Chapter 1666 — Burying the Great Dao
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In universe after universe of the past, we could not stop the Seventh Young Lord, but in this yet-unknown future, no matter what, we must try! " He was an existence who had attained the Dao through sacrifice; this bow was not merely a bow to Shen Mu's name as the Seventh Young Lord, but a bow aimed at Shen Mu's very life!
His Dao tree, Dao flower, and Dao fruit erupted in that instant with countless Dao patterns and Dao chains, blazing, seething, transforming into inconceivably terrifying divine power, attacking Shen Mu within that bow! His Dao arts and divine powers were aimed specifically at the primordial spirit; Shen Mu had once obtained the teaching rod refined from the branches of his Dao tree, and so long as the opponent had a primordial spirit, the strike would invariably find its mark!
Shen Mu had also studied the principle behind this. The reason the Primordial Sage's divine power never missed was chiefly that the Miro Palace Primordial Sage's Dao was the Dao of sacrifice.
The power of sacrifice was exceedingly strange, penetrating everywhere, formless and substanceless; it was the thoughts of all living beings, and wherever thought reached, there was no resisting it!
Boom! Shen Mu's primordial spirit was blasted high into the air, falling backward; his primordial spirit took the blow and was nearly split apart by the shock.
The Miro Palace Primordial Sage's form soared into the air, and the Dao tree behind him soared as well; Dao patterns and Dao chains combined in the air into an ancient, incomparably ancient altar.
The Dao of sacrifice he had taught to the Great Emperor had hidden flaws, preventing the Great Emperor from becoming a true Dao-attainer, but he himself was utterly without flaw.
Shen Mu's primordial spirit, suspended in midair, abruptly halted; the splitting primordial spirit suddenly stopped splitting, gathered its Dao into a sword, and met the Miro Palace Primordial Sage head-on!
The Primordial Sage roared; his two Dao fruits spun and swelled, erupting with terrifying Dao light, and thirty-six layers of heavenly Dao realms swept Shen Mu up in layer upon layer!
His two Dao fruits each possessed thirty-six layers of heavenly Dao realms, drawing Shen Mu into the Dao fruits.
Then the Dao flower flew up, wrapping the two Dao fruits within its blossom; the Dao flower spun and returned to the Dao tree.
The Dao tree stood erect, floating above the altar; the Primordial Sage stood below the altar and gave a fierce shout; the topknot on his head burst apart, black hair flying wild.
"Seventh Young Lord, receive the thoughts of all living beings from a past universe!
Supreme Sacrifice!
" He bowed deeply; on the altar, the Dao patterns and Dao chains within the Dao flower seethed, and seventy-two layers of heavenly Dao realms rumbled and quaked.
He meant to use Shen Mu's primordial spirit as a sacrifice to the countless living beings who had died in the destruction kalpa of a past universe!
Chi— In the instant of the Primordial Sage's bow, a sword light pierced through seventy-two layers of heaven, ran through the two Dao fruit phantoms, ran through the Dao flower phantom, split the Dao tree in two, and clove the altar apart!
The Primordial Sage rose; a sword scar appeared at the center of his brow, and the scar kept splitting downward along the midline of his brow, reaching the bridge of his nose, his philtrum, his chin, his throat, his chest, his lower abdomen.
The Primordial Sage's body trembled; he forcibly used his own Dao power to halt the sword's might. On the altar, Shen Mu's figure flickered in and out of view amid the flooding Dao light.
"Primordial Sage, the Great Emperor was ruined by your Dao of sacrifice; he slaughtered the Creator race and brought about this universe's first kalpa, and every calamity that followed arose because of it.