Chapter 909 — The Ancient Sheath Hides the Blade; Storm and Rain Wash Away the Dust
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Yan'er and Long Qilin were both startled. Yan'er thought Shen Mu meant to take his own life and was about to fend him off, but Long Qilin hastily called her back: "The Cult Master has only just found a way to live.
Why would he kill himself?
Stop this nonsense!
" Chastened by his scolding, Yan'er did not dare talk back. Shen Mu met the tribulation with a single sword stroke, cutting into his own heavenly palace: hewing down Lingxiao, sweeping Yujing, leveling Tianque, shattering Yaotai, razing Yaohai, crushing the Southern Heavenly Gate.
In the collapsing, ruined heavenly palace, all the sword light gathered into one, a flood of sword radiance pouring down from the shattered Southern Heavenly Gate along the River of Heaven, grinding the river to pieces the whole way, rushing straight at Jianmu!
The sword light churned Jianmu to powder; the River of Heaven that spiraled down around it was torn to shreds as well, reduced to pure river-force that could no longer take form. And above that shattered river-force, the pure energy left by the annihilated heavenly palace was like a boundless ocean, crushing the starry sky, devouring sun and moon, bearing down upon the Six Harmonies Continent!
Shen Mu's spirit embryo suddenly seized the sword light, and before that world-devouring tide of destruction arrived, the sword light stabbed into Youdu, broke through the demonic path's Five Luminaries, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Heaven-Man and Xuandu, and pierced the Star River Spirit Treasure clean through! Outside, Yan'er and Long Qilin could only watch Shen Mu's cultivation realm plunge madly.
A moment before he had been at the Life-and-Death realm; the next instant he was at the Heaven-Man realm! They blinked, and Shen Mu had fallen to the Seven Stars realm, the Six Harmonies realm, the Five Luminaries realm!
Their hearts lurched with fright.
In the end Shen Mu's realm fell to the very bottom, and he became a tiny martial artist of the Spirit Embryo realm!
At the Spirit Embryo realm one hardly counted as a divine arts practitioner at all; one could only use a few battle techniques and moves, and could not perform divine arts.
Shen Mu had actually plunged straight down to the Spirit Embryo realm, his cultivation all but completely crippled!
Yan'er said in a trembling voice, "Fat Dragon, what is the Young Master doing?
" Long Qilin was utterly at a loss, not knowing how to answer.
From Shen Mu's eyes, ears, mouth and nose, an unimaginably vast essence suddenly burst out like steam. Of all the spirit treasures in his fleshly body, only the Prime Embryo Spirit Treasure remained; every other spirit treasure had been utterly destroyed, and the Prime Embryo Spirit Treasure could not possibly contain such immense essence.
His body could not bear it, and so it could only be expelled.
Yet even to expel it was a stroke of luck; what he feared most was that it would not be expelled in time, and would burst him apart alive!
They saw Shen Mu's body suddenly swell, inflating as though pumped full of air, growing fatter and rounder by the moment, soon fatter and plumper than Yan'er herself. Nor was that all: the pores of his skin were stretched wide open, and from countless pores thick essence hissed out with a sizzling sound.
Yet Shen Mu swiftly worked the Nether Demon Metamorphosis Art, trying to seal every pore of his body, to seal his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, to lock in his essence and vital spirit, so that the energy within him would not drain away.
He was stretched larger and fatter still, becoming a monstrous bulk before Long Qilin and Yan'er, towering like a mountain. "Fat Dragon, what is the Young Master doing?
" Yan'er's voice quivered.
The blue sparrow was like a woodpecker, her beak hammering at Long Qilin's forehead.