Chapter 1833 — Sweet-Tongued and Ruthless

Clearly Young Master Wuji had not fully unsealed herself, and so could not gather the other Guixu lotuses in to form a sixteen-grade lotus platform. Her path of attaining the Dao through Guixu differed from Shen Mu's after all. Shen Mu relied on his own enlightenment, on drawing energy and nourishment from calamity after calamity of destruction and creation, to raise the Dao grade of his lotus platform.

Young Master Wuji, by contrast, must have taken another path: absorbing the Guixu lotuses of other Cosmic Epochs to form a sixteen-grade lotus platform. Yet the seal of the Master of Miro Palace prevented her from marshaling more tiers of the platform.

Otherwise, could she have summoned a sixteen-grade lotus platform, she would have broken free. Shen Mu smiled slightly. "Second Sister, are you up to it?

Your little brother is quite formidable, you know. " Young Master Wuji smiled as well. "Seventh Brother, you have not attained the Dao through chaos, so you truly are not up to it.

" Before her words had faded, Shen Mu took a step forward. As he stepped out, the bell tolled; the Chaos Sea suddenly exploded, and the Cosmic Bell swept up the chaos qi of the Chaos Sea, swelling the might of his strike!

On the Chaos Sea, he was the Seventh Young Master of Miro Palace, and he could unleash boundless power! Upon the sea, a universe was born anew amid the tolling of the bell, carrying the energy of heaven-splitting and earth-rending creation; it swept across the sea, vast and mighty, straight for Young Master Wuji!

This strike was Shen Mu's thirty-fifth heaven of the Dao realm: Hongmeng First Opens, the Dao Cleaves Heaven and Earth!

This move could be called his mightiest divine power.

In sheer force alone it already surpassed every divine art he had ever comprehended or learned, even surpassing the Hongmeng Finger and Heaven Capital's Opening Heaven Chapters! "Seventh Brother, so you really are not up to it! " Standing within her lotus platform, Young Master Wuji giggled—and suddenly the Wuji Hall behind her gaped open.

In the instant its doors opened, energy that annihilated all things poured out.

It had barely clashed with Shen Mu's Cosmic Bell when the cosmos and heaven-and-earth that the Cosmic Bell had shaken open were destroyed outright! Yet in the very instant the Five Greats reversed, Shen Mu caught hold of the bell's body and gave it a gentle flick.

The great bell whirled with a howl, rose, and inverted, capping downward.

Boom—! The bell tolled again, and the Chaos Sea and the calamity of destruction around Shen Mu were swept away at once.

At the same time, Shen Mu stamped his foot heavily; Hongmeng runes transformed into an Opening-Heaven Altar and rose.

Shen Mu used his hand as a sword, drew the blade, and slashed; the Chaos Sea bursting up around him evolved at once, heaven and earth dividing, forming one cosmos after another around him! Whoosh! Behind Shen Mu, the magnificent and dazzling Six Paths Heavenly Wheel revolved, and every cosmos, great and small, was gathered beneath the Six Paths of Reincarnation—ceaselessly born, ceaselessly destroyed, turning without end!

Young Master Wuji had just charged forward when she was swept back by the cosmos around her, great and small. However many miniature cosmos she annihilated, no sooner did reincarnation turn once than new universes were born.

Young Master Wuji flew into a rage and urged on her Guixu divine powers, matching Shen Mu with the Dao of birth and destruction—but she had to expend her own cultivation to sustain that birth and destruction, while Shen Mu sustained it through the Dao of reincarnation.

The difference in their levels was plain at a glance! "Second Sister, you are outdated. You really are not up to it! " Shen Mu pressed in close, reached out for the five chains behind Young Master Wuji, and refined the alien runes within them, replacing them with the Red Rope Knot runes.

Young Master Wuji's eyes nearly split with fury, and she attacked him madly, yet beneath the turning of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel she could never draw near.

Shen Mu swiftly repaired the Red Rope Knot, restoring one by one the runes Young Master Wuji had destroyed. Suddenly Young Master Wuji stopped, attacking him no longer, and said coldly, "Seventh Brother, is there any use in this?

You are not Teacher, after all. You only prolong the time before I break free—in the end it is all in vain!

" Shen Mu finished repairing the Hongmeng runes that had been damaged, let out a breath, stretched lazily, and walked off toward the outside of Guixu, saying mildly, "When you have unraveled my runes once through, I will simply come repair them again. " "You—! " Young Master Wuji was seized with towering rage, yet in her heart arose a deep sense of helplessness.