Chapter 1812 — The Trial Ground for Attaining the Dao

" He suddenly questioned her in Hongmeng Dao Speech, saying in a low voice: "After Second Sister has destroyed Miluo Palace, Old Man Wuya and Tiandu, how will you face this universe? " He questioned her in Hongmeng Dao Speech, catching Second Young Master Wuji off guard, the Dao question stamping itself directly upon her Dao heart!

Should Second Young Master Wuji lie, she would violate her Dao heart and injure her own cultivation!

Second Young Master Wuji started slightly, and likewise answered in Dao Speech, her words tinged with anger. The two asked and answered, both in Hongmeng Dao Speech, which to the others sounded abstruse and hard to grasp, harboring the profundities of the vast chiliocosm, its meaning impossible to fathom.

Xu Shenghua looked toward Lan Yutian, and Lan Yutian too knitted his brows, pondering intently for a moment before saying abashed: "I too caught but one or two syllables.

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" Shen Mu straightened his expression and swept his sleeve: "Second Sister, pray return! " Second Young Master Wuji gave an angry snort, minded to flare up, yet fearing he would activate the Red Cord Knot, and so fell backward face upward into the sea.

Shen Mu came to the prow and looked down, seeing her face slowly sinking beneath the sea's surface; their eyes met as Second Young Master Wuji sank gradually to the seabed, and the white hair entangling the World-Crossing Golden Ship loosened one strand after another.

The World-Crossing Golden Ship arrived beneath the Guixu lotus of the Seventeenth Age and flew upward along the lotus stalk.

Ling Yuxiu asked in a low voice: "Husband, what did the Second Young Master say?

" "She said the Seventeenth Age is not perfect, and since she would create a perfect world, she must naturally destroy the Seventeenth Age.

" Shen Mu exhaled a breath of foul air and said heavily: "This time, when I went to the Filth Field of the Ultimate Void, I met Eldest Young Master Taishang and grasped a simple truth. Lean on a mountain and the mountain falls, lean on a wall and the wall collapses; in this world none can be relied upon, Taiyi included!

The only ones we can rely on are ourselves!

" His gaze flickered; Taiyi had indeed been beyond reproach to him and had shown great kindness to the Seventeenth Age.

But Taiyi was the Lord of Tiandu, and should he merge with the Cripple, the Heaven-Opening Host hidden none knew where would appear!

From what he knew, the deeds of the Heaven-Opening Host surpassed even Miluo Palace! Should the Heaven-Opening Host descend, that would be utter calamity!

The World-Crossing Golden Ship roared out of the Guixu Great Abyss, and in the instant it leapt from the abyss, Shen Mu urged the Dao of Guixu, and lotus leaf after lotus leaf grew from Guixu, the huge leaves joining with the void and veiling the void of the Ancestral Court. The veins of the leaves were like great Dao chains, threading through the void and merging with it, their tracings gradually fading.

After a moment, the lotus leaves vanished utterly.

The company sensed carefully and could no longer sense the Ultimate Void. Shen Mu had completely sealed the Ultimate Void of the Ancestral Court. His cultivation not yet recovered, forcing the Guixu lotus leaves to seal the Ultimate Void of the Ancestral Court left him panting and deathly weak, and Ling Yuxiu hastily helped him to rest in the golden hall of the ship.

Moon Heavenly Venerable had meant to ask him to heal Lord Shang, but seeing this could only endure for now. Granny Zhu, Lizheng and the others had hidden all along in the golden hall of the ship and hurried to meet him.

"Granny, when I have recovered somewhat, I will send you out of the Ancestral Court.

" Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "After you leave, I will deepen the seal upon the Ancestral Court without cease, until not even a Hall Master can come and go!

" Lizheng frowned: "Shen, my lad, blocking is worse than channeling. Why not leave a passage, that masters of Jingping may enter the Ancestral Court to temper themselves?

Only through life-and-death struggle can they grow swiftly.

" Shen Mu pondered a moment: "Only battle power of Heavenly Venerable level can stand a fight in the Ancestral Court.

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" Granny Zhu smiled: "Then the Ancestral Court shall be a proving ground for attaining the Dao. In all the heavens and myriad worlds, any who cultivate to the level of Heavenly Venerable may come here to temper themselves and aid their own attainment!

In this way, Attainers in all the heavens and myriad worlds will grow ever more numerous, and we may yet have the strength to stand against Miluo Palace and Old Man Wuya!

" Ling Yuxiu clapped her hands and laughed: "Then Husband need not wear himself out so.

" "A proving ground for attaining the Dao?

" Shen Mu started, coming before the golden hall to behold the towering Ancestral Court, its mountains and seas magnificent, its aspect myriad and grand.

"Good. " He stood with hands behind his back, his gaze profound, and said heavily.