Chapter 1738: Lord Shang's Blade Scripture
Within the Miluo Palace, everyone’s heart skipped a beat. The Chuge Hall Master was among the top ten of the seventy-two halls, having attained the Dao in extremely ancient times.
Among the three hall masters dispatched by the Miluo Palace this time, he was the strongest. As their leader, he oversaw the grand plan for the Miluo Palace’s descent.
No one expected that before he could fully descend, he had already been slain by the Seventh Young Master!
In the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, silence reigned. Countless eyes fell upon the Third Young Master Lingxiao, and no one dared to speak. The hall masters of the Miluo Palace were the cream of the crop among those who had attained the Dao in past universes, and the Chuge Hall Master was a standout among them. Though unqualified to become a young master, his abilities were extraordinary.
His death in the Seventeenth Epoch left everyone disheartened.
Three hall masters of the Miluo Palace had now been lost.
The Yuansheng of the Pifragrance Hall, responsible for transmitting the teachings, had made great contributions. He spread the cultivation system of the Jade Capital, planting the Jade Capital Trap and the Lingxiao Trap in the Seventeenth Epoch, leading the Great Emperor and the Primordial Seal astray, and thereby misleading Yutianzun, the founder of the cultivation system.
The Jade Capital Trap and the Lingxiao Trap gave the Miluo Palace the potential to control the upper echelons of the Seventeenth Epoch.
Yuansheng of the Pifragrance Hall died at the hands of the Ten Celestial Venerables.
Lingsheng of the Spirit Official Hall, bearing a heavy responsibility, descended into the Seventeenth Epoch. Fearless in the face of death for the Miluo Palace’s descent, he commanded the battle of the stowaways at the Great Black Mountain, ultimately perishing there at the hands of Xushenghua and the Seventh Young Master Qin Mu.
Yet under his leadership, the stowaways at the Great Black Mountain finally managed to cross over into the Seventeenth Epoch, paving the way for the Miluo Palace’s descent.
Chusheng of the Chuge Hall, overseeing the descent battle, entered the Seventeenth Epoch and joined forces with the Joy Hall Master and the Longwind Hall Master to drive the blood sacrifice, enabling the young masters and other Dao attainers of the Miluo Palace to descend.
Though Yuansheng and Lingsheng had died, their goals were achieved. Only Chusheng, before fully arriving in the Seventeenth Epoch, was killed by the Seventh Young Master!
The Third Young Master Lingxiao stepped forward, silently examining the wound left on the Chuge Hall Master by Qin Mu’s strike.
Qin Mu had wanted the Chuge Hall Master to deliver a message to the Miluo Palace. No words were needed—the wound itself was the best language.
The Third Young Master had clashed with Qin Mu before. Qin Mu had used a red rope knot to seal a portion of his power and consciousness within the Lingxiao Hall, and it was only recently that Lingxiao had undone the knot.
He knew Qin Mu’s strength from seven years ago like the back of his hand.
Now, seven years had passed.
From the Chuge Hall Master’s wound, he saw Qin Mu’s astonishing progress in just seven short years!
Qin Mu had not only grasped the principles of the Miluo Palace hidden in the Dao wounds Lingxiao had left him but had also innovated, combining them with the divine arts and Dao methods of the Celestial Capital’s Dao Defilers, achieving remarkable progress!
Qin Mu’s understanding and mastery of the Miluo Palace’s Dao arts had approached the level of a young master, even surpassing most hall masters!
More crucially, in him, the Dao methods of the Dao Defilers and the Miluo Palace had begun to merge. Lingxiao also saw that Qin Mu’s path to attaining the Dao had reached a critical juncture.
Qin Mu’s Chaos Hall was already complete!
Moreover, his primordial spirit had entered the Chaos Hall. On the path to becoming a Dao attainer, he was only one step away!
Becoming a young master of the Miluo Palace wasn’t just about attaining the Dao; it required astonishing achievements—reaching an extreme in some domain that no one else could match, not even the Miluo Palace Master himself.
