Chapter 560 Splitting in Half
This scene instantly caused the surroundings to be filled with a racket out of disbelief.
“Could Duan Shuiliu, the invincible Big Demon, be killed just like that?”
But the next moment, the bright broadsword light rose from the void and hacked at the back of the girl in the black gauze. It was direct and simple. The white broadsword light flowed like the Milky Way pouring down from heaven. It contained the beauty of nature and was totally untraceable.
Li Mu’s body, which had been cut into pieces by the sword, gradually dimmed and eventually disappeared into the sky.
It was nothing more than a phantom.
The real Li Mu, instead, appeared behind the girl in the black gauze and thrust his broadsword at her.
“Clatter!”
The thin sword in the hands of the girl from the Black Killing Tower also burst out a jet of light equally dazzling. Turning back at an incredible angle again, she blocked this attack.
“It’s no use. Li Mu, in this world, you have no advantage. You are like an ant, and you are no match for me at all.” The girl sneered. Her thin sword flashed, and her sword light dashed out like lightning. In an instant, Li Mu’s body was shattered and split into dozens of pieces.
But what was broken was still the phantom.
Unbelievably, Li Mu reappeared behind the girl in the black gauze, and the broadsword light poured down again.
“Clank, clink, clank!”
The continuous sounds of clas.h.i.+ng swords and broadswords could be heard.
The sight of the surrounding people seemed to have been torn apart by a certain kind of force. All they saw were flashes of black and white figures that kept changing positions like rays of light. They constantly disappeared and reappeared at the most incredible angles and places. The sword and broadsword collided with each other, and then separated as soon as they touched. Even the void was repeatedly ripped open by such impact waves, which then was restored under the effect of the Great Way over and over again.
Eventually, the two figures landed on the floating fighting ring that was already tilting, cracking, and on the verge of collapse.
“Now, have you learned the disparity between our powers?” The girl in the black gauze sneered, not injured at all.
The thin sword she was holding was like a thin piece of paper. A soft gust of wind seemed to be able to blow the sword askew. It was hard to believe that it was the sword that had just blocked Li Mu’s broadsword light, which was as overwhelming as the falling of the Milky Way and was as powerful as the blazing sun.
On the opposite side, Li Mu’s white clothes were sporting four sword marks. The sword had pierced his clothes and stabbed his body four times.
It was obvious that the girl in the black gauze had the upper hand in the brief but fierce battle a moment ago.
Li Mu had failed to completely fend off the sword technique of the a.s.sa.s.sin from the Black Killing Tower.
In the face of the opponent’s mockery, Li Mu did not respond.
He frowned slightly as if pondering over something.
“Do you know,” the girl in the black gauze said, “how many treasures I’ve wasted in order to force you out? The Darkest Thunder is a good 100 silver fairy crystals each. The Red Jade Fate-s.h.i.+fting Pill is even more expensive. You’ve wasted so many of my treasures… Well, however, it doesn’t matter. Your head is worth more. If I kill you, the loss will be recovered by the reward hundreds of times greater.”
Li Mu’s eyes lit up.
He suddenly figured out a question that had troubled him for a long time.
“Greed is the original sin.” Li Mu laughed. “Haha, so I’m worth so much money? I was wondering why there is only one stinky bug from outer s.p.a.ce here. Turns out that you deliberately concealed the information because you want to take all the bounty given for the one who kills me? People die for money and birds die for food. You, a shady killer from the Netherworld, should die for your own good… Let me send you to h.e.l.l!”
In a flash, Li Mu appeared in front of the girl in the black gauze and chopped at her head with his broadsword.
This was the simplest move.
“Well, you still don’t understand? You’re like a dog desperate to jump over a wall. It’s useless…” The girl in black gauze smirked. The thin sword in her hand burst out layers of sword light, preparing to play the same trick—striking back while holding up the broadsword light.
However…
“Cras.h.!.+”
With a light noise, when Li Mu’s broadsword swooped down, the thin sword in the girl’s hand was instantly cut into two pieces, as though it were made of a sheet of paper.
The girl’s body was also split into two parts.
From the top of her head, the middle of her eyebrows, the bridge of her nose, the middle of her b.r.e.a.s.t.s, all the way to her legs… Her body was neatly cut into two pieces in an instant.
“How can this be?” the girl in the black gauze screamed. In the black mist, the two parts of her body “a.s.sembled” again. Then, she retreated, staring at Li Mu in shock. The line of blood on her face quickly faded, and her two pieces of face merged into one without any scars, but her face was a little pale.
She had already stepped into the initial stage of the Mortal Realm and her body could be rea.s.sembled at a stir of her mind.
Even if that consumed her some blood and Qi, it was not worth mentioning to a cultivator who had pa.s.sed the Life and Death Bridge and entered the Mortal Realm.
What really shocked her was the suppressive and destructive power that Li Mu abruptly released, which once again reminded her of the terrible fear she had experienced in the Tomb of the G.o.d of Sin.
“Have you been suppressing your power?”
The girl in the black gauze gawked at Li Mu in disbelief.
Li Mu dragged the huge Samsara Knife behind him and approached her with large strides.
The blade made cl.u.s.ters of sparks all the way across the floor of the floating fighting ring.
“It’s too late to know now.” Li Mu suddenly quickened his pace, and then moved faster and faster, finally turning into a series of afterimages of his figure.
The sound of something breaking through the air was heard.
