Chapter 1853 — The One Who Dissolved into the Dao
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As the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel came grinding down, spinning without cease, the divine powers of the three thousand accomplished Daoists of Jingping upon it poured down like a rain of arrows, and in an instant the accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace suffered grievous slaughter! Dao tree after dao tree shattered in the radiance of the Dao arts; some dao fruits had scarcely risen before ten thousand swords pierced through them; some accomplished Daoists, before they could even react, had their bodies smashed apart and their spirits blasted to nothing by dozens of kinds of Daoist arts and divine powers.
And the divine powers they hurled at the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, before they could even draw near the Jingping Daoists atop it, would often suddenly dissipate and lose all their force. Even the Hall Masters of Miluo Palace, whose divine powers could pierce the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel and wound the Jingping Daoists upon it—let the Wheel but turn one full revolution, and it would heal the Daoist wounds of the Jingping Daoists, restoring them to their peak.
The vast Wheel grinding over them was itself a terrifying attack.
More terrifying still was the power of the Dao of Reincarnation radiating from within the Wheel. Shen Fengqing, who commanded the Wheel, was inferior to Shen Mu in mana, yet his comprehension of the Dao of Reincarnation surpassed Shen Mu's; with the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel driven by him, any accomplished Daoist of Miluo Palace who drew near would involuntarily fall into reincarnation, their bodies transformed by it, their spirits transformed, and even their Great Dao divine powers altered.
The accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace attacked from all directions; for many of them, merely drawing a little too close, the bodies forged by their Great Dao began to rot, and their Great Dao to crumble!
Some, when they reached the edge of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, had already been reduced to heaps of white bone; even their dao trees began to wither, their dao fruits yellowing and dropping away, stripped of power.
Had the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel been forged by Shen Fengqing, it would not have been so dreadful; this Wheel was made by Shen Mu, who destroyed the Great Abyss of Guixu and gathered the Chaos Stones within to refine it. Through three and a half billion years of polishing and ritual tempering, its power had grown so great that it could almost rival the Dao-arms of the Young Masters. This was why Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao had wanted to shatter the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel from the very beginning.
Without breaking the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, the accomplished Daoists of Miluo Palace could hardly claim a great victory—could hardly even keep their lives.
The Dao of Reincarnation was an entirely new Great Dao; across the past sixteen cosmic epochs no one had ever created such a Dao.
It was one of the fruits of Jingping's reforms. In the past sixteen cosmic epochs, the only one to master this Dao had been the Seventh Young Master, Chaos.
But the Seventh Young Master Chaos had already fused this inconceivable Dao with his own Dao of Chaos, making it all the more bizarre.
And since the Seventh Young Master acted in such secretive ways, it was all the more impossible to understand this Dao.
In the city of Yujing there were countless accomplished Daoists, and as many as fifty-six Hall Masters.
Each of those fifty-six Hall Masters was a being who had reached the utmost achievement in some domain; their cultivation and strength were no match for the Young Masters, yet each one's individual achievements were by no means trifling!
The master of Miluo Palace and the seven Young Masters possessed extraordinary abilities, yet even they might not have been able to match the Hall Masters' achievements.