Chapter 1859 — We Shall Meet Again
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The gods and demons of heaven, who had spun and chanted around the dao spear, burst apart one and all!
Crack!
The dao spear was severed, shattered, transformed into pure energy that swelled outward, and thereupon underwent the transformations of the prenatal Five Primes within the radiance of creation! Third Young Master Ling Xiao retreated with extreme speed, yet the speed of that universe's opening was faster still.
It soon caught up to him, swallowed him, drowned him!
Within that radiance of creation, Third Young Master Ling Xiao remembered the scene of his flight during the Tribulation of Creation of the Seventeenth Epoch: countless versions of himself thrusting their strongest blows with all their might, breaking through one bizarre space after another, rushing toward the void of the Foul Ground. At that time, countless versions of himself had perished in the Tribulation of Creation; only he had broken through the tribulation light of the Tribulation of Creation.
His physical body shattered within that tribulation light, his dao spear tumbling, and with his head he plunged into the Foul Ground. He did not know which version of himself it was that had broken through the Tribulation of Creation, nor which version of himself had been destroyed.
In that moment, he had looked back and seen the tribulation light of the Tribulation of Creation cast behind him. Now, he looked back within the tribulation light of Shen Mu's Chapter of the Opening of Heaven, and he saw that the tribulation light of the Tribulation of Creation was still chasing him, had chased him for ninety-five billion years.
By now the tribulation light was already close at hand! He had never escaped the tribulation light of the Tribulation of Creation; he had only fled far enough that it had not caught up with him. And now, the Tribulation of Creation had caught up.
The difference was that the Tribulation of Creation, by Shen Mu's hand, would now devour him, drown him, erase him! No doubt everyone in this void of the Foul Ground had likewise failed to escape the Tribulation of Creation; they had merely not yet been caught by it.
When the Tribulation of Creation of each hidden expert caught up with them, they too would find death inescapable. "This battle, my defeat was not mine, but heaven's will!
" Third Young Master Ling Xiao had no way to resist the tribulation light; his physical body perished within it, yet he roused his last strength and rammed into the ruins of Heaven Capital City, using his final power to drive this relic crashing into the Obelisk Forest!
He had to win time for the Hall Masters and the Dao attainers of Miluo Palace! He had to win a hope for Jade Capital City's continuance!
He could die, but the ideals of Miluo Palace had to be preserved, passed on!
Even if the merit was not his, even if his body perished and his dao dissolved!
Whoosh-- The ruins of Heaven Capital City hurtled toward the Obelisk Forest at even greater speed, drawing closer and closer to it.
Within the tribulation light, Third Young Master Ling Xiao saw that the ruins of Heaven Capital City and the Obelisk Forest were already within a hair's breadth!
Yet his physical body and his great dao were nearly wholly scattered, his consciousness and thoughts dissolving within the tribulation light. He was left with only his head, and the flesh and blood upon that head were dissolving with incredible speed. Soon his skull too decomposed within the tribulation light, yet he felt a trace of comfort.
"Once the Heaven Openers are released, the Dao attainers of Miluo Palace will have a chance to live.
This is the last thing I can do. Someone, surely, will pick up the ideals of Miluo Palace, pick up my thoughts, and carry on for me. .
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" His consciousness was annihilated.
In the final instant before annihilation, he saw Shen Mu throw himself between the ruins of Heaven Capital City and the Obelisk Forest!