Chapter 466 — Sword Arts and Sword Scars
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Shen Mu gazed up at the palaces in the sky, from which countless women were flying out to alight upon the peaks one after another. The True Heaven Palace must long since have received word that Shen Mu had rallied several great clans to come and wage war upon them; they had been prepared.
Boom!
A great mountain suddenly burst apart, its rocks exploding, countless boulders flying and tumbling from its slopes. The mountain's transformation was terrifying to behold—from a peak it became a towering mountain giant.
The mountain giant crouched, then abruptly tore its massive legs and feet up from beneath the earth, shaking the ground until it quaked without cease.
The formation master He Yiyi raised her hand, and the vast Yun City gently halted, coming to a stop.
Amid the mountain range, that mountain giant slowly rose to its feet. Its enormous palm, a hundred mu or more across, swept through the air, stirring up a howling gale, and suddenly seized a sword-shaped peak.
A piercing sound rang out—that sword-shaped peak was actually wrenched from the earth by the mountain giant!
As the giant pulled, the stone upon the sword-shaped peak fell away piece by piece; by the time it had lifted the peak aloft, the stone had sloughed off entirely, revealing a body covered in rust.
A great sword the size of a mountain!
Shen Mu's expression turned grave as he raised his head to gaze at the mountain giant and that great sword amid the drifting mist and clouds.
The True Heaven Palace's foundations were too vast and towering, surpassing even the holy lands of the Central Plains. Neither the Daoist sects, nor the Great Thunderclap Monastery, nor even the Dark Demon Cult possessed such fearsome reserves.
Boom, boom.
One thunderous report after another rang out as peak after peak began to transform. The mountain forests became giants a thousand zhang, several thousand zhang tall, each seizing weapons of unimaginable vastness!
These were the guardians of the True Heaven Palace.
Countless female disciples of the True Heaven Palace stood upon the shoulders or the heads of the mountain giants, their figures rising and falling with the giants' movements, their killing intent seething.
Shen Mu glanced at Mu Yingxue. Had she not poisoned the Xiong family back then, it would have been very difficult for the Yu family to seize the True Heaven Palace and wrest power from the Xiong.
These mountain giants alone constituted a force of unspeakable terror, surpassing a million-strong army!
"Form the formation—"
He Yiyi cried out in a loud voice, and the women of the He family within the city came pouring out, each producing a host of formation banners and waving them in the wind. At once, great and small formation elemental soldiers descended from the banners.
The He family women assembled them with astonishing speed, and Shen Mu witnessed a scene of utter shock: the He family's divine ability users were using the formation elemental soldiers to rapidly assemble catapult after catapult a hundred zhang tall. The catapults stood arrayed behind Yun City, their winches cranked taut!
One after another, the Fang family's female divine ability users roused their powers, and from the mountain giants that walked behind them, stone kept tumbling down, contracting into great boulders that rolled of their own accord into the catapults' baskets.
Countless female divine ability users of the Xi family scattered seeds, and grass and trees grew wildly across the hills and fields, forming a green ocean behind them. The ocean surged without cease, and one tree giant after another came striding out with thunderous steps.
The Luo family's sword master Luo Yinyu laid her hand upon her sword—shing, shing, shing—and behind her, tens of thousands of Luo family women laid hands upon their swords as one, their heroic spirit blazing forth.
"Sister Fu!" Mu Yingxue suddenly called out in a loud voice.