Supreme Swordsman of the Nine Heavens

Fourth Dao Artefact

Mu Yu evaded Hun Kui’s onslaught whilst trying to find Sumeru Switch Scroll’s weakness.

“Soul Style Luo Sound – Overdemon Combat Hammer!” Immediately after transforming his red soul bead into a three hundred and thirty-three metres large red hammer, Hun Kui wasted no time slamming it down.

Mu Yu knocked aside Hun Kui’s assistance and shielded himself with Primordial Yin Yang in a phantasmal form. Considering Mu Yu’s hesitancy against Hun Kui’s ruthless battering, it was not difficult to imagine who had the upper hand. Right after hammering aside Mu Yu’s defence, Hun Kui raised his hammer and slammed down, bashing Primordial Yin Yang into Reflection Compass.

Energy emanated from Reflection Compass, freezing the stars and everyone, including Hun Kui’s downward swing. Mu Yu never realised it as he never connected Primordial Yin Yang and Reflection Compass. Thanks to Hun Kui’s assault, Mu Yu saw Reflection Compass absorb Primordial Yin Yang, accelerating the eight trigrams diagram’s rotation speed. Xiaohei and Xiaobai chased the black and white energy that ejected from the compass – another yin and yang energy source!

“Oh yeah, how did I forget that Reflection Compass is also a dao artefact?” Xiaoshuai, the only one free besides Mu Yu, launched himself off Mu Yu’s shoulder and onto Reflection Compass’ Primordial Yin Yang, cackling along with them.

Mu Yu did not take advantage of the time freeze to end Bai Jie for an energy fluctuation would break the balance that Reflection Compass’ Primordial Yin Yang found, consequently restoring movement to time.

“How do I use this dao artefact, though?” Mu Yu muttered.

Sensing Mu Yu’s internal mental processes, Xiaohei and Xiaobai passed on Reflection Compass’ Primordial Yin Yang’s will: Reflection Formation can help you identify the foreign races’ true bodies! Sumeru Switch Scroll switches the foreign races’ bodies with a star, therefore linking their lives with a human’s. In actuality, the real bodies of the foreign races are hidden amongst the countless stars. Destroy the specific star they use to hide their physical body, and the enemies before them will have their link to Sumeru Switch Scroll cut off, rendering them vulnerable to permanent death.

“One’s desire is the navigator. I get it now! I can locate their real bodies the same way I found everyone else at Ancient Battleground!” Mu Yu exclaimed.

Mu Yu memorised the faces of all their foes, then harboured the desire to find them. Reflection Compass’ glow augmented until it released green beams to the black blanket embellished with silver freckles, specifically fifty stars.

“Found you lot.”

Mu Yu called Reflection Compass’ Primordial Yin Yang back in, thereby restoring the movement of time while Xiaobai and Xiaohei coiled around Shadow Splitter Sword. Nobody had any clue the flow of time had stopped for a while once it resumed; the freeze was only but a blink of an eye’s time in the real world.

Mu Yu descended and slammed Hun Kui’s hammer back with Shadow Splitter Sword and then pulled back. “Everyone, aim for the fifty green stars. Destroy them, and then we’ll be able to humble these invaders!”

Everyone, Bai Jie included, raised their heads, confounded as to where the green stars were up until now and why Mu Yu suddenly directed them to it.

“Damn it!” cursed Bai Jie, futilely trying to camouflage the green stars. “You used Formation Palace? No, this isn’t Formation Palace’s ability. What dao artefact did you use?”

Xiaoshuai assumed an akimbo pose on Mu Yu’s shoulder and raised his chin. “Beg me.”

Mu Yu made a beeline for the closest green star that was zapped of energy thanks to Reflection Compass’ ability. His allies did not understand the reasoning behind the directive. Nevertheless, anything was better than dying for nothing.

“Guard the stars!” Bai Jie commanded, mobilising his allies.

Mu Yu beat Bai Jie to the punch as both took off, crushing Hun Quanrong’s star. Hun Quanrong, who was near Hun Kui as an assistant, lost his light glow from Sumeru Switch Scroll, sending him into panic once he could not connect to the scroll.

“You bug!”

Bai Jie came down from above, only for Mu Yu to tilt his head back and deploy Life and Death in the Blink of an Eye, catching Bai Jie at point blank. Alas, Bai Jie did not swell up and explode as minions did for he managed to coat himself in soul energy at the last moment to disperse the death beams.

Thud! Due to vanquishing the star taking up his time, Mu Yu’s last-minute torque was not enough to evade Bai Jie’s palm strike. As a consequence, he absorbed soul energy into his body…

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