One’s Dao would coalesce into a main hall supporting the Miluo Palace. The First Young Master Taishang was like this, the Second Young Master Wuji was like this, and so were the other young masters.
The seven main halls of the Miluo Palace—Taishang, Wuji, Lingxiao, Zixiao, Wuzong, Zhanji, and Chaos—each represented an achievement the Miluo Palace Master could not attain.
And Qin Mu was not far from such an achievement.
The Third Young Master Lingxiao meticulously examined every wound on the Chuge Hall Master. The best way to defeat an opponent was to understand them as thoroughly as possible, to know everything about them.
That was what he was doing now.
Though Qin Mu’s current strength was still insignificant before him, he remained cautious and serious.
“Though Daoist Chu is dead, his three Dao fruits and one Dao flower remain.”
The Third Young Master Lingxiao raised his hand, and the Chusheng’s three Dao fruits and one Dao flower flew into his palm. Lingxiao’s expression was as calm as an ancient well. “Daoist, though your body is dead and your soul scattered, your consciousness and Dao still exist. Once we reach the Seventeenth Epoch, we can find a suitable body and primordial spirit, and you can be reborn through them.”
The other hall masters’ faces darkened. Without a physical body or soul, reborn through the consciousness in the Dao fruits and Dao flower—would it still be the same Chusheng?
But things had come to this, and they could say little.
“The Hao of the Seventeenth Epoch is already on his way. When he reaches the sky above the destruction tribulation of the Sixteenth Epoch, the Fourth Young Master will meet him and give him a string.”
The Third Young Master spoke calmly. “The struggle with Old Seventh has only just begun. You need not worry. Old Seventh thinks he can stop the Miluo Palace alone, preventing its descent, but he will inevitably be crushed and bloodied. If the Miluo Palace cannot descend into the Seventeenth Epoch, that would be the true dead end!”
At his final words, everyone’s expressions grew grave.
Though the Miluo Palace was extremely stable, lingering in the great destruction tribulation meant it would eventually collapse and dissolve!
If they couldn’t enter the Seventeenth Epoch, these Dao attainers would likely be ground to dust in the destruction tribulation—after all, not everyone was a young master of the Miluo Palace, with the means to evade and withstand the tribulation!
Qin Mu suppressed his injuries. The Chuge Hall Master was formidable; his final strike had wounded Qin Mu, leaving him with numerous Dao wounds. But these wounds weren’t fatal—they would only cause him some trouble.
He would need to analyze the divine arts and Dao methods lingering in these wounds to decipher and heal himself.
Before him, the Chuge Hall Master’s legs still stood firmly on the ground. The Chuge Hall Master had been knocked back into the destruction tribulation of the Sixteenth Epoch, but these two legs had been left behind.
Qin Mu suppressed his injuries, stepped forward, and collected the Chuge Hall Master’s legs.
He didn’t usually have this habit; that was more Xing Han’s style.
“The Chuge Hall Master is an ancient Dao attainer, and his physical body has extraordinary qualities. I need to ask Xing Han to help crack open Taiyi’s coffin and rescue Taiyi. The lower half of the Chuge Hall Master will be most suitable.”
Qin Mu let out a long breath. Xing Han had a peculiar temperament; getting him to act required a price.
He liked collecting strange and rare things. The lower half of the Chuge Hall Master would be enough to tempt him. Though Xing Han was often despicable, he had principles in his actions. As long as one stayed within those principles, he posed no danger.
“I wonder how things are going with Yudi.”
As for Lord Shang, he wasn’t worried at all.
Though the Miluo Palace hall masters were powerful, as long as they hadn’t fully descended, Lord Shang’s skills were more than enough to handle them. Moreover, Lord Shang was striking with forethought against an unsuspecting foe. In a direct confrontation, he might not be a match for a Miluo Palace hall master, but in assassination and ambush, Lord Shang was undoubtedly the fastest blade in the world!
