Chapter 706 — Reflections in the Blade
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His right hand traced a ring; his left palm passed through the ring and struck at Shen Mu.
Just then the sixteen nine-phoenixes pounced all together, drowning Shen Mu! How ferocious was the assault of sixteen nine-phoenixes? In an instant, phoenix feathers were swords, wings were blades, claws were hooks, beaks were spears, as though ten thousand primal weapons struck Shen Mu at once, and with them the incomparably blazing phoenix fire burned all before it.
The place where Shen Mu stood became a sea of fire, and also the center of a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering explosion!
A dreadful shock wave swept in all directions.
Where it passed, mountain rocks were flung into the air, shattered, melted, vaporized; the flames formed a ring like a snare, giving off an incomparably brilliant light, surging outward, sweeping up everything, expanding fifty li before their force finally abated. In the explosion, streaks of incomparably brilliant sword light suddenly appeared, piercing phoenix heads, shearing through phoenix necks, shaving off wings, cutting through feathers, striking down claws!
"Brother Shen, your great divine ability is already spent.
You are no match for me now!
" Qi Jiuyi laughed aloud, and his palm force pierced the heart of the explosion, driving straight for Shen Mu's back.
Shen Mu turned and struck with a palm. Before the two palms met, still thirty zhang apart, each one's palm force burst forth! Qi Jiuyi's palm force was a bridge of linked phoenix feathers, countless feathers like swords joined into a bridge, thrusting forward so fast that the vision of a flying bridge took shape.
And Shen Mu's palm strike formed a road of crystal. Meeting Qi Jiuyi's palm force, his power poured out; countless crystals sprouted and swelled in every direction, their structures wildly different from one another, and suddenly fire burst from within the crystals! That was heaven-fire, the divine ability of the Great Dao of Heaven-Fire, a flame more terrible than phoenix fire.
It melted away the dreadful power hidden in Qi Jiuyi's countless feathers and drove straight at him. Qi Jiuyi's face changed greatly.
The Cangwu tree behind him drifted forward; he gripped it in both hands and roared, using the Cangwu tree as a weapon, and brought it smashing down at the Great Dao of Heaven-Fire!
Boom— Their palms and the ancient tree collided.
Though it could not match the fearsome power of the last blow, the force erupted within a confined space, making it all the more threatening!
The mountain rock beneath their feet melted completely. The power of their divine abilities acted on each other at the same moment, pressing them down until their bodies were immeasurably heavy.
The Dragon Qilin stood at a distance watching the battle, a huge sword core on his back. He thought, "The Sect Master has no primal weapon in hand. I fear he will be at a disadvantage.
. .
this sword core is too heavy. Should I set it down first?
" He had only just thought this when a deafening roar like the sky splitting and the earth cracking came, the ground shook without cease, and then the forms of Shen Mu and Qi Jiuyi vanished.
When the aftermath of their battle had dispersed, the Dragon Qilin at once saw that a deep pit had appeared there, a great opening some hundred zhang across, bottomless. The Dragon Qilin hurried over and poked his head into the opening, looking down.
He saw that the great hole did not look like it had been blasted out by their divine abilities; rather, the ground beneath had been hollow, and they had trampled it through.
"It seems this is the underground space of the Shenduan Mountains. There are chains down there too, sealing a long saber.
.
. " The Dragon Qilin thought it over, somewhat unwilling to enter the depths.
During the battle to intercept Heaven Above, Shen Mu and the others had already discovered the many wonders beneath the Shenduan Mountains.