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Upon Mount Hua, wind and clouds endlessly changed.
Killing intent that towered over heaven and swept the earth crammed into the entire area. “God Of Slaughter” Bai Qi brandished her sword. “Fast” was already unable to describe her attack speed. Every single strike was filled with power that would frighten even gods. The strongest gods and Buddhas that Star World adored could only offer themselves as sacrifices under Bai Qi’s sword.
Liu Houxiu defended continuously, using her Wielding The Mandate Of Heaven to encircle and annihilate Bai Qi.
“Bai Ling, will you wallow in the mud with the rest?” Yu Fei shouted, moving Heaven and Earth. “You have failed the kindness that Her Majesty has shown you.”
“Ha, ha.” The woman in white clothes hovered in the air, running her finger along her blade’s edge. “How does she wish to punish me? If she kills me, I truly cannot ask for anything better.” God Of Slaughter Bai Qi beamed. The power and killing intent on her sword was pervasive.
“God Of War Made Duke” Guo Ziyi wrinkled her brow and retracted her Star Weapon. God Of Slaughter Bai Qi’s personality was too bloodthirsty and violent. If she interfered, she would instead be treated as the enemy. Although Guo Ziyi did not mind battled with Bai Qi, now was not the time. The girl’s gaze turned to Mount Hua.
Bai Qi and Liu Xiu battled again.
Bai Qi’s Innate Skill was “Man Slaughters God.” The killing intent on her sword was able to pierce through a Purple Rose Star’s defenses, and following augmentation of attack range, her killing intent would become stronger and stronger.
“You fear for Mount Hua, is that why you do not dare fight me freely?” Bai Qi jeered, “Then I shall help you resolve this worry.” The God Of Slaughter’s gaze turned towards Mount Hua’s Star Generals. She wanted to kill them all.
Liu Xiu extended her finger and tapped her brow. Space suddenly distorted.
“Oh, you truly are considerate. You wish to bring me to a different Star Field.” Bai Ling’s brow rose. She did not resist, and then the two of them vanished from Mount Hua without a trace.
“Liu Xiu is already gone. Everyone, seize this chance to quickly destroy Mount Hua!!” Zhu Xi shouted out loud. The morale of the others surged.
Chen Xian’er was injured by the “Wa” sword. The God Of War Made Duke’s target was the headmaster of Mount Hua.
“Sleeping Immortal, fight with This Duke.” Guo Ziyi brandished her double-ended sword.
Sword-light manifested into a half-serpent, half-woman specter that constricted Chen Tuan. Chen Xian’er extended her hand and tapped. With a soft incantation, she brought Yue Li and Xiao Mohe into Mount Hua, without any reluctance to leave.
Heaven Rank: Pangu Splits Heaven!1
The All Things Omnipresent Stars covered Mount Hua’s surroundings. Millions of chess pieces filled space like primordial stars. Each star swiftly moved about, instantly producing a practically empty world devoid of galaxies. The million chess pieces seemed to become ancient stars that whirled about the primeval world. Each star gave rise to enormous energy, and they attracted one another, surprisingly covering Mount Hua completely.
As if this was the place where Star World was born.
The three Great Star Marquis were flabbergasted. They joined hands to urge on their Purple Rose Star Energy, but they were surprisingly unable to break this barrier.
“This Sleeping Immortal is formidable.”
“This Heaven Rank uses Mount Hua’s leylines, that is why it is so strong.” Yang Guang sneered. “Everyone, we will all work together. Mount Hua’s disciples can only struggle at death’s door. We must hurry to avoid trouble.”
“Exactly, we cannot wait for Dream In A Millennium to leave the convention.” Fu Jian nodded.
The Three Star Marquis, the Amrita Seven Grands, the Nine Elders Of Sui, and the others used their Star Energy together.
In Mount Hua, Chen Xian’er’s face was pale. Her delicate lips were already stained with a bit of blood.
“Ancestor!!”
Tan Daoji and the other Mount Hua disciples slightly changed.
“All of you, go to the main hall and protect Luotong2 with Gao Shanxue.” Chen Xian’er calmly said. Luotong was the Red Fragrant Child Zhao Kuangyin’s True Name.
“But…” Tan Daoji looked at Mount Hua’s star river. The three Great Star Marquis were attacking in unison. Her Heaven Rank would not last for too long.
“The Literary Excellence Convention should end soon. We can only wait for Her Majesty.” Yue Li whispered: “So long as Li is here, Li will not allow them to invade.”
“I, the Heaven Devouring Demon King, certainly did not come to Mount Hua to be a turtle hiding in its shell.” Xiao Mohe coldly spat as she stood firmly outside the hall.
“This is not a battle I will miss either.” Li Milu’s murderous personality did not have the word “flee” in her vocabulary.
Yu Juluo nodded in agreement. “This is the time for Yanluo to repay you.”
