Chapter 1803 — The Sacred Land Becomes a Prison
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Not to speak of the several dozen Hall Masters and thousands of Dao-achievers of the Miluo Palace waiting to descend, take only the three of us: which of us has not endured countless aeons of cultivation? We have passed through tribulation after tribulation of destruction, tempered and honed; even should a few of our Dao Fruits be destroyed, our strength is scarce diminished.
" As she spoke, the quaking of the Ancestral Court grew ever more violent. The Phoenix Hall Master could not resist another glance at the stone wall rearing between heaven and earth.
Upon it rose towering mountains and rivers, and surging seas; the wall joined the southern edge of the Ancestral Court to its northern edge, and its height had already surpassed the Ancestral Court's World Tree, growing ever more magnificent. The other two Hall Masters noticed it as well and could not keep from looking.
Aboard the Golden Ship of Salvation, the Moon Heavenly Venerate, Xu Shenghua and the others likewise turned to look, their faces full of astonishment and uncertainty.
That stone wall was too magnificent! More magnificent still was that the mountains and rivers upon it were ceaselessly changing of their own accord, the courses of its mountains and rivers shifting like the transformations of runes, throwing up even the gorgeous spectacle of Dao patterns and Dao chains! Plainly this was no natural thing, but someone folding up the eastern reaches of the Ancestral Court by main force, twisting space itself!
Lan Yutian and the Nether Heavenly Venerate hurriedly looked to the Moon Heavenly Venerate. She shook her head and said quietly: "I cannot do it. My magic power is not enough, and to alter geography, to make of geography runes and Dao patterns and Dao chains, my store of knowledge is not enough either.
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. " She looked toward Kaihuang Shen Ye, her expression perplexed. Now that Kaihuang Shen Ye had reappeared in the world, could it be that he already possessed such fearsome magic power, such breadth of vision and insight? But if it were his doing, why fold up the Ancestral Court? "I went to see the Seventh Young Master, and he told me certain things that are to come.
The first thing was that I would die.
" Kaihuang Shen Ye pressed one hand upon his sword-light and, gazing at the three Hall Masters before the Golden Ship of Salvation, said leisurely: "The second thing was that the Heavenly Court would be defeated. The third thing was that I would appear forty-two years later, to bear witness to the most magnificent upheaval of all. The Ancestral Court Cage.
" The three Hall Masters were bewildered; their gazes fixed upon his face.
"The Ancestral Court Cage?
" The Zhaoyang Hall Master's voice was hoarse.
"May I ask you, fellow Daoist, what is meant by the Ancestral Court Cage? " "The Seventh Young Master said that when he returned from the Abandoned Land he was deeply moved, and so he built an Ancestral Court Cage and sealed the Ancestral Court within it.
The Boundless Old Man and the Miluo Palace are both sealed inside that cage, cut off from all contact with the outside world.
" Kaihuang Shen Ye flourished his sword-light. "And we shall fight to the death within this cage against the forces of the Miluo Palace and the Boundless Old Man.
This is the first wall.
Soon there will be a second, a third and a fourth wall, sealing the Ancestral Court utterly!
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