Chapter 1812 — The Trial Ground for Attaining the Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
The Zengcheng Hall Master shifted his form again and again, yet his Dao tree was destroyed and his treasured hall shattered, so how could he still dodge the sword light of Kaihuang Shen Ye?
Struck by a hundred and more swords, he leapt backward, seeking to spring clear of the World-Crossing Golden Ship and flee for his life.
Yet in the very instant he leapt beyond the ship, he sprang instead into a treasured hall, none other than the Sword Dao sanctum of Kaihuang Shen Ye.
The hall doors boomed shut, sword principles arrayed within, and only a wretched shriek was heard from inside; then rolling blood poured out through the opening doors.
Kaihuang Shen Ye put away his sword and stepped forward.
Suddenly the laughter of Second Young Master Wuji rang out: "Old Seven, you are indeed ruthless and merciless, laying deadly hands even on your own people, doing away with three Hall Masters besides. Teacher suppressed me all those years ago just because I dealt death to people of Miluo Palace; it seems you and I are fellow travelers! All who attain the Dao through Guixu share the same creed, and that you approve my creed gratifies me greatly!
" Shen Mu, his breath feeble, smiled at the words: "Second Sister, you and I are by no means fellow travelers. You wish only to wipe out all things and sink everything into Guixu, leaving Guixu alone in this world and yourself as the sole living being. That is your creed.
Mine is not so.
" Everyone aboard could not help but shiver with cold.
The Second Young Master Wuji of Miluo Palace actually meant to destroy everything and pack the whole universe into Guixu! Though they all deemed the Third and Fourth Young Masters of Miluo Palace savage and inhuman, stopping at nothing to gain their ends, the Third and Fourth at least sought a way to resolve the Great Annihilation of the universe.
This Second Young Master acted purely to sate her own lust for destruction!
The World-Crossing Golden Ship sailed across the Sea of Chaos toward one of the lotus rootstalks, and the huge face of Second Young Master Wuji appeared beneath the ship, swimming forward alongside it. Strand after strand of her white hair rose slowly from the Sea of Chaos, like drifting seaweed, gently caressing the World-Crossing Golden Ship, as she smiled: "You are wrong.
Old Seven, you are not the true Guixu Goddess, so naturally you do not understand the heavy charge the Guixu Goddess bears. The Guixu Goddess embodies both destruction and creation; besides ending the world, she must also create the world, fashioning a perfect world! " Her face gradually surfaced, her white hair falling into the water, rising slowly with her graceful body. The Red Cord Knot at once flared with power, binding and suppressing her by force.
Second Young Master Wuji let her white hair stream, withstanding the Red Cord Knot, resting both arms on the gunwale of the World-Crossing Golden Ship and her chin upon the back of her own hand, revealing a lovely face as she curiously surveyed the company aboard.
"Teacher worships noninterference toward the next universe; he wished to find a perfect way to resolve the Great Annihilation, and I once trusted him deeply, believing he could find it.
He failed again and again, and at last I despaired. " Wuji swept her gaze across each face, and all felt a chill in their hearts, feeling that beneath her glance they fell into boundless darkness, body and primordial spirit alike seeming about to perish.
Second Young Master Wuji kept her arms on the gunwale, her form swimming along with the golden ship, smiling: "Later, when I attained the Dao through Guixu, I finally understood where Teacher erred. He thought the Lord of Tiandu was wrong to open heaven, raising only a pack of lofty tyrants lording over all as the Heaven-Opening Host.