Chapter 1046 — True Martial Sword Pavilion
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Emperor Xuan said, "We joined together partly for self-protection and partly for our own positions, which is why people called us the Northern Emperor Xuanwu. Only later did we discover our tempers did not match—a small quarrel every three days, a big fight every five; we could not go on living together. Worse, of the Four Emperors, we Northern Emperor Xuanwu were the strongest, so someone stirred up discord. Life together grew harder and harder, so when the time came for the Dragon Han Era to divide, we simply divided as well.
" He chuckled.
"That demoness even shouted about cutting the child in half and giving each of us equal shares!
Fortunately, Youming had committed an error and been suppressed at the time, or he truly would have been cut in two. " Shen Mu's expression was strange—those two spouses were both stubborn to the bone, willing to cut even their own child in half to divide it. "Later on, the males came under my authority, and the females under hers.
As time passed, the Northern Pole Heaven became what it is now. " Emperor Xuan said, "The demoness will not lower her head to me, and I will not lower mine to her. Over all these years of separating and rejoining, I have grown used to it. " Many young people on the God-Slaying Platform were tempering divine swords with the blood-colored baleful aura. Those young scions of the Xuan Kingdom darted through the blade-light of the God-Slaying Dark Blade, an extremely perilous practice, yet by it they could hone their sword arts. The divine swords they forged were not sword pellets; rather, each carried a great gourd on his back.
Inside the gourd was heavenly-river sword qi. When the gourd's mouth opened, sword qi flew out like an immense heavenly river, shifting in a thousand ways; combined with formations and augmented by Di Yiyue's Xuanwu Six Harmonies Scripture, their magic was profound and extremely formidable. Shen Mu paused at the edge of the God-Slaying Platform to watch.
Using gourds as sword sheaths was indeed a distinctive feature of the Northern Pole Heaven, and the union of sword arts with formations, fused with the unique Grand Dao of Emperor Xuan and Emperor Wu, opened a new vista to him. Emperor Xuan asked, "What does Heavenly Worthy Mu think?
" Shen Mu nodded. "The sword path of the Northern Pole Heaven does have unique merits.
But it is like the sword arts of the Kaicheng Era—outdated. " "I thought so too.
" Emperor Xuan smiled. "We ancient gods are most sensitive to changes in the Dao of heaven and earth. The Imperial Tutor Jingping reformed the ways and created three basic sword techniques, pushing the stagnant sword path of the Kaicheng Era forward three steps.
Heavenly Worthy Mu reformed them and created two basic sword techniques, pushing it forward another two steps. Not long ago, I felt the imprint of the sword path growing deeper and stronger—someone had created another basic sword technique, and with that single technique, the sword path became strong enough almost to rival the innate Grand Daos. Thus the sword path of my Northern Pole Heaven cannot match Jingping's. " Shen Mu said, "It was Kaicheng who created the Twenty Sword Forms.
His sword path was too powerful—I even used his sword arts to beat the reincarnated body of the Eastern Emperor.
He has now returned. " Emperor Xuan's heart jolted.
"He hid in the Carefree Village for twenty thousand years—has he accumulated enough power to contend with the Heavenly Court?
" Shen Mu shook his head and sneered. "There has been no accumulation of power at all; rather, the corruption there is now on par with the Heavenly Court's.
If the sword path of the Northern Pole Heaven wishes to advance, Emperor Xuan can send people to Jingping.