Chapter 1772 — The Master Freed
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A doorway had appeared upon the Chaos Palace, a change even Shen Mu himself had not foreseen, and his primordial spirit at once stepped forward to stand before the gate of the Chaos Palace. He had long thought it would be hard for him to cultivate the Chaos Palace to completion, and the master of the Miluo Palace had once said that, never having been tempered in a true Annihilation Calamity, Shen Mu would find it hard to comprehend what true Chaos truly was.
For that very reason, though he had cultivated the Chaos Palace, the precious palace had neither door nor gate and could not be entered. If he wished to walk this path to perfection, he must return to the past, endure one Annihilation Calamity after another, and taste the true essence of Chaos.
Shen Mu himself deeply agreed with the judgment of the master of the Miluo Palace.
But how could he at this juncture return to past universes to become the Seventh Young Master?
He chose to remain.
Yet now the Chaos Palace had gained a doorway, a sight that filled him with both shock and delight.
The transformation of the Chaos Palace seemed impossible, yet it was only to be expected.
Since his encounter with the master of the Miluo Palace across Chaos, he had made breakthrough after extraordinary breakthrough, bringing the Dao of the Returned Void to great completion, deepening the Chaos Sea, forging the Hongmeng body, attaining the Hongmeng primordial spirit, comprehending the Heaven-Opening Chapter of Tiandu, and awakening to the Dao of Taiyi and its divine powers.
Nor was that all, for with the aid of the Dao wound left upon him by the Third Young Master of the Miluo Palace, he had fathomed many mysteries of the Hongmeng divine arts of the Miluo Palace and resolved his own Dao wound.
He could now be said to have gathered into one the paths of the Miluo Palace and Tiandu, and to hold a still deeper understanding of the Dao of Chaos. His primordial spirit stood before the Chaos Palace and thrust open that heavy, solid portal, and as the Chaos Palace swung open, what met his Yuansheng eyes were rivers of Chaos, one after another! Shen Mu's heart started, and his primordial spirit hastily checked its steps.
Sixteen long rivers of Chaos lay within his Chaos Palace, and beneath each river could be seen the magnificent history of sixteen universe epochs, with countless beings struggling, rising and sinking, and dying within the waters. Within his Chaos Palace stood revealed the Annihilation Calamities of sixteen universe epochs!
It was not that his Chaos Palace concealed within it the Annihilation Calamities that had destroyed sixteen universe epochs, but that this Chaos Palace of his was joined to the Annihilation Calamities of those sixteen universes!
This was the road he must travel to attain the Dao! He must cross these sixteen rivers of Chaos before he could reach the throne at the heart of the Chaos Palace!
When he and the master of the Miluo Palace had met across the Chaos Palace, the master had been within the palace and he without, and thus they had spoken.
Shen Mu had earlier assumed the master of the Miluo Palace must have been inside his own Chaos Palace, but now it seemed the master had not been in the palace at all, but within the Chaos river of some universe epoch! The master must have seen a Chaos Palace suddenly appear in a future universe, and so pierced through layer upon layer of Chaos to come before this great hall.
He had thought Shen Mu was within the palace, and Shen Mu had thought he was within the palace, and so across time and space they had held their dialogue, neither ever beholding the other's face.