Chapter 1750 — The Dao-Defier's Divine Ability
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He wished to block the Heavenly Court's armies here and buy time for Jingping; now it seemed this task was incomparably hard!
Neither the Third nor the Fourth Young Master had struck directly. Though they had seen through Shen Mu's domain, in the past Shen Mu had not been famed for his Divine Treasury domain.
The Seventh Young Master of the Miluo Palace had achieved the dao through chaos; what he had cultivated was the Hall of Chaos!
Even their teacher, the Master of the Miluo Palace, spoke of Shen Mu with high praise!
They had only borrowed the bodies of Emperor Haotian and Taichu so that they might cross swords with Shen Mu. Controlling another's body was, after all, less convenient than descending in person, and they had also to contend with the Seventh Young Master of the past universe. This was therefore a rare chance to glimpse what dao mysteries and divine abilities the Seventh Young Master's Hall of Chaos truly contained.
If they could discern his dao arts and divine abilities in the Shen Mu of the present, then they could deal with the Seventh Young Master of the future!
The Hall of Chaos floated within Shen Mu's Great Heavenly Court, holding boundless energy, yet that energy was clenched tight within the hall and could not escape.
Shen Mu's Great Heavenly Court likewise followed the system of achieving the dao through power, as Taichu and Emperor Haotian did, cultivating heavenly palaces and treasure halls; yet Shen Mu had not been caught by the Jade Capital trap.
When he fought the phantom images of the Seventy-Two Hall Masters, he had already broken the trap and taken the power of the seventy-two halls into his grasp.
And his accomplishment of the Hall of Chaos was precisely his escape from the Lingxiao trap.
Nor was that all: from Shen Mu the Third and Fourth Young Masters also saw other ways of achieving the dao, the Second Young Master's Guixu dao, and the dao-realm dao.
Beyond these, Shen Mu's World Tree left them somewhat perplexed; this way of achieving the dao must be a system unique to the seventeenth epoch, not yet fully developed.
Add chaos to the count, and no fewer than five paths to the dao could be seen in Shen Mu!
This too was why Shen Mu was so powerful!
Suddenly, the Third Young Master Lingxiao halted his steps!
At that same instant, the Fourth Young Master Zixiao, who had stood there watching all along, moved his feet, striding across layer upon layer of space to stand before Shen Mu!
Shen Mu struck in that same instant as well. He used no other dao-realm divine ability; the moment he made his move it was directly the thirty-third heaven dao-realm divine ability, Breaking the Kalpa!
He established the dao through divine ability; the Breaking-Kalpa Sword was the mightiest divine ability he had ever created, able to break every dao divine ability in existence!
That sword held all the depth of his foundations, and the thirty-third heaven dao realm that Breaking the Kalpa transformed into likewise trapped more than half the Heavenly Court's gods and devils; it even made the Empress and the Taiji Ancient Gods dare not move!
He had accomplished the Hongmeng primal qi, and used Hongmeng runes to re-evolve this divine ability; its power was absolutely far greater than before!
The Fourth Young Master Zixiao came walking toward the Breaking-Kalpa Sword. He raised a hand, pointing a finger at the oncoming sword-light; finger and sword collided in midair with a hissing shriek.
Shen Mu had no sword in his hand; he had transformed Hongmeng primal qi into a purple sword. The Fourth Young Master Zixiao, for his part, evolved his divine ability with his own finger; at a twitch of his fingertip purple qi spread in all directions, likewise Hongmeng primal qi!