Chapter 454 — The Eighteen Moves of the Supreme Art
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
The divine-power wielders of the Western Lands did not seek to strengthen themselves; they borrowed power from heaven, earth, and nature, and in turn transformed nature. They harvested dark gold and dark copper to refine primal weapons—and naturally, they refined these primal weapons to be as powerful as possible.
The palaces in Yun City were primal weapons refined by powerful divine-power wielders, their might on an entirely different order from those wooden houses and stone houses.
These palace-giants too rose to their feet, blocking the ends of the streets, reeking of killing intent.
This scene was absolutely unprecedented, unheard of!
Shen Mu brought his sword down. The tremors emanating from the incomparably heavy and solid Wuyou Sword instantly shattered the great river coiling around the dragon-qilin's tail.
The great river, like a giant serpent whose tail had been cut off, shuddered and writhed in agony, twisting and turning through the city.
When the Wuyou Sword's tip touched the street, that utterly terrifying power exploded outward. Bluestone slabs embedded in the street flipped up one after another, flying into midair. A horrifying great fissure appeared in the street, crack-crack-cracking with explosive roars as it extended madly forward. More bluestone slabs flew up and shattered in midair!
*Shua shua shua*—
From the Wuyou Sword's tip flew one flying sword after another. Shen Mu's vital essence raged, pouring madly into the flying swords. These swords spun as they slashed forward along the street. Eight thousand flying swords carved and cut all the way—wherever they passed, house-giants and building-giants were torn to fragments.
Earlier, when the eight thousand swords had merged, he could not activate the treasure sword's might. But now all the flying swords were separated, and he could immediately activate the power of each individual sword.
Countless sword-lights spun like wheels, charging through flying wood and shattered stone toward the end of the street, and in almost a single instant carved deep into the palace-giants, cutting clean through the great halls!
Shen Mu's arms trembled violently. This one sword strike had nearly torn his muscles apart, nearly snapped his bones, nearly ruptured his great sinews—and had drained nearly half his mana in one go!
The reason he had used the first form of the Dao Sword when Yun City was devouring them, rather than the first form of the Sword Diagram, Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers, was mainly to conserve mana. Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers required even more mana to execute.
Yet this one strike had consumed nearly half his mana in an instant!
Still, the results of this strike were spectacular. One sword had nearly leveled the entire street. He had never imagined he could possess such devastating destructive power.
Shen Mu released the Wuyou Sword, channeling his remaining vital essence into it. The Wuyou Sword vibrated, and one by one the other flying swords flew back from the end of the street.
This time he dared not use the sword pellet's second form again. Instead, he directly gathered the eight thousand swords into a round, rolling metal sphere.
Shen Mu opened the Taotie Pouch and placed the sword pellet inside, then fell into a daze once more. "It seems I've created an unprecedented fundamental sword form. This kind of sword move is not among the seventeen fundamental sword forms…"
That strike just now—countless swords had spun like wheels from the Wuyou Sword, howling forward, and in a single instant had taken away nearly half his cultivation. This spinning-wheel sword form was different from all seventeen fundamental sword forms. The most similar was the Cloud Sword Form, but the Cloud Sword Form had the treasure sword tracing a circle with the wrist or the body as its center.