Chapter 803 — This Seat Could Not Care Less

" She hurriedly retreated, leaping from the crater, only to see Shen Mu rolling parallel to the ground as he came to kill her, and greeting her head-on were several hundred flying swords whirling and slicing!

Yan Qiling crossed her hands; yuan-magnetic divine sabers surfaced, and the two blades interwove, ding-ding-ding ringing without cease as she blocked the Eighteenth Sword Form.

The two traded speed for speed, their pace too fast for the eye to follow; Yan Qiling, having lost the initiative, fell back again and again. "He can use the Eighteenth Sword Form?

His vital essence must be utterly feeble—how could he use a move that drains vital essence so terribly? " She had barely thought this when she suddenly saw the Earth-Yuan Dao Fruit within the halo behind Shen Mu's head, and at once it came to her: "The energy in the Earth Mother's Earth-Yuan Dao Fruit is immense—he is refining the fruit's energy into cultivation!

" Abruptly Shen Mu stopped rolling, planted both feet on the ground, and with one hand formed a seal and struck forward. "Dao Two of Xuandu!

" Yan Qiling's blood ran cold. She flung away the two yuan-magnetic divine sabers in her hands; the blades, swift as light and lightning, interwove in the air and became wall upon wall of yuan-magnetic barriers guarding her front.

Boom— Heavenly fire exploded; the dreadful force shattered wall after yuan-magnetic wall, breaking through a hundred layers, halting only at the last.

Yan Qiling breathed out in relief.

Suddenly, from behind that final yuan-magnetic wall, a dazzling blade-light flashed. Shen Mu's six hands were lifted high; the flying swords came with a clatter—a few hundred before, but now more than two thousand swords gathered in his six palms, fusing into a single divine saber.

Chh. The last yuan-magnetic wall was split open by that one blade.

Shen Mu's six arms parted; the divine saber divided into six, and Yan Qiling saw only crisscrossing blade-light before her eyes, horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical!

Horizontal and vertical—one vast line of sky! Golden blood flashed.

Yan Qiling came within a hair of being cut into dozens of pieces. She fled backward at top speed and cried out in a sharp voice, "Mu Tianzun, do you no longer want your title? " The wounds on Shen Mu's body had all but healed; he ran like thunder, each footfall bursting out a string of thunderclaps, the ground exploding beneath his steps.

He sneered, "Want it?

I do not.

If he has the guts, let him come take it himself! " Yan Qiling was furious.

She forced out her mana, letting the wounds all over her burst open: "You dare show such disrespect—then blame no one but yourself!

Dao One!

" She forced out the Great Divine Ability of Dao One. The dreadful fluctuations came again; the phantom of the ancient Heavenly Court emerged around her—a thousand palaces, ten thousand halls, the deep, deep Jade Capital, towering city walls, the Heavenly River rushing on. The phantoms of the Star Lords of the Celestial Circuit appeared, forming a net spanning heaven and earth; the Heavenly River Navy, its star lords waving banners and steering tower ships and mighty vessels; the Great Sun and the Great Moon, sun and moon at high noon.

Below the Heavenly Court lay Yuandu, Yuanmu and the Earth Mother taking form; above the net spanning heaven and earth, the Xuandu Heavenly Lord was taking form as well; and beneath Yuandu, the Youdu Earth Lord was gradually taking shape!

And by then Shen Mu had already entered the Heavenly Court. He breached only the Southern Heavenly Gate, punching this divine gate through with a single fist; the next moment he trod the Heavenly River and headed straight for the Jade Pool, leaping across the Jade Sea in one bound!

Boom!

He had already shattered the gate of the Jade Capital; wherever he passed, the phantoms of palaces were shaken apart, broken bricks and tiles, ruined walls and crumbling eaves flying in every direction! Within the phantom of the Lingxiao Hall, Yan Qiling stood before the imperial throne.

Shen Mu had come too fast—so fast he did not seem a wounded man. Her divine ability was not yet ready when she saw Shen Mu already charging to the front of Lingxiao Hall. "His cultivation has recovered?

No—he has entered the Life-and-Death realm! " Yan Qiling's blood ran cold.

Suddenly Lingxiao Hall quaked; Shen Mu's fist smashed this supreme sanctuary of the ancient god's Heavenly Court into pieces. The next moment his fist pressed into Yan Qiling's lovely face, and the immense force erupted.

The two figures flashed across the collapsing phantom of the ancient Heavenly Court; a mountain peak tens of li away suddenly burst apart, rocks flying, the falling stones tracing arcs through the air and striking ground only after a long while. Then a deafening roar came, and only then did the phantom of the ancient Heavenly Court disperse.

Yan Qiling's figure skimmed along the ground, changing shape as she went, shattering countless trees and rocks, sliding dozens of li before she stopped, lying there unable to move. A bare foot appeared beside her; then another large bare foot came down.

Shen Mu stood before her. "The Mu Tianzun conferred by that old man the Heavenly Emperor—I do not give a damn.

" Shen Mu spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

"My Mu Tianzun was won with these fists of mine, not conferred by that old man the Heavenly Emperor! " Blood welled again and again from Yan Qiling's mouth; she stared at him, eyes glazed.

Shen Mu lifted an arm still in the midst of healing and spread five fingers wide, and there came a whistling of air split asunder. A flying sword dropped suddenly into his hand; then ding-ding-ding rang without cease as the other swords struck it one by one and fused with it, so swiftly that only afterimages could be seen.

Shen Mu turned the sword tip downward and lifted Yan Qiling's chin with it, raised a hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and laughed softly.

"Where is Yu Tianzun? " Yan Qiling swallowed the blood in her mouth, her voice hoarse: "Bring them up.

" "Sect Master, we are here!

" came Dragon Qilin's voice, trembling. Shen Mu looked toward the sound and saw the several women who followed Yan Qiling herding Yu Tianzun, Gongsun Yan and the others forward. Dragon Qilin said dejectedly, "Sect Master, we had not gone far before we were caught.

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. " "I know.

" Shen Mu said calmly, "You drew them off; only so could I capture this woman alive and trade her for you.

It was a stratagem of luring the tiger from the mountain.

" Dragon Qilin was dumbstruck.

"Sect Master, do you mean it was not that you drew these women's attention so that we could run first?

" Shen Mu was taken aback, scratched his head, and said as if possessed by a spirit, "That is right, Fatty Long, that is exactly what I meant.

You grasped it very well. Mm, very well.

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