Chapter 1227 — The High Wave Will Finally Shatter
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"If I don't give you a beating, you'll go on thinking you're really the cock of the walk. You think you can seize the fortune of my Hegemon Body? " Lin Xuan rose to his feet, his Dao robe snapping in the wind as though he meant to ride it away. "Words are useless.
Cock or hen, let our hands decide!
" Shen Mu stood as well, unhurried. "You underestimate me.
Reform on with your Jingping Reforms if you like, I'm no lesser. In cultivation, I am still the strongest.
In the way of the sword, I am still the strongest. In battle strength, the strongest is still me.
And in the arts of calculation, I am still the one standing on the summit.
" Lin Xuan's sleeve swept; sword light filled the heavens, and in the next instant it vanished. In its place rose a vast cosmos of stars and planets, each orb appearing within the little Dao Sect, displaying a magnificent beauty.
And if one looked closely, every grain of sand, every blade of grass, every drop of water within those stars revealed an endless microscopic structure, displaying to the full the beauty of the infinitesimal.
Shen Mu's expression shifted slightly, and inwardly he muttered, "Seems in the arts of calculation I really can't call myself the strongest.
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. " Lin Xuan's great macro arts and great micro arts of calculation had both reached the level of the Dao! His sword art fused micro and macro in perfect harmony; he even deconstructed the various great Daos by means of calculation, the shifts in calculation producing shifts in the Dao, and these in turn producing shifts in his sword Dao.
In the arts of calculation, Shen Mu knew he was far behind him.
And Lin Xuan's sword Dao bore, besides the Dao Sword of the Dao Sect, the shadows of Emperor Kai and Lizheng. Emperor Kai and Lizheng had both forged sword domains, and their attainments in the sword were exceedingly high; Dao Lord Lin Xuan had been supremely gifted in the sword to begin with, and guided by two masters of the sword, his accomplishments in the sword had reached a staggering height!
Only, no one knew whether Lin Xuan had learned the twentieth sword form.
"Xu Shenghua came to see him several times, and Lin Xuan lost every time. Does that mean that bastard Xu Shenghua is stronger still?
" At this thought, Shen Mu pulled his broken sword from the stone. "In any case, you're all hens!
" His broken sword came free; his sword domain surged forth. The Great Arts-of-Calculation Dao Domain and the Calamity Sword Domain crashed together, and the enormous planets encircling the Dao Sect collapsed within his Calamity Sword Domain!
Lin Xuan let out a long whistle, driving his arts to reverse the tide.
The collapsing stars began to contract, then swiftly swelled and ignited, becoming suns wrought of heavenly fire!
From those suns, great Sun Star Lords flew out on wings, becoming three-legged golden crows that pounced upon Shen Mu from every direction, bearing the innate might of the Dao! The stars turned and shifted; the host of suns formed a sword array, and each Sun Star Lord was a pivot of the formation!
This was the sword array of the Great Sun Divine Sword!
Lin Xuan had originally cultivated the Innate Taixuan Art, which had been handed down by a cast-off disciple of the Heavenly Court's Dao Sect and was part of the Taixuan Dao Art of that sect's Dao Ancestor. When the Dao Ancestor came to visit, he had transmitted the complete Taixuan Dao Art to him.
His cultivation was truly formidable, and with the Great Arts-of-Calculation Dao Domain, the ultimate beauty of calculation he displayed was enough to intoxicate the senses. The scene seemed as though he used the innate great Dao to lay a formation, yet in truth it was sword art; it seemed to be sword art, yet in truth it was formation; it seemed to be formation, yet in truth it was calculation!
Layer upon layer, everything came down in the end to calculation, for this was the very essence of the Dao Sect's Dao arts and divine abilities!