Chapter 1388 — The Soul Cage

The First Ancestor roared and poured all his magic power into the Yuming Sword.

The Yuming Sword left his hand and shot forward faster still, cleaving the waves as it flew, striving to break through the utter limit of the divine consciousness cage's changes.

In one brief instant the Yuming Sword reached a speed that spanned space itself, as if heedless of distance, and nearly pierced through the cage. Yet in the next instant the changing speed of the divine consciousness cage caught the Yuming Sword and made it slower and slower.

At that very moment countless dazzling mathematical runes danced and churned about Xu Shenghua, calculating and revolving at a speed no eye could follow. The myriad runes were like countless computing spirit warriors roused at once, while he, as the heart that ordered all that numerical data, could grasp every figure at the same time and gather it into one sum.

"Found it!

" Xu Shenghua's consciousness rippled, pouring all his reckoning into Lan Yutian's mind. Lan Yutian's eyes widened, and he stepped forth into the divine consciousness cage, his speed in that instant reaching an inconceivable pitch. The Lame Elder had passed his life's learning to him, and the Palace of Stealing Heaven had held nothing back, yet he had surpassed his masters. His form sped on, heedless of the changing of matter, heedless of the changing of the divine consciousness cage, and in a fleeting moment he overtook the First Ancestor Human Emperor.

The First Ancestor's body had nearly fused wholly with the divine consciousness cage, yet suddenly he felt flesh and primordial spirit shake violently and tear free of that fusion at a terrifying speed.

He stared about in wonder.

All things seemed to slow, even the shifting of Long Xiao's consciousness, which grew pitiably sluggish. He watched Lan Yutian bear him up from behind and catch up with the Yuming Sword.

The First Ancestor seized the Yuming Sword, and countless blinding lights rushed into his face.

In the next instant, they had burst out of the divine consciousness cage.

The First Ancestor saw colossal beasts huge as stone statues open their eyes in surprise and slowly turn their heads toward them, and he saw Long Xiao's eyes slowly opening. His heart surged strangely, and then a dragon scale appeared before them, one of Long Xiao's own scales.

The two struck that scale and passed straight into it. Lan Yutian brought the First Ancestor to a halt, only to find Shu Jun, the successive Human Emperors, and the others standing beside them.

The company within the cage fell silent.

Lan Yutian could indeed pierce the divine consciousness cage, but Long Xiao was too mighty, and they could not escape at all.

"Can Heavenly Venerable Mu truly save us? " Shu Jun murmured.

And even then, at the center of the precious seal he bore upon his back, the head of Tai Di wore a strange smile. "Long Xiao, a naive great prize.

Subdue him, and you subdue the mightiest power in this world.

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