Chapter 1779 — A Body Full of Holes
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The power of one who had attained the Dao was truly too great, and the energy it transformed into was truly immense. As he made his exchange, it was as though the River of Chaos had burst its dikes - chaos qi flooded out with sky-covering force, drowning one star system after another and crushing the stars of those systems until they could be crushed no further! At just that moment, Shen Mu's opening move was the ax technique of Taiyi; the Dao of Taiyi transformed into a divine ax and slashed toward the void!
At the sight of this ax technique, despair rose unbidden in Palace Lord Changfeng's heart.
The mighty ones of the Sixteenth Era, whether or not they had attained the Dao, had all witnessed that scene of Taiyi felling the World Tree! As the first stowaway, Taiyi's very first deed upon entering the Seventeenth Era had been to swing up his great ax, cut down the World Tree - the medium that all stowaways were compelled to rely on - and set it afire, burning it to ashes, severing the road of survival for everyone! And now the divine power Shen Mu wielded was unmistakably Taiyi felling the tree!
It was this very technique that had shattered the Dao hearts of who knew how many mighty ones!
What was even more terrifying was that from ancient times to the present, nearly all who had attained the Dao cultivated a Dao tree, and the Dao tree imitated the World Tree; a move that could fell the World Tree could naturally also fell the Dao tree of one who had attained the Dao! Palace Lord Changfeng himself had attained the Dao as a divine tree.
His Dao tree had long been refined into one with his very body - his body was the Dao, the Dao flower bloomed upon his body, and the Dao tree bore fruit from his body. The suppression Shen Mu's move brought down upon him could well be imagined!
The speed of his exchange was swift, but swift as it was, it could not outrun Shen Mu's divine ax!
"Seventh Young Master, if you give me no road to live, then I will give you none either!
" Knowing that he could not escape his doom, Palace Lord Changfeng bellowed in grief and fury: "Come back to the past with me! " Suddenly, from within the phantom of the River of Chaos in the void, countless roots shot out, dancing with a swish, swish, swish as they snaked toward Shen Mu!
He knew that this tribulation was inescapable, and so, instead of dodging or evading, he drove his own Dao techniques to the utmost. Countless roots coiled around Shen Mu, locked him fast, and dragged him together toward the River of Chaos of the Sixteenth Era.
His roots were born of the Great Dao, the embodiment of his own Dao; every root represented his attainments and could be called a branch of his Great Dao - tough, resilient, and holding supreme might within!
He had not cultivated merely one Dao.
Over the long ages, he had passed through three Great Tribulations of Annihilation, and the tribulations had not been able to grind him away; instead his roots had taken hold within the chaos, drawing up its power, making his physical body incomparably stable and his Dao arts ever more mature.
Whirr, whirr!
His two Dao fruits flew out from the tree crown atop his head, and the Dao might stored within them erupted in full.
Imprints of the Great Dao were projected, shining down upon one after another of the dancing roots! With this strike he could bind Shen Mu fast, and Shen Mu would absolutely be unable to break free!
In this moment, both drove their own Dao arts and divine powers to the uttermost limit. Shen Mu's Taiyi divine ax hewed through both of Palace Lord Changfeng's legs, while the roots that Palace Lord Changfeng sent flying out of the River of Chaos pierced straight through Shen Mu's Hongmeng body, boring through his frame and drawing out blossom after blossom of blood!