Chapter 1792 — All Three Sides Wounded
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In the blink of an eye, even as Taiyi's eleven Dao fruits came flying, the Old Man Wuya raised every shred of his strength to meet Taiyi head-on, while the Third Young Master and the Fourth Young Master led the host of the Miluo Palace to plot against both Taiyi and the Old Man Wuya at once. At that instant all three powers struck with all their might! Taiyi's divine axe was the first to meet the Old Man Wuya face to face.
The axe came on like a blade through bamboo, cleaving into the Old Man Wuya's neck, its edge biting at the same moment deep into the World Tree.
"Taiyi, in those days you could fell me only because I was weak while crossing the Life Calamity, but this is not the past! " Great Daos flowed about the Old Man Wuya's body, and upon the World Tree thirty-six thousand Dao fruits turned, their Dao light gathering into a wooden staff.
The staff barred his throat against the divine axe, and with the collision the Old Man Wuya's form was hurled sideways for tens of thousands of li by the vast force!
Behind him the World Tree was driven sideways with him by that same vast force! What shifted was not the World Tree and the Old Man Wuya alone, but the entire Ancestral Court.
Under the clash of these two mighty ones the Ancestral Court was knocked sideways for tens of thousands of li!
Yet though the distance seemed far, to a world as vast and towering as the Ancestral Court it was no more than the shifting of a hair.
Strong as the giant Taiyi and the Old Man Wuya were, in the universe they had only managed to shake the Ancestral Court.
Even so, the consequences were unspeakably dreadful.
The Ancestral Court is the center of the universe, the first land of origin, a world still growing and swelling without cease.
Displaced by tens of thousands of li, it raised a tsunami of starlight that sped like ripples toward all the heavens and myriad worlds, its reach growing ever wider!
Hundreds of thousands of years hence, the ripples in time and space raised by this clash of two mighty ones would reach the Four Polar Heavens, a surge to sweep the whole universe. Of course a disturbance on such a scale would trouble the universe but little.
Common folk might feel dizzy for a single moment and nothing more. The only one troubled was Shen Mu, who had fallen upon one of the Old Man Wuya's leaves and was dropping toward the Long River of Chaos.
When Taiyi came to slay, he was leaping from the continent formed by the leaf, struggling to free himself. He could have landed safely beneath the World Tree, but with this one blow the two mighty ones had knocked the Ancestral Court sideways for tens of thousands of li, and his foothold had become the Long River of Chaos.
Shen Mu's mind went blank, and at that very moment Taiyi's divine axe was flicked aside by the Old Man Wuya and fell at his feet. Taiyi swung up the divine axe, and Shen Mu was borne high into the air with it.
He looked up to see Taiyi's Daluo Heaven in view, drawing ever nearer.
"Taiyi truly cares for me after all.
" Shen Mu's spirit eased, and joy spread across his face.
Within Taiyi's Daluo Heaven a branch of Taiyi's Dao Tree dropped swiftly down, growing longer and longer, plainly meant to lift him into Daluo Heaven and free him from his present peril.
At that moment the Old Man Wuya swung his wooden staff and knocked Taiyi's divine axe flying, then his feet abruptly became thick and monstrous root-tendrils, countless roots churning beneath him like black pythons, hoisting his body aloft!
Part of the Old Man Wuya's roots sank into the Ancestral Court, and part bore up his body as he brandished the wooden staff and charged at Taiyi within the Long River of Chaos! He would avenge the felling of his tree, and he would slay Taiyi the blasphemer against the Dao!