Chapter 1613 — A Young Hero Unrivalled in All the World
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Beneath the lotus root were yet more root tendrils, dancing one and all like great dragons of chaos, locked in savage slaughter with the Dao patterns bursting from the five Dao Chains.
Hooo—
The Second Young Master drove the lotus root on, and in the sky above the Sea of Chaos below, countless abysses of Guixu appeared, scattered everywhere, now flashing forth, now vanishing, beyond the fathoming of gods or ghosts, devouring and wearing away the Dao Chains.
Lotus seeds, too, were struck out from the twin lotus; at each strike, a patch of the void was annihilated outright.
Plainly, the twin lotus of the sixteenth epoch of the universe had ripened: seeds within the flower, root-stock below—unlike the twin lotus of the seventeenth epoch, which had only root tendrils, and neither seeds nor root-stock.
She knew that Shen Mu and the Goddess of Guixu had most likely met with some extraordinary fortune and grown greatly in strength, and so she brought out even the means she kept at the bottom of her chest.
Yet the Dao Chains' might was simply too great; it suppressed her cultivation and strength, and the Sea of Chaos ground her down besides, so that the fighting power she could bring forth was not high.
Though not high, it was by no means to be taken lightly. If a full-force blow of hers fell upon Shen Mu or Yuanmu, the two of them would likely be turned to flying ash, with nothing left behind at all.
Fortunately she was compelled to contend with the Dao Chains; otherwise Shen Mu and Yuanmu would have had no chance of escape whatsoever.
The two rushed to the lower reaches. Yuanmu's eyes locked upon every drifting Guixu divine art of the Second Young Master, and she dodged this way and that with Shen Mu. Suddenly a lotus seed came flying—like a stone cast into a still lake, cast into Shen Mu's God-Treasury Domain.
The seed's power erupted; the next moment it became a vast abyss, sweeping up the God-Treasury Domain, and the boundless starry sky, the countless worlds, all fell into the seed.
Madam Yuanmu leapt up into the air to meet the lotus seed, rousing her Guixu divine art; body and primal spirit shuddered and turned into an abyss of her own, meeting that seed head-on, hard against hard.
Shen Mu at once steadied the God-Treasury Domain and halted his fall toward the abyss.
Crack, crack, crack—Madam Yuanmu's body burst apart. In a single simple collision she was reduced to a blur of blood and flesh; from head to foot, primal spirit included, not one patch of intact skin remained.
Her essence qi, like a long rainbow, was drawn into the abyss the seed had become.
Shen Mu roared, rousing his domain, and Yuanmu's body and primal spirit were restored whole in an instant. The two set their teeth and strove against that lotus seed.
Suddenly strand after strand of white hair pierced through the God-Treasury Domain, and in the next moment the two were run through by a hundred and more white hairs.
The white hairs tore in every direction, and the two were shredded into countless pieces.
With a whoosh the lotus seed swallowed the countless fragments the two had become.
"The treasure tree is undying, and so am I!"
The seed was flying toward the woman upon the lotus leaf when suddenly it swelled larger and larger, and the next moment burst into pieces; a World Tree, lush and verdant, towered up from the ground.
Countless vital essences whirled madly about this World Tree; sun and moon and stars, heavenly palaces and treasure halls, swiftly took shape; world after world of the heavens appeared one by one, and Shen Mu and Madam Yuanmu stood beneath the tree.
Shen Mu bellowed, rousing the Zaiji Void; the domain grew immeasurably thin, with no thickness at all, and with a swish it flew along the surface of the Sea of Chaos, bearing them away from the Second Young Master.