Chapter 966 — Once the Treasured Blade Is Drawn, Who Can Stand Against It?
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Blade-light leapt in Luo Wushuang's eyes, like two divine blades crossing. He gave a cold humph.
"I, Luo, am famed throughout the Heavenly Court and honored as its first divine blade. When have I ever clung to anyone's leg? " Another, a young man, laughed.
"Divine Blade Luo, Heavenly Venerable Mu's leg is no proper stout leg, it is a slender one. Take care, or you may cling to the wrong one. Our journey this time is in name to receive Heavenly Venerable Fire and Heavenly Venerable Void, but in truth it is to seize the chance to make away with Heavenly Venerable Mu. Divine Blade Luo, you are a clever man; you must have seen that long ago.
" A woman said coldly, "The Heavenly Venerables had you follow us for the very purpose of holding the line and helping us kill Heavenly Venerable Mu! Would you bite the hand that feeds you?
" Luo Wushuang was torn within; he looked at Shen Mu.
Shen Mu, beauties in his arms, surrounded by a crowd of lovelies, smiled. "Rest easy, Divine Blade Luo. I have long known your purpose on this journey, and I know you do not truly wish to kill me; you only wish to test whose is superior, your blade art or my sword art. That is your heart demon, and you must rid yourself of it.
I understand your difficulty. " Luo Wushuang let out a breath and said gravely to the three, "Gentlemen, I saved your lives. Had it not been for me, you would never have lived to come here; you would have died long ago upon the tower ship. I ask that in exchange for the debt of your lives you bury the hatchet with Heavenly Venerable Mu.
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. " "Enough, enough. " The woman said impatiently, "Divine Blade Luo, give you a face and you think you can climb to heaven? Do not forget, your duty is to protect us!
Saving us is your duty, a matter of course!
That you failed to protect us well, so that of three hundred and more only a hundred remain, is already a monstrous sin! " "Divine Blade Luo, it is the Heavenly Court that puts food in your mouth. " The young man said, "Think it over carefully. Help us capture Heavenly Venerable Mu, and when you go back you will rise to wealth and honor.
With your present cultivation and strength, you have no business staying in the Lingxiu Army as a schoolmaster; going out, you would more than suffice as a border lord. Have you never wondered why you have never been promoted?
" Another laughed.
"Precisely because you have never clung to a leg. Here is a golden chance, so do not cling to the wrong one. " Luo Wushuang's face was as calm as deep water.
Shen Mu rose, brushed aside the beauties around him, stroked the divine dragon whose belly was now round with food, and suddenly laughed.
"Divine Blade Luo, in my view we need not contest blade and sword at all.
There is no longer any need. " Luo Wushuang, eyes on nose and nose on heart, like an old monk sunk in meditation: "Why say this, Tyrant Body Shen? " "A blade would rather break than bend. " Shen Mu flicked his sleeve; the remnant banquet vanished, the beauties were gone, all scattering away as drifting divine consciousness. Leisurely he said, "I respect the blade; I respect its weight and grandeur, its swift settling of grudges and favors.
I have seen you wait forty thousand years, unchanging, for me to appear and duel you, and I admire your tenacity and endurance.
Yet when I see you so timid and cautious, so hesitant and cowering, I cannot help but be disappointed.
" Luo Wushuang's brows and eyes opened a fraction. Lightly he said, "I am timid and cautious, hesitant and cowering? " "I am a Heavenly Venerable.
That you dare challenge me is only because you take me for young and weak.