Chapter 1703 — A Sword in Hand, Alone Across Ten Thousand Miles
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"One sword to guard me on a ten-thousand-li road; who cares for the Southern Sea or the Northern Pole!
" The Shen Mu of chaos qi came and went through the detached palace swift as light, swift as lightning, never meeting Emperor Haotian head-on, but attacking the ministers and officers instead. Taichu charged in from one side to cut off the Shen Mu phantom together with Emperor Haotian, but the phantom would not stand and fight them; at a touch it fled, now turning to chaos qi, now taking form and wounding foes with a single sword stroke. "Wine-gut and poet's gall have grown narrow of late.
Facing the west wind, I climb high and gaze far, over jumbled hills and slanting sun.
If only I had a good bow and a swift horse, I might yet match strength with you gentlemen. " Shen Mu sang to voice his will, slaughtering right and left amid the confusion; for a time panic gripped the detached palace, and the civil and military officials of the Heavenly Court scattered and fled in all directions. Suddenly Palace Master Lingguan steadied his wound, flashed forward, and threw himself across the phantom's path; he struck out a palm, and Shen Mu burst with a bang into a mass of chaos qi.
As the chaos qi was about to gather again, Palace Master Lingguan swept his sleeve and gathered it all into his sleeve.
Palace Master Lingguan spread his five fingers; the chaos qi flowed from his sleeve into his palm.
He clenched his hand hard, and the chaos qi exploded with a bang, the sword-dao power hidden within crushed outright by his grip. The dragon head at his navel roared in towering fury: "Seventh Young Master, you dare toy with me like this?
I will teach you what it is to be unable to live and unable to die!
" In the Ultimate Void, Shen Mu found the place marked on the Taiyi Terrestrial Chart and looked around, unable to keep from feeling some doubt, for the void was utterly empty; there was nothing here at all.
"Not even the wind of cold silence; that is what makes it strange. " The vertical eye at his brow opened, and he gazed all around, seeing this stretch of the Ultimate Void through and through.
Suddenly his eyes lit, and a ray of light shone from the vertical eye at his brow; where the light fell, the Ultimate Void slowly receded, revealing a small patch of Great Luotian Heaven.
That Great Luotian Heaven was pitifully small, a plot no more than ten feet square, no more than a thatched hut and an old tree behind the hut.