Chapter 1635 — The Venerable One Perishes

"So it seems Hao Tianzun has no wish to keep his promise?

" From within the Dao fruit came the thought-consciousness of Lingyu Shangzun, cold as ice: "All that fine talk a moment ago, and it turns out you are birds of a feather with the Seventh Young Master! Heh heh. The servants of the Third and Fourth Young Masters are of one character with their masters! This is exactly why, when the master of the Miluo Palace invited me to join the Miluo Palace, I refused him!

" Hao Tianzun could not be bothered to bandy more words with him; he simply pressed a palm down upon the red cord knot.

The red cord knot possessed no power whatsoever, and within the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel Shen Mu said lazily: "Brother Hao wishes to borrow my hand to kill a man. Did you ask me first?

" Hao Tianzun gave a light laugh, and his Guixu divine art erupted, swallowing up Lingyu Shangzun's Dao fruit together with the primordial spirit and celestial court of Langxuan Divine Emperor! A moment passed, and his face turned grave.

The Guixu divine art dispersed, and there stood Lingyu Shangzun, and the primordial spirit and celestial court of Langxuan Divine Emperor, exactly where they had been; even Shen Mu's red cord knot had not been refined away by his Guixu Great Abyss divine art. Lingyu Shangzun said, flat and bland: "I passed through the great tribulation of destruction and did not perish. What power of yours could ever compare with the Great Annihilation of the universe?

" Hao Tianzun's expression was heavy. Lingyu Shangzun had seized Langxuan's primordial spirit, and the power within the Dao fruit was so great that he could not refine even Langxuan's primordial spirit!

Shen Mu's voice came drifting over, faint and quiet: "Lingyu Shangzun, the only reason you have not perished is my divine art.

Were it not that I suppress the Tribulation-Breaking Sword hidden within your Dao fruit, you would be dead this very moment.

" Lingyu Shangzun gave a cold snort: "Seventh Young Master, do you think you can kill me? " Shen Mu sneered: "You are nothing but a single Dao fruit now.

And you think I cannot kill you?

" Lingyu Shangzun laughed aloud: "I passed through the great tribulation of the universe's destruction and did not perish!

What skill have you to kill me?

" Shen Mu laughed heartily: "A mere Dao fruit, and by what right does it strut before me? As the Seventh Young Master of the Miluo Palace, I have no shortage of methods!

" "In the Miluo Palace, only its master is presentable.

Apart from him, they are a pack of trash! " Lingyu Shangzun raged: "What damned young masters are these?

Nothing but a pack of trash who dare not cross their tribulation except by leaning on the Miluo Palace!

Those with true ability cross their tribulations by their own power!

" Hao Tianzun blinked and waited quietly, greatly looking forward to the two of them tearing each other to pieces. Neither could press down his fury; the more they spoke, the less they could restrain themselves.

Suddenly Shen Mu sneered: "Lingyu Shangzun, I can untie the red cord knot, and I can erase the Tribulation-Breaking Sword within your Dao fruit.

Will you join hands with me?

" Hao Tianzun laughed out loud.

"Good!

Join hands, then!

" Lingyu Shangzun said with ready gusto.

The smile on Hao Tianzun's face froze at once.

Lingyu Shangzun said: "Do you need me to swear an oath?

" "No need. " Shen Mu's voice came from the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel: "If you break faith and betray me, I have no shortage of ways to deal with you!

" "Good!

" Lingyu Shangzun said decisively: "When do we strike? " Alarm rose in Hao Tianzun's heart, and he at once urged on the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel.

But at that very moment Shen Mu suddenly raised his forefinger and thrust it forward.

Boom! The center of the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel burst apart with a roar, and a violet light came surging vast and mighty, rushing straight at him with heaven-overturning power, reducing everything it touched to powder!

The Hongmeng Finger! Hao Tianzun flung himself backward, twisting aside to evade the blow; yet Shen Mu's finger was no longer the Hongmeng Finger of old.

The Hongmeng Finger of old had been a simple finger, with no variation in its power.

The Hongmeng Finger of this day was what Ling Tianzun had made it by passing on to Shen Mu all she had comprehended in forty thousand years, and Shen Mu had fathomed countless transformations from the Dao patterns of the Miluo Palace, so that it was not only mightier but past all prediction.

As Hao Tianzun dodged, he saw that the finger had become a violet sword, slashing at his waist to cut him in two! He bent back, face to the sky; the violet sword swept over his upper body, sliced open his garments, and then halted.

Cold sweat sprang out on Hao Tianzun's brow. His feet moved, and he shot backward skimming along the ground; the violet sword came down between his legs, and then the violet light chased straight after him!

Just then a Yutianzun divine artifact was brought into being by creation, and Hao Tianzun at once took command of the Yutianzun artifact and drove it straight at the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel. Within the wheel, Shen Mu struggled against its strangling force and raised his cultivation to its utmost; beneath his magic power and divine arts, Hao Tianzun's thirty-five heavenly palaces had nearly ceased to turn.

He strove with all his strength to force his way out, but the Yutianzun artifact had already charged up before him.

The Yutianzun artifact bellowed, both hands coming down left and right to smash his skull!

It looked as though the Yutianzun artifact would shatter his head to fragments when suddenly Lingyu Shangzun, controlling Langxuan Divine Emperor's primordial spirit, slammed into the Yutianzun artifact, sending the god rolling over and over, unable to steady itself! Hao Tianzun had just made the Yutianzun artifact climb to its feet when Lingyu Shangzun brought Langxuan's primordial spirit before him once more, both hands joined together, shooting toward him. Hao Tianzun raised a hand to block, but it was too late; with a swish, the two hands of Langxuan's primordial spirit pierced into the Yutianzun artifact's brow.

Within the artifact's body Hao Tianzun's divine consciousness erupted and held Langxuan's primordial spirit at bay; the Yutianzun's hands shot out, seized the primordial spirit by the legs, and strained to tear it free. Within Langxuan's primordial spirit the Dao fruit spun and consciousness erupted.

Langxuan's consciousness was far mightier than Hao Tianzun's, so that he could be called the first man beneath Langwo. Langxuan was already dead, yet Lingyu Shangzun, having seized his body, wielded and commanded his consciousness with a mastery even beyond Langxuan's own!

In his former life he had taken possession of Taichu, one of the Five Primes of the Sixteenth Universe; handling Langxuan's consciousness came to him as easily as a hand to its glove. When the shock of that consciousness passed, Hao Tianzun's consciousness within the Yutianzun artifact was utterly erased, leaving no trace behind!

Lingyu Shangzun promptly occupied the fleshly body of the Yutianzun artifact and let out a long breath, limitless joy in his heart. He had at last crossed the great tribulation of destruction and gained firm footing in the universe of the future!

On the other side, Hao Tianzun's body tumbled and flew, dodging the might of that finger and unleashing art after art to wear down the Hongmeng Finger's power layer by layer, and he shouted fiercely: "Mu Tianzun, by letting a prehistoric Dao-achiever descend alive into this universe, you have incurred guilt before Heaven!