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

Second Young Master Wuji flew into a thunderous rage and abruptly drove the Guixu Lotus of the Sixteenth Epoch. The lotus dais plummeted at tremendous speed, sweeping toward the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host, smashing each heavenly world to ruin.

The Dao of Guixu was the most profound, the most mysterious, the most dreadful Dao under heaven. As the supreme achiever of the Dao of Guixu, she thought very highly of herself — she even believed herself to be the only one who might surpass the Master of the Miluo Palace!

Yet unexpectedly, a mere brush with the Heaven-Opening Host had cost her a small loss — naturally, this was intolerable!

The power of the Red Cord Knot erupted, suppressing her strength, but Second Young Master Wuji, heedless of it, abruptly burst out from the surface of the Primordial Chaos Sea. With a sharp cry, her white hair flew up, lotus leaf after lotus leaf rose into the air from the Chaos Sea, and countless Guixu, great and small, appeared upon the sea's surface — like black holes that devour and refine all things — crowding and jostling as they surged to meet the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host!

The thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host seemed to have entered an apocalyptic tribulation; their heavenly worlds collapsed and disintegrated one after another beneath the Second Young Master's assault, devoured by the Guixu one by one!

Their heavenly worlds were dragged into those Guixu divine powers, great and small; their physical bodies and primordial spirits were likewise dragged into the Guixu, beginning to dissolve into primordial chaos qi.

Even so, the members of the Heaven-Opening Host were unhurried, as if each had his own countermeasure.

"Heaven-Opening Host, you may have the strength to survive the Great Destruction — but do you have the strength to survive the Great Creation?"

Second Young Master Wuji thundered, abruptly driving her Guixu divine powers. The Dao of Guixu had two faces — destruction and creation. Now the other face of the Dao of Guixu, the might of the Great Creation, began to erupt!

BOOM!

Within each of those Guixu divine powers, the Great Creation erupted; every member of the Heaven-Opening Host was utterly destroyed. The Guixu divine powers blasted apart, and above Second Young Master Wuji appeared one strange spectacle after another — the evolution of the Five Ultimates as heaven and earth were opened.

The Second Young Master raised her head to watch this gorgeous, magnificent scene, a smile spreading across her face.

The people of the world had many misunderstandings about Guixu, thinking it to be nothing but destruction — yet the creation of Guixu was even more dreadful!

A Dao-achiever might perhaps survive the Great Destruction, but the Great Creation was a tribulation so dreadful that even the Young Masters of the Miluo Palace quailed before it.

In the single instant when a new cosmos was opened, the power it unleashed would destroy everything of the previous cosmos and transform it into a new cosmos!

And a Guixu Dao-achiever was the only one who could master this power!

Within the Miluo Palace, only the Master of the Miluo Palace and the First Young Master, Taishang, dared claim they could survive the Great Creation — no one else could.

This was also why the Hall Masters and Young Masters of the Miluo Palace feared her so deeply.

Under her creative divine power, the Heaven-Opening Host should have had no hope of survival whatsoever!

Yet just as the miniature cosmos were taking form above the Primordial Chaos Sea, the evolution of the Five Ultimates abruptly broke off. Within those falling miniature cosmos, alien Daos — of kinds the Second Young Master had never seen nor heard of — came into being!

The creative process of these miniature cosmos was simply not under her control; she could not control it at all!

The path of evolution of each miniature cosmos turned bizarre and inscrutable. By the time these miniature cosmos fell to the surface of the Primordial Chaos Sea, the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host had emerged, one after another, from within them, encircling her at the center in a strange formation.

The formation of the Heaven-Opening Altar!

"Second Young Master Wuji is indeed extraordinary."

The smiling man at their head was just as he had always been — his smile was most terrifying. The muscles of his face seemed fixed in place; the smile on his mouth was extremely wide, revealing a full set of teeth.

As he spoke, the muscles of his face did not move in the slightest — only his tongue moved within his mouth. Yet his smile was not a mask; he was genuinely, truly smiling!

It was a smile that chilled one to the bone.

"In our battle with the Third Young Master, we merely wounded him, and he escaped. But in this battle with the Second Young Master, we have been struck down again and again, without the strength to fight back."

The expression on the smiling man's face did not change in the least; his tone seemed to be praising Second Young Master Wuji — but his smile was truly enough to make one's blood run cold.

"It is only a pity that we have experienced far too much of both the Great Destruction and the Great Creation. After all, it was we who set off the Great Creation of the Seventh Epoch."

The smiling man laughed. "Second Young Master, are you ready to witness the Great Heaven-Opening Rite of our Heavenly Capital?"

Second Young Master Wuji's expression turned grave. All sixteen Guixu Lotuses abruptly merged together into a lotus dais of sixteen tiers, and she stood barefoot upon it.

At that very moment, the thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host shifted into staggered positions — and the Great Heaven-Opening Rite erupted!

At the Ancestral Court, Shen Mu suddenly felt a stirring in his heart. He raised his head and looked up, only to see that within the seal above the Ancestral Court, an incomparably dreadful energy was erupting, bursting through his seal!