Chapter 1835 — Bottomless

Shen Mu regarded him with serene composure and suddenly smiled.

"Very well!

" In the next instant his form appeared amid the seventy-two palaces!

Boom!

Billowing chaos qi poured forth and in a blink drowned the seventy-two palaces, turning them into a Chaos Sea. Before palace after palace, the Twelve Palace Lords and the one hundred and eight Enlightened of Miluo Palace hastened to drive the Miluo Dao Burial, when at that very moment, upon the Chaos Sea, vast lotus leaves rose one after another, and Guixu lotuses spun as they bloomed!

Amid thundering surf, stars rose slowly from the Chaos Sea, higher and higher, ever more numerous, until they filled the sky, and stars knotted into mansions and asterisms and rivers of stars, and all heavens and myriad worlds emerged one by one! Above this Chaos Sea, the Yuan Realm, the Ancestral Court, Xuandu, and Youdu all surged forth together, a sight to shake the soul!

At the same time the Chaos Palace emerged behind Shen Mu, complete with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and the Seventy-Two Treasure Palaces, and his Chaos Palace sat enthroned within the Yujing City formed by the Seventy-Two Treasure Palaces, becoming the supreme seventy-third treasure palace!

"Attaining the Dao by force! " Despair filled Haotianzun's heart, for Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and Seventy-Two Treasure Palaces meant beyond doubt the standard of attaining the Dao by force, and even though Shen Mu had not yet stepped across the Chaos Palace to ascend its Imperial Throne, he was already sufficient to attain the Dao by force!

Clearly, in these three thousand years Shen Mu had absorbed three other kinds of Imperial Throne techniques and made up the number of his heavenly palaces.

And those three heavenly palaces could by no means have come from Jingping, for during these three thousand years Shen Mu had remained in the Ancestral Court suppressing Yujing City and the World Tree. Then those three heavenly palaces could only have come from within the Ancestral Court, and the techniques most easily obtained by Shen Mu were those of Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Daozu, Jiang Baigui, and the others.

Had they been Imperial Throne techniques gained from others it would have been one thing, for after all all divine powers under heaven come forth from Miluo, and in any technique or power the shadow of Miluo Palace can be found.

But Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, and Jiang Baigui were different.

Of the three, Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian had opened the path of attaining the Dao from within, without reliance on the outer, while Jiang Baigui was the great synthesizer of Houtian Dao attainment.

If Shen Mu absorbed the Imperial Throne techniques of these three, then his achievement in attaining the Dao by force would likely be matchless!

Attaining the Dao by force would raise his magic power and physique across the board, lifting them to an unimaginable degree, absolutely surpassing every Palace Lord of the seventy-two palaces!

Although attaining the Dao by force was an outer path, Shen Mu had long since cast off the Yujing trap, and the strength gained by his attainment by force belonged to himself alone, and added to his Five Tai Dao attainment and his Guixu Dao attainment, his battle power had surely reached a height Haotianzun could not imagine.

"The Third Young Master has misjudged Venerable Mu's strength!

" Haotianzun desperately wished to tell the Third Young Master and the others, but now the Third Young Master's consciousness pressed his own thought and awareness cowering into a corner of his mind, and he could not command his body at all.

"On Venerable Mu's World Tree there are not two Dao fruits and three Dao flowers! " He yearned to cry out yet could utter no sound: "On Venerable Mu's World Tree there are three Dao fruits!

The third Dao fruit is the fruit of attaining the Dao by force!

Our Miluo Dao Burial is aimed at his two Dao fruits and three Dao flowers of Five Tai Dao attainment! " At almost the same moment the might of the Miluo Dao Burial erupted, and although only the Twelve Palace Lords had descended while the other Palace Lords remained in the Sixteenth Epoch, when the might of the Miluo Dao Burial erupted it was aimed precisely at every aspect of Shen Mu's divine treasury and divine powers!

The Enlightened of Miluo Palace had in three thousand years observed Shen Mu, observed him in every aspect, and could be said to know his divine powers and Dao arts like the palm of their hand, to have studied the structure of his powers with utter thoroughness, and to have researched the Great Daos he commanded in the finest detail.

The Miluo Dao Burial took the Dao arts and divine powers of Miluo Palace as its root, a supreme great power created to target Shen Mu's techniques, cultivation, and Great Daos! Haotianzun despaired all the more: "One Dao fruit left uncounted--" The Twelve Palace Lords and the one hundred and eight Enlightened drove the might of the Miluo Dao Burial, and in that moment the Dao chains of the Seventy-Two Treasure Palaces erupted, piercing the Chaos Sea, and layer upon layer of heavens spread open, slicing against Shen Mu's all heavens and myriad worlds!

In that moment the Dao might bursting from the Seventy-Two Treasure Palaces each displayed the supreme achievement of its Seventy-Two Palace Lords in their own domains, each treasure palace corresponding to the Dao realm of forty heavens, fortyfold heavens that cut Shen Mu's all heavens and myriad worlds to shreds! Young Master Lingxiao controlled Haotianzun's fleshly body, and with the blessing of the Miluo Dao Burial he seemed the Master of Miluo Palace descended in person, wielding the power of the Miluo Dao Burial!

The Dao trees of those Twelve Palace Lords and the other one hundred and seven Enlightened blazed with light, Dao fruits one by one soared aloft to suppress the Chaos Sea, pressing it until no wave dared rise! Shen Mu's Guixu lotuses and lotus leaves were left with not a shred of might.

"It worked!

" The Twelve Palace Lords and the one hundred and eight Enlightened were振奋 in spirit, and the magic power of all gathered into one earth-shaking blow, a blow sufficient to annihilate every Great Dao!

And now they waited for one chance, the chance for Shen Mu to burst forth with all his strength and be beaten and broken by the Miluo Dao Burial. Just then Shen Mu's Chaos Palace boomed open, and from within the Chaos Palace the World Tree flew out, and upon the World Tree two Dao fruits and three Dao flowers shot forth Dao light, becoming Five Tai veins floating above the Chaos Sea.

The Great Dao of Samsara became the Six Paths Wheel, standing upright upon the surface of the Chaos Sea, howling as it turned! "This is the very chance I waited for!

" Young Master Lingxiao's eyes blazed bright as he drove Haotianzun's fleshly body, gathering the might of the Miluo Dao Burial, and the might of the Miluo Dao Burial erupted straight through the Six Paths Wheel.

That power rolled vast and mighty, heaven tilting and earth slanting, sun and moon snuffed out, heavens unraveled, and all the Great Daos of heaven and earth were shattered to pieces, and even the Six Paths Wheel was shaken to dust, leaving nothing behind!

The Five Tai veins formed from Shen Mu's Dao flowers and Dao fruits were at once suppressed, and the five great veins broke apart and crumbled in the shock.

If broken down in detail, this great power of the Miluo Dao Burial could be resolved into countless tiny powers, each tiny power aimed specifically at the composition of Shen Mu's Great Daos, destroying all his Daos in a single instant.

With his Daos gone, Shen Mu's cultivation would be crippled, his powers would naturally lose might, and Shen Mu could only await slaughter at others' hands!