Chapter 1846 — The Debt Contract Wuyai Established

Old Man Wuyai's voice was hoarse: "You did not come to sue for peace?

" Shen Mu shook his head and said, "Daoist Brother, is the note still there? " Old Man Wuyai's eye twitched, and suddenly one incomparably thick root of the World Tree drilled up from the ground; the root split open, and from within flew a sheet of golden paper, drifting gently before Shen Mu.

This sheet of golden paper could not survive the kalpa of destruction and the kalpa of creation, and so Old Man Wuyai had hidden it within his own "body," protecting the note from destruction. Shen Mu was slightly taken aback; he had not expected that there really was a note, and that Old Man Wuyai had actually preserved it until now!

"Daoist Brother, since you have the note, it is I who owe you a favor. " Shen Mu raised his hand and put away the note, nodded, and said indifferently, "Then I will leave Daoist Brother a thread of life, and will not utterly erase you.

" Old Man Wuyai laughed heartily; behind him, countless branches of the World Tree suddenly transformed into countless arms, and the phantom shadows of dao fruits of every hue hung upon the World Tree.

"Hundun, your best choice should be to join hands with me and together resist Miro Palace!

Hereafter you may again borrow my power to pressure Jing Ping, to force Jing Ping to strive and strengthen itself — not to come and eradicate me! Jing Ping has already become a place that thinks of nothing but ease, has it not?

" "Therefore, this is where Daoist Brother's thread of life lies.

" Shen Mu thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "I understand.

The reason I, after becoming the Seventh Prince, left you a note of debt was probably to remind myself not to utterly eradicate you.

I must spare your life — only you can make Jing Ping walk out from the Land of No Sorrow.

" Having reasoned this through, he could not help but laugh aloud. Old Man Wuyai also laughed heartily, and said leisurely, "Seventh of Miro Palace, are you so confident you can surely defeat me? Your best choice. .

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" Shen Mu took a single step forward, and behind him the Hall of Chaos rumbled open; sixteen primordial rivers of chaos spanned the vault of heaven, and the Guixu Lotus Platform and the World Tree emerged, taking root within the rivers! That lotus platform had thirteen tiers of dao grade; upon the World Tree hung eight dao fruits and seven dao flowers; the dao light of the Hall of Chaos shone upon the sixteen primordial rivers of chaos. At this moment, in the kalpas of destruction of the past sixteen cosmic epochs, one Old Man Wuyai after another raised his head and looked up, and saw the Hall of Chaos above the kalpa of destruction.

That light was blinding, and he could not see the future clearly!

The him of that time seemed to have become one independent individual after another, no longer able to establish contact with his future self.

Beneath the World Tree, Old Man Wuyai roared and met Shen Mu; the countless arms transformed from the World Tree's branches unleashed innumerable divine abilities in an instant — great divine abilities that left all who beheld them awestruck, each one attaining the ultimate mystery of Dao art, breathtaking to behold. Boom!

Those countless divine abilities submerged Shen Mu, yet amid the innumerable divine abilities, sixteen rivers interwove and crisscrossed, and those divine abilities vanished the moment they entered the rivers.

Shen Mu stood before Old Man Wuyai, pushed his palm forward, and a great hand grew larger and larger as the power of the Red Rope Knot Seal erupted.

Old Man Wuyai's countless arms met it, and with a thunderous roar, the sixteen primordial rivers of chaos quaked; red-rope-like chains interwove and crisscrossed, locking down the countless roots of the World Tree within the rivers.

Old Man Wuyai was shaken back despite himself, and his body suddenly vanished into the World Tree.

The World Tree quaked, about to pull out its roots and rise from the ground, when suddenly the red rope chains bound his roots fast, leaving him unable to move. Behind Shen Mu, from within the Hall of Chaos, a treasured sword forged of chaos stone flew out.

Shen Mu grasped the sword and swung it down.

At the same time, wherever the power of the Red Rope Knot Seal passed, countless roots of the World Tree were shaken into powder, transforming into pure energy. The sword light flashed, and the World Tree toppled with a crash!

Shen Mu raised his hand, and the Wind of Heat-Death came howling, burning around the World Tree; Old Man Wuyai screamed, trying to break free and fly out of the sea of fire, when suddenly the Guixu Lotus Platform descended, suppressing the World Tree, and from the many holes in the lotus platform the Wind of Silence blew, making the flames burn ever more fiercely.

"So fast! " In the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, Prince Lingxiao and Prince Zixiao gazed from afar at the World Tree, each with a grave expression.

"Old Seven has advanced considerably!

" Suddenly, Shen Mu flicked his finger, and a segment of the World Tree's root flew out from the primordial river of chaos, rushing beyond the heavens and vanishing without a trace.

"Daoist Brother Taishi, there is no need to convert the energy of the blood sacrifice.

" Taishi was just about to cast his art when suddenly Shen Mu's voice came, saying indifferently, "Let the Third Prince take away the blood sacrifice energy.

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