Chapter 1816 — When I Attain the Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Turn back now, and I will let you go, for we are fellow disciples after all. If you persist in your folly, this Chaos River shall be where your wife and child fall, and where you return to the past. " "Ha ha.
" Shen Mu threw his mouth open in laughter, his face expressionless.
The Third Young Master frowned, forcing patience. "Your child could live well enough in the Seventeenth Era. There is no need to drag him through this muddy water. Do you know, bringing him back to the past, how many upon these rivers of chaos covet him, pry into his power, and scheme to claim it for themselves? " "Ha ha," Shen Mu said coldly.
The Third Young Master's brows knotted as he said in a low voice, "The Elder Wuya of past ages, the Tiandu Founders, and all manner of other powers will not suffer this child to be born.
As your senior brother I tell you plainly, the birth of a child gathering the Annihilation Calamity of sixteen cosmic eras is no good thing.
Lest the child fall into others' hands and breed calamity hereafter, Miluo Palace will have no choice but to destroy him.
" Shen Mu said, "Ha ha. " "You court death," Third Young Master Lingxiao said, his face chilling, and in an instant a Dao Tree rose thundering from the Chaos River, lifting the Golden Ship of Deliverance into midair.
Upon his Dao Tree, Dao Fruits turned one by one. The fruits lay beneath the ship, yet the Dao domains harbored within each fruit erupted all at once.
Within each of his Dao Fruits hid forty heavens, and he possessed eight great Dao Fruits in all, each bearing a different Dao, each cultivated to the uttermost peak. Those heavens swelled, and in a blink a myriad gods stood ranked above the golden ship, countless deities enthroned within heaven upon heaven, three hundred and twenty heavens with their innumerable gods pressing down together.
Shen Mu drove the World Tree and the Guixu Lotus, their roots of every Dao striking deep into the Chaos River. About the lotus a great Guixu Abyss took shape, devouring all things, while above that Annihilation Calamity the World Tree held aloft a world. "Third!
" Shen Mu roared, urging the might of the Guixu Lotus and the World Tree to its limit, the torrents of their Daos pouring wholly into his body to forge an entirely new Dao.
"My child shall be taken by no one. " His Dao of Chaos took form, a never-before-seen Dao that borrowed strength from the Chaos River, and at its urging the river's turmoil stilled, the surging current seeming to freeze.
The power of the Sixteenth Era's Annihilation Calamity rushed madly toward Shen Mu, bent to his command and turned to world-ending force.
With a boom the Chaos Hall swung open, and for the instant its gates stood wide it seemed to drag the whole Chaos River into the hall, to overlap with the sixteen rivers within. "When I attain the Dao!
" Shen Mu's voice shook and burst back and forth above the Annihilation Calamity.
"The Annihilation Calamities of sixteen eras shall all be the wellsprings of my power.
My Dao shall run through sixteen eras. " Third Young Master Lingxiao's face changed, for the three hundred and twenty heavens formed of his Dao Fruits threatened to crumble and dissolve.
The gods within his heavens shattered one after another, bursting apart into wisps of chaotic qi.
"My World Tree shall bloom with Dao flowers and bear Dao fruit amid the Annihilation Calamities of sixteen eras! " Shen Mu drove the Dao of Chaos, and within the river the calamity howled aloft, wheeling about the World Tree and the Guixu Lotus.
"My Guixu Lotus shall drink world-destroying power and become a sixteen-tier throne!
" Shen Mu pointed, and the Chaos River tore through the void to crash down upon Third Young Master Lingxiao like the sky itself collapsing.
His voice detonated through the chaos.
"And I shall sit enthroned above the Annihilation Calamities of sixteen eras, and suppress you all.