Chapter 1540 — The Truth Behind the Tribulation
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That great tribulation came surging out of the Ultimate Void, destroying layer upon layer of void along the way, sweeping over the real cosmos!
Those Dao-attainers who held sway over worlds one by one now flew toward the World Tree, and some toward the River of Chaos — they must have been flying toward Miluo Palace, toward Jade Capital City.
Watching this scene, Shen Mu unwittingly slowed the boat, tracing it back bit by bit, until at last he fixed time upon the eve of the previous cosmos's destruction. And at that moment the little boat beneath his feet gave a slight check, and at last touched the far bank of the River of Chaos.
Yet he did not go ashore; his gaze was fixed upon the chaos in the river, for there he saw the last Dao-attainer of the previous cosmos, who, in order to cultivate the Great Dao and lodge it in the void, had chosen to practice the Dao of Slaughter.
That Dao-attainer destroyed worlds one after another, slaughtering countless living beings; as those worlds perished and their stars reverted to chaos, he drew in that power, and at last attained the Dao of Slaughter. His Great Dao condensed in the Ultimate Void, became a Dao Tree, bore a Dao Fruit, and at last became the final straw that crushed the Ultimate Void.
In the very instant his Dao Fruit formed, the tribulation of destruction that swept the whole cosmos at last erupted in the Ultimate Void!
And in truth, even before that, the Ultimate Void had ceased to be stable; violent tremors came from time to time, shaking the Dao Trees of the Dao-attainers! Not only the Dao Trees — even the great worlds throughout the cosmos quaked and trembled without cease!
"Energy condensed to the utmost gives rise to collapse, and the source of that collapse is the Ultimate Void!
" Shen Mu steadied himself, withdrew his gaze, and walked toward the shore, thinking: "The Ten Heavenly Venerables do not have eyes as powerful as mine; they should be unable to find the far bank, no?
Perhaps the Lady of Heaven Qiang, with the woman in the Dao Fruit to guide her, might find it, but the other Heavenly Venerables certainly cannot. .
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" His foot had barely touched the ground when the expression on his face froze: Heavenly Venerable Hao, Heavenly Venerable Xiao, and the rest — ten Heavenly Venerables in all — were standing right before him, with the Lady of Heaven Qiang squeezed in the midst of the other nine!
Shen Mu's heart gave a jolt, and he spun about and leapt onto the little boat.