Chapter 1808 — Mist Upon the Sea of Ruins
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Palace Master Zengcheng, single-mindedly bent on holding the golden ship back, paid them no heed. Of a sudden he roused his Dao Tree; a thousand strands of rosy light coiled toward the ship, the Dao Tree's roots drove into its hull, and his body was drawn toward the deck!
Before he could even land, the golden ship abruptly grew vast beyond measure. That man named Lan Yutian guided his Dao Tree's roots into the golden halls of the ship one by one, while the others unleashed their own divine powers to suppress those roots.
Palace Master Zengcheng was briefly stunned: "These fellows are so practiced at it — this is hardly the first time they have done such a thing!"
His strength was monstrous beyond compare, and he feared nothing. The next moment he landed on the deck, raised a hand, and the Zengcheng Treasure Hall settled into his palm, bearing the golden ship down until it sank a little.
On the other side, Huang Tang seized the moment to charge at Palace Master Hehuan and Palace Master Phoenix, his divine power erupting from afar as he joined the others aboard the ship in besieging the two Palace Masters.
"This old wretch does not know death when he sees it!"
The two Palace Masters were furious, yet they had no choice but to answer him with care.
The Five Elders of Fengshu were not greatly famed, but they were ancient beyond reckoning, long-lived enough that their cultivation was scarcely inferior to that of the Palace Masters of Miluo Palace.
Because Palace Master Hehuan and Palace Master Phoenix had descended in such haste, they had no time to entrust their great Daos to the void. One against one, neither held the advantage over Huang Tang; even if they won, they would likely be gravely wounded by his deathbed counterattack.
"I will hold Huang Tang off!"
Palace Master Phoenix halted, facing Huang Tang alone along with the oncoming Golden Ship of Salvation, and without turning her head said: "Fellow Daoist Hehuan, leave the Ancestral Court at once!"
Palace Master Hehuan knew well the weight of the burden she bore and that failure was unthinkable. Without a moment's hesitation she shot upward!
Palace Master Phoenix roused her Dao Fruit and raised her Dao Tree, standing before the Phoenix Hall, casually beating back the divine powers of Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Yue Tianzun and the rest, while her gaze stayed fixed rigidly upon Huang Tang.
Huang Tang charged; abruptly his Daluo Heaven manifested, and his Dao Tree rose towering within it, lifting his cultivation and strength to their utmost limit.
Boom!
Daluo Heaven collided with the Phoenix Hall, and Palace Master Phoenix could not help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Huang Tang is too reckless, pitting his Daluo Heaven against my Phoenix Hall — he has truly underestimated me!"
Her Phoenix Hall burst into blazing flame, and the power of the fortieth heaven of the Dao realm erupted, suppressing Huang Tang's Daluo Heaven. Just then a branch lashed out of nowhere, striking Palace Master Phoenix like lightning and whipping the woman away!
The lash split her skin and tore her flesh; she spun like a top, unable to steady herself, her primal spirit nearly whipped away as well. She was shocked and enraged in equal measure.
"The World Tree! A treasure Old Man Wuya gave him!"
At once she grasped the crux of it. To keep from being sealed alive inside the Ancestral Court by Shen Mu and trapped like a beast in a cage, Old Man Wuya would surely attempt to break the deadlock.
The World Tree was a thing of myriad mysteries, a natural substance that does not change, and Old Man Wuya had mastered every great Dao past and present. The most direct way to break the deadlock was to plant a clone of the World Tree outside the Ancestral Court.
With the roots of the two World Trees joined and connected, he would no longer need to fear being sealed inside the Ancestral Court by Shen Mu.