Chapter 1858 — The Contest of Dao Conviction

If he could send the Heaven-Opening Land into the Forest of Obelisks, the strength of the Heaven-Opening Host would swell enormously, and they would shatter the Forest of Obelisks in one stroke! Young Master Ling Xiao steadied himself and stepped into the ruins of Tiandu City.

Just then a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Third Senior Brother, do you know what the consequences will be if you use the ruins of Tiandu City to ram the Forest of Obelisks? " Young Master Ling Xiao's body went rigid. He halted, gripping the rust-covered dao spear tight.

"In past cosmic epochs, Young Master Taishang seized those most vicious and evil villains and suppressed them in this Foul Ground.

Many of them have already perished in one Tribulation of Creation after another.

But some have still not died, and remain suppressed within the forest of steles. " Behind him, Shen Mu's figure slowly emerged, striding toward him, and said, unhurried: "Tiandu's body is suppressed there as well; though it has endured ten Tribulations of Destruction and eleven Tribulations of Creation, it still has not dissolved.

Taiyi guards that place, transformed into an obelisk to suppress the Heaven-Opening Host, and at the same time to suppress the body of his own past life. If you ram the Forest of Obelisks with the ruins of Tiandu City, you will unleash a great horror. " Young Master Ling Xiao felt himself locked onto by Shen Mu's qi, and dared not make the slightest move.

Shen Mu came to his side and, shoulder to shoulder with him, gazed at the Heaven-Opening Land within the ruins of Tiandu City.

"The Heaven-Opening Host will be released; Taiyi will become Tiandu; the demons suppressed by Taishang will pour out in full. The entire universe of the Seventeenth Epoch will be laid waste, and may even be destroyed by it! Third Senior Brother, is this the Master's ideal that you uphold?

Or is it that, to win, you have stopped at nothing? " Young Master Ling Xiao's grip on the dao spear tightened and tightened. "What the Master could not do, I can do! To achieve the Master's ideal, there must be sacrifices! " Shen Mu turned his head and faced him, and said with a sneer: "Sacrifices?

The offering on the altar is a sacrifice, but the one who is made that offering has never been you.

The moment you stopped at nothing, you had already cast the Master's ideal aside entirely. You brought the host of Miluo Palace down through blood sacrifice. What difference is there between you and the Heaven-Opening Host? " Young Master Ling Xiao shook the dao spear; the spear's residual might burst forth and severed the qi with which Shen Mu had locked onto him! Young Master Ling Xiao immediately stepped back, his aura surging swiftly, and sneered: "Little Junior Brother, after the Master's dao-heart died and he entered nirvana, Miluo Palace had already collapsed!

Taishang takes no interest in worldly affairs; Taiji did evil and was suppressed; Fourth Brother is infatuated with his own love; Fifth and Sixth Brothers are nowhere to be found; and you are still stirring muddy water everywhere! Only I can be the backbone of Miluo Palace; only I can hold Miluo Palace up and inherit the Master's ideal!

What right have you to accuse me? " His aura grew stronger and stronger, his own Great Dao awakening swiftly, and he said chillingly: "Without me, Miluo Palace would long since have vanished into smoke! If the accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace leave it, they will only commit greater and more terrible sins! " "Therefore Miluo Palace must be destroyed!

" Shen Mu stepped forward and said coldly: "Miluo Palace exists to save all living beings.

If it cannot save them, then it should not continue to exist! " Young Master Ling Xiao was furious: "So you are determined to destroy Miluo Palace, to destroy the Master's dao lineage? " "That is right! " Shen Mu's killing intent surged to the heavens: "I mean to destroy Miluo Palace, to destroy the Master's dao lineage! The errors he committed, his last disciple will correct!

And if you remain stubbornly deluded, then you too are an error, and you too must be corrected! " Young Master Ling Xiao abruptly drove his dao spear into the ground beneath the ruins of Tiandu City; with but a surge of strength he could lift this whole ruin on his spear and hurl it at the Forest of Obelisks!

When the two great ruins collided, the residual might of the Heaven-Opening Land would be roused, and the Forest of Obelisks could be destroyed, releasing the cancers of the past sixteen cosmic epochs!

"You cannot kill me. " Young Master Ling Xiao said, word by word: "The Tribulation of Creation has annihilated the ninety-five billion years of my past, but in the future I still have endless time.

Little Junior Brother, in the end, this battle is mine!

" Shen Mu's gaze was strange.

He shook his head: "All your futures were ground to nothing in the Tribulation of Creation. Third Senior Brother, of countless futures, only the you of the present escaped.

All that remains to you is this brief span of time. " Young Master Ling Xiao's pupils shrank sharply, and with all his strength he heaved up the ruins of Tiandu City!