Chapter 506 — Blow After Blow Against the Ancestral Masters
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"This is... the source of the first move in Li Zheng's sword diagram! Li Zheng's Sword Treads Mountains and Rivers was transformed from this very move of Ancestral Master Yishan's—from divine ability to sword art. Li Zheng truly is a genius!"
Elated beyond measure, Shen Mu could not help but let out a long, ringing whistle. "True Dragon Overlord Body!"
Too elated!
He had suffered many setbacks at the hands of Li Zheng's Sword Treads Mountains and Rivers. When he first learned that move, he had lost to Li Zheng again and again. Now his vision and insight far surpassed what he had been then—yet facing the origin of Sword Treads Mountains and Rivers, it seemed he had returned to the days of exchanging and countering moves with Li Zheng.
So elated that he involuntarily roused the True Dragon Overlord Body. His vital essence surged and swelled, and every strand that spilled from his body took a different dragon shape.
The True Dragon Overlord Body was the mightiest flesh-body divine ability he had comprehended, fusing the dragon clan's cultivation methods from the True Dragon Lair with the Mystic Body Three-Cinnabar Art. His vital essence became dragon essence, shaking the space around him, forming all manner of strange dragon-shaped patterns like talismans and charms, lighting up again and again upon his skin!
With a flesh-body divine ability, he opposed a spell divine ability!
Shen Mu charged recklessly, treading the mountains and rivers, heading straight for Human Emperor Yishan more than ten li away!
Boom, boom, boom!
His fists and feet opened wide and swept far. At a single movement of his body, dozens and hundreds of true dragons whirled around him in dance, dragon roars rolling vast, shattering the mountains and rivers. He let Yishan's divine ability pound him, and still it could not break through the defense of his True Dragon Overlord Body.
Yishan's expression changed drastically. This fellow was so ferocious, breaking divine ability with flesh alone. He hurriedly altered his divine ability and hammered madly at Shen Mu, thinking, "Let us see how you break this! Charge in, and you can only take a beating!"
One blue mountain after another toppled, becoming flying spray. On the bridge, the Human Emperors of past ages felt the surging will to battle raging within Shen Mu's flesh. A fierce wind struck their faces, blowing their robes back behind them.
"This flesh-body divine ability is even more ferocious than yours, Second Ancestor."
The Third Ancestor said gravely, "Tuo Yu, you are master of formation calculations, and your mastery of the arts of calculation is unmatched in the world. Can you calculate where his flaw lies?"
In Human Emperor Tuo Yu's eyes, countless formation patterns flickered bright and dim as he madly calculated the various dragon-pattern arrays of Shen Mu's movements, using those arrays to calculate the changes in the dragon patterns on his skin, and using the changes in the dragon patterns on his skin to calculate the circulation of vital essence within his body, the working of his muscles, the manner in which his strength flowed.
Then he calculated the paths of Shen Mu's cultivation methods, the trajectories of his vital essence through his divine treasuries.
The volume of calculation was immense and complex beyond measure, yet Human Emperor Tuo Yu remained unhurried, with energy to spare.
He was the strongest master of formations of his age. In the arts of calculation, he had once won over the Daoist Sect Master of that time; in the Daoist debates, he had made every soul in the Daoist Sect bow in admiration!
At this moment, the Human Emperors on the bridge all saw Shen Mu's ferocity, and reckoned that at the same realm they too would likely be beaten black and blue by him. Losing was a small matter; losing face was great.
So they had no choice but to let Human Emperor Tuo Yu first calculate Shen Mu's flaw, and seize the chance to win.
It was a last resort.
"He has a flaw."