Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chen Mu looked at Zuo Qianqiu, his expression unchanged, and said, "Come on, use everything you've got. A Spirit Weapon may be an external object, but as long as you can stimulate it, it too is a part of your power and doesn't violate your Sword Heart. Perhaps you should gather more of The Power of Heaven and Earth. Your previous move was a bit hasty. Prepare more, and it should be even stronger." Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire

Above the Yunni Sky Steps, there was dead silence.

At this moment, whether it was Zhou Hao, Hua Nongyue, or Yuan Yingsong and others, they couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity upon hearing Chen Mu's words.

Telling Zuo Qianqiu to use the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, telling Zuo Qianqiu to accumulate more power, and something about not violating the Sword Heart...

What was this?

What did this count for?

The figure standing on the mountain peak, as young as them, belonging to the same generation, all from the prodigies on the talent list of the Cold North Path Eleven State, but why did it feel like there was a huge disconnect between them in that moment?

If it had been a well-known Grandmaster standing there and speaking to Zuo Qianqiu in this manner, no one would have found it strange. But it was Chen Mu, and oddly enough, there was no sense of discordance.

None of Zuo Qianqiu's Seven Cutting Skies Swords had been able to force Chen Mu's Artistic Conception Technique, the strongest Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal that was rumored to merge with the Qiankun Artistic Conception. They hadn't seen it at all!

The gap.

It was so vast!

Originally, Zuo Qianqiu faced the Qiankun without backing down and challenged the Qiankun with his Heavenly Sword. Many prodigies had even stopped contemplating the mysteries of heaven and earth to watch this battle, to witness this once-in-a-century exceptional confrontation.

But now?

All of them felt an indescribable chill enveloping them. Although they were all pinnacle existences of the Five Viscera Realm and would not feel cold standing on this mountain peak, at this moment, they felt that the cold wind was penetrating their souls.

They were just watching from the side and already felt this way, so what about Zuo Qianqiu himself?

They saw.

Zuo Qianqiu still stood at the bottom of the steps, his face growing paler.

But after all, he was Zuo Qianqiu, a peerless genius that came once in a hundred years. He looked up at Chen Mu standing on the mountain peak, took a deep breath, and slowly ascended the steps to face Chen Mu.

Step,

Step,

Step,

With each step, a layer of Sword Intent rose from him, until he returned to the mountain peak, the overwhelming Sword Intent surging from him was stronger than before, like a roaring river!

A pale golden Sword Chart emerged from him at some unknown time; all the surging Sword Intent originated from within the chart, not one kind but as if ten thousand merged together, limitless and innumerable!

"The Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, a Superior Grade Spirit Weapon, ranked thirty-seventh in the Spirit Weapon Catalogue of the Cold North Path. Legend has it that a sword once fell from the sky, like a Meteorite crashing here, and the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram was forged with the divine sword's meteoric iron, capable of carrying boundless Sword Intent."

"In my view, it must be that each master of your Heavenly Sword Sect from past generations, after achieving mastery, would imprint their own Sword Intent within it. In this way, it has been passed down through generations, and the Heavenly Sword is the best wielder of this diagram. Because the Heavenly Sword encompasses everything, any kind of Sword Intent engraved in the diagram can be awakened by the power of the Heavenly Sword; it's a perfect match made by heaven."

Chen Mu's gaze turned toward the pale golden Sword Chart floating above Zuo Qianqiu's head, but his expression remained calm as he said, "I have quite an admiration for your Heavenly Sword Sect's Sword Dao Grandmasters from the past generations. It is a pity that some of the predecessors have passed on, but fortunately, their Sword Intent is left in the world for later generations to admire."

"..."

Zuo Qianqiu said nothing.

Or perhaps, at this moment, he was unable to spare the attention to speak. The Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram was ultimately one of the very strong Spirit Weapons, especially with the Sword Intent inside encompassing hundreds of years of Heavenly Sword Sect's masters. Communicating with each strand of Sword Intent through the Heavenly Sword, he had exerted himself to the fullest, needing to stretch his Sword Heart to the extreme so as not to be overwhelmed by those Intents.

In the past, he had never used the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram against opponents on the same level, always relying on the power of this diagram only in times of crisis. Using this Spirit Weapon against his peers would give the impression of bully others with superior equipment.

But facing the Qiankun, he had no choice but to use the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram!

He knew he had been defeated by Chen Mu, but he couldn't accept such a defeat, not even seeing Chen Mu's true methods. Even if he were to lose, he couldn't be defeated so insignificantly, as light as a feather!

One,

Two,

Three,

...

Layers upon layers of sword intent stirred and awakened from the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, each thread of sword intent causing the numerous prodigies upon the Yunni Sky Steps to tremble; these were the imprints belonging to grandmasters of the Sword Dao.

