Chapter 1851 — The Peerless Sword-Dao Young Master

Those sixteen Chaos Long Rivers formed rings of varying sizes, and Shen Mu stood among them, saying with a smile, "Third Brother, Fourth Brother, come send me back. " Young Master Lingxiao let out a long howl, thrust his Dao spear out, and with the spear picking at the Chaos Long Rivers, savagely charged into their midst, straight at Shen Mu!

Meanwhile, Young Master Zixiao circled around Shen Mu, his Dao sword humming, its point leveled at the Six-Path Heavenly Wheel!

The two had chosen the surest path: Young Master Lingxiao would fight Shen Mu to the death, while Young Master Zixiao destroyed the Six-Path Heavenly Wheel and led the host to encircle and annihilate the Jingping Dao-achievers.

The linchpin was the destruction of the Six-Path Heavenly Wheel—once the wheel was destroyed, the Jingping Dao-achievers would face a massacre, and they could never be a match for the host of Yujing City. And after the Jingping Dao-achievers were wiped out, if Young Master Lingxiao still had not defeated Shen Mu, Young Master Zixiao could come to his aid, gravely wounding Shen Mu and exiling him to the past!

This battle, one could say, held no suspense whatsoever! Right at the instant Young Master Zixiao lunged toward the Six-Path Heavenly Wheel, the chaos before him abruptly turned vast and dim—Chaos Long River after Chaos Long River came sweeping in and dragged him into Shen Mu's battle ring.

On the other side, Young Master Lingxiao swept his long spear, trying to toss aside the Chaos Long Rivers so that Young Master Zixiao could break free, yet his Dao spear suddenly turned heavy and could not lift the Chaos Long River. Young Master Lingxiao exerted his strength abruptly; the Dao spear bent under the strain, but still he could not raise the Chaos Long River.

He looked out and saw that the sixteen Chaos Long Rivers surrounding Shen Mu had suddenly become incomparably vast and boundless, just like the sixteen long rivers encircling the Miluo Palace in Yujing City.

Dense mist hemmed them in on every side, and the far bank was completely invisible! The chaotic mist shrouded the river surface entirely, confounding all direction.

He could not even see where Young Master Zixiao was, nor did he know where Shen Mu was! Chaos.

The great chaos that formed after sixteen cosmic epochs were annihilated.

Young Master Lingxiao's heart sank slightly. He drew his Dao spear from the river and stood upon its surface, uncertain which epoch's Annihilation Tribulation he now stood on, and uncertain of his bearings. The last time he had exchanged blows with Shen Mu, Shen Mu had cultivated his Dao realm to the thirty-sixth heaven and deployed the Chaos Long River technique—but that was the Battle of Guixu, three and a half billion years ago.

At that time, he had broken the technique with ease.

In the long ages that followed, although Shen Mu had clashed with them repeatedly, he had never once used this technique again.

And now, three and a half billion years later, the technique had reappeared—but it had already become something he could not understand.

The Way of Chaos—even the master of the Miluo Palace had never understood it.

"Seventh Brother did not return to the past, so he cannot have attained the Dao through Chaos.

These sixteen long rivers are not his cultivation; they are the true great Annihilation Tribulation.

" Young Master Lingxiao quickly reasoned this out. At once he bore his Dao spear on his back and raced away across the river's surface with a long cry.

Wherever he passed, the Chaos Long River erupted with a thunderous boom!

Behind him, Dao fruit after Dao fruit from his Dao Tree flew forward without cease, their Dao light shining through and scattering the mist ahead.

"He has not appeared, which means he has gone to stop Fourth Brother.

I can race across the surfaces of the sixteen Chaos Long Rivers in just one day and find his position!

I can also escape this river's surface and go annihilate the Jingping Dao-achievers! " Although he did not know what Shen Mu's Way of Chaos truly was, cultivation was the standard by which strength was measured.

He could not understand the divine ability Shen Mu used, but he knew that Shen Mu was merely using that strange divine ability to send him and Fourth Young Master onto the Chaos Long Rivers, buying time. Yet even if Shen Mu had cultivated for three and a half billion years, his cultivation was still far inferior to his own and Fourth Young Master's!

Young Master Lingxiao shot forward like the wind, quickly reaching the far bank of this long river.

His spirits lifted; without a moment's pause, he raced onward. He knew he had chosen the right direction. As long as he continued along this course, he would find the far banks of the other long rivers, until he reached the Annihilation Tribulation of the First Epoch or the Sixteenth Epoch.

If he reached the First Epoch, he would see the Miluo Palace, and turning back from there would take at most two days in all.

And if he walked out of the Sixteenth Epoch's Annihilation Tribulation, he could free himself at once. These sixteen long rivers could not trap him!

A day later, Young Master Lingxiao crossed the sixteen Chaos Long Rivers, but his heart suddenly sank—ahead still stretched the vast, boundless Chaos Long River.

The corner of his eye twitched violently, yet he lowered his head and raced onward. Another day passed, and he crossed sixteen Chaos Long Rivers again, but the chaotic mist ahead was still immensely thick, without end.

Young Master Lingxiao halted, pondered for a moment, left one Dao fruit suspended in the mist, and continued racing forward. This Dao fruit's function was to suppress any divine ability Shen Mu might have left upon the long river!

He realized that he might have inadvertently triggered Shen Mu's divine ability while crossing the Chaos Long Rivers, causing himself to spin round and round among the sixteen long rivers. Although he could not understand or see through Shen Mu's divine ability, as long as he suppressed it so that it could not function, he could escape!

At the second long river, he left another Dao fruit.

At the third long river, he left yet another. When his eight Dao fruits were used up, he left his Dao Tree in the chaotic mist.

At the tenth Chaos Long River, he left his Dao spear; at the eleventh, he left his Dao Hall; at the twelfth, he left his Da Luo Heaven.

He continued racing forward.

By all reasoning, only four Chaos Long Rivers should have remained ahead, yet when he reached the thirteenth, he encountered his own Dao fruit.

The corner of Young Master Lingxiao's eye twitched, but he ignored the Dao fruit and charged on.

When he reached the fourteenth Chaos Long River, he encountered his Da Luo Heaven—which should have been on the twelfth. He pressed on and saw his own Dao spear.

Young Master Lingxiao stopped, reached out, and seized the Dao spear. He let out a muffled roar, and the rolling Dao tones shook the surface of the Chaos Long River, blasting it open with thunderous booms!

"Seventh Brother!

" Burning with outrage, Young Master Lingxiao thrust his Dao spear madly in every direction!

He had finally understood the operating principle of Shen Mu's divine ability: the sixteen long rivers revolved ceaselessly around Shen Mu, the position of every river constantly changing—changing with no pattern whatsoever!

As long as he set foot on the river's surface, he would never walk out! Just then, he sensed waves of terrifying divine-ability fluctuations and could not help but feel a stir in his heart.

"Fourth Brother and Seventh Brother are clashing! They, too, are upon the long river!

" He raised his Dao spear and drove it heavily into the river's surface.