The broadsword light blasted suddenly.
The girl’s expression changed drastically and she quickly backed away. Nonetheless, like maggots on a bone, the broadsword light was impossible for her to dodge.
As she retreated wildly, she gave a light shout and a pair of thin swords appeared in her hands. She crossed the two swords and lifted them up, trying to block the blow.
“Crack!”
With a light crack, she was cut into two pieces again.
“What, what kind of broadsword-using method is this?”
The girl in the black gauze was both stunned and angry.
She was at a disadvantage at that moment, which was utterly unexpected and unacceptable to her.
Li Mu recalled that about seven years ago when he first came to the Divine Land, he killed his way into the headquarter of Shennong Faction single-handedly and slaughtered their members in a burst of rage. At that time, some also asked him what kind of broadsword-using method he was using. His answer back then was the Pig Slaughtering Method, because he was really just doing it according to years of experience and instinct as a butcher at that time.
But now, someone raised this question again.
Dragging the huge Samsara Knife, Li Mu gave the same answer. “It’s the Pig Slaughtering Method.”
The Pig Slaughtering Method slew the evil just like slaughtering pigs.
Now he somewhat understood why the old faker had to send him to the slaughterhouse to slaughter pigs.
To cultivate his killing intent was part of the reason.
Perhaps the old faker also wanted him to know that the law of the jungle also applied to the universe. If Li Mu wanted to be the boss of his own life, he would have to hold a broadsword in his hand, instead of becoming a fat pig who didn’t know what was coming at him even when he died.
This answer clearly enraged the girl in the black gauze.
“Do you really think you have taken the upper hand?”
She laughed angrily, gave a shudder, then, suddenly disappeared out of sight.
What was the a.s.sa.s.sin of the Black Killing Tower best at?
It was concealing his or her whereabouts.
Then appeared in the least expected place.
They liked to kill people before they knew it.
This was what an a.s.sa.s.sin should do.
The girl in the black gauze gave up the idea of killing Li Mu with her cultivation in a face-to-face battle.
Li Mu sneered. He just stood there, motionlessly.
A short moment later…
A beam of sword light silently appeared over the back of Li Mu’s head without warning.
The moment it appeared, the sword light had already pierced into Li Mu’s skull.
However, Li Mu seemed to be unaware of it and didn’t move at all.
“Clank!”
The sound of metal clas.h.i.+ng rang out.
The sword light did not pierce into his skull at all. Instead, it also seemed to have clashed with the strongest divine iron in the world and was instantly shattered.
An exclamation came from the air.
The blurry figure of the girl in the black gauze emerged in a flash and then turned into nothingness again.
But the consternation she felt was indescribable.
“Could it be that Li Mu’s wearing some secret protective device on his head?”
“The sword can’t pierce it through.”
“This is weird.”
She tried to compose herself before beginning to move silently, as if she had blended into the air and become part of the airflow. Looking at Li Mu, she found flaws everywhere. She continued calculating and measuring the place she could target, weighing in which way she could kill him with one blow.
The sword light appeared again.
This time, it pierced Li Mu’s throat.
Li Mu was still motionless and took the attack head-on.
Something incredible happened.
The sword light was smashed again.
It was smashed by the throat bone that should have been extremely fragile.
The mind of the girl in the black gauze was now in a tumult.
She kept switching her position to launch attacks, as well as the place she would strike at.
But Li Mu just stood there, motionless, like a statue of King Kong, and took all of her attacks.
“Swoos.h.!.+”
The girl in the black gauze emerged 100 meters away, revealing her tracks. The shock on her face was as thick as ink. She looked at Li Mu with a complicated expression and said, “You freak.”
She tried her best, but she couldn’t hurt him at all.
How could she continue the fight then?
It was not until then that she realized she had completely underestimated Li Mu’s strength.
And now, she had to admit that even though they were not in the Tomb of the G.o.d of Sin, she was still no match for him.
Li Mu looked at her in silence.
For a long time, Li Mu’s strength was not his cultivation of natural qi, broadsword-using method, or even Taoist magic arts. It was his physical body that had been thoroughly refined thousands of times. Before he cultivated natural qi, he relied solely on the physical strength to fight. Even so, he defeated all the experts he met. Even when he started to cultivate natural qi later, the Xiantian Skill and Zhenwu Boxing continued to nourish Li Mu’s body.
Li Mu also powered through the Heavenly Tribulation of Evil Dragon Mountain with his physical strength.
The thunder and lightning of the tribulation almost crashed Li Mu, but it also gave him the fiercest trial.
When he let himself be immersed in Li Bai’s Sword Intent of the Ode to the Gallant, the Xiantian Skill ran of its own accord. So, he absorbed the countless Precious Qi of Cyan Lotus, causing his primitive natural qi to fully mature. After many fine meridians in his body were opened up, refined, and unclogged, Li Mu entered the Void-breaking Realm, and his physical strength already finally reached an unprecedented realm.
If he went to the Evil Dragon Mountain and took the tribulation again, the endless thunder and lightning would probably not damage Li Mu’s hair.
Therefore, even though the girl in the gauze, who was at the initial stage of the Mortal Realm, was a whole realm above Li Mu, she could never hurt Li Mu a bit no matter how terrible her a.s.sa.s.sination techniques were, how incredible her sword light was, or how surprising the body part she attacked was.
The girl in the black gauze was right.
Today’s Li Mu was a freak indeed.