Chapter 1838 — Wuyai as the Sacrifice
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Amidst the myriads of Dao Domains, Young Master Zixiao attacked Shen Mu and the Lunar Heaven Sovereign almost simultaneously. Young Master Lingxiao striking to kill the Lunar Heaven Sovereign was merely a fallback; he would far rather slay her with his own hand, ridding himself of this powerful foe who could disturb his Dao-heart!
Shen Mu, bearing the Lunar Heaven Sovereign with him, drove into his myriads of Other Realms, urging his Divine Treasury Domain to its utmost, standing firm at the domain's center. No matter from which direction Young Master Zixiao attacked, he could respond with composure.
Yet Young Master Zixiao's ferocity still exceeded his expectations. The Great Chiliocosmic Dao Domains invaded his domain like mirror-faces hung all about it, each mirror holding a different world within.
Young Master Zixiao's figure appeared within those myriads of worlds, striking at him, ravaging his domain.
What was harder still to withstand were the divine powers Young Master Zixiao directed at the Lunar Heaven Sovereign, forcing him to divide his attention to protect her, his wounds growing ever heavier.
In a duel between experts of their caliber, to speak nothing of divided attention—even the slightest misstep could mean being slain on the spot!
Protecting the Lunar Heaven Sovereign left him greatly on the defensive.
Young Master Zixiao's fleshly body was merely that of a Mira Palace Dao-Achiever; its own attainment was not high. But because that ancient zither was in his possession, his strength even surpassed Shen Mu's.
The Lunar Heaven Sovereign furrowed her brow. She stood at Shen Mu's back, watching his wounds multiply—yet Shen Mu never once bade her act, and so she could only hold herself still.
Suddenly, Shen Mu raised his hand. The Chaos Sea hanging in the firmament came howling toward him.
His Chaos Sea and Guixu Lotus had all along been suppressing the Guixu Abyss, guarding against the Second Young Master. Now, it seemed, because he could no longer hold off Young Master Zixiao, he was forced to recall the Chaos Sea and Guixu Lotus, returning himself to his peak!
Far off, Elder Wuyai's battle with Young Master Lingxiao had also reached its critical juncture. Elder Wuyai's battle strength was exceedingly high; had Shen Mu not borrowed the power of the Chaos River, he would have been no match for him at all. In this battle with Young Master Lingxiao, even though his foe held a Dao Spear in hand, Elder Wuyai displayed the full might of the World Tree, divine powers and Dao arts surging forth without end, leaving Young Master Lingxiao hard-pressed to cope!
"That Chaos boy has already recalled the Chaos Sea and Guixu Lotus—it seems he is going all out."
Elder Wuyai's gaze flickered. "Without his suppression, Young Master Wuji can make her move! This time, at last, we can be rid of both great foes—the Mira Palace and Chaos!"
So he thought. Yet the firmament of the Ancestral Court showed no change whatsoever, still silent and still—Young Master Wuji did not make her move as he had expected.
Elder Wuyai's heart panicked, and at once Young Master Lingxiao seized the opening, breaking through the World Tree's roots. The Dao Spear's tip whirled, piercing through countless divine powers, arriving at Elder Wuyai's brow!
Elder Wuyai retreated again and again, his heart all the more flustered, all the more certain of his notion: "Young Master Wuji is a Blasphemer against the Dao as well. She is waiting for Lingxiao and me to wound each other gravely, and only then will she act, to sweep us all up in one net!"
His Dao-heart grew unsteady, and at once his moves fell into disorder.
Though his cultivation was mighty, it derived chiefly from being a Dao-Achiever who cultivated the Dao Realm and entrusted himself to the void. Elder Wuyai himself had never cultivated the Dao Realm to elevate his Dao-heart.