Chapter 1741 — On the Misty River, Clouds Unfurl and Fold
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But Chaos gives birth to the Five Ultimates, and the Five Ultimates Reincarnation Seal Lan Yutian left behind was meant to steal the Goddess of Guixu's magic power: when she fought, the qi of Chaos would transform into the Dao of Taiyi, into the Dao of Taichu, passing through the changes of the Five Ultimates, so that she could never bring forth her full strength. What Shen Mu sealed was the Goddess of Guixu's consciousness; what Lan Yutian sealed was her magic power and her Great Dao. Only, Lan Yutian could not accomplish this step on his own, and so he had to borrow the reincarnation power Shen Mu had left behind.
The Empress, too, sensed that something was wrong with her body. When she roused her cultivation and magic power, alien Daos filled her; these alien Daos were robbing her of her cultivation, causing her intense suffering, and she could not bring out even half of her strength!
Lan Yutian pursued and struck all the way, while the Empress fought as she fled, yet she could never shake him off. "Drive her into the Ultimate Void, and she is dead for certain.
" Lan Yutian's gaze flickered, and he thought, "This is the very method the Cloud Heavenly Venerable used against the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace. Once the Empress is driven into the Ultimate Void, part of the Dao of Guixu within her will transform into the Dao of the Five Ultimates, and then she will die all the faster! " Yet the Empress clearly knew the perils of the Ultimate Void.
Even though he wounded her again and again, she never once fled deep into the void to hide. Just then, above their heads, the Ultimate Void burst open. They hastily looked up, each of them, and saw that within the Ultimate Void a Taichu Daluo Heaven, more than half merged, was tilting and cracking apart!
That Taichu Daluo Heaven had long been battered and riddled with holes, and the merging of the Yiqi Daluo Heaven with the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven was incomplete, not yet fully joined.
On the cracked Daluo Heaven, two Dao Trees, more than half merged, had already been destroyed by the wind of heat death, burned down to blackened stumps; the Dao Flowers on the Dao Trees had perished, and the Dao Fruits had been shattered by the Hongmeng divine ability of the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace.
And on this Daluo Heaven, now falling out of the Ultimate Void, the battle between the Cloud Heavenly Venerable and the Second Young Master Wuji had reached its final stage. When the Empress and Lan Yutian raised their heads to look, they saw the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace standing on the half of the Daluo Heaven still within the Ultimate Void, and the Cloud Heavenly Venerable standing on the half falling out of it, still fighting to the death! The Cloud Heavenly Venerable's Taichu Imperial Sword, fused with the Dao of Taichu, burst forth with its final radiance and pierced through the body of the Second Young Master Wuji; at that same instant, the Second Young Master Wuji's palm pressed against his forehead!
The collapse of the Daluo Heaven grew more violent!
At this moment the Daluo Heaven did not seem to be crumbling beneath the force of their blows, but rather to have fallen into a sacrifice.
Lan Yutian was highly intelligent and saw that this was a blood sacrifice; the Empress was widely experienced, and at once recognized it as the Dao of Sacrifice in which the Great Emperor had been so skilled. But neither of them knew that the Cloud Heavenly Venerable had inherited the Great Emperor's Daluo Heaven, and with it the Great Emperor's cultivation methods, perfecting what had been incomplete in them. Among these was the method of attaining the Dao through sacrifice that the Great Emperor had obtained from the Primordial Sage of Miluo Palace.