Chapter 1792 — All Three Sides Wounded

In the blink of an eye, even as Taiyi's eleven Dao fruits came flying, the Old Man Wuya raised every shred of his strength to meet Taiyi head-on, while the Third Young Master and the Fourth Young Master led the host of the Miluo Palace to plot against both Taiyi and the Old Man Wuya at once. At that instant all three powers struck with all their might! Taiyi's divine axe was the first to meet the Old Man Wuya face to face.

The axe came on like a blade through bamboo, cleaving into the Old Man Wuya's neck, its edge biting at the same moment deep into the World Tree.

"Taiyi, in those days you could fell me only because I was weak while crossing the Life Calamity, but this is not the past! " Great Daos flowed about the Old Man Wuya's body, and upon the World Tree thirty-six thousand Dao fruits turned, their Dao light gathering into a wooden staff.

The staff barred his throat against the divine axe, and with the collision the Old Man Wuya's form was hurled sideways for tens of thousands of li by the vast force!

Behind him the World Tree was driven sideways with him by that same vast force! What shifted was not the World Tree and the Old Man Wuya alone, but the entire Ancestral Court.

Under the clash of these two mighty ones the Ancestral Court was knocked sideways for tens of thousands of li!

Yet though the distance seemed far, to a world as vast and towering as the Ancestral Court it was no more than the shifting of a hair.

Strong as the giant Taiyi and the Old Man Wuya were, in the universe they had only managed to shake the Ancestral Court.

Even so, the consequences were unspeakably dreadful.

The Ancestral Court is the center of the universe, the first land of origin, a world still growing and swelling without cease.

Displaced by tens of thousands of li, it raised a tsunami of starlight that sped like ripples toward all the heavens and myriad worlds, its reach growing ever wider!

Hundreds of thousands of years hence, the ripples in time and space raised by this clash of two mighty ones would reach the Four Polar Heavens, a surge to sweep the whole universe. Of course a disturbance on such a scale would trouble the universe but little.

Common folk might feel dizzy for a single moment and nothing more. The only one troubled was Shen Mu, who had fallen upon one of the Old Man Wuya's leaves and was dropping toward the Long River of Chaos.

When Taiyi came to slay, he was leaping from the continent formed by the leaf, struggling to free himself. He could have landed safely beneath the World Tree, but with this one blow the two mighty ones had knocked the Ancestral Court sideways for tens of thousands of li, and his foothold had become the Long River of Chaos.

Shen Mu's mind went blank, and at that very moment Taiyi's divine axe was flicked aside by the Old Man Wuya and fell at his feet. Taiyi swung up the divine axe, and Shen Mu was borne high into the air with it.

He looked up to see Taiyi's Daluo Heaven in view, drawing ever nearer.

"Taiyi truly cares for me after all.

" Shen Mu's spirit eased, and joy spread across his face.

Within Taiyi's Daluo Heaven a branch of Taiyi's Dao Tree dropped swiftly down, growing longer and longer, plainly meant to lift him into Daluo Heaven and free him from his present peril.

At that moment the Old Man Wuya swung his wooden staff and knocked Taiyi's divine axe flying, then his feet abruptly became thick and monstrous root-tendrils, countless roots churning beneath him like black pythons, hoisting his body aloft!

Part of the Old Man Wuya's roots sank into the Ancestral Court, and part bore up his body as he brandished the wooden staff and charged at Taiyi within the Long River of Chaos! He would avenge the felling of his tree, and he would slay Taiyi the blasphemer against the Dao!

Shen Mu was about to seize the branch let down by Taiyi's Dao Tree when a root of the World Tree suddenly coiled forth, locked about his legs, and dragged him toward the Long River of Chaos. "Not good!

" Shen Mu reached out to catch the branch of Taiyi's Dao Tree, but in the next instant he was yanked whistling downward!

Within the river Taiyi was bound fast by roots beyond counting.

The Old Man Wuya's roots had reached his chest and were about to pin his arms and throttle his neck.

This was the finest moment to slay Taiyi!

The tip of the wooden staff was keen, gathering thirty-six thousand kinds of Great Dao at its point, stabbing straight for the center of Taiyi's brow.

At the same instant Taiyi drew back both arms and held the divine axe crosswise before his brow. Ding.

The staff struck the face of the axe, and the power of the two erupted.

The Long River of Chaos shook violently, and the continent of the Ancestral Court shifted sideways once more for tens of thousands of li.

Shen Mu was about to plunge into the Long River of Chaos, but with its violent shaking he was thrown tens of thousands of li off course and did not fall into the waters.

Glancing back in haste, he saw the face of Taiyi's divine axe pierced through by the wooden staff.

Joy showed on the Old Man Wuya's face.

As the point of the staff was about to bore through Taiyi's skull, a surge of strength came through Taiyi's arms, pressing the staff down toward the Long River of Chaos below!

Within the river the Yujing City of the Ancestral Court emerged in all its splendor, and the divine powers of the Third Young Master, the Fourth Young Master, and the Hall Masters and those who have achieved the Dao of the Miluo Palace struck at the two men at precisely that moment.

The gathered strength of the Miluo Palace fell exactly upon the wooden staff and Taiyi's divine axe, and at that instant all seemed to stand still. Even the Calamity of Destruction ceased to turn, and the workings of calamity seemed to vanish in a breath.

Those who have achieved the Dao and were struggling for life within the Calamity of Destruction felt the pressure lighten at once, and in wild joy they strained with all their power to land upon the Ancestral Court. They were not those who have achieved the Dao under the Miluo Palace, nor had they taken shelter beneath the World Tree, and could cross the calamity only by their own strength.

Yet by their own strength they could never cross the Calamity of Destruction. Most were like Supreme Venerable Lingyu, vast in divine power, unwilling to submit to any man, yet unable to land in the Seventeenth Era, unable to survive the calamity of destruction and the Life Calamity, lingering on in misery within the doom.

Supreme Venerable Lingyu had used a fragment of Daluo Heaven and his own Dao fruit to enter the Seventeenth Era, abandoning nearly all of himself, keeping only a remnant consciousness within his Dao fruit, seeking to assimilate Divine Emperor Langxuan and thereby win new life.

But the others had no such fortune, and could only struggle bitterly within the calamity.

Now the clash of the three great powers had brought the calamity of destruction to a momentary halt, and they saw hope of landing.

The Ancestral Court was their other shore. Once upon that shore they could cast off the endless torment of the Calamity of Destruction.

Yet in the very instant they sought to rush forth from the calamity of destruction, a horror beyond imagining befell them. In the fleeting moment they broke free and were about to land upon the Ancestral Court, another calamity erupted!

The Creation Calamity!

When the universe is created, the might unleashed in that instant is far more dreadful than the Calamity of Destruction!

Within the calamity of destruction the Creation Calamity cannot be seen, only the Ancestral Court of the future, but in the instant one crosses the calamity of destruction to land, one enters the Creation Calamity.