Chapter 1367 — Traces of Time
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Heavenly Venerable Xiao sensed that this sorrow was not left behind by any deity, but by the Great Dao of heaven and earth, the lamentation uttered by the Great Dao at the moment of its death. He withdrew the Primordial Wood and cautiously descended onto this incomparably ancient land, striving to suppress the dread in his heart.
The aura of the Great Dao's death here caused even him to feel dread. Even though he was Taichu of the Five Primal Ultimates, his heart could not help but be filled with fear of this place.
But he was, after all, once the Celestial Emperor and now a Heavenly Venerable, and he forcibly pressed down the dread in his heart, restrained his inner demons, and continued to search for the secrets of this place. This sorrow of the Great Dao made his own dao heart sorrowful as well, and unknowingly, tears fell from both his eyes.
And this dread of the Great Dao made him dread as well, trembling with fear, as if treading upon thin ice.
At last, Heavenly Venerable Xiao saw the source of the Great Dao's sorrow and dread. It was an incomparably ancient tree, thick and massive, its canopy terrifying, yet it had completely lost its branches and leaves, leaving only withered branches, trunk, and body.
It had been uprooted and lay tilted upon the ground, its roots completely dried up. Countless of its branches had broken, and those blackened, withered limbs seemed as though they would shatter at the slightest touch.
Yet what filled Heavenly Venerable Xiao with awe was that even though this tree had been reduced to such a state, it could still protect this stretch of land!
The reason this land could survive within the Chaotic Space, not destroyed by the strange spatial fragments here, was precisely the work of this withered tree!
"Is there a treasure tree even mightier than the Primordial Wood? "
He steadied himself, and then noticed that upon one branch hung a shriveled, wrinkled fruit. The fruit was pitch-black, covered in many patterns, though they could not be seen clearly.
Heavenly Venerable Xiao was stunned.
He had seen this kind of fruit before! This was a Dao Fruit! When the Great Emperor had imprinted his spirit consciousness into the Ultimate Void, the Great Dao had formed the Spirit Consciousness Daluo Heaven.
At that time, Heavenly Venerable Xiao was still Taichu, the Great Emperor's nominal adopted son! Taichu had witnessed an exceedingly sacred scene: he had seen the formation of the Spirit Consciousness Daluo Heaven, and seen the Great Emperor's Great Dao within the Daluo Heaven transform into a Dao Tree.
The Dao Tree took root and sprouted, put forth branches, and slowly grew into a towering giant tree whose canopy covered the Spirit Consciousness Daluo Heaven!
Moreover, Taichu had also seen the Great Emperor's spirit consciousness Great Dao bloom into dao flowers upon the tree and bear a dao fruit. Though it was only a green, unripe fruit, it still brought him incomparable shock!
And this withered tree before his eyes was clearly also the Dao Tree of an incomparably formidable existence, imprinted into the Ultimate Void!
That shriveled, wrinkled fruit was that existence's Dao Fruit!
"No!
No! "
Heavenly Venerable Xiao could not suppress the shock in his heart and cried out involuntarily: "The Great Emperor is the only existence to have imprinted his Great Dao into the Ultimate Void.
No second person could accomplish it! Within the Ultimate Void, there is only his Spirit Consciousness Daluo Heaven.
How could there possibly be a second person who imprinted the void before the Great Emperor and formed a Dao Fruit?
" This Dao Fruit should have been a mature one. Even shriveled and shrunken, it was still far larger than the Great Emperor's Dao Fruit.
That such an existence had died here silently and without notice made his blood run cold.
Heavenly Venerable Xiao steadied himself and walked toward that Dao Fruit.
You Capital.