Chapter 1839 — In the Sixteen Kalpas, Who Could Be a Match?

Elder Wuyai reacted at once. The World Tree's countless roots stabbed down from the sky like spears, burying themselves in the earth of the Ancestral Court, while countless more reached out in every direction to pierce the four walls that sealed it.

He and Young Master Wuji were born as opposites, each the other's natural bane, both made of the same naturally immutable substance, yet standing as obverse and reverse.

In every Kalpa of Annihilation throughout the past, the World Tree had taken root within that destruction, and Elder Wuyai had always deliberately avoided the Great Abyss of Guixu, refusing to let it collide with the Abyss, because he knew that the Abyss was a force that could destroy him. If Shen Mu, Young Master Lingxiao, and Young Master Zixiao cast him into that Abyss, the two of them would see their cultivation and power drain away without cease, and might even annihilate each other. Cloud Heaven Sovereign had killed Wuji's avatar, Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua had killed the Empress, all by similar methods.

But their methods had only trapped Wuji's avatar and the Empress inside the Ultimate Void, not violently, leaving them a window to escape. Cloud Heaven Sovereign had spent his own life to detain Wuji's avatar and delay Wuji's escape; Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua had finally taken the Empress's life with the blue-gray divine art.

Yet to thrust Elder Wuyai's true body directly into the Great Abyss—the dissolution and annihilation that would follow would surely be unspeakably dreadful! The World Tree's roots pierced the Ancestral Court's earth, burrowed underground, and all at once the land boomed and shuddered, and one sacred peak after another rose from the soil. On the other side, however, the roots reaching for the four walls encountered something bizarre.

Before they could even touch the walls, an explosion of Dao light blazed out, and strange, mighty arts actually flung the roots away! At the same time, one of the two Young Masters lifted the World Tree, the other severed the roots it had driven into the Ancestral Court, and together they sent the tree into the Great Abyss.

They both noticed the unnatural sight of the four walls in that same breath, and cold dread coiled through their hearts. Those four walls were the vast, boundless barriers left when Shen Mu had forcibly folded the Ancestral Court with overwhelming power.

He had altered mountains and rivers, reshaped the terrain, even branded his own Great Dao into the land, ceaselessly reinforcing and sealing these walls, hoping to trap everyone here and cut them off from the outside. But everyone knew the Ancestral Court was simply too immense.

With Shen Mu's strength he might seal it, but he could never turn it into a treasure. To do so would require too much effort, too great a wisdom, too much dharma power, and an inconceivably long time.

Shen Mu had none of these—not the time, not the accumulated experience, not the vast reservoir of power, not the wisdom—so it was utterly impossible for him to refine the Ancestral Court into a treasure. Yet when the Dao light of the four walls burst out and repelled the World Tree's roots, their hearts sank: every feat they had believed impossible for Shen Mu, Shen Mu had accomplished all the same.

The Ancestral Court now already showed signs of being refined into a treasure!

If the Ancestral Court were ever fully refined, how immense would that treasure be, how terrible its might?

"Seventh Brother is a monumental threat! " Lingxiao and Zixiao exchanged a single look, minds in perfect accord.

Boom! In the space of a breath, with a world-shaking roar, Elder Wuyai and the World Tree were stuffed into the Great Abyss hanging in the sky.

Compared with Wuji, they did indeed carry "the breath of the weak.

" But with the three joining hands and Elder Wuyai thrown into the mix, by prearranged cunning against unprepared targets, they could absolutely ensnare Elder Wuyai and Wuji beyond all hope! The three figures followed close behind the World Tree and the old man into the Abyss.

Shen Mu raised his hand; a lotus leaf spread out like the sky and sealed the entrance. Behind him, the Lunar Heaven Sovereign entered with him, surveying her surroundings with the greatest care, not daring the slightest lapse.

The instant Elder Wuyai and the World Tree fell into the Abyss, two fearsome forces struck each other and annihilated each other, wreaking appalling havoc across the Chaotic Sea of Guixu!

Elder Wuyai and Wuji let out piercing shrieks almost simultaneously, rampaging back and forth through Guixu and making the Great Abyss wildly unstable!

The World Tree's branches and roots reached in every direction; some plunged into the Chaotic Sea to siphon its power, others rammed into the walls of the Great Abyss, sending chaos-stones crashing into the sea.

At almost the same moment, Elder Wuyai and Wuji struck to kill each other!

In that instant, both understood that only by destroying the other could either hope to survive, only then would they not perish together in body and soul!

Lingxiao, Zixiao, and Shen Mu soared up and attacked them both, while also sealing the Guixu entrance so neither could escape. The Great Abyss became a beast-pit.

In the three-way melee, pitch-black Guixu arts filled the depths, devouring everything. White hair streaming, Wuji drove her arts with all her might and cried out: "Third Brother, Fourth Brother, Seventh Brother, you butchered your fellow disciples! How will you answer to the Master?

" Lingxiao's murderous aura seethed; his Dao lance pierced through a black hole of Guixu, stabbed out from within it, and pointed straight at Wuji's brow.

He said coldly: "Second Sister, in whose hands did Zhanji die?

Do you still not know?

" Wuji evaded the lance. Suddenly the lotus dais beneath her feet tilted, a lotus leaf flew up, and with a swish it wrapped around Lingxiao!

Boom! Lingxiao was crushed alive by the leaf into a mist of blood.

When the leaf unfolded, only a pile of broken bones and his Dao lance remained. His fleshly body was that of Heavenly Lord Hao, far too weak to contend with a supreme power like Wuji; outmatched in dharma power and body alike, he died in a single move! Shen Mu pointed, and the Immutable Art erupted.

Before the blood mist and broken bones could be swallowed by the Chaotic Sea, Lingxiao was standing intact on the lotus leaf.

Wuji shouted in fury. Suddenly a length of lotus root rose from the Chaotic Sea, a root with sixteen holes, and from them a stream of air blasted toward Shen Mu.

Whoosh! Shen Mu's flesh dissolved, quickly leaving a set of white bones, and then even those bones shattered in the uncanny current from the root's holes.

After that gust of kalpa-wind, Shen Mu was utterly gone! "Zhanji's death has nothing to do with me! " Having cut down Lingxiao and Shen Mu in succession, Wuji's killing intent towered to the heavens.

She cried savagely: "If I had done it, why would I hide it? " Zixiao's and Elder Wuyai's arts struck her.

Zixiao's was tolerable, but Elder Wuyai's attack made her spit blood.

Wuji turned ruthless and struck to kill: "Since words can't settle this, I'll just kill you!

I meant to kill all of you anyway! " Suddenly the Chaotic Sea trembled.

A Chaos Hall rose from the sea, its doors flung wide, and Shen Mu walked out. He raised a hand, drew the Lunar Heaven Sovereign to him, and said: "Enter my hall.

" Wuji flicked her fingers. The Dao-Achiever's fleshly body controlled by Zixiao shuddered as lotus seeds shot into it, tearing bloody holes through it.

Those seeds swelled at terrifying speed, took root, and sprouted.

Zixiao burst apart, and the lotus tendrils drained the energy from his body in the span of a breath!

"The Immutable Art! " Shen Mu hid the Lunar Heaven Sovereign away and pointed again.

The Immutable Art erupted; the lotuses that had sprouted from Zixiao's body shrank back, turning into seeds again in an instant.