Chapter 1808 — Mist Upon the Sea of Ruins
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Before the Great Abyss of the Ruins, Shen Mu watched this scene in silence.
The Ruins lay at his back. To the crowd below, the Ruins hung inverted above the Ancestral Court — a world turned upside down.
Yet to Shen Mu and Ling Yuxiu, it was the Ancestral Court that was the topsy-turvy world.
— Of course, with Shen Mu deliberately concealing it, none of them could see the Ruins, nor did any realize they were rushing straight toward it.
Beside him sat Ling Yuxiu, studying the lotus pedestal beneath Shen Mu with open curiosity.
According to Shen Mu, that lotus pedestal was of the second rank of the Dao realm, and on the verge of becoming third rank.
The lotus seedpod was joined to the Sea of Chaos; unceasingly, chaos qi surged out from it and, around Shen Mu, transformed into Hongmeng primordial qi.
As he breathed in and out, that Hongmeng primordial qi passed through the Five Primal States and a whole series of transformations, becoming Shen Mu's cultivation.
Ling Yuxiu clicked her tongue in wonder.
Of attaining the Dao through the Ruins she knew little. Such attainment was profoundly mysterious: not only were those who achieved it few and far between, even those with extraordinary mastery of the Dao of the Ruins were hardly numerous.
In the Ancestral Court's Dao realm system of Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua, the Dao of the Ruins was expounded upon, yet it had never reached any profound height.
Lan Yutian had once said that the Ancestral Court's Dao realm system was founded upon the World Tree, and that the Dao of the Ruins clashed with the World Tree; hence his and Xu Shenghua's accomplishments in the Dao of the Ruins remained modest.
Shen Mu could be called the only one who commanded the strengths of both.
The Golden Ship of Salvation and the two Palace Masters, Hehuan and Phoenix, drew ever nearer to the Ruins. Aboard the ship, the zither notes of Yue Tianzun sounded, and one space after another unfurled, shaping the ship into a domain of the Utmost Void. Kaihuang, Xu Shenghua and the others stood upon the deck, sword light weaving crisscross, all manner of divine powers erupting as they struck at the two Palace Masters while holding off Palace Master Zengcheng and the rest charging in from behind.
Yue Tianzun's domain of the Utmost Void was peculiar indeed, letting everyone aboard face divine powers and Dao soldiers attacking from any direction at any moment.
Though the Golden Ship of Salvation stood at the center, its defenders showed not the slightest panic.
And with the ship's speed, running down the two Palace Masters was more than easy.
But with Palace Master Zengcheng and the others delaying them, Kaihuang had no choice but to turn and deal with Palace Master Zengcheng and his fellow Dao-attainers, leaving Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian and the rest to handle the two Palace Masters — and so he could not keep those two behind.
The three forces drew ever closer to the Great Abyss of the Ruins.
Palace Master Hehuan and Palace Master Phoenix felt a stir in their hearts: "It seems we overestimated Kaihuang Shen Ye. His strength is not so great after all; he is merely putting on a bluff. Perhaps we can seize this chance and cut them all down first!"
The two Palace Masters were just about to halt and charge onto the golden ship when suddenly several figures came flying toward them from beneath the World Tree — at their head, Huang Tang of the Three Elders of Fengshu!
As the saying goes, enemies' eyes burn red at the sight of one another. Two of the Five Elders of Fengshu were dead and only three remained; Huang Tang had become foremost among them. Seeing the two Palace Masters likewise rushing beyond the heavens, he came straight for them, killing intent blazing!
The prehistoric powerhouses under Huang Tang's banner charged at the Dao-attainers beneath Palace Master Zengcheng, and the two sides instantly fell into a melee.