Chapter 976 — The Domain of the Divine Embryo Treasury
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Alarm shot through Luo Wushuang's heart.
Shen Mu's sword came with matchless sharpness, piercing his first heaven, and at first he had felt nothing remarkable in it. He had taken the saber as his Dao in his youth, and the first move of his entry into the Dao was called 'Blue Sea Beneath Parting Clouds'.
When the saber art unfolded, it was like a blue sea shrouded in cloud and mist, and when the clouds parted the saber art changed, and overwhelming oceanic power fell from the sky.
But this was his first move upon entering the Dao, when his accumulation was shallow and his mastery far from exquisite, so its breaking seemed only natural. Yet in the next instant Shen Mu's sword broke his second heaven of the saber Dao, 'Snow Urgent at the Jade Pass'.
When this divine art of entering the Dao unfolded, saber light turned to snow flying across the sky, jade locks and icy cold, black ice forming a jade pass.
Once the gate of the Jade Pass opened, it was a stern killing move, wind and snow dashing in the face, the Jade Pass pressing close, crushing down with the might of an icy city and jade walls.
Countless mighty foes had died beneath this divine art of his.
But this move too was broken by Shen Mu with a single sword.
Shen Mu's sword pierced his icy city and jade pass, swept away wind and snow with one stroke, and brought the Jade Pass crashing down and the ice city to ruin. His third heaven of the saber Dao was called 'Iron Cavalry Charging Forth'.
When the saber art unfolded, heavenly soldiers and generals seemed to descend from the sky, iron horses and golden spears, yet this move was also useless, sword light leveling all heavenly soldiers and generals.
Luo Wushuang's fourth heaven of the saber Dao was called 'Light Shaking the Tiered Towers'.
With one saber cut, saber light became thirty-three tiered towers, and killing moves burst forth from within the towers.
Yet the tiered towers were pierced by sword light and collapsed on the spot. Then came the fifth heaven, the sixth heaven, the seventh heaven.
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His saber art was called the Saber Dao Firmament, at present comprising fourteen saber arts by which he had entered the Dao, and these fourteen saber arts built fourteen heavens.
This time he meant to settle the battle in one blow, and so the fourteen heavens overlapped, like fourteen celestial realms crashing down from the sky. Shen Mu's sword came striking, piercing heaven after heaven in succession, and he could not help his heart trembling.
Fortunately, after Shen Mu's sword had pierced nine layers of his firmament in succession, both its momentum and power suffered great decline, which eased his mind somewhat.
If Shen Mu had pierced all fourteen layers of his firmament in one rush, there would have been no need to fight on, he might as well discard his saber, kowtow and admit defeat. Unexpectedly, after the momentum of Shen Mu's sword was exhausted, the sword art suddenly changed, from the Kaijie Sword to the Tijie Sword, one sword turning to myriad leaping sword lights, each light trembling lightly and turning to a drifting flower.
In an instant ten thousand flowers drifted down, flowers falling and flying till flowers filled the sky, stuffing his ninth heaven of the saber Dao full.
His ninth heaven of the saber Dao was called 'The Nine Gates of Changhe, the Heavenly Gate Opens', a move of vast and mighty power, yet sword light filled the heavenly gate, cramming the nine gates of Changhe, leveling the nine passes and toppling the heavenly gate. Of Shen Mu's Tijie Sword, Luo Wushuang had long heard, it was the sword art by which Shen Mu had made his name.