Chapter 1702 — Slaying the Dharma Body, Severing the Dao Root
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Shang Jun had fully withdrawn his aura; he stood within Shen Mu's shadow as though he did not exist at all.
Yet in that very instant when he sheathed his saber and vanished, the treasure hall of the Master of Lingguan Hall gave a thunderous shudder. The Great Luo Heaven collapsed and crumbled amid the quaking, and the treasure hall, bearing three Dao fruits and one Dao flower, plunged headlong out of the Ultimate Void, tumbling toward the Yuan World!
Beneath that hall, the crushed flesh and blood of the Master of Lingguan Hall could be seen writhing, reassembling itself!
"Shang Jun, you have ruined my cultivation and destroyed my flesh. One day I will surely repay this debt!"
The voice of the Master of Lingguan Hall came through. His flesh squirmed, then abruptly split into four parts, each bearing a Dao fruit or a Dao flower, and flew off in different directions.
Shang Jun flew out from Shen Mu's shadow, pursuing straight after the ancient god that the Master of Lingguan Hall's head had become!
At the same time, the Dao tree that the Master of Lingguan Hall had been cloven into rose of its own accord, trying to catch up with the treasure hall.
Shen Mu shifted his foot and landed upon one half of the Dao tree, pinning it down. At once a Chaos Hall flew out from behind him and suppressed the other half.
Both halves of the Dao tree quivered, and Great Daos surfaced one after another, all of them attacking Shen Mu together!
"Seventh Young Master, you want to seize my Dao tree? In your dreams!"
From within the Dao tree came the Dao voice of the Master of Lingguan Hall. The tree was like a Great Dao that had come alive, its assault ferocious beyond measure -- at the faintest tremor of branch or leaf, divine abilities and Dao techniques came hurtling forth!
Though the Master of Lingguan Hall's fleshly body had been destroyed, and his Dao fruit and Dao flower were escorting the remnants away, his Dao tree still possessed boundless might. The divine abilities bursting from mere twigs and leaves alone were enough to make even a Tianzun gasp in admiration!
Shen Mu held his sword one-handed and swept out a single level stroke. Wherever the sword light passed, every divine ability erupting from the Dao tree was sheared clean in two!
The thirty-third heaven of the Dao Realm -- the Tiandu Volume of Opening Heaven!
Hiss--
That one stroke fell upon the Dao tree, its might exploding forth. Half of the Master of Lingguan Hall's Dao tree caved in at once; in the blink of an eye the tree turned to chaos, evolving from Taiyi to Taiji, and then the Dao tree utterly disintegrated, becoming within the Ultimate Void a whole and complete world of heaven and earth.
Then that world of sky and stars, under the working of the Ultimate Void, swelled and collapsed at furious speed, on the verge of annihilation!
Shen Mu's primal-embryo divine treasury spread open and took that world in. The Guixu Abyss collapsed upon itself and swiftly devoured both the world the Dao tree had become and Shen Mu's primal-embryo divine treasury together.
Boom!
His divine treasury opened heaven and earth once more, evolving anew.
Shen Mu raised his head. The purple qi of Hongmeng hung thick and swirling, filling the divine treasury.
His primordial spirit and his flesh drew upon the Hongmeng purple qi the Dao tree of the Master of Lingguan Hall had become, growing without cease. His withered legs gradually recovered, and his primordial spirit too returned to the level of the Yaochi realm.
The other half of the Master of Lingguan Hall's Dao tree struggled with all its strength against the Chaos Hall, trying to escape, yet could not break free of its suppression no matter what.
Shen Mu walked forward and did the same again -- another sword stroke, destroying the other half of the Master of Lingguan Hall's Dao tree; first opening it into a world, then annihilating it, evolving Hongmeng primal qi.
He absorbed this half of the Dao tree, and his primordial spirit grew once more!