Chapter 1665 — Severing Your Path to Attaining the Dao

Last time, the lotus in the Guixu of his divine treasury had opened, allowing him to comprehend the Dao of the birth and death of universes; amid that ceaseless birth and death he had comprehended his own path, his own Dao art.

That was his wholly new art, his wholly new Dao.

Through countless great kalpas of birth and destruction he had practiced this new Mystic Body Three-Core Art, and at last a great hall had taken shape within the chaos.

His aim was to cross the chaos, come before this Hall of Chaos, stride into that hall, and mount the Imperial Throne that was his!

This was his Dao, his path! Previously, when he cultivated, he had felt his own strength insufficient, and could not enter that hall.

But now, with the added power of the seventy-two treasure halls of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, he had confidence and faith enough! "Seventy-two fellow Daoists, you are all my stepping stones!

" In the Jade Capital City, Shen Mu's primordial spirit watched phantom after phantom surface within the seventy-two treasure halls, and a smile touched the corner of his mouth: "The reason you exist is to help me attain the Dao! " Boom.

Within the Heavenly Court of his divine treasury, wave after wave of dreadful aura surged; the phantoms of the seventy-two Dao-attainers walked out from their treasure halls, and behind the halls, Dao Tree after Dao Tree gave off an incomparably heavy aura of the great Dao.

Upon the Dao Trees hung Dao Fruits, some many, some few.

The Dao rhyme given off by the Dao Fruits was wondrous, grand, filling his divine-treasury universe with Dao sounds of every kind, with Dao light of every hue.

The seventy-two Dao-attainers barred the way before him, blocking the path of his primordial spirit.

Shen Mu stepped forward, and the Heavenly Court quaked; in heavenly palace after heavenly palace, Dao arts and divine abilities all but boiled over, and countless rays of rosy light came surging in, boring into Shen Mu's primordial spirit.

The Ancestral Court, Xuandu, Yuandu, Youdu, Tianyin, Guixu, the myriad heavens and worlds, holy presences of every kind appeared. In the five great mineral veins of the Ancestral Court, rosy light rose up, and upon each vein sat a deity, of ancient and venerable countenance.

For a time, in Shen Mu's divine-treasury universe, Dao sounds thundered, a spectacle beyond compare!

His divine treasury was in tremendous uproar, yet his body still stood there calm and still, not moving in the least, his aura leaking not a trace. The Great Heavenly Court, the Jade Capital City.

Shen Mu's primordial spirit walked on.

Behind one great hall, a Dao Tree suddenly swayed, its Dao Fruit shook, and an incomparable aura of the great Dao came rushing at his face, like a mystic blade that could sever time itself, slashing across!

Shen Mu reached out and struck with his fist, meeting the blade light!

"Your power is not lent to me, it is seized by me! " The divine-treasury universe seethed; his magic power was near to frenzy.

His fist smashed the blade light to powder, and his body suddenly shot up into the air, landing with a boom before that great hall, where he cupped his hands and bowed!

Boom.

Before the treasure hall, the phantom of that Dao-attainer burst apart, turning into rolling chaotic qi.

Shen Mu cupped his hands and bowed again; behind the treasure hall, the Dao Tree shattered with a crash, and the Dao Fruit burst.

Before the Heavenly Court, the branches of Shen Mu's World Tree danced, absorbing the light that the phantom of the Dao Tree and Dao Fruit had become, not a drop remaining.

Whoosh. Guixu erupted, absorbing the chaotic qi that the Dao-attainer's phantom had become.

Shen Mu straightened, his cultivation surging higher and higher, and walked on, his voice rumbling and shaking, exploding back and forth through the divine-treasury universe.

"With the likes of you, you mean to bar my way to the Dao?

" He spread his five fingers, and the thirty-one tiers of the Heavenly Dao realm appeared; the Five Primes united as one, and he pushed out a palm. Before the treasure hall ahead, another Dao-attainer's phantom struggled to resist, unleashing Dao arts and divine abilities of every kind, and at last managed to block the blow.

But the next moment, Shen Mu was already at his left side; he used his hand as a blade and cut across, level and plain, slaying him outright!

Shen Mu crouched, sprang up, leaped behind the treasure hall, dropped from above, and with both feet crushed the phantom of that Dao-attainer's World Tree to powder!

The World Tree absorbed the Dao light that the phantom of the Dao Tree had become, and Guixu swallowed the phantom of the slain Dao-attainer.

"Not only will I attain my Dao!

" Shen Mu swept his right arm level, his cloak flapping behind him, and strode toward the third treasure hall.

"I will also return to prehistoric times, to your universes, to your age!

" His form flashed, and he stood almost face to face with the phantom of the third Dao-attainer; his brows lifted: "I will go to meet you in person!

I am not in the habit of only taking blows and never returning them.

. .

" Boom.

The Dao-attainer's phantom toppled into the treasure hall, and his form burst apart.