Chapter 1634 — No Choice but Death
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
"Gain it and use it well. Since I have gained the support of Miluo Palace, I must use it well.
Miluo Palace is my momentum. My momentum has grown so great that my father Taichu has already despaired and had no choice but to submit to me.
" With a thunderous roar Youdu split open, and a fragment of Da Luotian flew out and bore down from above, and wherever it passed the cold silent wind howled past, forcing Xu, Ling, You, Zu, Huo, Yue, Langwan, Taiji, Taishi and the others to give way.
Suddenly another fragment of Da Luotian flew out toward Youdu, then a third and a fourth. Sixteen fragments of Da Luotian hung like transparent mirrors, and within each fragment stood a massive hexagonal prism, and Shen Mu gazed from afar and saw those prisms shimmering with a strange Dao resonance, and his heart could not help but leap.
"Can these prisms within Da Luotian be Dao trees carved into shape?
" Though trapped within the Myriad Dao Heaven Wheel formed from Hao Tianzun's celestial court, he could still see all outside clearly with the vertical eye between his brows. There upon the hexagonal prisms within those fragments of Da Luotian were carved all manner of strange patterns, and the prisms stood within the cold silent wind without moving a hair. As the fragments turned, at the crown of the strange patterns upon the prisms there appeared in each a Dao fruit, the Dao fruit split open, and blood flowed from the fruit like earthworms and ran down along those patterns.
Those patterns at once seemed to come alive, writhing and turning and giving off a dazzling Dao light.
That Dao light, refracted by the fragments of Da Luotian, shone in all directions, and in the void of Youdu there at once emerged more strange Dao markings than could be counted, racing through Youdu like gunpowder set alight.
Those locked in battle felt a strange covenant linking to their fleshly bodies and primordial spirits. "This is the blood sacrifice grand formation branded into the Ancestral Court, and this covenant is the blood sacrifice covenant," Hao Tianzun said.
"The content of the covenant is very simple, it is a flesh and blood exchange sacrifice between two universes, trading the living of that universe for the living of this universe.
Because this blood sacrifice covenant was refined by the Fourth Young Master at the cost of sixteen attainers of past cosmic eras, it leaves you no room to resist. You are powerless to resist.
So long as you die, the blood sacrifice covenant will be set in motion.
" With A'Chou and the Earth Earl upon his back the Heavenly Lord sped like the wind, meaning to flee Youdu, but hearing his words despair filled his heart and he halted.
Now even if he bore A'Chou out of Youdu he would carry that blood sacrifice covenant with him. The Heavenly Lord set down A'Chou and laughed. "Old friend, I fear I cannot guard your flesh. If we live through this, we shall meet again.
" He lifted his head and gazed upward within Youdu, and saw what the Earth Earl had seen when gazing upward in Youdu.
It was the countless living beings of all the heavens and myriad worlds.
World after world, numberless lives, their joys and angers and sorrows, their meetings and partings, all entered his eyes. In former days the Heavenly Lord had never understood why the Earth Earl did not wish to attain the Dao and wished only to become human, and now he somewhat understood.
If to attain the Dao one must cast away the happiness of the human world, then what meaning has attaining the Dao?
It would be better to be a human with joy and anger and sorrow and with meeting and parting.
With a sweep of his sleeve the Heavenly Lord seized the Heavenly Dao treasures, meaning to turn back and rescue Shen Mu.
And at that moment the sky of Youdu split, and a celestial palace flashing with dense divine light descended from the heavens.