Chapter 1679 — The Door and the Stone Stele

Lan Yutian stared in bewilderment at this bizarre place. The Ultimate Void was like an invisible behemoth, casting everything it could not digest into this spot.

"Perhaps this tower of flesh and blood is also something it could not digest, and so it was thrown here as well."

He blinked and thought to himself: "What place is this, exactly? Where within the Ultimate Void?"

The Ultimate Void held only the Daluo Heavens of Dao-attainers, and each Daluo Heaven occupied no fixed position. To locate their current whereabouts was easier said than done.

The dumping ground of the Ultimate Void was vast beyond measure. The tower of flesh and blood drifted silently on, and after an unknowable stretch of time, encountering countless bizarre objects, Lan Yutian saw another strange thing float past outside.

It was a door.

Or rather, a door frame, for the door panel was gone.

Lan Yutian peered through the frame and could not help but start. Behind that door frame was not the Ultimate Void at all, but a standing forest of stone steles!

These steles were identical to the one he had encountered earlier, that incomparably smooth stone stele!

Only, the steles faced away from him, so he could not see whether their front faces bore any writing.

"Could that stele have drifted out from here? Then where did the door panel go?"

He was still pondering when Shen Mu's voice suddenly came: "Royal Brother, I am now confident I can deal with the Hongmeng Transformation Dao divine art!"

Lan Yutian's heart leapt with joy. He saw the Hongmeng primordial qi shrouding Shen Mu's eye surge and flow into it.

Instantly, with that eye as the center, Shen Mu's flesh and blood began to grow, and soon formed his head!

Shen Mu's head opened its three eyes, purple qi swirling and churning within them, revealing a look of intense excitement!

At the same time, the Dao chains within the tower of flesh and blood blazed with light, their power erupting, suppressing the Hongmeng primordial qi as they hurtled toward him!

This tower of flesh and blood contained the Hongmeng Transformation Dao divine art, meant to reduce him back to a state of Hongmeng primordial qi, to prevent his resurrection!

Shen Mu laughed aloud, letting those Dao chain divine arts strike his body, yet they could not harm him in the slightest. On the contrary, his three eyes shot out beams of purple light that severed three flesh-and-blood Dao chains that had drawn near!

But strangely, once the flesh-and-blood Dao chains were cut, flesh and blood immediately regrew. This Hongmeng Transformation Dao divine art was like a biological divine art, combined with the Hongmeng runes of the Lord of the Miluo Palace, transforming this divine art into a living thing capable of self-growth and self-repair!

This was the first time Shen Mu had seen such a bizarre divine art, and he was startled.

Below his head, a neck grew, then shoulders, chest, arms, and his waist was also regenerating!

Shen Mu raised his hand, and the Tribulation Sword flew from between his brows, piercing through the pagoda in a single strike. A Dao chain was severed, the Dao patterns composing it annihilated, flesh and blood splattering everywhere.

Just then, a wind of cold silence blew in, stirring the pagoda, causing its outer layers to begin to dissolve.

The pagoda spun and howled toward the outer edges of this abandoned place.

The Ultimate Void was exceedingly strange. Things that could not be voidized would be delivered by the wind of cold silence to this filthy place, while things that could be voidized would be sent out from here.

Shen Mu's earlier sword strike had broken the tower of flesh and blood, greatly reducing its self-defense power, causing it to begin voidizing. Thus the pagoda was swept up by the wind of cold silence and carried away from this abandoned place.

Shen Mu was utterly unaware of this. While accelerating his absorption of Hongmeng purple qi, he attempted to devour and refine the power of the Hongmeng Transformation Dao, saying in a low voice: "Royal Brother, the wind of cold silence is about to blow into the pagoda. Your cultivation is insufficient - hiding in my eye, you must be careful!"

The wind of cold silence swept over Shen Mu's body, flattening his flesh nearly to the point of dissolving into countless particles.

Shen Mu activated the improved Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, forcibly steadying his flesh to resist this terrifying force.

He could barely withstand the wind of cold silence of the Ultimate Void, but this wind penetrated everywhere. He also worried that the wind of cold silence might blow into the vertical eye at his brow and harm the people within.

In his eye were not only Lan Yutian and the Dutian Demon King, but also hundreds of millions of Jingping commoners and gods and demons. If the wind of cold silence blew in, these people would likely all turn to nothingness in but a moment, ceasing to exist!

To die here meant even the soul would turn to nothingness, with no way to summon it back.

Lan Yutian hurriedly had the Dutian Demon King hide inside the Hutian Bottle. After some thought, he did not follow Dutian into the bottle. If the wind of cold silence blew into Shen Mu's vertical eye, even the Hutian Bottle could not protect everyone - this whole heaven would quickly be reduced to void, and all would die within the bottle.

Though his strength was inferior to Shen Mu's, he was by no means ordinary, and his Dao arts and divine powers were profound and mysterious. He intended to remain outside to guard the Hutian Bottle.

Shen Mu's flesh was still growing at tremendous speed. As he activated the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, the wind of cold silence blew over him, yet his body, as though composed of Hongmeng runes formed from Hongmeng primordial qi, did not budge in the slightest!

No matter how the wind of cold silence tugged at him, it could not reduce his flesh to nothingness.

However, the Hongmeng Transformation Dao divine art within the tower of flesh and blood attacked simultaneously. Resisting both forces at once only intensified the pressure on him!

"I must quickly grow my flesh, or I will not be able to handle the situation before me!"

Shen Mu urged on his Hongmeng primordial qi, and the Tribulation Sword's power immediately surged. Though his flesh had not yet fully recovered, the power of his sword Dao divine art surpassed what it had been before, filling him with both shock and delight.

The Dao chains of the tower of flesh and blood collapsed even faster, the chains disintegrating into Dao patterns. But this divine art had been designed by the Third Young Master specifically to counter him, and he could not fully break it in a short time.

At last, Shen Mu grew two legs - but only down to the upper thighs - when his Hongmeng primordial qi was exhausted!

Shen Mu's three eyes went wide as he called out loudly: "Royal Brother, my Hongmeng primordial qi is used up! I still have not formed my two legs and my primordial spirit! What should I do?"

Lan Yutian, warily surveying the surroundings from within his vertical eye and guarding against the wind of cold silence, said in alarm: "You used Hongmeng primordial qi to reshape your flesh, which far surpasses your former body - that is why the consumption was so enormous. But do not worry, the Ancestral Court has chaos mineral veins. Absorb the chaos qi there and you can grow them out!"

Shen Mu's head ached. Lan Yutian was an unreliable fellow too - distant water cannot quench a nearby fire. The chaos qi in the Ancestral Court's chaos mineral veins was abundant, but how was he supposed to fly there now?

Moreover, turning chaos qi into Hongmeng purple qi did not seem so easy.

Lan Yutian might know how to convert it, but learning from him would likely take considerable time.

Boom!