Chapter 1847 — The Last Thread of Survival
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Taishi was puzzled by his meaning, but still stopped what he was doing.
Shen Mu looked into the distance, where one great abyss of Guixu after another surged and drifted toward them; those abysses were the divine ability of Young Master Wuji. The true great abyss of Guixu had already been destroyed by Shen Mu.
Though the power of Young Master Wuji's divine ability was not weak, she was, after all, like Her Majesty the Empress, an ancient god born from the abyss. Without the great abyss of Guixu as a source of power, her cultivation had recovered extremely slowly over these years.
She had three paths by which she could restore her cultivation.
The first was to enter Shen Mu's Hall of Chaos, where there were sixteen rivers of chaos; there she could draw upon the power of the tribulation of destruction to recover swiftly. The second path was the sixteen rivers of chaos in the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, which could likewise restore her cultivation swiftly.
The third path was the sixteen rivers of chaos that encircled the World Tree.
Yet none of these three paths was feasible.
Shen Mu would never let her enter the Hall of Chaos, and the Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master would never let her borrow the way through the Jade Capital City. The third path seemed the most likely, but was in truth the least likely of all, for Young Master Wuji could not approach the World Tree! Moreover, even if she could draw upon the power of the tribulation of destruction, she could not obtain the power of the tribulation of creation.
More crucially, Shen Mu had sealed the Ancestral Court and was refining it; she could not destroy the Ancestral Court and reduce it to chaos qi.
She could go to the Sea of Chaos suspended in the sky, but there were Shen Mu's Six Paths Heavenly Wheels, immense in power, and she did not know what fate would befall her once she went there. After the Battle of Guixu, Shen Mu had, so to speak, pinned her down completely, leaving her no chance of turning the tables.
Shen Mu's gaze was deep and dark as his voice carried far: "Second Sister, Old Man Wuyai has passed away. " The countless abysses swimming in the air suddenly halted; one after another they devoured and merged with each other, and soon only a single abyss remained.
Then that abyss vanished.
Shen Mu's eyes flickered; his body rose into the air and became a streak of flowing light, shooting straight for the Sea of Chaos.
Young Master Wuji was likewise possessed of heaven-reaching wisdom, and knew that after slaying Old Man Wuyai, Shen Mu's next target was herself. Thus she acted with extraordinary decisiveness and headed straight for the Sea of Chaos.
If she could reach the Sea of Chaos before Shen Mu, destroy the Six Paths Heavenly Wheels, and rebuild the great abyss of Guixu, then the outcome of this battle would still be unknown!
Even if she could not rebuild the abyss, so long as she planted her Guixu lotus platform in the Sea of Chaos, she would still have the strength for a battle! Whoosh— On the surface of the Sea of Chaos, a startling great rift suddenly appeared, and roots came surging out from the rift, plunging into the Sea of Chaos.
In the instant the roots entered the sea, a massive sixteen-graded lotus platform was dragged out from the rift. At the same time, the Six Paths Heavenly Wheels formed of chaos stones rumbled into motion, lifting the entire Sea of Chaos.
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheels were like six massive waterwheels; having scooped up the Sea of Chaos, they turned with an obscure and profound motion, and the Dao of Reincarnation filled the skies of the Ancestral Court.
At the very moment the Six Paths Heavenly Wheels began to turn, the figure of Young Master Wuji appeared atop the sixteen-graded lotus platform.