Chapter 823 — The Flawless Maiden
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Though my cultivation realm is far below yours, opening a seal of the Longhan era is no difficulty for me.
" His hands flew, and his vital essence turned into all manner of runes, which he pressed onto the coffin one after another — truly exquisite divine arts. Watching, everyone felt a chill of awe: "The Heavenly Court's divine arts and methods are indeed unfathomable!
" Shen Mu's heart sank as well; Prince Qiuming's attainments were exceedingly high, his strength very great. "The Heavenly Court has gathered all manner of throne-level cultivation methods over the years, and the elites it has cultivated are indeed no small matter!
" After a while, fine beads of sweat appeared on Prince Qiuming's brow, his eyebrows gradually knitted, and he suddenly stepped back, shaking his head: "Strange, strange. The seals here are not merely the Yulin Army's seals; there are others I have never learned.
. .
" Feng Qiuyun sneered, "A bumpkin prince of the upper realm, good for nothing but blowing his own horn and making a fool of himself.
Let me do it! " She set down the Emperor's coffin, drew the Earth Mother's Kunyuan Sword, and the wooden sword flashed as she thrust at the Empress's coffin, meaning to break the seals by force.
Though she was the Earth Mother's maidservant, she was also the chieftain of the Feng clan, a great master of the Lingxiao realm, formidable in strength; with the Earth Mother's Kunyuan Sword besides, breaking the seals should not have been difficult. But as Feng Qiuyun thrust out several dozen sword strokes in succession, halos of light swirled around the hanging coffin, all manner of seals surfaced, and they actually blocked the power of both her and the Earth Mother's Kunyuan Sword.
The seals around the hanging coffin were formed of countless divine arts into circular star systems great and small, which absorbed the power of her and the Earth Mother's Kunyuan Sword.
Feng Qiuyun frowned, sheathed her sword, flicked her sleeve, and returned to the Emperor's coffin. Prince Qiuming laughed: "The Earth Mother may be mighty, but her foundations are far inferior to the Heavenly Court's.
Who else would like to try? " Shen Mu's expression turned odd.
The other seals were one thing — he recognized few of them — but the seal that bound all these seals together was the Founding Patriarch's seal. The Founding Patriarch's Star River Seal Art he had seen more than once, and broken more than once.
He had encountered it beside the Other Shore Ark, in the canyon where the old dragon was suppressed; and upon the God-Slaying Platform of the Chiming alien star he had broken it as well.
Suddenly he felt a pair of eyes upon him; following their gaze, he found it was Zhe Huali.
Shen Mu smiled faintly.
When he had broken the Star River divine art upon the alien star's God-Slaying Platform, Zhe Huali and Qi Jiuyi had been right there — and had been taken in by him. Clearly Zhe Huali still remembered it. "The only one who can break these seals is Sect Master Shen.
" Zhe Huali suddenly spoke up: "Why not let Sect Master Shen try? " Pairs of eyes fell upon Shen Mu.
He laughed heartily and tossed aside Lord Dragonkeeper's dragon horn; Lord Dragonkeeper's great head struck the ground with a thud, thud, bouncing several times, yet his sinews were still too weak and sore for him to rise.
Shen Mu stepped forward to the Empress's coffin and studied the seals closely, then suddenly laughed: "These seals have been broken before. Opening them is not so hard after all. " "Broken before? " Everyone was startled, and before they could recover, Shen Mu's sleeves fluttered as he circled the Empress's coffin, up and down, unleashing all manner of seal arts; at once star rivers and star systems around the coffin began to wheel and shift, star vortices unravelling one after another, and the stars formed of various divine arts retreated.