Chapter 1636 — The Old Zither's Melody Passes Down to This Day

"This string connects to the prehistoric universe, and it must be held in the Fourth Young Master's hand.

In the Jade Capital City of the previous cosmic epoch, he holds this string with his finger!

" Shen Mu's eyeballs darted about as he pondered a countermeasure.

The instant Ling Tianzun touched the Artifact of Creation, the Fourth Young Master would release the zither string and the divine art would erupt!

He remembered the two occasions on which he had encountered the Fourth Young Master; both times the Fourth Young Master had sat beneath the Dao Tree playing the qin, playing a melody he could never play through to the end.

This slender string must surely come from that ancient qin of his.

Shen Mu clenched his fists and recalled the sound of the qin he had heard. "There is absolutely no way to block the Fourth Young Master's divine art; when his divine art comes crashing down, Ling Tianzun will certainly die!

He has steeped himself too long in the Dao arts of the master of the Miluo Palace; there is no chance at all that Ling Tianzun survives!

Therefore the only way is for me to play that melody, to let him hear the qin's voice.

He longs for his dead wife; if he loses himself in the tune, there will be an opening to exploit! " Shen Mu clenched both hands into fists, then spread his ten fingers; once more he clenched his fists, and once more spread his ten fingers, his heart in a frenzy of panic.

He had never seen that score, but he had heard the Fourth Young Master play it twice; only, the melody was simply too difficult to bring out!

Ling Tianzun turned her head and saw that Yue Tianzun and Langwan had been separated by the Yutianzun artifacts and Huo Tianzun; the two of them were struggling to fight Huo Tianzun, yet they simply could not withstand his divine art!

"There is no time to wait! " Ling Tianzun stepped forward: "If we delay, Yue'er will die at Huo Tianzun's hands! " She pointed a finger at the Artifact of Creation, meaning to destroy this treasure she herself had refined in those years!

Shen Mu gritted his teeth; his ten fingers hooked together, then pulled apart to either side, and forty-nine zither strings spread out, joining with the one string that connected to the Artifact of Creation.

Shen Mu sat in the air; arm after arm burrowed out from beneath his ribs, six arms and thirty fingers dancing over the fifty strings, playing out that melody he had heard!

As the strings vibrated, Ling Tianzun's finger touched the Artifact of Creation. The music rang out.

The music rang out at the same time within Youdu, and the Tianzuns locked in combat heard that beautiful, entrancing tune with perfect clarity.

At this moment the same lingering qin melody also came from the Ancestral Court; the two Daluotian collided with a thunderous roar, yet could not drown out that exquisite tune.

Kaihuang and Hao Tianzun's Dao-achieved body fought a bitter, savage battle.

Kaihuang's left hand formed the sword finger; within the Sword Dao Daluotian Dao flowers bloomed and spun; in this instant the Dao of the sword unfurled, eclipsing the radiance of the stars! He heard the melody of the qin and was slightly startled; this sword did not stab toward Hao Tianzun, but split the Ancestral Court open, revealing Youdu, and with a flash he entered Youdu.

Hao Tianzun pursued; the two collided in the darkness of Youdu, then parted. The two Daluotian spun with a howl, the Dao Tree swayed, countless Dao arts collided, shaking Youdu to its roots.

Kaihuang went first, heading straight for the Zaofu Heavenly Palace, with Hao Tianzun close behind.

In the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, chaos was vast and boundless; above the surging long river of chaos, a zither string passed through the great tribulation of destruction and reached deep into the sixteenth epoch.

In that great tribulation of destruction, a Dao Tree hung with seven Dao fruits, raising ripple after ripple in the long river of chaos, guarding a pure land.

The Fourth Young Master sat beneath the tree, an ancient qin laid across his knees; this qin was unlike any other, for it had fifty strings.

He had been in the tenth epoch, but at this moment he had come to the sixteenth. His little finger hooked one of the strings and drew it out.

Then the zither string vibrated, and a familiar melody came through. The Fourth Young Master was stunned; listening to that melody, longing showed in his eyes.

He could not help closing his eyes and listening to the tune that haunted his dreams, and two lines of tears slid down from the corners of his eyes.

He seemed to have returned to former days, to the days he had spent with his beloved wife.

The melody coming from the string made him drunk with it, and the longing in his Dao heart grew deeper and deeper, when suddenly the qin music swerved into another tune.

"Old Seven, you are remarkable.

You very nearly succeeded!

" The Fourth Young Master abruptly opened his eyes, waking from his intoxication, and released his little finger.

In the Zaofu Heavenly Palace, as Ling Tianzun's finger touched down, the Artifact of Creation suddenly twisted and collapsed inward; in the blink of an eye it was wrenched by its own power into a huge golden sphere, destroyed utterly!

At the same time Shen Mu's music went wrong; though it was only one tiny error, it sent a chill through him, and without another word he rose into the air and threw himself toward Ling Tianzun.

Ling Tianzun had not yet come back to her senses when he caught her in his arms; holding her, Shen Mu charged madly outward.

The zither string coiled about the Artifact of Creation vibrated; the supreme might transmitted from the previous universe erupted and caught up with them, a force that filled one with despair, a force against which no one had the strength to contend!

At this moment Kaihuang and the Sword Dao Daluotian descended, interposing between them and that supreme divine art; in this instant the Dao of the sword blazed with its most dazzling light!

"Shen Ye!

" Shen Mu's eyes were about to split with rage; he flung Ling Tianzun aside and lunged toward Kaihuang, all his power transforming into the Unchanging divine art and surging toward Kaihuang!

The Fourth Young Master's divine art was meant to utterly grind Ling Tianzun out of existence.

Ling Tianzun had perfected the immutability of matter and energy, so to destroy her was nearly impossible; which meant that the power of the Fourth Young Master's strike was so great that it could probably wipe out even a Dao-achiever with ease! Kaihuang seemed to hear his voice; he turned his head and smiled faintly at him.

Behind him, the Sword Dao Daluotian was ground to powder within the Fourth Young Master's divine art. "We shall meet again in the Chaos Hall.

" Kaihuang revealed a smile; Shen Mu's Unchanging divine art pushed forward, yet before it could reach his side, Kaihuang was utterly annihilated within that terrible divine art.

Shen Mu's body went rigid; he saw a Dao flower drifting, spinning, flying past his ear, drifting toward the distant Salvation Golden Ship. Upon the golden ship, a hazy shadow raised a hand and pinched that withered Dao flower between its fingers.

Within the flower the Dao of the sword was collapsing, yet the moment it fell into his hand it stopped disintegrating.

That figure held the Dao flower between his fingers, gave a long, faint sigh, turned, and walked into the ship.

His form gradually changed from illusory to solid; a sword hung at his waist, and his figure stood proud and solitary, apart from all others.