If Lord Shang came to assassinate Qin Mu, even he wouldn’t be able to withstand it—he would surely be struck and gravely wounded in an instant!
Qin Mu walked outward. Behind him, the sword Dao forest, which had been reduced to dust, began to restore itself. The dust reformed into broken swords, planted exactly in their original positions.
By the time Qin Mu left the sword Dao forest, this graveyard of divine swords had returned to its former state, as if nothing had changed.
The Unchanging Divine Ability.
For Qin Mu, using the Unchanging Divine Ability to restore this memorable battlefield was significant, so he willingly expended a portion of his mana.
Suddenly, a flash of blade light shot toward Qin Mu from behind.
Qin Mu raised his hand, and the blade light fell into his palm, transforming into a scroll of blade Dao scripture.
Qin Mu unfurled the blade scripture. This scroll was a manifestation of Lord Shang’s divine ability. When opened, the scripture shone bright as a mirror, recording the clash between Lord Shang and another Miluo Palace hall master. From Lord Shang entering the painting to the woman’s legs being severed and her escape from the Heavenly Feather Hundred Weave Diagram, the process was clear at a glance.
Lord Shang’s blade techniques and the divine arts and Dao methods the woman used when attacked were vividly displayed.
“Given Lord Shang’s speed, he probably can’t catch up to her.”
Qin Mu rolled up the blade scripture, which slowly dissipated into specks of light. He thought to himself, “This female hall master is extremely powerful. If she had fully descended and faced him head-on, Lord Shang wouldn’t have been her match. Since she wanted to leave, Lord Shang couldn’t stop her. So he sent me this scripture to let me know her techniques and Dao methods in advance. Moreover, he demonstrated the moves he used to inflict Dao wounds on her, hoping I could track her by the killing Dao fluctuations emanating from those wounds.”
He was very familiar with Lord Shang’s killing Dao, and the woman’s Dao wounds were so severe that the ultimate killing intent within them was like a bright star in the night to Qin Mu!
“This woman should be the Joy Hall Master among the seventy-two halls of the Miluo Palace. Her escape is troublesome. I hope her abilities aren’t enough to erase the Dao wounds in her injuries.”
Qin Mu’s expression grew increasingly grave, and his speed increased as he raced toward Blue Yutian’s location. “I faced the Chuge Hall Master, Lord Shang faced the Joy Hall Master, so Blue Yutian must be up against another Miluo Palace hall master! This time, Yudi is in danger!”
The three of them had simultaneously struck at three Miluo Palace Dao attainers, and the weakest link was Blue Yutian!
The Joy Hall Master was wounded, and the Chuge Hall Master was dead—this would surely alert the Dao attainer fighting Blue Yutian!
If Blue Yutian tried too hard to keep that person, he might fall into disaster!
Qin Mu had originally thought that at most one hall master-level existence had descended, with the other two being ordinary Dao attainers. He never expected the Third and Fourth Young Masters to send three hall masters at once!
A hall master-level existence was not something Blue Yutian could handle!
When Qin Mu broke free from the Jade Capital Trap, he had been besieged by the seventy-two hall masters and had seen both the Joy Hall Master and the Chuge Hall Master.
“I forgot to tell Yudi—if he can’t win, run!”
Ignoring the Dao wounds on his body, Qin Mu pushed his speed to the limit. Whether it was the Carrying Extreme Void, teleportation divine abilities, or the Lame Man’s divine travel technique, he activated them all to their fullest, racing toward the Flying Wheel Fort at the edge of the Yuan Realm!
His speed reached its peak as he drew closer to the Flying Wheel Fort. Suddenly, he sensed Lord Shang’s ultimate killing intent emanating from a certain direction. His heart stirred. “The Joy Hall Master!”
After being ambushed and severely wounded by Lord Shang, the Joy Hall Master would surely head straight for the Flying Wheel Fort to rendezvous with the hall master fighting Blue Yutian!
“Go!”
Qin Mu’s vertical eye on his forehead opened, and a beam of Primordial Chaos Dao Light shot forth!
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