Chapter 1501 — Twin Dao Fruits Appear in the World
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All the people in this school were souls or primordial spirits, without physical bodies and without much power, and despite such long chanting, the figure in the painting had never been able to walk out. But Shen Mu and the Lame Elder were living, breathing men.
The Lame Elder's cultivation was not high, but Shen Mu's cultivation and magical power equaled those of three to five great emperors in the Emperor-Throne realm!
His power and skill surpassed even the souls of the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird and the Bright Emperor!
Within this school, his strength alone was several times the total of everyone else combined!
Shen Mu's arrival made the figure in the painting break free of it all the faster! Cold sweat beaded upon Shen Mu's brow. He tried to spur the Mystic Body Three-Elixir Art, but his Dao heart was scattered and disordered, suppressed so utterly that he could not gather it; when he drove the art, his primal qi could barely circulate and churned in chaos.
He struggled to condense his Dao heart and slowly raised his palm, in which was pinched a leaf—the very leaf from the Grand Ease Dao Tree. His hand rose with unbearable difficulty; every inch of progress seemed to bear the crushing weight of heaven.
At last, the leaf reached the center of his brow. The schoolmaster rose, walked over to him, raised his cane, and struck him across the head, snarling, "Not paying attention in class, are you?
You are asking for a beating! " At that stroke, the Dao Tree leaf slipped from Shen Mu's hand and drifted to the ground, and the Dao heart he had just barely knit together scattered once more.
Just then there was a thunderous boom, and a beam of arrow-light streaked in from outside the school, thudding into the painting. The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched.
"Lan Yutian, you shot wide. .
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" That arrow of Lan Yutian's had failed to hit the Dao Fruit on the old tree; it was only pinned into the trunk.
The arrow was immensely powerful—though it could not slay an expert at the Emperor-Throne realm, it was no trifling matter—and yet when it entered the painting, the power within it seemed to shrink to almost nothing, and it stirred up no great waves. The corner of Shen Mu's eye twitched again. "Within the painting there is more than a Dao Tree—there is also a fragment of the Great Luo Heaven.
A master of the previous cosmic epoch refined that fragment into a painting, trying to steal across. . .
" He could not help but worry for Lan Yutian. Yet at that very moment, two more beams of arrow-light whistled into the school with a sharp swish-swish. Lan Yutian had clearly never learned to draw a bow; his first shot had gone wide, but his second and third arrows struck the Dao Fruit on the tree with absolute accuracy, one after the other! His natural talent was simply too great.
The first arrow had already taught him the technique of using the bow, and the two shots that followed flew straight to the bull's-eye! Those two arrows were tremendous in power, and in swift succession they shot that Dao Fruit down from the tree!
The schoolmaster turned and saw the Dao Fruit fall; his expression shifted slightly, and with a soft pop his form scattered and vanished.
At the same time, the scholar beneath the tree also showed a startled face and raised his head to look up at the tree! "Brother, I shot down the Dao Fruit!
" Lan Yutian, the divine bow in hand, stepped into the school and said with a smile, "The might of this divine bow is truly—" "Don't come in!
" Shen Mu roared suddenly, bending down to pick up the leaf, his voice rolling like thunder.
"That Dao Tree has more than just one Dao Fruit!
" Lan Yutian's smile stiffened on his face.