Chapter 1662 — The Talkative Giant Dragon Shall Not Be Enslaved

At the very bottom of Guixu, the Sea of Chaos radiated boundless light, and within that light, the Guixu lotus seed that the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace had given to Shen Mu had, at this moment, cracked open. From within it emerged a rootstock covered in sharp thorns, and a single dark-red lotus leaf curled into a cylinder. The rootstock grew, the lotus leaf burst out of the Sea of Chaos, revealing its pointed tip.

Shen Mu's heart stirred faintly.

Ever since he had obtained this lotus seed, he had tossed it into the Great Abyss of Guixu within his spirit treasury and had never paid it any mind. He had not expected that this time, having obtained the Heavenly Emperor Hao's cultivation method from the human skin sent by Xing An, and having comprehended the Dao of Guixu that the Heavenly Emperor Hao had realized, it would actually take root and sprout just like this!

"Heavenly Venerable Hao and Xing An truly are my lucky stars! " The rooting and sprouting of the Guixu lotus seed could be said to have resolved the most critical link in his cultivation system!

Shen Mu gazed at the great abyss within his spirit treasury, and saw that single lotus leaf slowly unfurling, growing bit by bit, becoming larger.

The veins upon the lotus leaf were the Dao of Guixu, extending without cease.

Shen Mu's comprehension of the Dao of Guixu was in truth not inferior to that of the Heavenly Emperor Hao, nor even weaker than that of the Goddess of Guixu, Lady Yuanmu, and the Empress. He had once studied the physical bodies of Yuanmu and the Empress thoroughly, and all manner of Guixu runes had been unified by him through the microscopic and macroscopic arts of calculation.

Yet the true Dao of Guixu was not so simple.

The true Dao of Guixu in fact concealed the Dao of the universe's birth and destruction. Shen Mu had already accumulated many insights in this regard, but they were still insufficient to make the Guixu lotus seed grow.

The Guixu lotus seed contained the complete Dao of Guixu, and how to induce it to sprout was the matter of utmost importance. This time, comprehending the Heavenly Emperor Hao's cultivation method had precisely filled in the missing link. Although that Guixu lotus leaf grew within the Sea of Chaos, floating upon the surface of the sea, it was not stained by any chaos qi, not touched by any dust, spotless and flawless.

As the lotus leaf grew, another lotus leaf also emerged from the Sea of Chaos, and then a flower bud revealed its pointed tip from within the Sea of Chaos.

Twin lotuses on a single stem!

As the lotus leaves and lotus flower grew, all manner of profound principles of the Dao of Guixu came rushing into Shen Mu's mind in a throng. Among them was concealed the profound principle of the wind of heat death, the other extreme opposed to the Ultimate Void.

But the wind of heat death was only one among them; the most important was still the wondrous principle of the universe being destroyed into chaos and being born again from chaos! He comprehended ever more deeply, and gradually seemed to fall into the withering and flourishing of his own self.

His aura withered and decayed at flying speed, and the power of Guixu within his Primordial Fetus spirit treasury grew ever stronger, devouring Youdu, devouring the Yuan Realm, devouring all the heavens and myriad worlds, dragging Xuandu in as well, plunging the universe of his spirit treasury into heat death!

In the end, the Ancestral Court too was collapsing, falling ceaselessly into Guixu. At last, everything within his spirit treasury returned entirely to chaos. The heavy chaos qi was like an ocean, and only the twin lotuses on a single stem and the World Tree remained. Even his Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court were all buried within the chaos of Guixu!

Not only that, but thirty layers of void were hidden within his spirit treasury, and these voids were annihilated together with it, utterly erased!

Shen Mu's aura dispersed completely, without a trace of living breath. Several Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons, emboldened, drew near, examining Shen Mu from left and right, pecking at the hem of his robe.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo—" The Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons confirmed that Shen Mu was dead, and began to crow joyfully, flapping their wings.

One Crested Fire Pheasant Dragon intended to fly to the top of Shen Mu's head, to lord it over all it surveyed, and to declare that this Heavenly Palace conjured by Shen Mu's visualization would soon become their territory. Just at that moment, a tremendous sound like the opening of heaven and earth came from within Shen Mu's body!

Before that Crested Fire Pheasant Dragon could fly to the top of Shen Mu's head, it was roasted done by a flash of firelight, and fell to the ground with a plop, giving off a sweet fragrance of roasted meat.

Seeing this, the other Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons scattered in panic like birds and beasts, and only a few oxen in the distance lazily swished their tails, glanced over, and quietly resumed chewing their cud.

Two small red fish leaped out from the Heavenly River, and with a thunderous boom transformed into two great red kun, their fins propping against the ground, shaking their heads and wagging their tails, advancing with difficulty, attempting to catch a few oxen to eat. Those oxen stood up alertly, staring at the great red kun drawing nearer and nearer, and quietly retreated.

Boom— Suddenly, an incomparably terrifying momentum erupted from within Shen Mu's body, and a vast vitality surged forth.

In an instant, with him as the center, boundless stars gushed forth in all directions, emerging at flying speed!

Heaven and earth spun, and the vast Ancestral Court passed through the herd of oxen and the great red kun, past the fleeing Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons, and soon gathered them all into the Ancestral Court. The red kun, the oxen, and the Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons were stupefied, feeling a vast vitality pouring into their bodies. Several yellow oxen let out mooing cries, their bodies spinning helplessly in the air, their physiques growing larger and larger, and their spirits and souls, nourished by this vigorous vitality, also grew at flying speed!

The great yellow oxen's physical bodies transformed, hissing sounds coming from within them, and red dragon scales drilled out from their body surfaces, replacing their ox hair. Their tails became like steel and iron, covered in sharp spikes!

Their skulls swelled, their horns growing sharper and sharper, gleaming with cold light! Streams of divine strength surged from within them, their muscles and sinews growing stronger and stronger, and they could not help but rise on two legs, transforming into Kui dragons, their mouths mixing the lowing of oxen with the roaring of dragons!

Their two hooves came together before their chests, their bodies covered in knotted muscles, savage and terrifying! These few oxen, having obtained the opportunity of Shen Mu's opening of heaven and earth, transformed into Kui dragons and awakened their spiritual intelligence.

Malice rose in their hearts, and they wished to avenge their companions and kill those two great red kun.

They looked up, and saw that those two great red kun had actually also swallowed this opportunity of the opening of heaven and earth, their physiques growing even larger, floating in the air, shaking their heads and wagging their tails, swimming joyfully toward them.

The several Kui dragons hastily turned and fled. The Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons in the distance had also seen their plumage become exceedingly magnificent, their physiques growing more than ten times larger, possessed of divine strength, but their brains were too small, their spiritual intelligence unopened.