Chapter 1685 — The Master of Tiandu

" Shen Mu murmured beneath the World Tree. In the Ultimate Void of the seventeenth era, Emperor Haotian wore a grave expression.

He waited a moment, but the thirty-two treasure palaces remained utterly still, with no accomplished one descending.

Suddenly a muffled groan was heard, and Emperor Haotian hastened to look, only to see Taichu also urging his twenty-four treasure palaces, seeking to suppress Yun Tianzun and the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven and seize the Yiqi Daluo Heaven to forge the Dao of Taichu!

Yet to his surprise, those twenty-four treasure palaces likewise showed no movement at all, the link of power between the palaces and the accomplished ones of Yujing City wholly severed!

Yun Tianzun saw his advantage, and with thirteen layered strikes of a single sword pierced Taichu's flesh in thirteen places, and with the final thrust drove into Taichu's brow, flicking free the Taichu Origin Stone set there with the tip of his blade. Taichu cried out in pain and fell back, his magic power surging as he forcibly tore the Yiqi Daluo Heaven apart from the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven. Yun Tianzun took that Taichu Origin Stone and pressed it at once into his own brow, where another origin stone already lay.

The two stones collided and merged into one, becoming a whole stone!

Yun Tianzun's divine consciousness soared, and Taidi's Dao tree and Dao fruits burst forth with boundless Dao might! Emperor Haotian turned, swept his sleeve to reclaim the thirty-two treasure palaces, and said lightly: "Mu Tianzun, you are fortunate.

We shall decide the true contest next time we meet!

" With a sweep of his sleeve he repelled Yun Tianzun and strode away with Taichu.

Behind him, the Dao tree Shen Mu had severed rose howling into the air, its Dao chains linked, swiftly restored whole. Only the might of that Dao tree was plainly far less than before.

Shen Mu did not pursue. In the Ultimate Void, the World Tree Emperor Haotian had hewn apart rejoined root to trunk, and Shen Mu nourished it with his own Great Dao, though for the World Tree to return to its peak would surely require a time of rest and recovery. The Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven bore Yun Tianzun flying over, and he said in a low voice: "Haotian and Taichu have retreated.

In Tianzun-level power, we should be no inferior to them. " Shen Mu nodded and looked down, saying: "Xu Tianzun and the Ancestral God King should retreat as well.

This was only a probe. Haotian wished to test our strength.

In a dozen years, when the armies of the Celestial Court arrive, that will be the true decisive battle.

" "Your World Tree? " Yun Tianzun glanced behind him and asked hesitantly: "I just saw Haotian sever your World Tree.

Is the harm to you great?

" "In a dozen years, it should be restored. " Shen Mu exhaled a breath of foul air and gazed into the deepest reaches of the Ultimate Void, saying softly: "And you?

At the decisive battle, can you deal with Taichu?

" Yun Tianzun smiled faintly: "Before, I had no assurance at all.

Now I have seventy percent.

" "Seventy percent will not do. It must be ten. " Shen Mu turned his head and said: "I am ever uneasy.

Seeing he cannot best me, Haotian may resort to other means, such as summoning several prehistoric accomplished ones. .

. No! I must journey to that forsaken land!

" Yun Tianzun's heart started, as Shen Mu was already standing upon his door plank and whistling away: "Yun, go and frighten off Lady Yuanmu!

She is locked in battle with Ling Tianzun, and I fear for her! " Yun Tianzun frowned: "Lady Yuanmu.

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. " In the deepest depths of the Great Abyss of Guixu, the Chaos Sea surged, and the face of Wuji, Second Prince of Miluo Palace, floated up from beneath the sea, dragging thick Dao chains as she swam unhurriedly round and round that lotus leaf.

"So it is, so it is.

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. " She suddenly giggled: "So you, like Seventh Brother, come from the future seventeenth era. No wonder when the Teacher speaks of you, he ever praises you so highly.

" Lady Yuanmu's expression flickered with suspicion as she looked from Ling Tianzun to the Second Prince, not knowing what she spoke of. "You give Miluo Palace a great headache.

By rights, as Second Prince, upon seeing you I should strike and erase you.

" The Second Prince Wuji blinked her huge eyes, her gaze brimming with excitement and chaos. Lady Yuanmu knew that look well. It was the look of one who delights in throwing the world into turmoil!

She and this Second Prince were of the same kind!

"But I shall not do so. The Teacher has suppressed me here.

Why should I aid Miluo Palace? " The Second Prince of Miluo Palace suddenly burst into great laughter, and a white strand of hair coiled about Ling Tianzun and sent her in a flash toward one of the twin lotus blossoms upon the Chaos Sea with a swish!

"I shall only fulfill you, fulfill your peerless renown, fulfill your legend. .

. " That white hair bore Ling Tianzun rushing straight upward, charging toward the Annihilation Calamity of another universe, as the voice of the Second Prince of Miluo Palace rang in her ears, laughing madly: "Go!

Go to the Sixth Era and become the shadow of Miluo Palace!

" Boom!

Ling Tianzun passed willy-nilly through the dense tides of Guixu, beholding the vast and magnificent history of the Sixth Era universe, and in the next instant she was cast into the Annihilation Calamity of the Sixth Era universe. Ling Tianzun looked about her, seeing only boundless revolving Chaos that destroyed all things, with many accomplished ones struggling in torment, Dao trees burning and snapping one after another.

Yet even so dreadful a sight could not erase her, for she had mastered the constancy of mass and energy, and to kill her was too hard by far.

But she could not free herself from the scouring of the River of Chaos, drifting with the current like duckweed. At that moment, an ancient palace drifted past before her eyes. The palace halted, and a young man reached out, caught Ling Tianzun's hand, and smiled gently: "Who are you?

Unaccomplished, yet undying amid this Annihilation Calamity?

" Ling Tianzun boarded that palace and said: "I am called Ling. Where is this?

" The young man smiled: "This is Tiandu. I am the Lord of Tiandu, and I mean to open heaven anew, evolve the primordial Chaos of the universe once more, and cleave out another world!

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