Chen Xian’er said nothing more.
Several True Phoenix Seventh Stage and higher Star Generals were outside. They could only wait for the Star Marquis to breach the Heaven Rank.
“We are fortunate that Her Majesty went to the Literary Excellence Convention. Right now, they should be in the middle of amazing poems.”
“Good.”
“We cannot rely on a man!”
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At this moment, Chen Mo was not having an easy time as Xiao Mohe said he would. On the contary, the present situation was even more dire than Mount Hua’s.
This is bad.
His arm was already numb. Zhu Yuanzhang’s powerful “Great Ming” Realm already suppressed the resistance of the people Ten Thousand Sages Hall. No matter how Chen Mo activated the Star Manual Of Masters Gan And Shi, he was unable to show any resistance.
The FOur Symbols Azure Dragon screamed even more wretchedly. The power of the “Great Ming” began to stain the Azure Dragon’s jadeite scales a complete red. The Ten Thousand Sages hall broke free of the ground, free of Qu Yuan City, and the boundlessly enormous and radiant Realm practically could evaporate the Miluo Star River.
This time, even Su Mian showed worry.
Chen Mo’s body was increasingly exhausted, and even his soul seemed to be drained. Under the Great Ming’s Realm, all the cells in his body seemed to liquefy and his Star Energy dwindled. The two Great Holy Beasts’ strength could only powerlessly moan back in response to the Azure Dragon’s roars.
A scorching wind dulled his awareness of everything.
Just at this moment, he heard a chant as beautiful as a spring breeze blowing through a valley.
“On the golden list of candidates, I lost my hope of being the top. In this bright time, I am briefly an abandoned sage, where then should I go.”
What? This tender, graceful, and subdued song entered Chen Mo’s heart. The Great Ming’s Realm seemed to abate a bit to this gentleness. Chen Mo opened his eyes and saw “White Clothed Court Official” Liu Yong Liu Fengxi grip her flute and sing aloud.
“Unable to achieve my goal, why not go wherever and do whatever as I please. Why be disappointed? A gifted scholar am I, I am a white-clothed court official.”
Su Shi looked at her in astonishment.
Wang Anshi looked at her in astonishment.
Su Mian looked at her in astonishment.
Cao Pi, Juang Kui, Bai Juyi…A great many of the spiritual power Star Generals looked at the singing girl in astonishment.
Her singing voice seemed to come from nature, from the nine firmaments, bringing an extremely free and unfettered sense of elation.
Poetry Realm?!!
The graceful song continued, “In the pleasure houses and brothels, I maintain meetings behind painted screens. Fortunate am I that I have people who I keep in my mind, and in turn they keep me in mind. Snuggle in between girls of red and green and enjoy a life of romance and freedom. How short one’s prime is.”
The last sentence, “I am willing to trade empty fame for wine and song!” After the ending, a grand feeling of ease appeared in the world.
Crane Soars Into The Sky!!
Heaven Rank – Free And Unfettered Xuannü!
“Do you believe you can suppress my Great Ming with just your insignificant Realm?” Zhu Yuanzhang disdainfully said.
Liu Fengxi’s forehead Star Crest sparkled, manifesting a jadeite light that then fell into Chen Mo’s body. Chen Mo felt his body warm, and the pressure from the Great Ming ebbed.
Immediately, Su Wanyang also began to recite. “Turn a deaf ear to the sounds piercing the forest and striking the leaves. Why should I let them prevent me from strolling and chanting. I move lighter than a horse with my bamboo cane and straw shoes. Who is afraid. Live my entire life with a raincoat in the rain. A chilly spring breeze blows me sober. A slight chill, but the light over the mountaintop greets me. Turn your head back to where you were free.”
Settling Wind Waves!!
Another light fell onto Chen Mo’s body.
The pair’s Poetry Realm spread to everyone present. Practically all of the spiritual generals outside the Ten Thousand Sages Hall heard the plea of the sages. There was a voice, a kind of strength. The same unprecedented feeling filled their hearts, suddenly enlightening them.
But to make them help a total strangers, a man, no less, everyone was still very reluctant.
“Everyone, what are you waiting for, let us achieve the sages’ long cherished wish on their behalf.” A woman awe-inspiringly said. She was none other than Soujourner In The Rain, Huang Tingjian: “Where is spring? She left no trace on the lone path. If anyone knows where spring has gone, please summon her back…”
Thereupon, poems poured in as an endless stream.
“The weather turns cold with the chilly autumn wind, the falling leaves in turn change dew to frost…”
“…However long Heaven and Earth may last, even they come to an end. This regret, though, is everlasting.”
“I sit alone among bamboo, playing the qin and xiao. Deep in the forest no one knows of, the bright moon shines upon me.”
“…At the twenty-four bridges, waves crash in my heart, the cold moon is silent. I think of the red flowers beside the birdge, who do they bloom for year after year.” Jiang Kui also used her calligraphy and wrote something wonderful.
