Chapter 843 — One Sword Breaks the Heavenly Dipper
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Qingyun Heaven was a branch of the Daoist school and had cultivated the Dao Sword as well, yet Lin Xuan's Dao Sword differed from theirs in subtle ways: from the grand to the minute, rebuilding the grand from different calculations and different details, more perfect still, leaving the Dao Sword without a single flaw!
Lin Xuan's Dao Sword changed again: the five breaths and three primes gather their excellence; where they rise, cloud chariots interweave!
The moment this move appeared, the Daoists up and down the mountain could not hold back their cheers, and grew more entranced still.
Chapter Two of the Dao Sword was ternary and quinary, using mathematical constructs to build the sun, the moon and the seven stars, and involving the orbits of the sun, the moon and the five luminaries.
Yet when Lin Xuan unleashed this move, the form was the same but the inner structure wholly different, with infinite detail added; deconstruct the sword art inward without cease, and one would deconstruct countless orbits of suns, moons and the five luminaries!
Blood flashed in the sky: the Northern Emperor's disciple was already wounded.
Five-colored auspicious clouds spread their canopy; over the three heavens the immortal cadence rings clear.
Chapter Three of the Dao Sword had come forth. As Dao Master Lin Xuan unleashed this move, the sound and cadence of the Dao poured out in abundance, and the Northern Emperor's disciple was in an instant severed head from body, his primordial spirit fleeing away.
Dao Master Lin Xuan's Dao Sword slashed at his primordial spirit, and at once the disciples of the Eastern Emperor, the Southern Emperor and the Western Emperor sprang out from behind Shen Mu, rising to meet Lin Xuan in the sky and blocking him!
Lin Xuan's sword art turned, and his move changed again: the sky filled with the myriad phenomena of the constellations, and from all across the mountain the Daoists cheered in unison.
Silently turning the whole celestial cycle, one beholds the constellations, and all phenomena shift and pass!
His sword changed with extraordinary speed: the myriad constellations had scarcely appeared before they became Chapter Five of the Dao Sword — the jade cavern gathers in all transformations; upon the Kunlun ridge, wind and moon glide in grace!
The phantom image of the Kunlun ridge appeared in the sky. Lin Xuan stood upon the ridge, his sword quivering in his hand; his sword move was like a jade cavern, drawing in the myriad constellations, and with them the disciples of the Eastern, Southern and Western Emperors, all gathered into the jade cavern within the mountain.
Then came the cry of dragons, the roar of tigers, the call of phoenixes: the three broke out of the cavern, drenched in blood.
What met them was Chapter Six of the Dao Sword: seven golden lotuses reveal their marvel; the clear morning rejoices, its grace ever new!
The three struck out together to block it. Dao Master Lin Xuan moved with his sword, his long whistle like a Daoist chant: "Since first I drifted, scattered and dispersed, in vain I grieved — how could I ever ascend—"
This was Chapter Seven of the Dao Sword.
As Chapter Seven was unleashed, the three Emperors' disciples were covered in wounds, joining strength to withstand the move. Suddenly the sword light in the air drew in, and Dao Master Lin Xuan descended from the heavens like a beam of sword light.
He had carried the Taiwei Calculation Canon only as far as Chapter Seven of the Dao Sword; beyond the seven, it was the ordinary Dao Sword, and could not withstand the combined assault of three masters.