Chapter 867 — A Lone Sword Soars the Heavens
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"Heavenly Venerable Yu" moved like a ghost, dodging the whisker strikes one by one; the whiskers, soft as they were hard, actually pierced through scale after scale, exposing the rotting flesh beneath.
At the same time the scattered flying swords came whistling back; a hand reached out from that black line and struck the swords a heavy blow, and the corpse poison on them flew off backward, revealing the bright, ringing steel of the swords themselves.
A clangor of chimes rang unbroken, and the flying swords returned to become a sword pellet, which Shen Mu caught in his hand.
The dragon king's head came charging sidelong, opened its great mouth, spewed stinking corpse qi, and swallowed Shen Mu in one gulp; in the very instant he took Shen Mu into his mouth, teleportation runes burst.
By the time his great mouth closed, a teleportation light flashed, and Shen Mu was gone.
The next moment, behind "Heavenly Venerable Yu," still running across the dragon king's head, light suddenly flashed, and Shen Mu thrust his sword at his heart from behind. "Heavenly Venerable Yu"'s body changed abruptly, becoming bird-headed and human-bodied, a great-sun halo at the back of his head; the great sun sank down, letting Shen Mu's thrust enter the halo, and the divine sword was instantly burned red, molten gold and iron dripping from it without cease.
Shen Mu put his strength into his feet and drove the sword forward; "Heavenly Venerable Yu" strained against it and fled at a run.
The two of them ran across the corpse-transformed dragon king's head, every step terribly solid.
Shen Mu's body shook, and two more heads swiftly grew out, while four more arms emerged from beneath his arms; his palms shifted through a thousand changes and at last became sword fingers, each pointing at his brow.
The first form of the Tribulation Sword: Opening Tribulation.
His sword fingers pointed out, three of them touching the divine sword, and its power erupted at once. "Heavenly Venerable Yu" grunted as the great-sun halo was pierced; suddenly his body changed once more, becoming a goddess.
He had had his back to Shen Mu; now, as he became a goddess, head, body, and limbs all turned backward together, taking a bizarre form that faced Shen Mu directly.
"Her" hands closed down upon the divine sword piercing her breast, and between those hands there formed a bottomless abyss.
The Guixu Abyss.
A huge vortex spinning madly in the darkness, unfathomable, that made Shen Mu's Opening Tribulation sword slip hissing into the abyss and swallowed Shen Mu along with it!
Swallowed by his Guixu ability, with countless runes whirling around him, Shen Mu once more used his teleportation ability and flew out.
"Heavenly Venerable Yu" raised a hand to hold up the sky; numberless starlights burst open in the heavens, countless stars gathered into a river of stars, becoming a net of heaven and earth.
Shen Mu's form had scarce emerged from the teleport light when he was caught upon the net, unable for the moment to break free.
He used his teleportation ability again; suddenly lightning flashed and thunder rolled, and again he was caught upon the net.
His form dodged again and again, yet time after time he was seized by the net of heaven and earth.
"Heavenly Venerable Yu"'s hands flew; the net wove ever denser, countless starlights gathering, ever tighter, and as Shen Mu flickered in and out of being within it, the room to maneuver grew ever narrower.
"Who can master all the great-daos' divine abilities of the ancient gods?
" "Heavenly Venerable Yu" suddenly became the Kui Wood Wolf Star Lord, wolf-headed and human-bodied, sprang into the air, dodging the dragon king's whisker strikes, and made straight for Shen Mu, laughing: "Only I!
Only this body of flesh!
The Heavenly Wolf Howls at the Moon!
" He gave a long, shrill howl, and light from his mouth became a flood that blasted at Shen Mu in the net.