Chapter 1809 — Unrivaled Upon the Sea of Ruins
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
If the Dao Tree could not be recovered, then he would recover the Dao Fruits first, and preserve at least a portion of his cultivation.
In the very instant his Dao Fruits came loose from the tree, Kaihuang's sword light arrived, and a single stroke pierced one of his Dao Fruits through!
At this moment, Shen Mu finally rose fully to his feet.
A vast shadow appeared before the Golden Ship of Salvation, falling over Palace Master Zengcheng and the five other mighty ones of Miluo Palace.
Palace Master Zengcheng gritted his teeth, fought his way back to the golden ship, and roused the Zengcheng Treasure Hall to meet Kaihuang head-on, force against force!
The Zengcheng Treasure Hall spun swiftly around him, clashing again and again with Kaihuang's sword Dao. Now it shrank, now it swelled: at its smallest it was like a grain of sand, at its largest it became a resplendent divine city. Kaihuang's sword light wove to and fro within the city as though lost in a labyrinth, unable to pierce through and reach his true body.
His Dao Tree being left aboard the golden ship was one thing; but if his Dao Fruits were lost, the damage to his strength would be immense.
Xu Shenghua's gaze flickered; sensing that Kaihuang could not prevail, he at once began to deduce and calculate the inner structure of the Zengcheng.
Palace Master Zengcheng was plainly a master of the arts of calculation; his Zengcheng concealed problems of calculation within it, and only by solving them could one wound him.
"A pity Dao Master Lin Xuan is not here. Were he present, breaking the Zengcheng would not be so laborious."
Xu Shenghua gave himself wholly to the task, striving to unravel the structure of the Zengcheng, while Lan Yutian was utterly in the dark, knowing nothing at all of the labyrinthine layout of the Zengcheng Hall.
Of the arts of calculation he had, indeed, little mastery.
In the very instant Palace Master Zengcheng returned to the Golden Ship of Salvation, the sea's surface boiled and burst apart, and one vast Chaos Wheel after another rose ceaselessly from the deep, six of them encircling, twisting space and time.
The five Dao-attainers of Miluo Palace who followed Palace Master Zengcheng also meant to turn back to the golden ship. One of them, careless for a moment, passed through a vast Chaos Wheel and vanished without a trace.
The other four Dao-attainers of Miluo Palace were startled, and exchanged glances; two of them passed through the Chaos Wheel that had just risen, searching for their companion, while the other two rushed aboard the golden ship to help Palace Master Zengcheng hold off Kaihuang Shen Ye.
The two who plunged into the Chaos Wheel were suddenly met with blinding light; when their eyes had adjusted, they discovered to their horror that their very bodies had become two Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons!
And their original bodies had vanished entirely!
Nor was that all: their primordial spirits had changed as well, becoming the primordial spirits of Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons!
"Do not panic!"
One of the Miluo Palace Dao-attainers opened his mouth, but what came out was a crowing cry; he hastily switched to the Dao tongue and called out: "This is the Seventh Young Master's Dao of Reincarnation, the art he commands best! He can alter the structure of our bodies and our primordial spirits, but he cannot alter our comprehension of the Dao and its divine abilities! Our Dao Trees and Dao Fruits remain!"
The two Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons at once sensed their own great Dao divine abilities, and finding them still intact, were somewhat reassured.
The two Crested Fire Pheasant Dragons looked about them, and saw that this world within the Chaos Wheel was filled with floating bubbles great and small, in all the colors of the rainbow, as strange and uncanny as a dream.