Chapter 1832 — Sudden Turmoil in Guixu
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" "Why didn't the Jade Capital come join the clamor when we attacked the World Tree earlier? " Granny Zhu asked Xu Shenghua. "The Jade Capital's Dao-achievers and Hall Masters are dying for us to go to war with the Boundless Elder—best if both sides fight to mutual ruin.
" Xu Shenghua explained, "If Miluo Palace's Dao-achievers wish to descend, they need more blood-sacrifice energy; otherwise there isn't enough to sustain the descent of Dao-achievers and Hall Masters. But the Boundless Elder is skilled at stealing blood-sacrifice energy.
In the past, the vast majority of the blood-sacrifice energy over six billion years was stolen by the Boundless Elder.
If we go to war with him, those slain and wounded are all Heavenly Venerable-level powerhouses, and not a few Dao-achievers among them; Miluo Palace can then take the chance to accumulate blood-sacrifice energy and bring down more Dao-achievers and Hall Masters. " His face showed worry.
"In recent years, Miluo Palace has accumulated a great deal of blood-sacrifice energy. Twelve Hall Masters have descended, and the number of Dao-achievers has reached a hundred. If Cult Master Shen were not here guarding this place, they would long since have flattened us. " Shen Mu could be called the backbone among them. In these three thousand years, countless fierce battles had occurred; had Shen Mu not turned the tide by force, they would long ago have laid their bones in the ancestral court.
Over these years, everyone's progress was plain to see, but Shen Mu's progress was even more astonishingly swift.
Taiyi had suppressed the Heaven-Opening Host and had not been seen for three thousand years.
The only one left who could hold his own in the ancestral court was Shen Mu alone, facing both the divine ability attacks of Miluo Palace's Third and Fourth Young Masters and holding off the Boundless Elder—under enormous pressure, to say the least. In these brief three thousand years, Shen Mu had forcibly raised his lotus platform to the sixth Dao grade. On the World Tree there were also two Dao fruits and three Dao flowers, all blossoming and fruiting from the Five Great Daos. "Lately our pressure has eased a great deal, but hidden worries lurk beneath. " Xu Shenghua continued, "The ancestral court's Jade Capital has had no new Dao-achiever descend for nearly eight hundred years, which makes one worry that the Jade Capital is preparing some major move.
" He stood before the golden hall, gazing far off at the ancestral court's Jade Capital.
"In these eight hundred years, there have been no fewer than a hundred great battles among the three sides, and small-scale fights beyond counting. The Boundless Elder seized a portion of the blood-sacrifice energy, about forty percent; Taishi dissolved a portion, about fifteen percent; the remaining forty-five percent must all have been taken by the ancestral court's Jade Capital.
The Jade Capital has accumulated energy for eight hundred years—it is already exceedingly formidable.
" Everyone's heart gave a start.
Zhu Santong's voice trembled. "Are Miluo Palace's Young Masters preparing to descend?
" Xu Shenghua shook his head and pushed open the door of the golden hall.
"Taishi, Imperial Preceptor Jiang Jingping, and I have calculated: if Cult Master Shen were converted into blood-sacrifice energy, the blood-sacrifice energy seized by the Jade Capital over these eight hundred years could be sacrificed to exchange for roughly one and a half Cult Master Shens. But Young Master Zixiao and Young Master Lingxiao are each no less than ten Cult Master Shens. So the Young Masters cannot descend.
" Everyone clicked their tongues in astonishment. Shen Mu could stand against the Boundless Elder; that Cosmic Bell spanned sixteen Chaos Rivers, its divine power vast and unheard of—and yet it was still only equivalent to one-tenth of a Miluo Palace Young Master's combat strength!