As over forty strands of sword intent were provoked, Yuan Yingsong, Xuan Gang, and others all changed in color, no longer daring to stand in place. They rapidly retreated, opening up a large distance.

When over seventy strands of sword intent were elicited, those further away like Hua Nongyue, Han Cang, and others also changed in complexion, feeling as if at any moment they could be crushed and ground to dust by that surging river-like sword intent, retreating even farther away.

His! His! His!!

By the time over ninety strands of sword intent were awakened, Zuo Qianqiu could hardly maintain complete control, as threads of sword intent began silently intersecting and slashing everywhere. But the Yunni Sky Steps, having been tempered and refined by the Strength of Qian Heaven, were no ordinary structure. Yunni Sky Peak itself, with its mountain force vast and grandiose, bore the strikes of these sword intents without leaving any marks.

Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred!

Eventually, the sword intent roused from within the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram reached beyond a hundred, also reaching the limit of what Zuo Qianqiu could sustain. After a brief pause, they suddenly exploded.

Over a hundred surging and magnificent strands of sword intent, at this moment converging into a river stream, dashed grandiosely toward the firmament as if they were countless differently-shaped invisible Qi Swords. After rising more than ten yards high, they transformed into a waterfall, cascading down upon Chen Mu from above, resembling the Milky Way spilling from the nine heavens, each droplet filled with rolling Sword Qi!

"Well received."

A trace of interest finally appeared in Chen Mu's eyes.

What Gu Hong, what Jiang Yifei, including Zuo Qianqiu, were all exceedingly dull. Only the sword intent imprints of past grandmasters of the Heavenly Sword Sect could sharpen his Qiankun Artistic Conception and confirm his unparalleled Martial Arts!

At that moment, Chen Mu held one handprint toward the sky and another to the earth, then brought both hands together in front of him to form a complete Qiankun mark, unleashing a punch upwards.

In an instant, Xun Wind and Thunderbolt, Separating Fire and Kan Water... the Power of the Eight Phases howled in his surroundings, amalgamating into a Cycle Mark.

The Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal!

Standing atop the Yunni Sky Peak, the highest point in all of Yu State, Chen Mu finally unleashed the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal that harmonized with his Qiankun Artistic Conception, the surging and vast Power of Heaven and Earth as if covering the entire vault of heaven at that moment.

Bare-handed, he shook the Spirit Weapon!

Under the astonished gazes of countless onlookers, the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal collided with the Roaring Sword River that seemed like a waterfall plummeting from the nine heavens, causing a violent crash, and for an instant, it seemed as if the entire sky and earth atop Yunni Peak came to a standstill.

"Open!"

It seemed a moment had passed, yet as if eons had gone by. A loud cry from Chen Mu was heard, and that grand and magnificent Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, akin to a grindstone, rolled against the rising Sword River from the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, shattering it instantly.

Over a hundred threads of sword intent broke, one after another, and once more the entire firmament cleared!

But look.

Chen Mu still stood unyieldingly on the mountaintop platform, entirely unchanged, with the stone platform beneath him and the Yunni Sky Steps amidst the mountains also remaining unaltered. In the distance, boundless Cloud Sea still rolled and surged magnificently.

The pale gold scroll of the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram emitted a hum, as if in grief, together with Zuo Qianqiu, whose face suddenly turned as pale as paper, spewing out a mouthful of fresh blood, they both rolled backward, wrapping him as he fell into the boundless Cloud Sea.

Chen Mu slowly lowered his hand.

Inwardly, he felt a slight regret that Zuo Qianqiu couldn't yet provoke the full might of the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, and he regretted his current strength; if he faced off against the fully blossoming Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, perhaps he couldn't remain as composed.

After all, it was the amalgamation of numerous Sword Dao grandmasters' Sword Intent imprints. Although many of them would gradually fade and dissipate with the passage of time, eventually leaving no trace in this world, that was still, after all, the Artistic Conception of grandmasters.

At this moment.

Beneath the mountain peak, silence reigned.

But Chen Mu no longer looked back at Xuan Gang, Yuan Yingsong, and others. Instead, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back at the very top of the Yunni Sky Steps, casting his gaze over the rolling Cloud Sea and the vast, boundless world.

...

Year 1430 of the Da Xuan Calendar.

The second day of the third month.

The Cloud Sea churned. Chen Mu, the inheritor of the Spirit Profound teachings of the Seven Profound Sects, wielding the Qiankun Artistic Conception, broke through the Heart Sword of Gu Hong from the Heavenly Sword Sect, defeated Jiang Yifei of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion, beat Zuo Qianqiu atop Yunni Peak, bare-handedly shook the Mysterious Heavenly Sword Diagram, and shattered hundreds of Sword Intents.

Turning to look back at the mountain peak, the chosen of the Cold North bowed their heads in submission!