Chapter 1689 — The Chapter of Heaven's Capital Shaping the World
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The scene before Shen Mu's eyes abruptly changed. All around him, chaos qi surged in a frenzy, terrifying beyond measure; he seemed to stand at the very center of the great kalpa of cosmic destruction.
He felt pressure and heat of unimaginable power!
The Ultimate Void was gone from this place. The entire universe had become one mass of chaos, boundless in pressure, boundless in heat!
Within that seething chaos, only a scant few Dao achievers had survived. He saw the Jade Capital City amid the chaos — that would be the Master of Miluo Palace and his followers — and beyond them, strange and uncanny things drifting in this final chaos: the World Tree, the Abyssal Gulf of Guixu.
Shen Mu "saw" the figure of the Master of Miluo Palace, standing distant and towering before Miluo Palace, the Dao Tree bursting forth with radiant light, guarding the Jade Capital City of the Sixth Era's universe.
There, purple qi hung thick, a patch of tranquility within the chaotic cosmos.
He also "saw" that all around him were palaces and gate-towers, their layout much like Miluo Palace's. The altar beneath his feet remained, forged from chaos stone.
He "looked" in all directions and saw Dao achievers standing one by one around him, their faces alight with expectation.
Then, in shock and dread, Shen Mu "saw" a familiar figure!
Ling Tianzun!
Shen Mu's mind roared with thunder — he had actually seen Ling Tianzun!
Ling Tianzun was among the Dao achievers of this divine city? How could that be?
And yet, how intimately did he know Ling Tianzun? The two had been teacher and friend to each other. In early years, Shen Mu had guided Ling Tianzun in the Dao of Creation and urged her to pioneer the Unchanging Divine Art; later, Ling Tianzun had transmitted to him Dao arts and divine abilities, and had sent him back to the early years of Longhan!
There was no mistaking her!
The woman beside the altar, the woman among the Dao achievers of the Sixth Era's universe — she was Ling Tianzun!
"How could Ling appear in the past?"
Yet his "sight" was not under his own control. He must have set his feet into the footprints of this man called Tiandu, and so his field of vision had become Tiandu's perspective.
He saw the figure of "himself," saw the axe in his own hand.
Shen Mu was stunned for a moment; the axe seemed somewhat familiar. He had seen such an axe in Tai Yi's hand.
When Tai Yi transformed into a giant and severed the World Tree, he had used a similar axe. After the World Tree was reborn, Shen Mu had borrowed Tai Yi's axe to fell trees, and had once tried to study that axe through and through. Though he had gained no real understanding of it, he would never mistake it!
Yet the axe in "his hand" differed somewhat from Tai Yi's axe — not entirely identical — but he could see a quality that came from the same lineage.
"Could this Tiandu be Tai Yi?"
Scarcely had the thought crossed Shen Mu's mind when suddenly he saw "himself" gather all his strength and swing that divine axe!
At the same moment, the Dao achievers below the altar also poured out every ounce of their power, joining with "him" to push the divine axe's might to its utmost!
In that instant, chaos was split open!
Shen Mu witnessed it all from the perspective of the opener of the heavens, and the shock and awe in his heart were beyond compare. Never had he seen a scene more magnificent than this, nor one more stirring to the spirit!
He witnessed the birth of a universe!
He saw these Dao achievers use their own strength to open the heavens and split the earth, unleashing their Dao arts and divine abilities, carving a new universe out of chaos!
Such a magnificent spectacle — Shen Mu had evolved it countless times within his own Yuan Tai divine treasury. But only when "witnessing it with his own eyes" did he realize that what he had evolved was not true opening of the heavens and splitting of the earth. The evolutions in his divine treasury had never surpassed his own imagination.