Chapter 1613 — A Young Hero Unrivalled in All the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Madam Yuanmu gave a cheer. For the first time she had full command of this body, and confidence brimmed in her. She laughed: "Once we are down there, you use that uncanny domain of yours to aid me, and I will contend with the Second Young Master! I am still not enough to be her match, but she is suppressed, and I can manage to hold off a few blows. So long as we escape, I will not treat you badly!"
She had cured her own affliction, her cultivation and strength had surged, and her confidence had risen with the tide.
The two waited for the tide of Guixu to pass, then sprang out from beneath the red rope's cover and plunged downward under Guixu's pull.
Along the way Shen Mu flicked his fingers again and again, rousing the power of the five Dao Chains; at once countless Dao patterns surfaced upon the chains, quivering without cease, surging downward along them.
Seeing this, Madam Yuanmu was all the more reassured: if Shen Mu could drive the Dao Chains and curb the Second Young Master's strength, then their chances of escape were greater still.
"So long as we shake off the Second Young Master, I will send my little lover on his way."
Her face wore a smile as she thought: "My little lover is too dangerous. If he walks out of here alive, he is too great a threat to me. And that threat grows with every day—his rate of growth is too fast..."
The two plunged at furious speed, and the Dao Chains quivered ever more violently—plainly the chains had suddenly unleashed their might and roused the Second Young Master, suppressed there in the Sea of Chaos.
Suddenly all before them was a vast whiteness. Shen Mu opened the vertical eye in his brow and looked, and cried out at once: "It is the Second Young Master's hair! Be careful!"
His God-Treasury Domain spread out. Standing within his domain, Madam Yuanmu could now see front and back, left and right—any attack came at her from the front, easier to block and break.
"What a domain!"
She could not help but exclaim, and in the next instant she saw the Second Young Master's hair: countless white strands woven into cloth, spread level across this great abyss of Guixu.
Shen Mu and Yuanmu roared together and charged downward.
Shen Mu stood beneath the World Tree, arm after arm sprouting from his sides—three heads, six arms. Behind him the fifty-eight treasure halls became the Jade Capital, ringing the Heavenly Court; his primal spirit rose from the city of the Jade Capital, majestic beyond measure, his robes streaming and whirling, covering the whole of the Jade Capital.
His mortal body and his primal spirit struck as one, seizing the Dao Chains one by one, pouring all his mana into them, raising the chains' power.
Chhh—chhh—chhh—
Below, the cloth-web woven of countless white hairs was torn apart alive by the might of the Dao Chains, and the Primal-Fetus God-Treasury Domain swept the two of them through the rent and out in a flash.
In the very instant they passed through the web, countless white hairs uncoiled from the netting and rushed downward; in a heartbeat the countless white strands were like countless hands, countless blades, hurling themselves madly upon the two.
Madam Yuanmu flew up and down within the God-Treasury Domain like a painted butterfly, unleashing her mightiest divine arts and blocking every attack of the white hair.
Her garments hissed and tore, sliced by those white strands into fragments fluttering like butterflies, baring her white skin.
The Primal-Fetus God-Treasury Domain still howled downward. In the Sea of Chaos below, lotus leaves swayed; upon one leaf white hair cascaded like a waterfall, rushing up into the sky.
Though the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace was a woman, her valor was matchless; she hauled upon the twin lotus and tore the plant up by the roots—and beneath this lotus there was joined a length of lotus root, from which rolled billows of the breath of chaos.