Qin Guan Qin Weiyu also was graceful without equal, elegantly accompanying: “I scale the little pavilion in the gentle cold. Clouds linger at daybreak like an exhausted autumn. Faint mist and flowing streams are painted on screens. Flowers flutter as if in a dream, and the endless rain seems concerned about me. Little silver hooks hand on the precious curtains.”
“…”
In an instant, innumerable Poetry Realms covered Qu Yuan City, making this ancient city-state seemingly spring to life. The sages from back then were nothing special. The stels they established in the city began to glow. Peak Poetry Realms from past and present became a series of shooting stars.
This was the aspiration of the sages!!
Countless lights fell into Chen Mo’s body. All of the spiritual general’s most sentimental and unparalleled Realms gathered in his mind.
In a single breath, he already broke through the Great Ming’s fetters.
The unprecedented aspirations gathered in every single one of Chen Mo’s cells condensing into an unstoppable force.
He needed to express himself!
He needed to be able express something that could match with this power and Realm that covered the ages.
Chen Mo’s eyes seemed to see through time and space. At last, they fell upon Beauty Of Aromatic Herbs Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan stood barefoot on the shallow bank, and nine gods surrounded her. The woman softly sang. “The road is endless and far, yet I will search all along it…”
When this voice finally poured into Chen Mo’s heart, all the power and aspirations became one.
Chen Mo’s eyes glowed. He used Dark Yellow Sword Qi to carve into the stele.
His handwriting was swift and easygoing, thin and strong without loss of force. A hidden spearpoint was visible in the shift, extremely distinct. Jiang Yuezhuo’s Sequel to the Treatise on Calligraphy had never seen the like. This was supreme calligraphy unseen in Star World.
Everyone was incomparably shocked.
Following Chen Mo’s Shou Jin calligraphy emerging with astonishment, the Ten Thousand Sages Hall, Qu Yuan City, and even the Miluo Star Field showed changes. A cold wind blew, and ice and snow whirled. An ice-cold country sprang up from nowhere.
The Great Ming’s formidable scorching heat was surprisingly unable to thaw this cold.
“A magnificent scene of the north, a thousand li locked in ice, ten thousand li of whirling snow. On either side of the Great Wall, there is only boundless white; the flow up and down the Yellow River is halted. Mountains dance like silvery snakes, and the plains gallop like waxed elephants, vying with Heaven. Wait for a clear day, see red and white adorn it, all the more enchanting.”
Heaven and Earth were boundless, one single color. The verse ended, the artistry opened, and his boldness reached the extreme.
Chen Mo was neither rushed nor slow.
“Rich in beauty is the land that has made countless heroes bow. Pity that Emperor Qin and Emperor Han of Wu; Emperors Tang and Song had little literary excellence to speak of. Genghis Khan, proud Son of Heaven for a time, knew only how to shoot eagles with a bow.”3
Once this verse was written, all the Star Generals were overwhelmed.
“T, t, t,t-this poem…”
“Too overwhelming.”
Countless voices trembled, unable to even make an evaluation. Chen Mo’s Poetry Realm was already beyond their comprehension and imagination. Star World had never experienced such a lofty, top-notch Star General’s domineering Realm ever since the beginning.
Yet this poem nevertheless showed even more loftiness without mentioning the most powerful Sun And Moon True Dragon Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang’s expresison slightly changed. She strengthened her Realm’s power even further, and the Ancestral Dragon’s qi was nearing the limit, “What qualifications does a man like you have to resonate with this world’s aspirations, ridiculous! My Great Ming’s Realm will shine for millennia. The sun and moon are eternal, coexisting immortal!”
“Expel the ten thousand stars, restore the Sun and Moon – Heaven Rank: All Under Heaven Is The Great Ming!!”
Sun And Moon True Dragon Zhu Yuanzhang roared, her voice piercing through several dozen Star Fields. The Ten Thousand Sages Hall ascended, and the Great Ming glowed, about to destroy this ice country.
“All are gone, those who are outstanding look to this age.”
“Three Worlds Split Apart!!”
When Chen Mo added the final line, an eternity of achievement and a millennium of judgment all became smoke. The spirit of the Son of Heaven of “this age” emerged, and his heaven Rank was used once again. However, this time, it possessed the powerful Realm of “Spring Snow Seeping into the Land.”4
Unparalleled saber-light instantly covered the entire Ten Thousand Sages Hall and collided with the “Great Ming.”
Su Mian’s body shuddered. She already did not care for the result of their clash. Perhaps it could be said that after she heard Chen Mo’s verse, she was already very certain of the outcome.
“Look to this age, look to this age…”
Henceforth.
Star World had no more poems.
Author’s Note:
Last time I’ll post this late…From now on, I’ll be earlier.
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