Chapter 1006 — That Senior's Home
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Kaihuang's dharma power was boundless; the foundation of Shen Mu's Mystic Body Three Dan Art was the basic Yuan-Guiding Art that had spread outward from Kaihuang. The second was Di Yiyue, bloodline of the Lord of Heaven, incomparably mighty. But Yan Yunxi, after all, stood a full realm below the Martial Heavenly Master and could yet make him concede in his heart by sheer strength. That was true ability.
And yet the moment she measured herself against Shen Mu, she felt at once that at the same realm his dharma power far exceeded hers, surpassing her by two or three times over. She had no choice but to raise her cultivation realm to the level of the God-Slaying Terrace before she could receive Shen Mu's sword. "If we were of the same realm, Kaihuang would not be the deeper of the two.
Even, even. .
. " She was uneasy. Shen Mu's dharma power was too vast; at the same realm, even Kaihuang seemed to fall short of him by a great deal.
By now Yan Yunxi had brought the Thirty-Three Heavens Sword Dao as far as the Supreme Changrong Sword.
Shen Mu had never seen this form, so she performed it very slowly, striving to display before him the various subtleties and principles of the move. Having executed this form, Yan Yunxi did not stop, but unfolded as well the thirtieth heaven's Yulong Tengsheng Sword.
Then came the thirty-first heaven's Longbian Fandu Sword, the thirty-second heaven's Pingyu Jiayi Sword, and the thirty-third heaven's Taiqing Dao-Realm Sword.
At this form she halted, tossed her sword aside with a wave of her hand, and said bleakly, "I cannot defeat you. But that is my failure, not Kaihuang's.
When Kaihuang wields the Thirty-Three Heavens Sword Dao, its might exceeds mine by more times than I can count. You will certainly be defeated at the hands of His Majesty Kaihuang.
" "My thanks," Shen Mu said, recalling his sword dan, and his voice was sincere. Yan Yunxi shot him a glance and sneered, "You think you can truly defeat Kaihuang?
Kaihuang is the first man of the sword dao; no one can compare to his attainments in the sword.
The speed at which he comprehends the sword dao, the depth of his understanding, no one can stand on the same level as him. The Thirty-Three Heavens Sword Dao was created by him twenty thousand years ago, and how far his sword dao has come in the years since, even I do not know.
" Shen Mu felt a chill of awe in his heart. Yan Yunxi said, "One look at your Sword Nineteen, and Kaihuang can work backward to Sword Fifteen, Sword Sixteen, Sword Seventeen, Sword Eighteen. With talent like that, he will not be held fast by your Sword Nineteen.
Perhaps when you climb to Kaihuang's Heavenly Court you will find he has Sword Twenty, or you may even see a thirty-fourth heaven, a thirty-fifth heaven of his sword dao. You are as good as dead.
" Shen Mu smiled slightly. "Do you want Kaihuang to fall at my hands that badly?
" Yan Yunxi glared, eyes wide, and shouted, "Insolence! My loyalty to Kaihuang is as clear as the sun and moon. I lost to you by your strength, not because I meant to show you Kaihuang's sword art. " Lu Zheng and Shu Jun were drinking with the other divine officials on the city tower, and hearing this, those officials sprayed out the wine they had just taken into their mouths.
"What are you laughing at?
" Lu Zheng flew into a rage, glaring. "Drink, all of you! Today no one leaves until he has drunk himself blind and deaf. " The divine officials quaked with fear and dared not refuse. To Yan Yunxi, Lu Zheng was a donkey; to the rest of Wushang Heaven, this donkey was a donkey demon king. Shen Mu glanced over there.
"Heavenly Master, is there truly a thirty-fourth heaven of the sword dao?
" "I do not know. " Yan Yunxi shook her head. "Perhaps there is, perhaps not. By his talent, there is; by the Worry-Free Land's present condition, there is not. " Shen Mu looked at her deeply.
"When will Heavenly Master Zixi put on women's dress?