Chapter 1853 — The One Who Dissolved into the Dao

As the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel came grinding down, spinning without cease, the divine powers of the three thousand accomplished Daoists of Jingping upon it poured down like a rain of arrows, and in an instant the accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace suffered grievous slaughter! Dao tree after dao tree shattered in the radiance of the Dao arts; some dao fruits had scarcely risen before ten thousand swords pierced through them; some accomplished Daoists, before they could even react, had their bodies smashed apart and their spirits blasted to nothing by dozens of kinds of Daoist arts and divine powers.

And the divine powers they hurled at the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, before they could even draw near the Jingping Daoists atop it, would often suddenly dissipate and lose all their force. Even the Hall Masters of Miluo Palace, whose divine powers could pierce the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and wound the Jingping Daoists upon it—let the Wheel but turn one full revolution, and it would heal the Daoist wounds of the Jingping Daoists, restoring them to their peak.

The vast Wheel grinding over them was itself a terrifying attack.

More terrifying still was the power of the Dao of Reincarnation radiating from within the Wheel. Shen Fengqing, who commanded the Wheel, was inferior to Shen Mu in mana, yet his comprehension of the Dao of Reincarnation surpassed Shen Mu's; with the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel driven by him, any accomplished Daoist of Miluo Palace who drew near would involuntarily fall into reincarnation, their bodies transformed by it, their spirits transformed, and even their Great Dao divine powers altered.

The accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace attacked from all directions; for many of them, merely drawing a little too close, the bodies forged by their Great Dao began to rot, and their Great Dao to crumble!

Some, when they reached the edge of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, had already been reduced to heaps of white bone; even their dao trees began to wither, their dao fruits yellowing and dropping away, stripped of power.

Had the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel been forged by Shen Fengqing, it would not have been so dreadful; this Wheel was made by Shen Mu, who destroyed the Great Abyss of Guixu and gathered the Chaos Stones within to refine it. Through three and a half billion years of polishing and ritual tempering, its power had grown so great that it could almost rival the Dao-arms of the Young Masters. This was why Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao had wanted to shatter the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel from the very beginning.

Without breaking the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, the accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace could hardly claim a great victory—could hardly even keep their lives.

The Dao of Reincarnation was an entirely new Great Dao; across the past sixteen cosmic epochs no one had ever created such a Dao.

It was one of the fruits of Jingping's reforms. In the past sixteen cosmic epochs, the only one to master this Dao had been the Seventh Young Master, Chaos.

But the Seventh Young Master Chaos had already fused this inconceivable Dao with his own Dao of Chaos, making it all the more bizarre.

And since the Seventh Young Master acted in such secretive ways, it was all the more impossible to understand this Dao.

In the city of Yujing there were countless accomplished Daoists, and as many as fifty-six Hall Masters.

Each of those fifty-six Hall Masters was a being who had reached the utmost achievement in some domain; their cultivation and strength were no match for the Young Masters, yet each one's individual achievements were by no means trifling!

The master of Miluo Palace and the seven Young Masters possessed extraordinary abilities, yet even they might not have been able to match the Hall Masters' achievements.

And Miluo Palace never forbade its accomplished Daoists from learning its various Daoist arts and divine powers; thus every accomplished Daoist of Miluo Palace also possessed achievements enough to stand alone!

Even so, faced with the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, they had no power to resist at all. "Break the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel first!

" The fifty-six Hall Masters shouted in unison, and with a fierce cry, fifty-six treasure halls rose into the air, then suddenly dissolved into countless Dao patterns and Dao chains, with blue heaven above and earth below, transforming into realms of Luotian, one after another, of the Dao.

This was the Luotian realm that surpassed the dao tree system, belonging to the fortieth tier of the Heavenly Dao realm.

The Great Daos of the fifty-six Hall Masters joined like paired jades, each driving their own Great Dao, forming a single blow that shook heaven and earth.

They were filled with powerful confidence: the foundations of Miluo Palace were far beyond anything Jingping's three and a half billion years of development could match!

Though Jingping had developed so strange a Great Dao as the Dao of Reincarnation, Miluo Palace had faced countless enemies over the past sixteen cosmic epochs, among them colossi akin to the Heavenly Capital City, and had passed through them all unscathed. Jingping was but a single page in the long history of Miluo Palace; though dazzling, though writing wonders upon that page, it still could not shake Miluo Palace!

"Miluo Joins the Dao!

" The fifty-six Hall Masters spoke as one, and a vast, boundless power erupted from the dao tree forest—another combined-strike art.

Miluo's Dao Burial was a combined-strike art created by two of the Young Masters to counter Shen Mu's techniques and divine powers, and it was highly targeted; Miluo Joins the Dao, by contrast, was a divine power Miluo Palace had created to counter beings like the Young Masters.

Miluo's Dao Burial, aimed at Shen Mu, was deadlier when facing Shen Mu, but correspondingly less effective against others. Miluo Joins the Dao was a great divine power modeled upon the prodigies that appeared when the master of Miluo Palace joined with the Dao; though its might was not as great as Miluo's Dao Burial, the Dao resonance of the master's union with the Dao exerted an exceedingly strong suppression upon any other Great Dao divine power!

The power of Miluo Joins the Dao swelled violently, and dimly, within the dao tree forest, ten thousand Dao chains formed a vast phantom; that phantom rose slowly, and it was none other than the phantom of the master of Miluo Palace!

The moment this Dao art appeared, the three thousand accomplished Daoists of Jingping upon the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel all felt an urge to prostrate themselves in worship; their own Great Daos trembled and bowed before it!

Even the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel now saw its power greatly diminished!

The fifty-six Hall Masters were just about to drive Miluo Joins the Dao to shatter the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and slay Jingping's three thousand accomplished Daoists, when suddenly the power of Miluo Joins the Dao fell sharply! The Hall Masters were thrown into confusion, not knowing what had happened; a strange power was disrupting Miluo Joins the Dao, and that power came from among the fifty-six of them!

"Lady Nanxiang!

" Hall Master Huadu immediately caught the source of this power and, enraged, shouted—but at that very moment, Lady Nanxiang withdrew her own Great Dao, wrecking the conception of Miluo Joins the Dao clean through. The phantom of the master of Miluo Palace, formed of countless Dao chains, had scarcely risen before it collapsed and shattered.

Boom— The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel came grinding in, plunging among the fifty-six Hall Masters; countless divine powers sent one mighty Hall Master after another flying, and Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Kaihuang Shen Ye, and others of Hall Master rank seized the chance to deal the Hall Masters deadly blows! Having wrecked Miluo Joins the Dao, Lady Nanxiang withdrew amid the chaos and alighted upon the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel.

"I have waited long for you.