Chapter 1832 — Sudden Turmoil in Guixu

If Miluo Palace's two Young Masters were to descend, how terrifying would that be? But they had still overestimated the combat strength of Miluo Palace's Young Masters, and underestimated the Boundless Elder's strength. Shen Mu relied on the Guixu Lotus and the World Tree rooted in the Chaos Rivers, borrowing the power of the Calamities of Destruction of sixteen cosmic eras—only thus could he contend with the Boundless Elder. With such borrowed power, he was not weaker than Young Master Zixiao or Young Master Lingxiao.

As for the Boundless Elder, it was because Shen Mu had sealed the ancestral court—even the thirty-six layers of void were sealed—so that in the ancestral court, if one wished to achieve the Dao, to imprint the ultimate void, there was only one road: cultivating the ancestral court's Dao realm system. In today's ancestral court, none of the powerhouses under the Boundless Elder could achieve the Dao through the traditional Dao realm and Dao tree system, and so the Boundless Elder's strength could never recover to its peak. Had it been the Boundless Elder at his peak, he would absolutely have been the mightiest of beings, able to stand as an equal against the master of Miluo Palace.

Of course, the difference from today's Boundless Elder was merely that he could hold out a few more moves before being beaten to death by the master of Miluo Palace—but that too was a remarkable achievement.

Xu Shenghua invited them into the golden hall. "And recently, there have been strange movements over at Guixu. Guixu is growing more and more unstable, erupting from time to time—very bizarre.

That is why Cult Master Shen planted his Guixu Lotus on the Sea of Chaos, to temporarily suppress it.

" Everyone recalled the Guixu Lotus and its leaves they had seen when they first entered the ancestral court, and their hearts stirred. Guixu appeared to have vanished, but in truth it had transformed into the sky of the ancestral court. Shen Mu, with his own self-devised mana and divine abilities, had turned out the Sea of Chaos within Guixu and planted his Guixu Lotus upon that sea—indeed suppressing something. "Poor little Shen," Granny Zhu sighed.

The golden hall was filled everywhere with texts compiled by Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian.

Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian were the founders of the ancestral court's Dao realm system, and their innate gifts and comprehension were of the highest order; Taiyi had praised them as god-men and supreme men.

The prehistoric Dao arts and divine abilities they sorted out were all transformed into Dao arts and divine abilities of the ancestral court's Dao realm system. In this way, they were made easy for Jingping's divine ability users and god-men to understand.

Had it been Shen Mu instead, he might not have had their caliber of innate gifts, comprehension, and patience. The texts in the golden hall were exceedingly numerous, enough for Granny Zhu and the others to study and comprehend for a long time.

Xu Shenghua left them to comprehend them gradually, and himself walked out of the golden hall to see Shen Mu. Shen Mu was still studying the fruits of Jingping's reforms over these three thousand years. He read very quickly, drawing nourishment from the reforms, striving not to fall behind the times—most diligent.

Xu Shenghua looked at the Cosmic Bell hanging before his Chaos Hall. The Bell had been forged in recent years: they had gathered the Dao weapons of prehistoric powerhouses, refined them, and using Shen Mu's cultivation methods and divine abilities as the prototype, forged this Bell.

That was Shen Mu's thirty-fifth-level Dao realm divine ability, containing incomparably complex Dao art transformations—arguably the mightiest divine ability in the world today, harboring the two great systems of the World Tree and Guixu. When the Bell was activated, it was like the terrifying spectacle of the Creation Calamity erupting at the birth of the universe, evolving from the Five Great Daos to the myriad Daos of heaven and earth. And when it evolved to the myriad Daos of heaven and earth, Shen Mu had also absorbed Jiang Baigui's acquired achievement of the Dao, mingling the acquired Dao into it, making its power even more terrifying.

In the prehistoric cosmic eras, the study of the various innate Daos had reached its utmost, but in the evolution of the acquired Dao, Jingping was the foremost era among seventeen cosmic eras! Faced with the acquired Dao, prehistoric powerhouses were often at a loss.

This was precisely why Shen Mu was so attentive to the fruits of Jingping's reforms that Granny Zhu and the others had brought.

Jingping's reforms had brought him nourishment enough to give him the strength to contend with Miluo Palace and the Boundless Elder.

After a long while, Shen Mu finished reading through the texts Granny Zhu and the others had brought.

He rose and walked out of the golden hall, came to Xu Shenghua's side, and gazed up at the Sea of Chaos in the sky. The Sea of Chaos was again violently churning, its waves surging, making his Guixu Lotus somewhat unsteady.

"Something great must have happened within Guixu.

" Shen Mu's brow split open, and his third sacred pupil gazed far off at the Sea of Chaos.

He said in a low voice, "Ever since the Heaven-Opening Host borrowed the way through Guixu, Guixu's turmoil has gradually increased, and each time it is fiercer than the last. It makes me somewhat uneasy. " Xu Shenghua said, "You want to make a trip to Guixu?

" Shen Mu nodded.

"I want to know—when the Heaven-Opening Host borrowed the way through Guixu and fought a great battle with Young Master Wuji, did they fight to the bitter end, or did they ultimately reach some kind of agreement? Second Young Master Wuji and the Heaven-Opening Host are neither of them easy marks. If they secretly reached an agreement, that would be dire. " By rights, Young Master Wuji certainly had the strength to slay several of the Heaven-Opening Host, yet that time, though the thirty-five Heaven-Openers were wounded, they all survived and fought their way out of Guixu.

If there truly was some agreement between them and Young Master Wuji, then not only was the ancestral court in danger—even Taiyi, who had suppressed the Heaven-Opening Host, was in danger! "When will you go?

" Xu Shenghua asked. "Now!

" Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Mu's figure flew up and headed for the Sea of Chaos.

He drew closer and closer to the Sea of Chaos.

Just then, a blood-sacrifice light shot skyward from the ancestral court's Jade Capital.

Shen Mu's heart stirred, and he gazed far off toward the Jade Capital. He saw that in the Chaos Rivers of the ancestral court's Jade Capital, a massive Dao spear was slowly emerging from the torrent of blood sacrifice, bit by bit turning from illusion into reality!

That spear was Young Master Lingxiao's weapon, and it was now descending through blood sacrifice! The Dao spear quivered ceaselessly within the blood sacrifice, so that throughout the ancestral court's Jade Capital there appeared phantom pillars like heaven-propping columns, seeming capable of holding up the cosmos and primeval chaos, unchanging through the eons even in the Calamity of Destruction, immovable!

Clang— Beneath the eaves of Shen Mu's Chaos Hall, the Cosmic Bell seemed to sense the descent of a powerful foe and rang out clear and bright of its own accord.

Shen Mu raised an eyebrow and continued flying upward, walking into the Sea of Chaos and entering Guixu.