Chapter 660 — The Shanghuang Era Is Shrouded in Mystery

The Yuming Sword was the sword of a prince, used to guard Yuming Palace, and its power was terrifying. The blade was dazzlingly bright from end to end, like a sword-shaped mass of light, its radiance swallowing and spitting, seemingly with no fixed length — clearly, an exceedingly high level of craftsmanship had gone into forging it. Such a standard of forging was a height not even the Silent Artisans of today had reached!

Suddenly, Shen Mu drew the Sorrowless Sword and compared it with the Yuming Sword. The Sorrowless Sword looked plain by comparison, its divine might hidden, lacking the Yuming Sword's brilliance. It seemed an ordinary divine weapon forged from ordinary divine metal, showing no trace of profound forging skill. "This sword of yours. . .

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor's expression shifted slightly.

He said to Shen Mu, "Let me see it! " Shen Mu handed him the Sorrowless Sword. The First Ancestor Human Emperor examined it again and again, his face shifting between light and dark. After a moment, with a trace of bewilderment and gloom, he said in a hoarse voice, "Who gave you this? " "My father.

" Shen Mu used the Yuming Sword to gently lift a clot of the Great Sun Star Lord's divine blood.

Layers of array patterns rotated in his eyes as he studied the blood closely with the Jingxiao Heavenly Eye.

"He made a Pact of the Earth Lord with the Zhen Star Lord and cannot see me, so he gave me this sword he wore at his waist, as a keepsake. " The First Ancestor Human Emperor said, "Do you know the name of this sword? " "The Sorrowless Sword.

When I received it, I saw the word 'Sorrowless' surface on the blade.

" Shen Mu was careful. He lightly touched a finger to the Great Sun Star Lord's divine blood. The blood's divine might was suppressed by the Yuming Sword, but at his touch, the small clot of divine blood swelled and expanded, transforming into a sphere of blood a zhang across. Shen Mu flicked his fingers, one after another, each striking the blood sphere. The sphere kept swelling, growing larger and larger, until at last it became a hundred-zhang blood sphere slowly revolving upon the blade!

"The Sorrowless Sword.

. .

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor gave a soft laugh and said in a low voice, "So it's called the Sorrowless Sword now. Yes. . .

truly sorrowless now. . .

" Shen Mu concentrated, the arrays in his eyes spinning madly, seeing even the tiniest particles of divine blood within the sphere with perfect clarity.

"First Ancestor, this Great Sun Star Lord is not a true Great Sun Star Lord. Like you, he is a human who cultivated into a god.

" Shen Mu said suddenly, "Look — his blood is in fact human blood. The body of a god-devil born from the sun should not contain human blood.

He has branded a wondrous rune mark into his blood; every smallest blood particle bears an incomparably tiny rune mark. This rune mark should be a kind of flame rune, or perhaps a pure-yang rune.

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor said, "My primordial spirit is weak now, and I cannot yet activate the Sage Pupil. Trace out this rune for me so I can see it. " Shen Mu dispersed the blood sphere. The great sphere shrank swiftly, becoming a small clot of blood once more. Shen Mu flicked his sword, and the blood clot fell to the ground. Using his vital essence as a brush, he manifested in the air the rune mark he had seen.

The rune was an exceedingly wondrous mark, incomparably complex, seemingly containing within it the patterns and designs of all manner of fire-element divine beasts — yet not entirely the same. For this very reason, Shen Mu could not tell whether it was a flame rune or a pure-yang rune.

"It is a rune mark of the Shanghuang Era, already different from the flame runes and pure-yang runes of the Kaihuang Era.

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor studied it closely and said, "The Heavenly Master has delved deep into this field; I have not studied much of it.

But one thing is certain — this Great Sun Star Lord truly is a human who cultivated into a god, and not a true Great Sun Star Lord! " The two exchanged a glance, their expressions grave. Shen Mu murmured to himself, "Then why would a god-man of the Shanghuang Era become the Great Sun Star Lord? And where is the true Great Sun Star Lord? Chixi said the Shanghuang Era lasted three hundred thousand years, longer than any other era.

So why could that era endure so long? " The First Ancestor Human Emperor was still somewhat weak.

He returned the Sorrowless Sword to Shen Mu and said, panting, "In the early Kaihuang Era, there were still relics of the Shanghuang Era, but the civilizational rupture was severe. Even Kaihuang could not deduce what happened in the Shanghuang Era. To learn the secrets of the Shanghuang Era, one would have to return to the past. I fear that era is far, far more complex than we imagine.

" Shen Mu was startled.

He thought of that bizarre journey through time he had once experienced together with Ban Gongcuo, and he thought of Bai Qu'er. In his heart he said, "Return to the past? I have gone back once. . .

" "Guard this Sorrowless Sword well. Whatever you do, do not lose it. " The First Ancestor Human Emperor said, "Guard it even at the cost of your life. It is very precious. " Shen Mu stroked the Sorrowless Sword and nodded. "I will. It is the only thing my father ever gave me, and I will never abandon it, no matter what!

There is just one strange thing, First Ancestor — with your Yuming Sword, I can barely draw out a sliver of its power, yet with this sword I have never been able to rouse its might at all. What is the reason? " The First Ancestor Human Emperor seemed about to speak but stopped.

He thought for a moment, and in the end did not reveal the reason.

"You will know in the future.

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