Chapter 664 — Invincible Under Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
" Shen Mu thought for a moment, then said, "Divine Son, can you have everyone on the plaza seal themselves down to the Seven Stars Realm? " The Divine Son Chiming was surprised, and nodded.
A deity beside him announced in a ringing voice: "All disciples, hear the order: seal your own cultivation.
" Across the vast plaza came at once the sound of Divine Treasuries closing, one after another.
Shen Mu thought a while longer, then peeled the golden willow leaf from the center of his brows and put it carefully away. The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, frowned: "Shen'er, there is no need for that. " Shen Mu smiled: "I only want to make it quick.
We have tarried here too long, after all.
Sister Xiu, in a moment simply follow behind me. " Ling Yuxiu nodded. Shen Mu looked at Hu Kang and said with a smile, "Brother Hu, I may give some offense in a moment.
" Suddenly a crackling and popping burst from within his body; flesh and blood seethed and burgeoned, and soon a head grew out from his neck, then another from the right side, and then the bones beneath his armpits pressed against the skin and grew outward, arm after arm thrusting forth!
Three heads, six arms!
Ling Yuxiu was startled, and only then did she notice that Shen Mu had at some point altered his official robes: the collar loosened, slits cut beneath the arms wide enough to accommodate four more arms, and even trimmed with piping.
"So the cowherd is a fine tailor too! " she thought.
"Only, this three-headed, six-armed form is dreadful. . . " When Shen Mu's three heads and six arms appeared, each of the three faces bore a vertical eye in the center of its brow, and the three vertical eyes were half open, half closed.
Hu Kang, six arms holding blades, came charging with a shriek, elated: "You have cultivated our Xuankong Realm's arts as well? Then we are a match well met! " Though he had sealed his own cultivation, his strength was still exceedingly great, exceedingly terrible; nor was his blade art mere blade art, for dharma and divine arts lay hidden within it.
Plainly Bangongcuo had made use of Ling Yuxiu's method of merging battle and art, the Divine Son Chiming had learned it, and the Divine Son had passed that method on to all of them!
Ling Yuxiu's heart gave a leap.
At that very moment Shen Mu's six hands came together, stacked palms bursting forth; the force of three stacked strikes of the Yin-Yang Heaven-Overturning Hand gathered into one. With a thunderous boom, before Hu Kang could come near he was sent flying backward faster than he had come! Shocked and furious, he drove his six blades into the ground; their edges cut furrows in the earth, trailing fire the whole way!
Hum. Three beams of light shot from Shen Mu's eyes and, with a humming note, nailed him to the ground; the immense pressure bore his body forward across the earth, smashing into the crowd and bowling over everyone on the plaza, throwing the whole scene into brief confusion!
Shen Mu laughed aloud. His feet spread three feet apart and his body suddenly crouched; the muscles of his thighs were like springs holding inexhaustible power, and in an instant every sinew was compressed to the utmost. A battle intent vast as a flood tide erupted from Shen Mu, so terrible that it formed whirling currents of air, visible to the naked eye, spinning madly about him; behind him, Ling Yuxiu's skirts and sleeves were lifted and her hair bun blown loose!
Thud!
The earth burst apart; where Shen Mu had stood there was now an enormous crater ringed with horrifying cracks, and in the crater there was no Shen Mu. Ling Yuxiu looked up and saw only a small black speck. With a great booming crash, Shen Mu smashed down into the crowd ahead like a comet, and at that moment Hu Kang's sliding body had not yet come to rest.