Chapter 1825 — The Heavens Return to Their Rightful Places
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"Who could possibly pass through the Ruins of Return?
" Shen Mu had only just formed this thought when the sky suddenly bulged, as though a vast round sack had been let down from the heavens.
The sack swelled and shrank; when it contracted, no trace of anything amiss could be seen, but when it swelled, it very nearly touched the highest peaks of the Ancestral Court! Kaihuang, Shen Ye, Taishi and the others noticed it too, and one after another lifted their heads to watch.
When that vast sack in the sky swelled, it seemed as though a cosmos of stars were hidden inside it, ring upon ring of starry rivers coiling about; when it contracted, it was as though a vast black hole had devoured the stars. Shen Mu's expression shifted slightly.
"Someone is fighting inside the Ruins of Return.
The power of their divine abilities is extraordinary. The seals I left behind are seals bound to the power of the Ruins of Return, and this force can break through my seals! Can it be that one of the Young Masters is about to slip through from the Ruins of Return?
" In the sky the sack swelled and shrank without cease. Within the fluctuations emanating from the Ruins of Return there were the Dao arts and divine abilities of the Ruins of Return, yet they were not wholly of the Ruins of Return; there were other Dao arts and divine abilities besides, such as he had never seen before. "This fluctuation of divine ability.
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" Shen Mu's expression changed slightly.
At last a possibility occurred to him. The Heaven-Opening Host! He had once witnessed the divine abilities of the Heaven-Opening Host, bizarre and unfathomable, impossible to guard against.
And the divine abilities transmitted from the Ruins of Return bore a certain resemblance to those of the several members of the Heaven-Opening Host who had blocked his way home upon the Primordial Chaos River. Only, the divine abilities transmitted from the Ruins of Return were mightier than theirs, and stranger still, their power raised a hundredfold!
"The Heaven-Opening Host numbers only thirty-six.
Could Heavenly Venerable Ling be among them? " No sooner had the thought come to Shen Mu than he shook his head. Were Heavenly Venerable Ling among them, then with her strength she would surely have become their leader; and had that been so, there would never have been that incident in which the Heaven-Opening Host sought to seize the body of his daughter, Shen Lingyun.
"Heavenly Venerable Ling is not among them. With only those thirty-five members of the Heaven-Opening Host, they ought not to be able to bring forth such horrifying power.
Unless. .
. " Shen Mu grasped the crux of it. In that year the Lord of the Heavenly Capital had gathered the Dao-attainers of the Heavenly Capital City to open the heavens; he had raised an altar and gathered the strength of all the Dao-attainers, and only thus had the Seventeenth Epoch been opened up. The Lord of the Heavenly Capital was dead.
Without the Lord of the Heavenly Capital to preside over it, the rest of the Heaven-Opening Host could not bring the Heaven-Opening Altar to its full power. But if these members of the Heaven-Opening Host formed a formation akin to the Heaven-Opening Altar and unleashed a combined strike, they could gather their strength as one and bring forth inconceivable power!
He suddenly rose to his full height and charged toward the Ruins of Return.
At the very instant he moved, Tai Yi, who had been healing his wounds, abruptly rose and likewise charged toward the Ruins of Return in the sky. Shen Mu's heart stirred.
Tai Yi must have recognized the divine abilities of the Heaven-Opening Host of the Heavenly Capital as well!
Beneath the World Tree, Old Man Wuya's injuries were also gradually mending, and the anomaly wrought by the Heaven-Opening Host of the Heavenly Capital forcing their way into the Ruins of Return had naturally not escaped him. "Dao-blasphemers!