Chapter 1723 — The Simplehearted Venerable
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
And still Shen Mu's power came on without cease, striving to shake the bronze jar — but the bronze jar stood within the One Qi Great Luotian, and though the Luotian had now left the Ultimate Void and come to the Yuan Realm, it was after all the achievement of the Great Dao. Shen Mu's power, arriving here, was weakened layer upon layer, no longer at its peak.
And more: the bronze jar was suppressed by the One Qi Great Luotian. For Shen Mu to shake that jar was to contend against the entire Luotian, to contend against Taichu's cultivation.
Time and place were both on Taichu's side; victory was in his grasp.
In a single instant he unleashed countless great divine arts, the power of a Dao Achiever displayed in full. Then, suddenly, the corner of Taichu's eye twitched. Beneath the bronze jar, dense and countless marks had abruptly surfaced.
Those marks spread in rings, ring upon ring, layer upon layer, expanding outward; and by the time he noticed them, the ring-shaped marks had already spread from the jar's base across half the Luotian. The ring marks were exceedingly strange, like the growth rings of a tree — and within that brief span they already numbered in the hundreds of millions.
"This is.
.
.
the World Tree! " Taichu understood in a flash.
"Damn him!
He was scheming against me too!
" Boom!
The growth rings revolved, and the marks within them turned to light that shot into the sky.
A world-shaking roar rang out, and above the Heavenly Court's main camp, upon Taichu's One Qi Great Luotian, a colossal tree appeared — thick as half the Luotian — branches flying, roots driving deep into Taichu's One Qi Great Luotian! Those roots were immeasurably thick, like mighty mountain ranges, splitting the earth of the One Qi Great Luotian apart, toppling its peaks; Taichu, caught off guard, was blasted away by the enormous trunk and flung down out of the One Qi Great Luotian! His Dao tree was crushed flat as well; the whole Luotian gave a great crack and split cleanly into two halves.
At the same time the bronze jar burst with a bang, and the three souls of the Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon flew up, summoned away by some nameless force. And the World Tree, having split the One Qi Great Luotian open, dissolved into countless motes of light and scattered into the air, leaving only the two halves of the Luotian falling from the sky!