Chapter 1592 — Nothing Left to Live For

Fending off both Xiao Heavenly Venerable and Hao Heavenly Venerable at once, he still could not hold.

Light flashed in Hao Heavenly Venerable's eyes; he pressed in close, and the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel flipped, exposing the dark Guixu, meaning to swallow and destroy Ling Heavenly Venerable utterly!

On the other side, Xiao Heavenly Venerable's palm was slick with blood, and soon nothing remained of it but white bone; his wrist too, under the onslaught of the Dao flowers of the Way of the Sword, was stripped of flesh until the bone of his arm showed white—yet still that blow came crashing down, straight at Ling Heavenly Venerable!

Kaihuang gave a long cry and spent every ounce of his strength to hold off these two Heavenly Venerables, yet still he could not.

Just as the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel was about to devour Ling Heavenly Venerable, a figure flashed out—Shen Mu threw himself across, barring Ling Heavenly Venerable, and with a gulp was swallowed by the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel! Hao Heavenly Venerable sneered and continued to drive the wheel—then saw Shen Mu poke his head out of the great abyss of Guixu within the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel, giving him a wicked grin, stopping the mouth of the Guixu abyss up clean.

Hao Heavenly Venerable's blood ran cold; he turned his palm, and the wheel turned from its reverse face to its front, becoming the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel ruled by the Way of Taichu. Shen Mu poked his head out of the front face of the wheel as well.

Hao Heavenly Venerable's black hair stood on end; he drove the wheel and ground Shen Mu within it to powder!

"Mu Heavenly Venerable, will you die or not?

" Hao Heavenly Venerable roared, and the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel chopped toward Ling Heavenly Venerable—yet Shen Mu, whom he had just pulverized, poked his head out of the wheel again.

Not only his head: his upper body emerged as well, his arms reached out, and his hands seized the rim of the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel.

Hao Heavenly Venerable cried out; the wheel flipped to its reverse face, and the great abyss of Guixu swallowed Shen Mu, grinding him into the waste gas of the universe. "Still not dead?

" Hao Heavenly Venerable said with a cold laugh.

"Not dead at all!

" Shen Mu's head popped out of the wheel once more. The veins on Hao Heavenly Venerable's forehead writhed; the wheel flipped and refined Shen Mu into primordial qi, and then within the wheel the primordial qi congealed, and Shen Mu was just stepping one leg out, trying to climb free of the wheel.

Hao Heavenly Venerable gave a great shout and smote the wheel with his palm, beating Shen Mu into fine powder!

His Dao heart in disorder, his savagery surging, he lifted the wheel—and there in the center of it Shen Mu's face surfaced again, filling the wheel.

Hao Heavenly Venerable hurled the wheel, not at Ling Heavenly Venerable, but at the Heavenly Emperor's body!

By now Xiao Heavenly Venerable had already reached the side of the Heavenly Emperor's body; nearly flayed alive by Kaihuang, he was trying to merge with the Heavenly Emperor's flesh. Hao Heavenly Venerable's blow came with exquisite timing—just as he was about to enter the Heavenly Emperor's body and had not yet fully entered.

Xiao Heavenly Venerable sneered; the Heavenly Emperor's body raised its palm to meet the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel, its power so immense that it surpassed even the Supreme Emperor's command of that frame.

Shen Mu's face surfaced on the surface of the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel, and meeting this blow he laughed: "Your Majesty, the moment I touch your body I can plant a thousand snares in you—I guarantee you will find life worse than death!

" Xiao Heavenly Venerable's blood ran cold; he hastily drew back his hand, not daring to touch the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel.

His Xiao Heavenly Venerable body burst apart; Kaihuang's sword light drove straight down through the crown of the Heavenly Emperor's body, boring into that frame, where it became a Dao Tree of the Way of the Sword, the Way of the Sword surging! Xiao Heavenly Venerable had just taken control of that body and had no time to mount a defense; a muffled grunt came from within it, and then Ling Heavenly Venerable awoke from her desolation, raised a slender jade finger, and pointed it at her own brow.

Xiao Heavenly Venerable cried out, toppled backward, and with a thunderous crash smashed through the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness, falling down into the Ultimate Void.

The Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness had already rotted; it could no longer bear them.

Ling Heavenly Venerable frowned and withdrew her finger—then saw that Hao Heavenly Venerable's blow had fallen wide: the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel, with Shen Mu in it, was chopping toward the Supreme Emperor's withered, fallen Dao Tree!

The Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel came howling beside the Dao Tree; the Dao Tree was rotting away, and the wheel shook it until trunk and bark fell away in drifts, revealing a Taichu Emperor Sword!

The Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel chopped to meet the Emperor Sword, and this time it was Shen Mu's turn to feel his blood run cold.

That was the companion treasure of Taichu, the Heavenly Emperor, an Emperor Sword formed of the pure Way of Taichu.

Hao Heavenly Venerable's Way of Taichu was no deeper than Shen Mu's, and so the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel could hardly kill him. But if he were slain by this Emperor Sword, he feared he could not escape death, could not revive from it!

Just then a hand reached out and lightly closed upon the hilt of the Emperor Sword.

When Hao Heavenly Venerable saw who held the sword, shock and terror showed in his eyes. He put away the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel and fled in a flash, bearing wheel and Shen Mu with him, howling out of the Great Luo Heaven!

Kaihuang and Ling Heavenly Venerable looked toward that person. The withered Dao Tree stood behind him and slowly ceased to rot; the fallen, withered leaves slowly returned to green, and the shriveled Dao Fruit upon the tree slowly regained its vitality.

The Dao Tree began to grow once more, and the Great Luo Heaven no longer collapsed.

Thirty thousand zhang of purple qi descended from the heavens like a waterfall, like a long river, hanging inverted behind that person.

"Daoist Yun," Ling Heavenly Venerable and Kaihuang said in greeting.