Chapter 494 — The Struggle in the Dark Chamber Behind the Scenes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Ban Gongcuo had taken several strokes of divine power himself, his face grimy, and simply stopped hiding matters from Shen Mu, attaching the two divine legs to his own body. Shen Mu looked the other way and smiled. "Great Venerable, be quick about it. Our enemies won't give us the chance."
"Enemies?" Ban Gongcuo laughed. "Aren't our enemies all dead?"
He raised his head and looked into the darkness, where a black mass of figures was rushing out of the dark, and he froze. He spun about to flee, but beyond was nothing but darkness, and he stopped again.
"No way out!"
Ban Gongcuo turned back, wailing. "Sect Master Shen, there's no way out! I'm done for, you've killed me!"
Shen Mu stood at the center of the hundred-zhang space and slid the two great knives back into the blade pouch. With a thud, a Sun Jade Eye dropped down beside him, and he declared in a ringing voice, "Those who cross the border die!"
"Boastful words!"
An outrealm demon-lord divine-power master came charging with a howl, and suddenly a streak of sword-light flew out from beneath the ground, piercing through his chest and into his skull. The master rushed forward dozens of paces and pitched over dead at Shen Mu's feet.
Shen Mu smiled, and facing the hundreds of outrealm demon lords in the darkness, repeated, "Those who cross the border die!"
"I'll kill you!"
A giant leaped up with a great shield in hand and cast it down beneath his feet to block the sword-light surging from the ground, and with a roar his body changed: he became a god-man with a turtle's shell and a great serpent coiled about him, crashing down into the space the chest had spread open. He threw a punch, and a soaring serpent screamed, coiled around his fist.
Zheng, zheng.
Two blade-lights, one horizontal and one vertical, the twin knives crossing; then the blade-light whipped shut, and the giant broke apart into four pieces.
Shen Mu wiped the blood from his blade and grinned. "Those who cross the border die!"
"You two, and a pig, hold a hundred zhang of space, and you mean to block my army?"
A strange beast came walking forward, and on its back the leader of this host of outrealm fiend-demons lifted his visor and looked down at Shen Mu, sneering. "For the sake of your decent cultivation and your courage, I will grant you a death with no whole corpse left! All you soldiers, hear my command, trample them flat!"
All the outrealm fiend-demon divine-power masters surged in and drowned that hundred-zhang space. Outside the space, eight thousand swords broke from the earth and became the first form of the Sword Diagram, Sword Treads Over Rivers and Mountains, drawing everyone who rushed into the hundred-zhang space into the diagram! The leader sneered, his primordial spirit soaring into the air, his mana erupting, forcibly shaking off all the flying swords and shattering Sword Treads Over Rivers and Mountains!
Ban Gongcuo's face went pale. Gazing up at that overbearing being who had broken the Sword Diagram with such ease, despair filled his mind, and he murmured, "A general of the Life-and-Death realm has come as well. There is no way out. I cannot run..."
"There is a way out!"
Shen Mu bellowed, and a dazzling light burst forth and stabbed at the general's eye. In the instant the general froze the Sword Diagram, the radiance of the Sun Jade Eye buzzed in through his brow and out the back of his skull!
The divine-power masters surging in fell upon Shen Mu and drowned him; the Sun Jade Eye was blasted away by dozens of divine powers and came rolling out.
Hope kindled in Ban Gongcuo's heart again. His face turned savage as he met the hundreds. "Kill!"
"Kill!"
The Dragon Qilin roared, its scales bristling and flying from its body.
Bang, bang, bang.
The hundred-zhang space suddenly folded at furious speed and closed, packing hundreds of outrealm fiend-demon divine-power masters, together with Ban Gongcuo, Shen Mu, and the Dragon Qilin, into the chest.