Chapter 1751 — The Great Army Flees Three Thousand Li

"A Blasphemer?

" Shen Mu gasped for a moment, trying to heal the wounds on his mortal flesh, yet the Fourth Lord Zixiao's Primordial Finger surpassed his own in its transformations, leaving him unable to break it in so short a time. To unravel the transformations of that divine ability was not, for him, impossible; Shen Mu had studied the Primordial Finger too, only he could not match the Fourth Lord in its variations.

If he could but comprehend the transformations lurking in his wound, he would be able to heal the dao wound. "Third Brother, you call this divine ability of mine the power of the Blasphemers?

" He sealed the wound by force and, with a half-smile, said, "This divine ability of mine is not among the dao arts and divine abilities of Miluo Palace, and so it must be a Blasphemer's art?

With our teacher gone, you few have grown more spineless by the day, petty and small-minded. That you cannot tolerate men is one thing, but that you cannot tolerate even a new dao art, a new divine ability, is truly disappointing. No wonder Miluo Palace today is so foul and murky! " The Third Lord Lingxiao's face darkened, and he said coldly, "Old Seven, you do not know the origins of the Blasphemers of Tiandu, so learning their divine abilities is forgivable.

The war between Miluo Palace and Tiandu has lasted ten cosmic epochs. Tiandu is no upright path, but a blasphemy against the great Dao of heaven and earth; trusting in its own martial might, it wreaks havoc upon the great Dao. And now you too have set foot on that crooked road! " With his hands clasped behind his back, he said mildly, "The strife between you and me is but a quarrel within Miluo Palace.

Even should we batter one another until blood flows, it remains a contest between senior and junior brothers. But the struggle between the Blasphemers of Tiandu and Miluo Palace is another matter: it is a war of orthodox lineage, a war of good against evil! Old Seven, do not ruin yourself!

" Shen Mu laughed heartily. "Third Brother, now it is you and Old Four joining hands to destroy my lineage, and you would forbid me even the use of my strongest divine ability?

A fine bargain indeed! " The Third Lord's face fell. Behind him the phantom of a Dao Tree slowly emerged, and he said in a heavy voice, "Old Four has a flaw in his mind; seize that flaw, and you may bring him down and force him to retreat. But I have no such flaw. I entered Miluo Palace earlier, and attained the Dao earlier.

In the year our teacher did away with Tiandu, I was there as well.

Flaunt a Blasphemer's divine ability before me, and I shall use our teacher's supreme art to slay you, just as our teacher slew the Lord of Tiandu! " His Dao Tree grew ever clearer, and upon it the dao fruits gradually surfaced, each one holding a different dao.

The phantom of that Dao Tree took root in Shen Mu's domain and pierced through the Thirty-Three Heavens, vaster and more inconceivable even than Shen Mu's World Tree!

The mere phantom of this Dao Tree was enough to suppress Shen Mu's dao realm! Their eyes met, and Shen Mu's pupils narrowed.

In the Hall of Chaos the qi of chaos once more spread, forming a mighty river of chaos around the World Tree, like a great kalpa of destruction!

Nor was that all: his aura burst forth wholly, and his dao realm began to collapse with it, turning to chaos!

Since the Third Lord had suppressed his dao realm, he might as well destroy the dao realm along with it!

The dao realm was his divine treasury, and he meant to shatter his own divine treasury in one stroke, to swell the power of the Tiandu World-Opening Chapter! At once the domain of the Thirty-Three Heavens fell into the kalpa of destruction.

Countless celestial gods and demons nearby beheld that dreadful omen of world-annihilation; heaven and earth, all things, collapsed inward toward Shen Mu, turning to chaos, turning to the kalpa of ruin!

Sun, moon, and stars, the heavens and the myriad worlds, all were ground to pieces, utterly erased!

Should this kalpa of destruction erupt, countless armies of the Heavenly Court would surely fall into it and be reduced to nothing! Just then, the Third Lord's Dao Tree abruptly shuddered; countless roots, branches, and leaves pierced through the Thirty-Three Heavens, and roots of immense thickness plunged into the kalpa of destruction, pinning it fast!

The Heavenly Court's water hosts, spirit hosts, and all the other armies breathed relief. And at that instant two Taiji Ancient Gods shot up into the air and shouted, "Now!

Run! " Shen Mu's divine treasury domain had been suppressed, its wonders wholly gone; at once the Heavenly Court's armies fled madly outward, like an army in utter rout, gods and demons trampling and colliding in every direction, some even striking down those who blocked their way. In an instant the Heavenly Court's armies slaughtered one another, the dead and wounded beyond counting!

The two Taiji Ancient Gods hurriedly stirred the Taiji Sand Table, which became a starfield of Taiji, wrapped up the Heavenly Court's armies, and carried them out beyond the domain.

Shen Mu's feet suddenly spread apart, neither in the ding nor the ba stance, as though he stood upon a mystic altar of world-creation!

Boom!

His blood and qi abruptly surged several times over; within his Primordial flesh the blood ran, and the raging blood-qi burst his chest wound open again.

He drove his Primordial qi to its limit, and every strand of his hair rose toward the sky, streaming wild! Shen Mu sank his waist and reached out his right hand, as if to draw a sword.

When his aura reached its peak, the ground about him swelled with roar upon roar; the World Tree behind him, lashed by his surging blood-qi, tore its roots out of the earth, and roots flew across the heavens, each one twisting in the air like a giant dragon!

The World Tree's branches and leaves clattered and shook, leaf after leaf like one heaven after another, dazzling bright, their veins like great rivers and streams, like mountain ranges rolling on and on! And through branches and trunk flowed dao after dao, flickering with the most minute Primordial runes! Bang!

The ground beneath his feet quaked violently; Guixu split open, revealing an abyss beyond all fathoming, and from that abyss gushed a light of the Dao so dense it was like the tides of Guixu. Within that light a lotus and two lotus leaves rose slowly; beneath the lotus was a sea of chaos, joined to the chaotic qi all around, and the lotus trembled once and bloomed of itself!

In that moment, all within Shen Mu's domain was a vast and boundless chaos, with only the kalpa of destruction turning, the wind of heat-death shrieking through it with rolling flame!

His aura climbed to a peak never before reached, dao sounds booming and quaking, the World Tree and the Guixu lotus forming a spectacle of the universe after its destruction!

Just then the Third Lord Lingxiao raised a hand and lifted it upward. All the Heavenly Court officers and soldiers fleeing the domain could not help themselves; their blood and qi moved of their own accord, and from between their brows palaces of heaven flew out and floated behind their heads!

Within those heavenly palaces, every Lingxiao Hall blazed with light; millions upon millions of gods and demons, whether or not they had cultivated to the Lingxiao realm, all gave forth inconceivable power from their Lingxiao Treasure Halls. The Third Lord turned his raised palm over and pressed it down; the power of all those Lingxiao Treasure Halls came crashing down, every last measure of it pressing upon Shen Mu's divine treasury domain!

Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang!