Chapter 600 — How Could This Be
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
With a breath, Shen Mu reasserted his own power over the sword elixir; the sword-light soared to the firmament and turned into a scroll painting of mountains and rivers, crashing down to engulf all three of them.
Sword Treading Mountains and Rivers!
"How dare you! You actually dare to ignore me! " Qi Jiuyi was equal parts shock and fury. He shook his mighty frame again and revealed his full form — nine heads, a human torso, bird's talons, twin wings — and was just about to erupt and slaughter them both when Shen Mu and Zhe Huali struck as one and gravely wounded him.
Qi Jiuyi spat blood; Shen Mu and Zhe Huali whirled around him, hacking viciously at each other in a three-way melee of mutual slaughter. The moment Qi Jiuyi offered the slightest resistance, the pair knocked him down again.
Whenever Shen Mu went for him, Zhe Huali would parry the blow away; whenever Zhe Huali moved in for a killing stroke, a sulking Shen Mu would block it instead.
Blood running from a dozen wounds, Qi Jiuyi felt fright and confusion growing in his heart.
Facing either Shen Mu or Zhe Huali alone, he would have had every certainty of victory — but against the two as a pair, all he could do was take the beating.
"How could this be?
" His mind was at a total loss.