Chapter 1690 — Seeking the Gate's Trail in the Abandoned Land

In his hand, the door plank flew up with a whoosh and clicked into place in the frame. Shen Mu glanced back. This gate should have had two door planks; at present the frame still lacked one.

"Where did the other door plank go? " Shen Mu could not help but wonder.

A treasure refined by the Eldest Young Master of Miluo Palace must be of surpassing quality, not so easily damaged. What had made both door planks of this gate leave the frame?

He stepped forward and tried to remove the door plank, yet even though his strength surpassed that of Emperor Hao Tian, who had achieved the Dao through force, he could not separate the plank from the frame!

Shen Mu frowned and released his grip. "To damage this gate, the force must have come either from outside or from within! In this cosmos, there is basically no one stronger than me.

Could it be that someone came out from the world beyond the gate?

" He turned and gazed at the world beyond the gate.

Obelisks stood like a forest, towering into the heavens, and in the sky hung a sun blazing with terrifying fire, motionless, unlike other stars which followed their own orbits.

This was a complete world!

"The door plank flew out of the gate. That means two possibilities.

One, the being suppressed in the stele forest came out and blasted the plank away from within. The other, someone from outside seized the plank and tore it off and threw it out.

And the second possibility is only one in three, or even less.

" Shen Mu stood before the gate and gestured. To break open this gate from the outside, the most natural method would certainly not be to pull the plank off and throw it away, but to blast it directly with brute force so that it flew into the world beyond!

Therefore the greater likelihood was that the being suppressed here had fought its way out from within, blasting both door planks away! Shen Mu steadied himself and stepped into the world beyond the gate. "No matter who the Eldest Young Master suppressed here, I must venture in!

" His figure vanished beyond the gate, walking into the stele forest.

Youdu, all darkness. Xu Tianzun stood at the center of the Heavenly Lake heavens. She had dragged this entire heaven into Youdu. The whole heaven was strewn with bones; Xu Tianzun walked among them, her feet falling upon the bones with crisp cracks, and who knew how many white bones she crushed to powder.

These bones were the living beings of the Heavenly Lake heavens. Among them were no few bones of gods and demons, and several had been beings of the Lingxiao realm.

Yet when the Heavenly Lake calamity erupted, however mighty these gods and demons were, they died in an instant beneath Xu Tianzun's divine abilities.

The extinction of an entire heaven had taken but a single breath.

Xu Tianzun raised her head and looked at the fragments of Great Luo heavens floating around the Heavenly Lake heavens.

In each fragment stood an immensely towering hexagonal pillar, its surface carved with all manner of strange patterns.

Above each of these pillars floated a dao fruit, and from the dao fruits dao blood flowed without cease.

The dao blood ran along the patterns of the pillars, activating them. Above the Heavenly Lake heavens, the pillars formed dense dao chains. The stars and starry skies of the entire Heavenly Lake heavens had already been shattered by these dao chains into fine powder, transformed into pure energy and transmitted through the sacrificial altar formed by the pillars to the Sixteenth Era.

Xu Tianzun still remembered that when the Heavenly Lake calamity erupted, she had put all the living beings of the Heavenly Lake to death. The next moment, the blood sacrifice began. All the corpses aged at flying speed, flesh, blood, and primordial spirit all transformed into pure energy absorbed by the altar, swiftly becoming white bones.

Yet this altar devoured the Heavenly Lake heavens somewhat more slowly.

Only now had it consumed all the stars, constellations, and galaxies of the Heavenly Lake heavens. Now the dao chains had reached the main continent of the Heavenly Lake heavens. Once this main continent was devoured, the energy of the sacrifice should be enough to bring a Dao Achiever down.

Just then, amid the net of dao chains, a head slowly emerged. Xu Tianzun's heart trembled slightly; she knew the Dao Achiever was about to descend!

She hurriedly left the Heavenly Lake continent, her body tensed, ready at any moment to meet the unexpected! "There is no need for alarm. " Hao Tianzun's voice came from behind her.

"This is the Master of the Lingguan Hall, one of the Ancestral Court's seventy-two treasure halls. He is no outsider! "