Chapter 1850 — The Third Kind of Imperishable Matter
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The power of the Ancestral Court's Chaos Cauldron came howling through the collapsed gates of the Jade Capital City, vast and boundless, and wherever it passed it crushed the city's buildings as easily as rotten wood! Within the city, one Dao-attainer after another and the Hall Masters stepped forward, activating their Dao Fruits.
More than twenty thousand Dao Fruits floated into the air, pinning down the Chaos Cauldron's power! Hall after hall of treasures stood guard ahead, and the fifty-six Hall Masters stood tall.
Suddenly, the Ancestral Court began to shrink rapidly.
Over these three and a half billion years, the Ancestral Court had already shrunk to one percent of its original size, and now it was contracting at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The four walls of the Ancestral Court's Chaos Cauldron pressed ceaselessly toward the center; mountains and rivers, the lay of the land, shrank at a furious pace, gradually becoming exquisite and minute, making the might of this great cauldron ever more concentrated, ever more powerful! The walls and ramparts on all four sides of the Jade Capital City were shaken until they crumbled layer by layer, showing faint signs of total collapse. Young Master Zixiao raised his hand and drew his Dao Sword from the ancient zither, watching Shen Mu at the center of the Six Paths Heaven Wheel with a calm expression. Shen Mu strode forward.
Upon the Six Paths Heaven Wheel, the Dao soldiers of three thousand Jingping Dao-attainers danced, divine abilities flying in all directions, attacking the Jade Capital City's thousand palaces and ten thousand halls, seeking to join forces with the Ancestral Court's Chaos Cauldron and raze to the ground this divine city that even the Tribulation of Destruction and the Tribulation of Creation could not destroy!
The Six Paths Heaven Wheel rotated with Shen Mu at its center, forming a strange formation.
Those Jingping Dao-attainers standing upon the wheel seemed to dwell forever within the cycle of reincarnation, and others found it hard to discern the mystery within. But Young Master Zixiao and Young Master Lingxiao could see the profound secret of the Six Paths Heaven Wheel in motion. When the Six Paths Heaven Wheel completed a single revolution, these Jingping Dao-attainers seemed to undergo rebirth; whether in cultivation and mana or in body and primordial spirit, all was made new!
As the wheel turned, it could keep them at their peak at every moment, their bodies never tiring, their mana never exhausted! The Six Paths Heaven Wheel had two great functions. The first was to plunge Dao-attainers into the six paths of reincarnation, stripping away their bodies, stripping away their mana, and changing their very species.
Those struck by the Dao of Reincarnation might well never even know how they died.
The other function was the one the Six Paths Heaven Wheel now displayed: to keep the Jingping Dao-attainers forever at their peak, undying and indestructible! Young Master Zixiao had once crossed hands with Shen Mu, though it was the Seventh Young Master Shen Mu who had acted, not the Shen Mu of the present.
At that time, the vertical eye at the center of the Seventh Young Master Shen Mu's brow had opened and severed one of his zither strings.
The Third Young Master Lingxiao had also crossed hands with Shen Mu; Shen Mu had sat unmoving while a single Dao Fruit from the World Tree met Young Master Lingxiao's full-strength strike, forcing him to retreat in the face of difficulty. At that time, neither of them had been able to plumb Shen Mu's depths.
Indeed, throughout the past sixteen cosmic epochs, no one had known how many Dao Fruits Shen Mu possessed, or what divine abilities he commanded.
Even though Shen Mu had written down his method of attaining the Dao through Chaos and placed it in Miluo Palace, no one could understand it. More terrifying still, in past universes, almost no one had ever seen Shen Mu act with their own eyes!