Chapter 1666 — Burying the Great Dao

" As the sword's song rang out, terrifying sword light burst from the Primordial Sage's midline, splitting his body apart with a shriek! "You Dao-attainers who cling to life by any means are no different from the Ten Heavenly Venerables; you are nothing but a pack of idle parasites fattening yourselves on others.

" Shen Mu turned and walked toward the next treasure hall.

Behind him, the Primordial Sage's phantom was devoured by the Guixu, while the phantoms of his Dao tree, Dao fruit, and Dao flower were absorbed by the World Tree.

The World Tree rumbled and shook, growing without cease, propping the God-Store Universe higher and wider. At the same time, an inexplicable tremor came from the void; the thirty-second layer of void surfaced, and Shen Mu's Dao was imprinted upon it.

"The Seventh Young Lord's heretical doctrines are skilled at bewitching the hearts of men! " The treasure halls quaked; the remaining sixty-seven towering figures of Dao-attainers stood before their respective treasure halls, their faces hazy and indistinct.

They could not see Shen Mu's face, and Shen Mu could not see theirs.

With one voice, their voices quaking, they resounded through the God-Store Universe.

"We are untalented and cannot refute the Seventh Young Lord; since we cannot refute him, then we must simply see the Seventh Young Lord on his way!

" Behind the sixty-seven treasure halls, Dao tree after Dao tree rose swaying, branches dancing, roots writhing.

The sixty-seven phantoms of past-universe Dao-attainers each urged on their own power, their own Dao trees, Dao flowers, and Dao fruits; in a single instant, the entire Jade Capital nearly came to a boil!

The prehistoric Dao-attainers, their Daos, their Dao-realm divine powers, in this moment joined perfectly like pearls in a strand; the power of Shen Mu's Jade Capital was nearly driven to its utmost limit by them.

"See the Seventh Young Lord on his way!

" Sixty-seven voices crossed time and space, transmitting into Shen Mu's mind, exploding back and forth within his primordial-fetus God-Store.

"Miro Dao Burial!

" This power could destroy heaven and earth; the next moment, it struck Shen Mu's primordial spirit!

With this blow, the heavens were extinguished, the Heavenly Court shattered, the Heavenly Palace collapsed; the Mystic Capital, the Prime Capital, the Nether Capital—all were buried!

Layer upon layer of void crumbled and disintegrated; even the Ancestral Court was shattered in this blow, annihilated, beaten into primal chaos!

However vast Shen Mu's primordial spirit's divine powers, before this Dao-burying power it was utterly defenseless! Boom— Shen Mu's God-Store Universe was completely destroyed; the wind of heat-death howled, turning all things into rolling, spinning chaotic qi, leaving only Shen Mu's Jade Capital.

This Jade Capital was like the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, existing in the world since ancient times, enduring the great kalpa of universal destruction without perishing. The phantoms of the sixty-seven Dao-attainers stood within the Jade Capital and looked around; they saw chaos sweeping over all things, the Guixu spinning, devouring the chaotic qi like a whale.

Not far off, the World Tree stood erect amid the chaos, utterly unmoved by the great kalpa of universal destruction.

"His Chaos Hall is still there!

" a Dao-attainer cried in alarm.

At the center of the Jade Capital, chaotic qi filled the air, and a great hall floated within it, not stirring in the slightest.

Beneath a Dao tree, a burly Dao-attainer, his face hazy and misted, halos of light spinning behind his head, said in a deep voice: "The Chaos Hall is the manifestation of his Great Dao; we must shatter this hall and not let him make a comeback!

" Someone was puzzled: "The Seventh Young Lord has already been beaten by us until his soul scattered—how could he make a comeback?

" The Guixu swept up all the chaotic qi; only the Jade Capital remained, which it could not swallow.

Just then, the Guixu tide suddenly erupted; twin lotuses rose slowly from the stream of light, the twin lotuses spinning, and within the spinning figure the buds' petals bloomed outward one by one!

"Not good! It is the kalpa of universal creation!

" Suddenly someone cried out sternly: "Our Dao trees and Dao fruits can escape the kalpa of destruction, but they cannot pass the kalpa of creation!

" Before his words faded, from the Guixu Abyss came a sound like a bell, and also like the Dao-sound of the supreme Dao; accompanying this sound, a new universe burst forth from the Guixu!

Countless worlds gushed out from the Guixu; time and space took shape, in the form of a universe-bell, ever expanding outward along the bell's walls, with the Ancestral Court at its center!

The myriad heavens and worlds, immeasurable stars and starry skies, all emerged at once, growing more numerous, the universe growing vaster.

This kalpa of creation even the Jade Capital could not avoid; the projections of those Dao-attainers felt an unmatched power surging from within their bodies, from their Dao trees, Dao flowers, and Dao fruits!

Peng! Peng!

Peng!

Dao fruit after Dao fruit cracked open and swelled; Dao flower after Dao flower swayed and withered; Dao tree after Dao tree toppled and dried up.

Their Daos disintegrated and collapsed in the kalpa of creation, becoming nourishment for this new world! Guang— The bell's sound was like a warning to the world, and also like the sound of creation, shaking their thoughts and consciousness into scattered drift.

The bell's sound faded, and within the Jade Capital all was desolation.

Some had not yet died, but they had no strength left either, collapsed before their treasure halls.

Dimly, they saw a figure walking from beneath the World Tree, drawing nearer and nearer; that figure walked into the Jade Capital, came before them, and stepped over them. The phantoms of the fallen Dao-attainers burst apart one after another, swallowed by the Guixu Abyss; their withered, toppled Dao trees, their cracked Dao fruits, their scattered Dao flowers—all became nourishment for the world.

Suddenly, a hand seized Shen Mu's primordial spirit by the ankle. Shen Mu halted and looked down; the Dao-attainer's voice was hoarse, rasping: "Seventh Young Lord, we too have the right to live.

.

. " Shen Mu shook her off and continued forward.

"Nanxiang, you do have the right to live, but not at the cost of our lives to fulfill you, to let you live on.

" As his figure passed, the phantom of Lady Nanxiang burst apart, transforming into howling Dao light that was swallowed by the Guixu.

Shen Mu walked to the center of the Jade Capital; the seventy-two Dao-attainers and their Dao trees had all dissipated, and the Jade Capital was entirely renewed.

He paused, his gaze falling upon the chaotic qi at the center of the Jade Capital, where stood a Chaos Hall—the treasure hall condensed from the Great Dao of his entire life!

The power of these Dao-attainers and their Dao trees, Dao flowers, and Dao fruits had all transformed into his power, giving him sufficient strength to step into this chaos!

Shen Mu drew a long breath and walked into the chaos!