Chapter 1431 — Fragments of the Great Luo Heaven
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At the prow, Divine Emperor Langxuan watched the seabed and shattered rock rush at him head-on and hastily raised a hand to shield his face. Yet though the vessel shuddered violently, it did not strike the ground; in the very instant of contact it passed into layer upon layer of Void beneath the earth.
The vessel sped through, traversing layer after layer of Void in an instant, reaching straight to the thirty-fifth layer of the Void, hurtling straight for that Great Luo Heaven fragment! Divine Emperor Langxuan's heart pounded violently.
At last, with his own eyes, he could see that fragment of the Great Luo Heaven, and the altar within the fragment, and the mysterious giant coffin upon the altar! In that lightning-swift rush, he looked up, and looking up he beheld the Jade Terrace and the Jade Sea suspended above the Other Shore Ark and the Great Luo Heaven fragment! The land of the Ancestral Court seemed not to exist at all; he could even see the mine slaves and overseers standing beside the etherealized mountains, upon the etherealized ground.
This sight filled him with wonder.
BOOM— The Other Shore Ark crashed into the Great Luo Heaven fragment, and the entire vessel exploded with a thunderous roar. The two at the prow tumbled head over heels through the air; when they steadied themselves, they found they had plunged into the fragment and were floating before the coffin.
The coffin was enormous; its archaic rust bespoke immense antiquity.
The lower it went, the more decayed it became. Even the runes and Great Dao brands upon it had been worn away and greatly diminished in power.
Yet standing before this coffin, they felt wave upon wave of palpitation—the power emanating from the coffin was too frightening, too terrifying!
Even one as mighty as Langxuan could only feel his heart quail and his flesh creep!
That was pure Dao might, Dao power—higher than his own power, more profound and mysterious, inconceivable! Divine Emperor Langxuan clasped his hands behind his back; his divine consciousness rippled as he smiled. "Even a being as mighty as one from the previous cosmos cannot survive the great annihilation.
How pitiful.
" Just then, the giant coffin abruptly emitted creaking, grating sounds, and the coffin lid slowly opened.
Divine Emperor Langxuan was as though facing a great enemy.
The heavenly palace appeared behind his head, his primordial spirit vast, standing within the heavenly court, the Divine Origin Finger already prepared—ready at any moment to strike and slay the one within the coffin!
The coffin opened, and within the giant coffin lay a withered Dao tree—no corpse, no one's primordial spirit.
Upon that Dao tree hung but a single shriveled Dao fruit. From that Dao fruit, a vast divine consciousness spread outward, speaking unhurriedly: "Creatures as tiny as ants, mocking an eagle that soars between cosmoses with a cosmos as its year, laughing at its shallow vision.
Heh heh—little friends, it is you who are pitiful.
" They communicated through divine consciousness; even without understanding each other's language, they could know one another's thoughts. Divine Emperor Langxuan sneered and was about to speak when another surge of divine consciousness came from the Dao fruit: "Little friend, when your cosmic epoch is destroyed, how will you escape?
With your mouth?
Kneel, worship me, offer me sacrifices enough, and I will teach you the method of transcendence and aid you in attaining the Dao—then you may live on into the next cosmic epoch!
" Shen Mu's expression shifted slightly, and he hastily looked toward Divine Emperor Langxuan. Divine Emperor Langxuan's face flickered dark and bright by turns.