Chapter 1787 — One Blade Sunders Yin and Yang
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" The Boundless Elder smiled: "That lot from the Heavenly Capital were too reckless — every last one a heaven-defying outlaw with too many ideas.
They churned the Seventh Era into a welter of smoke and miasma, and even pried into my secrets, beginning to walk the road that spurns the Dao Tree. " He sighed: "They even wished to take control of the World Tree — to control me.
That displeased me greatly.
Miluo Palace's path of attainment — cultivating the Dao Tree, imitating me, and so completing me — while I in turn shelter the Dao-Achievers and see them through the Annihilation alive: was that not good? Why must it be changed? " He shook his head: "So the Heavenly Capital had to die.
" Shen Mu laughed, the sinews of his right arm bulging until it was several times thicker than its ordinary girth: "Brother Dao, your private motives are weightier than anyone's. The Third Young Master of Miluo Palace left the cultivators of the Seventeenth Era the Yujing Trap and the Lingxiao Trap, while you left them the Dao-Tree Trap. Such craft commands my admiration. " The Boundless Elder sighed: "For you, a year is a year.
For me, a cosmic era is a year.
At that time I was barely seven years old; having a few thoughts of one's own is only natural. Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace, are you waiting for the sunrise? " He smiled: "Once the sun rises and the Annihilation beyond the World Tree scatters, you think you can slip away? " Shen Mu was silent.
"You will wait in vain. " The Boundless Elder said with ease: "The World Tree runs through cosmos after cosmos — it is the one eternal, unchanging substance of this world. There was a Dao-desecrator in the Heavenly Capital whose divine power was the Unchanging — quite marvelous.
But I am the Unchanging by nature.
I can hold the World Tree forever in darkness, with the Annihilation forever beyond it.
" The corners of Shen Mu's eyes twitched.
"I can deliver you into the Annihilation of any cosmic era I choose. " The Boundless Elder said: "Chaos, Seventh Young Master — you have lived up to your dao-name, and most unfortunate that is for you. The World Tree grows by devouring chaos; every Annihilation is a chance for its growth. You have realized your own road from out of chaos and brought your own truth to completion, but no matter how far you grow, you will always be checked by me.
Checked to perfection.
" Shen Mu strained to keep his smile, the great sinews of his right arm leaping as he searched for an opening to strike: "I had thought we were friends.
" The Boundless Elder smiled: "We will be friends. Did I not let you cut down my sapling and plant it, alive, in your divine storehouse? When you returned to the past to see me, we were all courtesy to each other, calling one another friend. You even handed me an IOU.
" Shen Mu's whole body drew taut; every muscle in him leapt in frenzy.
The Boundless Elder lifted his foot, and in that instant of lifting, the pressure upon him surged violently! Thump! The Boundless Elder set his foot down ahead, and that peerless pressure forced Shen Mu to erupt with every shred of his strength against it!
"You are no match for me.
I have no wish to harm you, and you cannot escape my grasp.
" The pressure the Boundless Elder laid upon him reached its extreme, so that the black mountain beneath Shen Mu's feet began to drift and soften; great boulders of black stone floated up into the air, one after another, crumbling amid the violent shockwaves of primal energy.
"You cannot cleave a road!
Split the first fold of chaos and you will see a second fold, a third!
Fifteen folds of chaos lie ahead of you, and they will drain your strength dry! " At last the power stored in every muscle of Shen Mu's frame reached its limit, and he was forced to take one step forward!
The very instant the step fell, he twisted at the waist, wheeled, and struck! Boom!