Chapter 851 — Rustic Rabble Harbor Treasonous Designs

Through his sense of vital currents, he could feel the formations colliding around him, their terrible fluctuations enough to crush them to dust a thousand times over! Yet when their power erupted, these formations suddenly shifted from the Gate of Death to the Gate of Life. More than that, he could sense the blind old man's short figure weaving among the formations, and one formation after another, nudged and adjusted by the blind old man's Longtuo Divine Spear, turned into killing arrays aimed outward!

The formations erupted beneath the ship's shadow; suddenly, with a thunderous boom, the hundred-zhang tower ship creaked and was flung into the sky, where it split apart into fragments. Countless treasures burst from within the ship, scattering sheets of jeweled radiance through the air. Shen Mu's sight returned.

He looked up and saw, amid the falling jeweled light, a demon god with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes clash with the blind old man gripping the black dragon spear — one great, one small, battling in the air. At the same time, the youth constables flicked their wrists, their chains interlacing, and with a swoosh they lashed out to bind Shen Mu and the others!

Bang!

Bang! Bang!

The shields in their hands flew up and forged themselves into walls of shields around Shen Mu and the others.

Above and below, on every side, great shields were everywhere, sealing off the space.

And within the shield walls, chains clattered and moved, threading and crossing, drawing ever tighter. Yuchenzi grew anxious in secret.

"This is bad!

In this situation, Shen the Tyrant Body will have no choice but to use his sword technique, or he will never break the deadlock. The moment he reveals a single true sword move, it will expose him as the killer of the Heavenly Court's envoy. .

. " Just then, from within the sealed space of great shields came a crackling din, and a startling streak of sword light sliced open shield after shield!

Shen Mu had three heads and six arms; the willow leaf between his brows had vanished. He suddenly roared, and rays of gaze like crimson serpents swept out from the center of his brows in every direction!

The youths were instantly overmatched.

Several had their bodies cut down; their primal spirits had scarcely flown out before they were sliced in two!

The Sky-Howling God Race, who had seemed frozen, all moved at once, leaping erratically like ghosts as they pounced on Shen Mu and the others. Behind Shen Mu the Gate that Sustains Heaven suddenly appeared. The gate opened; his body spun like a top, and the hundred-zhang Gate that Sustains Heaven, wreathed in surging black qi, whirled shrieking around Shen Mu as its center, forming a sheet of black light!

Bang, bang, bang — bodies fell through the air one after another.

The Sky-Howling God Race, swept by the Gate that Sustains Heaven, had their primal spirits instantly cast down into Youdu — their bodies intact, yet already dead. Suddenly the remaining youths shouted, and chains flew from their sleeves, piercing into the Gate that Sustains Heaven and holding it fast.

Shen Mu drove the Gate that Sustains Heaven, but the gate could not move, while wolf-headed Sky-Howling God Race members pounced upon them! Clang — a celestial river floated in the air, a thousand zhang long.

Shen Mu's primal spirit stood upon the celestial river, both hands raised, and the flying sword in his grasp burst apart with a bang into countless sword lights. In an instant the sword lights filled a thousand-zhang span, forming an ocean of sword radiance!

Amid the ocean of sword light, mangled bodies were everywhere, blood dyeing the ocean crimson!

The village head's sword manual, second form: Sword Emerges, Kaihuang. One sword of Kaihuang, a sea of blood! Suddenly the ocean of sword light shattered, and from amid the mangled remains a wolf-headed Sky-Howling God Race member pounced — the strongest of them, already a deity.

Shen Mu's move was an area-of-effect technique from the sword manual, and it could not slay him; instead, the dispersal of power broke Shen Mu's technique and saved the others.

His sharp claws reached out, grasping for Shen Mu atop the dragon qilin's head.

The hem of Shen Mu's robe fluttered and became countless formation glyphs that flew out, sweeping up the water qilin and Yutian Zun.

In a flash of light, the water qilin and Yutian Zun were sent far away. And Shen Mu's palm rose to meet the divine claws of that Sky-Howling deity. With a thunderous boom the heavens and earth quaked, Shen Mu's palm was slick with blood; the great sinews of his forearm had been snapped by the shock, piercing through the skin and protruding. His five fingers were twisted, the bones broken, the digits bent at grotesque angles.

The wolf-headed deity immediately kicked at his head — but just then a ball of heavenly fire erupted from within the wolf-headed deity's body, and in the blink of an eye it burned the deity to ash.

Shen Mu raised his hand and severed his own arm; a new one quickly grew.

He leaped into the air, his body spinning like a top, and in the midst of the spin grew three heads and six arms.

The six hands, reverse and obverse, yin and yang, pressed down toward the ground.

At the same time, wolf-headed demigods and other youths intercepted him in midair, pouncing toward him! Even as Shen Mu was struck, his six arms pressed into the ground and his body rebounded high.

The dragon qilin immediately charged out from the side, treading fire clouds, and caught Shen Mu, then shot off through the air.

The dragon qilin turned its head and opened its mouth; a jet of firelight spewed out and blasted the ground. On the ground, countless heavenly-fire pillars thrust up from below with a ringing clang, several zhang tall.

Struck by the dragon qilin's jet of fire, a huge mushroom cloud shot skyward; the youths and Sky-Howling God Race members who had not yet fled were annihilated in the blast, and the terrible shockwave swept a hundred li, burning the earth to crystal! Molten rock seethed; suddenly thick black qi billowed from the lava, the black qi forming clouds that rose with the firelight. Qu He, locked in combat with the blind old man, frowned deeply.

Nearly all the people he had brought were dead, and after this heavenly-fire explosion, he feared even the traces of Shen Mu's sword technique would be impossible to find!

"Unruly rabble! " Suddenly the earth shook and the mountains trembled; from deep below, an incomparably colossal body rose slowly, tearing the earth apart.

A voice roared, "Who dares disturb me?

" Yuchenzi breathed a sigh of relief and thought, "This earth dragon is transformed from a severed root-tendril of the Earth Mother — my aim is to pin the blame on him. If the earth dragon kills Qu He, and the Heavenly Court sends another divine constable to examine the scene, the blame on the Earth Mother will be fixed. And all the traces and flaws from before will be impossible to find! The suspicion on my Qingyun Heaven can be completely washed away!

" Clearing Qingyun Heaven of suspicion in the first round of investigation had not been his goal.

There were too many traces to erase them all completely — but luring out a master under the Earth Mother's command to kill the divine constable would frame the Earth Mother perfectly, and the suspicion on Qingyun Heaven would vanish. This was Yuchenzi's true frame-up plan.