
When the power of the sword art erupted, a terrible force crushed down on him; even though it did not hit him directly, it made his ribs snap. The youthful deity, however, seemed to feel no pain at all. He shook his arms, pulled himself free from the rocks, slid forward several dozen zhang, and landed steadily.
Beneath his armpit, a broken rib had pierced through his skin, the jagged bone end exposed. He seemed utterly unaware. He raised a hand, pulled the broken bone out, and casually tossed it away.
At the foot of the cliff, Shen Mu staggered to his feet. With a roar, he worked the Creation Human King Art and sealed the wounds on his body.
He did not choose to heal with dragon's saliva, because the other's sword intent was hidden in his wounds. Unless he expelled that sword intent, even dragon's saliva could not heal him. Besides, the other side had not healed either.
In that case, let it be a fair fight! "The Overlord Body is peerless under heaven.
If I cannot defeat you, then I have not worked hard enough! " Shen Mu drove the Mystic Body Three Elixir Art.
His form suddenly became divine: an ox-headed, human-bodied figure treading twin dragons, with an ox eye growing between his brows and rolling once.
Flames blazed around him, and the twin dragons beneath him charged the youthful deity with great strides.
Using Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers had drained him enormously. If he kept using such moves, he could not last long, so he had to change techniques.
The youthful deity's body was changing too.
He took the form of the tiger-headed, human-bodied Venus Star Lord, also treading twin dragons, but his dragons were formed from metal qi, while the dragons beneath Shen Mu were formed from fire qi. The twin dragons raced forward, then suddenly both pairs veered and charged almost in parallel toward a nearby mountain peak.
The great dragons pressed against the cliff, claws gripping the rock, climbing as if flying. On the dragons' backs, both fighters, each in divine form, unleashed the strongest divine abilities of their forms and attacked each other! That mountain was extremely high; it was the very peak where the True Man of Earth Origin stood.