Xiaoshuai and Celestial Swords
“You talking about this sword?” Mu Yu drew Shadow Splitter Sword from his void nonchalantly. “I can smell your frustration. Try deflating your ego.”
Xuelian opted to take Mu Yu’s cleave head on with fragile-looking leaves that turned out to be a revolving weapon – similar to a sharp spin top – stopping Mu Yu’s sword cutting through. While his sword was relatively still, she attempted to snag his sword, spurring Mu Yu to swing at her arm.
Clang!
“Her skin is even tougher than before,” Lie Shang, who was also locked in battle, commented.
“It’s over for you two!” Xuelian scattered the flower petals on her, encasing Mu Yu in a tree prison at the same time.
“Mu Yu, can your blood end this monster?” Xiaoshuai queried.
“No. Even though my blood spilt onto her petals when she grazed my arm, it didn’t stop the petals.”
In an unexpected turn of events, the cage Xuelian erected around Mu Yu shook the space within the moment Mu Yu cast Heavenly Stars Formation to escape, foiling his attempt to get out.
“You must think you’re the only race who can cast formations,” Xuelian sneered, branches glowing the way a five elements formation would.
The knowledge on five elements formation that Lie Shang shared equipped Mu Yu with the means of discerning the formation’s weakness. The problem was Xuelian was not going to give him time to do so.
Though Mu Yu stopped her attempt to tear him limb from limb using Contiguous Horizon Formation, he was still at risk. Xuelian squeezed together the cell she constructed for Mu Yu in an attempt to counter Contiguous Horizon Formation by force. It was an effective strategy for her as she was exceedingly strong compared to them.
“Xiaoshuai!”
“Roger!”
Xiaoshuai hopped out of Mu Yu’s shirt and assumed his human form, albeit keeping his claws to hack away at the trees. Suddenly, a branch brushed Xiaoshuai away violently, and all of the branches he sliced remedied themselves. Mu Yu caught Xiaoshuai’s fall with a formation and retrieved the latter.
Rubbing his buttocks, Xiaoshuai grouched, “It hit me! I want to hack it to pieces!
“Guess I have to resort to deploying one of the domain abilities.”
Xiaoshuai mimicked Mu Yu’s movements, clasping his feet in the air, thereby summoning Shadow Splitter Sword to his hand. “Eh? Mm… I think I recall something. Is this how you use the celestial swords?”
Xiaoshuai scratched the back of his skull with his hand and then poked his forehead with his left hand. A bright energy travelled down from his forehead, spreading to every inch of his body and into the sword. Upon opening his eyes, everything in the environment was still. Shadow Splitter Sword jolted, sending vibrations across the field. It sounded as though a squall was imminent. Energy from the firmament coursed through the trees to reach Xiaoshuai, roiling his qi. He ran his hand along the sword and muttered, “I swear this is familiar. Ah, whatever, let’s just butcher this freak first.”
Xiaoshuai took Shadow Splitter Sword, which had resized to the appropriate length for his body, and hacked apart the solid trees. Together, they were akin to a violent tornado decimating everything in sight, power that neither Mu Yu no Lie Shang thought was possible.
“Mu Yu, I’m out of energy!” cried Xiaoshuai.
Mu Yu triggered Gentle Wind Interlinked Hearts right away, extending its reach to Xiaoshuai. “You’re practically guzzling my spiritual energy.”
Owing to the formation linking their minds, Mu Yu saw a swordsman, attired in green, travelling from star to star and created a rift in the atmosphere that allowed him to travel to different voids. His prowess and might in swordplay overwhelmed the source of malice directed at him each time he intruded in a new void. With one swing, his bright qi would emanate from him and bind bizarre-shaped figures in his qi despite the power they embodied. Nothing could stop their inexorable deaths once he caught them.
“I won’t allow you to desecrate Third Heaven.” The peerless swordsman that had the envy of the mightiest in existence and Mu Yu was none other than Mu Yu’s shifu – Sword Shadow Dust Gale!
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