Chapter 1807 — The Holy Land Killing Array

Beneath the World Tree, no one knew how many prehistoric powerhouses stood guard. After his battle against the Third Young Master, the Fourth Young Master, and Taiyi, Old Man Wuya had suffered grievous wounds and had been forced to return to the main body of the World Tree to recuperate, and so he had summoned these smuggled prehistoric powerhouses to safeguard his peace. The World Tree had once towered lofty and majestic, but after that battle nearly all its branches and leaves had withered away, and this holy tree no longer showed the grandeur of former days, bearing instead a rather miserable aspect.

When Shen Mu folded the Ancestral Court, the tremor startled even this place, leaving the powerhouses beneath the World Tree uneasy and suspicious. Suddenly Old Man Wuya's face emerged from the trunk, his voice shaking the air with a rumbling roar: "The Seventh Young Master Shen Mu harbors evil designs.

He folds the Ancestral Court with the intent to seal it, to trap us like beasts in a cage and force us into war with Miluo Palace.

Though I do not fear Miluo Palace, if we go to war with them, the slaughter will be grievous. I shall divide off one branch. Huang Tang, find a few capable hands, take this branch of mine, fly out of the Ancestral Court, and choose a land of superb fengshui in which to plant it. " The World Tree shook, a branch broke off and flew into the hands of Huang Tang, one of the Three Elders of Fengshu. Huang Tang accepted the branch and meant to bring the other two elders with him, but Old Man Wuya said: "Li Shu and Yan Xiuge must remain to guard this place.

Remember, leave the Ancestral Court at once, find a treasure land of fengshui and plant the branch.

Then I shall resonate with that branch, our roots joined as one, and the Seventh Young Master will be unable to suppress us. " Helpless, Huang Tang could only seek other skilled hands, but fortunately beneath the World Tree there was no lack of existences of Celestial Venerable level, and he soon found more than ten top experts. The party at once left the World Tree and flew toward the heavens beyond.

At the same time, Palace Master Hehuan entered Jade Capital City and came to the River of Chaos to see the Third and Fourth Young Masters, speaking of the battle in the Ancestral Court: "Kaihuang Shen Ye, guided by the Seventh Young Master, has us blockaded in Jade Capital City. The Seventh Young Master is sealing the Ancestral Court, about to turn it into a prison that we cannot leave.

" The Third Young Master Lingxiao laughed: "So what?

Not to say he cannot seal it, but even if he could, there is still the Ultimate Void. Once you reach the Ancestral Court and entrust yourselves to the void, you will recover your peak strength, and all his scheming will come to nothing! " Palace Master Hehuan hesitated, then said: "Kaihuang Shen Ye says the Seventh Young Master can seal the Ultimate Void.

" The Third Young Master Lingxiao frowned, pacing back and forth as he pondered how one might seal the Ultimate Void. "Perhaps there is one way, and that is to use the Great Abyss of Guixu.

" A flash of insight struck the Third Young Master Lingxiao and he halted, saying: "If he blocks the sky above the Ancestral Court with the Great Abyss of Guixu, then not to mention the Ultimate Void, the other voids will cease to exist.

That must be the method he is using.

" He frowned slightly.

Though he had guessed the method Shen Mu might employ, he had no confidence at all in how to counter it. At the end of the Sixteenth Era, there had occurred not only the matter of Shang Jun slaughtering on all sides, but another incomparably dreadful affair, and that was the great massacre wrought by the Second Young Master Wuji!

At the end of the Sixteenth Era the Second Young Master Wuji had suddenly gone mad and struck at all Dao-attainers, even killing many Dao-attainers of Miluo Palace itself!

Because those times were chaotic, many did not know the deeds were those of the Second Young Master Wuji of Miluo Palace, and so the blame was cast upon Shang Jun, leaving Shang Jun to bear the ill fame.

For a time, even Dao-attainers paled at the mention of Shang Jun. Only the Master of Miluo Palace perceived the change in the Second Young Master Wuji, and so he acted to suppress Wuji within Guixu.

Only later did the matter gradually spread, but those who knew of it were only the Young Masters of Miluo Palace; many Palace Masters did not know, and those outside Miluo Palace could know the truth of it even less. Lingxiao was one of those in the know, and he had even suspected that the Master's decline and death of Dao heart was connected to what the Second Young Master Wuji had done.

"If Seventh Brother moves Guixu here and blocks the Ultimate Void of the Ancestral Court, then even if the Dao-attainers of Miluo Palace enter the Seventeenth Era, they will be unable to enter the Ultimate Void. If they enter there, they will be devoured by Wuji.

" His brows locked tight; it was indeed a ruthless move!

Even he dared not provoke Wuji.

Who knew what that madwoman might do? "I bear wounds and am unfit to descend, and moreover the Ancestral Court holds no energy vast enough to sustain my descent.

" Suddenly his brow smoothed as he said: "Hehuan, before the sealing is complete, leave the Ancestral Court for the outer world and raise a blood-sacrifice altar. If Seventh Brother wishes to seal the Ancestral Court, let him seal it.

We shall choose another battlefield. " Palace Master Hehuan assented and was about to leave, when Lingxiao thought a moment and called her back, saying: "Kaihuang Shen Ye could survive only because he tampered with things during the battle of Youdu.

Shameless that he is, to meddle in the battles of juniors!

Since he is unjust, blame me not for being unrighteous!

I shall grant you two divine powers, and have the Fourth Young Master grant you one bowstring.

When you leave, carry these three divine powers with you, and kill without mercy! " Palace Master Hehuan felt a chill in her heart and bowed her head in assent.

The Third Young Master summoned her close and planted the powers within her, then his expression turned grave and he said in a low voice: "If you cannot leave the Ancestral Court in time to set up the blood sacrifice, do you know what to do? " Palace Master Hehuan lowered her head and said: "I beg the Young Master to instruct me. " A cruel smile crossed the face of the Third Young Master Lingxiao as he said: "Have Fellow Daoist Hao take the Fourth Young Master's bowstring to the World Tree and wipe out Old Man Wuya's followers. With that surge of blood-sacrifice energy, the Fourth Young Master and I shall be able to descend!

" Palace Master Hehuan shuddered, her mind conjuring the dreadful sight of the Fourth Young Master's bowstring sweeping beneath the World Tree, and though long seasoned in slaughter, she could not help a deep dread.

The Third Young Master Lingxiao waved his hand and said: "That would mean a fight to the death with Old Man Wuya. But if matters come to that pass, it will be beyond our choosing.

Go swiftly to see the Fourth Young Master and beg a bowstring from him.

So long as you can leave the Ancestral Court, it need not come to that. " Palace Master Hehuan assented and hurried off to see the Fourth Young Master Zixiao. Not long after, she returned to Jade Capital City to see Palace Master Phoenix and Hao Tiandi.

She saw that Hao Tiandi's entrusting to the void was near completion, and within his Daluo Heaven a Dao Tree of attaining the Dao through force was beginning to form. "One more Dao-attainer's strength is still a gain.

" Palace Master Hehuan told the two of the Third Young Master's plan, saying: "There is no time to lose. Let us act at once. " Hao Tiandi was silent a moment, then said: "Just now the two of you together could have calmly slain Shen Ye and his rebels.