Chapter 1585 — Forty Thousand Years of Solitude

He turned his palm over and struck out with a palm. Kaihuang unleashed his sword, and the Great Luotian of Sword Dao expanded outward, colliding violently with that palm. The sword dao howled, yet the moment the Great Luotian of Sword Dao met Taidi's palm, it collapsed at a touch!

At that very moment, Hao Tianzun let out a furious long cry and brought a Myriad Daos Heavenly Wheel down upon the wrist of the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body. The power of this strike contained the divine powers of thirty heavens of the Dao realm, bursting forth one after another, bombarding the tendons at the wrist of the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body. Thirty great divine powers struck in succession, and at last the hand was blasted open.

Freed from his bonds, Xiao Tianzun immediately roused his Taichu divine power, striking again and again, imprinting blow after blow upon the brow of the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body, trying to shatter the divine consciousness of Taidi that had invaded it!

Yet for all the divine powers that rained down, Taidi merely tilted his head slightly back, and then two incomparably thick beams of Taichu Dao light shot from his eyes, blasting Xiao Tianzun away.

Taidi raised his other hand and slapped it down on Hao Tianzun. Hao Tianzun's fleshly body exploded, blood and flesh spattering, shattered bones shooting out in all directions!

The Divine Maiden of Tai Su flew over, rousing her companion supreme treasure into a battered, tattered Tai Bell and hurling it at Taidi, while at the same time rousing the Dao of Tai Su to rescue Hao Tianzun and help his fleshly body recover.

Clang!

Taidi smashed his fist into the Tai Bell, and the Tai Bell split into four and shattered into fine powder!

He reached for the Divine Maiden of Tai Su. Her body swayed and she took on the appearance of Gong Tianzun. Taidi's expression turned infatuated, then he grinned and backhanded her to pieces!

Though shattered, the Divine Maiden of Tai Su at once turned into Tai Su qi and recondensed her body, but her aura was greatly diminished. Shocked and furious, she thought, "Are Dao-attainers this powerful? I don't believe it!"

On the other side, Shen Mu rejoined Ling Tianzun. Ling Tianzun was about to charge forward, but Shen Mu raised a hand to stop her and shook his head. "Let them fight!"

Ling Tianzun was surprised. Shen Mu said in a low voice, "Ling, I fear we must part."

Ling Tianzun was slightly startled.

Shen Mu's divine consciousness rippled, transmitting to her all he had gained from comprehending the Miluo Palace Dao patterns during this time, and he took out the two Qiankun Mirrors imprinted with those patterns and pressed them into her hand.

Ling Tianzun's heart sank. "Mu, what are you doing?"

"Taidi must die. But this place is the time when the Shanghuang Era was destroyed and the Kaihuang Era had not yet been founded—forty thousand years ago."

Shen Mu's eyes flickered, and he said in a low voice, "I need you to rouse the Unchanging Divine Power and send us back to our own era—that is, forty thousand years from now. There, in the Ultimate Void, there is Kaihuang's Great Luotian of Sword Dao, Kaihuang's Dao Tree and Dao Flower, and only then will we have the strength to fight Taidi. The countermeasures I left in the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body may not be enough to deal with Taidi either."

Ling Tianzun's heart trembled, and her voice came out hoarse. "I am not a person of forty thousand years from now. I cannot return to forty thousand years from now. If I send you away, I can only remain here in the present."

"Forty thousand years from now, we will meet again. And by then, having studied the Miluo Palace Dao patterns for forty thousand years, you should be able to comprehend their mysteries."

Shen Mu nodded and smiled. "If by then we still cannot be rid of Taidi, then you must come charging into the Great Luotian and settle the matter in one stroke!"

His gaze was fervent. "Ling, can you endure forty thousand years of solitude? I need you to endure forty thousand years of solitude before Yun Tianzun's primordial spirit can be rescued!"

Ling Tianzun's eyes gradually dimmed. After a moment, her gaze slowly brightened again, and she smiled, looking somewhat aloof and proud. "Forty thousand years? I studied the Unchanging Divine Power alone for a million years and endured it. What is forty thousand years? Mu, forty thousand years from now, let us meet again in the Great Luotian!"

"I will send you out of the Great Luotian!"

Shen Mu surged his primal qi, and a golden ship flew out from between his brows. Ling Tianzun leaped onto the golden ship, and the ship rushed out of the Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness, carrying the woman out of the Ultimate Void.

"Mu, forty thousand years from now, I will return!"

The woman stood at the bow and waved to him from afar. "Live! Stay alive!"

Shen Mu sent her out through layer upon layer of void. Soon the Golden Ship of Deliverance carried Ling Tianzun to the ruins of the Shanghuang Era. Ling Tianzun stepped down from the golden ship and watched it whistle away, vanishing into the depths of the void.

Ling Tianzun raised her head and looked up. In the Ultimate Void, the Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness loomed faintly, now visible, now hidden.

She took out the peach-wood hairpin and cast the Unchanging Divine Power upon the Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness. Rousing the divine power was incomparably arduous.

She was casting her art upon the Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness, and everyone within the Great Luotian was a being of Tianzun level. There were three Dao-attainers besides, and a terrifying existence like Taidi, and the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body as well!

Ling Tianzun strove to cast her art, straining to rouse the divine power, sending Shen Mu and the others back toward the era they belonged to.

Her magic power steamed and surged, and she felt the tremors coming from the Great Luotian—the backlash against her.

Soon her magic power was spent entirely, yet she still forced herself to complete this divine power.

At last, this Unchanging Divine Power enveloped the entire Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness. Ling Tianzun cried out, the divine power burst forth, and the Great Luotian of Divine Consciousness vanished with a howl!

Ling Tianzun's body went limp, and she sank to her knees, her breath utterly spent.

After a long while, she rose unsteadily to her feet, her expression caught between sorrow and joy.

"Once again, I am the only one left..."

A clear tear slid from the corner of her eye, and she murmured, "Still, I am the only one... But I will keep walking on. Wait for me, all of you!"

She looked at the two Qiankun Mirrors Shen Mu had given her, put them away, turned around, and walked farther and farther away.

Several thousand years later, the Kaihuang Heavenly Court was founded, and Kaihuang ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. One day, as Kaihuang was reviewing memorials, a woman in blue robes with a hairpin in her hair walked out of the night.

Kaihuang looked up. Seeing this woman in blue, his body could not help but shudder violently.

The woman in blue smiled. "Shen Tianzun, it has been a long time. Waiting for you has been very hard."