Chapter 352 — A Single Sword Stuns the Age

. " It was the first time he had used his perfected sword art, and he had been thoroughly defeated; the other side had broken it.

Across from him, the youthful deity smashed into a mountain peak with a boom. Great boulders were shaken loose and fell from the cliff.

There were no sword wounds on him, but the force of Shen Mu's move had been too great, beyond anything he could withstand. In pure sword art, his skill was indeed above Shen Mu's. Although Shen Mu's Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers controlled more than a hundred flying swords plus countless beams of sword-light, not one beam or one flying sword struck him. Yet the immense force of Shen Mu's move had gravely wounded him.

When the power of the sword art erupted, a terrible force crushed down on him; even though it did not hit him directly, it made his ribs snap. The youthful deity, however, seemed to feel no pain at all. He shook his arms, pulled himself free from the rocks, slid forward several dozen zhang, and landed steadily.

Beneath his armpit, a broken rib had pierced through his skin, the jagged bone end exposed. He seemed utterly unaware. He raised a hand, pulled the broken bone out, and casually tossed it away.

At the foot of the cliff, Shen Mu staggered to his feet. With a roar, he worked the Creation Human King Art and sealed the wounds on his body.

He did not choose to heal with dragon's saliva, because the other's sword intent was hidden in his wounds. Unless he expelled that sword intent, even dragon's saliva could not heal him. Besides, the other side had not healed either.

In that case, let it be a fair fight! "The Overlord Body is peerless under heaven.

If I cannot defeat you, then I have not worked hard enough! " Shen Mu drove the Mystic Body Three Elixir Art.

His form suddenly became divine: an ox-headed, human-bodied figure treading twin dragons, with an ox eye growing between his brows and rolling once.

Flames blazed around him, and the twin dragons beneath him charged the youthful deity with great strides.

Using Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers had drained him enormously. If he kept using such moves, he could not last long, so he had to change techniques.

The youthful deity's body was changing too.

He took the form of the tiger-headed, human-bodied Venus Star Lord, also treading twin dragons, but his dragons were formed from metal qi, while the dragons beneath Shen Mu were formed from fire qi. The twin dragons raced forward, then suddenly both pairs veered and charged almost in parallel toward a nearby mountain peak.

The great dragons pressed against the cliff, claws gripping the rock, climbing as if flying. On the dragons' backs, both fighters, each in divine form, unleashed the strongest divine abilities of their forms and attacked each other! That mountain was extremely high; it was the very peak where the True Man of Earth Origin stood.

Even though it towered a thousand zhang, Shen Mu and the youthful deity were about to fight their way to the summit. Their techniques shifted again and again, and the five great divine forms of the Five Luminaries realm were brought out by them: sometimes the human-headed, bird-bodied form of the Year Star Lord; sometimes the human-headed, serpent-bodied form of the Quelling Star Lord; and sometimes the human-headed, red-haired, serpent-bodied form of the Mercury Star Lord, as they fought with all their might. The True Man of Earth Origin lifted both hands lightly, and the great mountain immediately began to grow. The ridges swelled, larger and larger, higher and higher. Shen Mu and the youthful deity kept ascending, fighting so fiercely that rocks burst and flew.

"His magical power is in no way weaker than mine!

He is definitely an Overlord Body! " Inexplicable shock filled Shen Mu's heart. Without realizing it, he had fallen to the disadvantage. As he blocked the other's attacks, he melted rock to forge stone, iron, and bronze swords, hoping to seize an advantage in weapons. But because his attention was divided, he was suppressed. Although the youthful deity was below him, he forced Shen Mu to retreat upward.

The flying swords Shen Mu forged were knocked away again and again, battered and broken, stuck every which way in the cliff. The two figures ran upward almost parallel to the ground, their momentum showing no sign of weakening.

"This mountain cannot be raised any higher.

If it keeps rising, it will collapse.

" The True Man of Earth Origin frowned. He was about to leave the summit and clear the ground so they could fight without restraint, when Shen Mu suddenly channeled all his magical power into a head-on clash with the youthful deity. "The Human Sovereign is still too young.

Forging flying swords has cost him no small amount of magical power, and now he is trading blows head-on with a deity. I fear he will not win. " The True Man of Earth Origin had barely finished speaking when both were blasted off the cliff. Shen Mu was hurled high into the air, while the youthful deity was knocked downward.

Shen Mu forcibly steadied himself. At once the sword wounds over his body split open, and blood spurted out with a hiss.

"The outcome is decided!

" He bellowed and charged downward. Wherever he passed, the stone, iron, and bronze swords stuck in the cliff flew up one by one and attacked the youthful deity! This whole side of the cliff bristled with the swords he had forged.

Now countless stone, iron, and bronze swords screamed toward the youthful deity under Shen Mu's control! The youthful deity had no time to dodge.

He exploded with primal qi and displayed his sword art. Clang, clang, clang—sword-light clashed as densely as rain pelting pear blossoms. His sword art was profound indeed, but he had lost the advantage of terrain.

Pressed down by the force from above, he could not hold his footing and plunged toward the foot of the mountain. From the cliff, more stone, iron, and bronze swords flew out, merging into a torrent of blades.

Shen Mu drove the flying swords with his qi.

Every sword had a different speed and a different sword move—now slow, now fast, now advancing, now retreating! He was still using Sword-Treading Mountains and Rivers, still his most powerful move.

The youthful deity's sword-light occasionally broke through the rain of swords and struck him, adding one wound after another to his body. Shen Mu seemed to feel no pain at all. His sword art pressed the youthful deity to hurtle toward the ground at ever greater speed!

The ground loomed closer. "You lose! " A faint smile appeared on Shen Mu's face. Countless stone, iron, and bronze swords swept the youthful deity along and smashed him fiercely into the ground!

Boom! The earth shook violently. Raging gusts lifted boulders and scattered them in every direction.

A huge pit appeared in the ground, and broken swords stood all around its rim at random angles. Thud. Shen Mu came crashing down right after, making a slightly smaller pit.

From this smaller pit came his voice, faint as a thread: "You. .

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are a False Overlord Body.

Heh, heh heh. .

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" At that moment, a stir came from the big pit. Shen Mu's blood ran cold. "Still alive?

"