Chapter 1824 — The Heaven-Opening Host Descends Upon the World

Second Young Master Wuji had never expected these members of the Heaven-Opening Host to agree so readily, nor had she expected them to actually leap into Guixu.

Who in the world did not know how perilous Guixu was? Who in the world did not know the fearsome reputation of Second Young Master Wuji?

Even the Third Young Master of the Miluo Palace would not dare act presumptuously before her, and when he sought her aid, he had no choice but to humble himself.

Moreover, no one dared to pass through Guixu from one cosmic epoch to the next — save for Guixu Dao-achievers such as Shen Mu and the Empress. For the Dao of Guixu was fundamentally incompatible with a Dao-achiever's cultivation; to enter Guixu was to enter the very place where the Great Destruction raged most fiercely!

Their Dao Trees, Dao Flowers, and Dao Fruits, their Grand Luo Heavens, their thirty-six tiers of the Heavenly Dao — all would disintegrate within Guixu and become nourishment for the Second Young Master!

Yet these members of the Heaven-Opening Host were so bold as to utterly disregard her — clearly, they had come prepared.

With that smiling man at their head, the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host fell continuously from the entrance of Guixu in the Sixteenth Epoch. The moment they entered the Great Abyss of Guixu, the Great Destruction of the Sixteenth Epoch suddenly became incomparably dreadful!

The Great Destruction within the Abyss could shred everything. The thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host fell like candle flames in a howling storm, seeming on the verge of being extinguished at any moment!

Yet amid the storm, beneath the crimson chains formed by the Red Cord Knot, a white light climbed along the chains with tremendous speed — it was strands of white hair, weaving and growing across the surface of the chains, sealing them fast.

Before long, all five chains of the Red Cord Knot had turned white.

Ever since the Third Young Master, Ling Xiao, had undone the first rune of the Red Cord Knot for Wuji, the Red Cord Knot Seal by which the Master of the Miluo Palace suppressed her had loosened.

With that first breach, Wuji had gained a point of breakthrough, ceaselessly invading with the Dao of Guixu, grinding away at the Master of the Miluo Palace's Red Cord Knot Seal.

By now, the runes broken open in the Red Cord Knot Seal numbered in the hundreds of thousands!

The thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host were still falling. With their descent, the power of the Great Destruction grew ever stronger — so strong that an ordinary Dao-achiever who came here would, in a single instant, be stripped of all cultivation and reduced to ashes!

To enter Guixu from the Seventeenth Epoch and to enter Guixu from the Sixteenth Epoch were two entirely different matters. For the cosmos of the Seventeenth Epoch was still in the midst of growth, not yet having matured into a complete universe, and there the energy of Guixu was at its weakest.

An ordinary Heavenly Venerable could rely on his cultivation to protect himself and resist the power of Guixu, and thus enter the interior of Guixu. As for whether he could escape, that depended on his own ability.

But the Guixu within the Great Destruction of the Sixteenth Epoch could be called the most perilous place in the entire Sixteenth Epoch — the power of Guixu there had become incomparably wild, incomparably dreadful!

Even an existence at the Hall Master level would find it hard to preserve himself once he fell into Guixu; even the Young Masters of the Miluo Palace could hardly claim they would walk out of it intact!

As the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host fell, their physical bodies and primordial spirits ceaselessly split apart, ceaselessly disintegrated.

Although each of them was enormously powerful, even they could hardly withstand so ferocious a Great Abyss of Guixu.

Some among them had Dao Trees of their own, Dao Fruits, Dao Flowers, and Grand Luo Heavens — yet before they even reached the bottom of the Abyss, their Dao Trees and Dao Flowers disintegrated one after another, their Grand Luo Heavens were destroyed, and their Dao Fruits dissolved into nothing!

Primordial chaos qi poured down from on high like waterfalls, drifting and scattering, striking reflections against the white chains of the Red Cord Knot — a truly mesmerizing sight.

At the very bottom of Guixu, Second Young Master Wuji lay supine upon the Primordial Chaos Sea, quietly watching this scene, a look of delight spreading across her face.

"So many experts have come to deliver energy to me, to nourish me. Master, oh Master — you suppressed me in the Primordial Chaos Sea, thinking to use it to grind away my cultivation and power, to grind me to death. You never imagined this, did you? That there would still be people foolish enough to plan a clandestine crossing through Guixu into the next epoch!"

She giggled. "Once I devour them, I can return to my peak state — and even surpass my former peak! Master, today is the day I break free! I will fulfill your vision, Master, but my methods will be different from yours!"

"I will devour everything — devour all the decay of the entire cosmos — and open up a new, perfect world, the one you dreamed of!"

She abruptly grew excited. Yet as the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host were still falling, another strange transformation occurred — for those whose Grand Luo Heavens had shattered, the primordial chaos qi around them suddenly began to change!

As they fell, the primordial chaos qi spontaneously formed miniature cosmos of its own, expanding outward, and soon became complete heavenly worlds!

From within those heavenly worlds emanated a strange and inscrutable aura of the Great Dao — Second Young Master Wuji could not even distinguish what kinds of Daos they were!

One by one, the physical bodies of the Heaven-Opening Host also perished, collapsing and disintegrating, turning into streams of primordial chaos qi that fell into those thirty-five heavenly worlds.

Like long rainbows, those streams of primordial chaos qi descended into the worlds, and as they touched the ground, they transformed back into members of the Heaven-Opening Host — with their original features intact!

Second Young Master Wuji had never seen so bizarre a Dao, so bizarre divine powers. She watched as the thirty-five heavenly worlds, like thirty-five brilliant, dazzling pearls, continued to fall toward the Primordial Chaos Sea.

These thirty-five worlds each formed a realm of its own, ceaselessly annihilated and ceaselessly reborn within the Great Destruction. Although the power of the Great Destruction was beyond imagination, the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host remained perfectly safe — one could even say they had suffered not the slightest loss of cultivation!

Second Young Master Wuji had not devoured a shred of their power!

"These Dao-desecrators really do have some tricks up their sleeves!"

Her mind stirred slightly, and the white hair coiled around the five chains suddenly flew up from them, shooting toward the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host!

Whish, whish, whish!

Strand after strand of white hair pierced into those thirty-five heavens, frantically devouring the energy of those heavenly worlds; some strands even pierced straight through the bodies and primordial spirits of the Heaven-Opening Host!

"But you are all merely presenting dishes to whet my appetite!"

The words had barely left her mouth when, abruptly, strand after strand of white hair snapped. The divine powers and Dao arts of the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host were grotesque beyond measure — they had severed her white hair, and once her hair fell into those heavens, she lost all sensation of it!

Not only had she failed to absorb the power of the Heaven-Opening Host, but her white hair had actually become their power within those heavens!

She was the one being absorbed by the Heaven-Opening Host!