Chapter 1630: Miluo Burial Path
Before each grand hall, the phantom figures of accomplished cultivators stood. They were immensely powerful, their phantoms standing there as if their forms pierced through countless universes and eons of time, enduring endless ages without fading.
Their Dao seemed capable of eternal existence, never perishing. Even if the universe were destroyed and the Grand Celestial Realm shattered, their Dao would persist forever!
Their power spanned through cycle after cycle of annihilation, descending into this era. They required a medium. Even the young master of the Miluo Palace needed a medium for his power to descend into a future era.
When the Fourth Young Master of the Miluo Palace killed the Grand Emperor, his medium was Hao Tianzun pulling his zither strings from a past universe and tying them to the Creation Divine Artifact. Only then could the Fourth Young Master's divine power be transmitted to the Nether Realm to slay the Grand Emperor.
Qin Mu cultivated their halls, refining the seventy-two halls. These seventy-two halls were the mediums for the seventy-two accomplished cultivators of the Jade Capital in the Ancestral Court.
The seventy-two halls allowed their power to descend, enabling them to strangle Qin Mu's path to enlightenment!
However...
"In my divine storage universe, you are all nourishment! You are all trials on my path to enlightenment!"
Qin Mu's voice came, accompanied by violent fluctuations. The fourth phantom of an accomplished cultivator was twisted into a spiral by his divine power, sent into the Return to Void, and then crushed and devoured by the Great Abyss of Return to Void.
His Dao Tree projection was also shattered and absorbed by Qin Mu's World Tree.
Qin Mu's primordial spirit straightened its robes and continued forward.
That was correct.
In his eyes, these accomplished cultivators blocking his way were merely trials to aid his own enlightenment.
He had indeed used the power of these accomplished cultivators to cultivate the seventy-two halls, and he had indeed given the seventy-two accomplished cultivators an opportunity. But for him, this was also an unparalleled chance.
As long as he refined and absorbed all the projections of these accomplished cultivators, and refined and absorbed the projections of their Dao Trees and Dao Fruits, the seventy-two halls of the Jade Capital would no longer be a trap for him!
He could completely control the power of the seventy-two halls of the Jade Capital, turning it into his own strength, with no further worries!
This trial was of utmost importance. No matter what, he had to succeed!
"Seventh Young Master, for you this is a trial, but for us, this is an interception concerning our future, concerning the survival of the Jade Capital and the continuation of the civilizations of sixteen cosmic epochs!"
Before the Pixiang Hall, a familiar figure appeared ahead of Qin Mu. He was like a scholarly teacher, gentle and refined. On his Dao Tree hung two Dao Fruits and a blooming Dao Flower.
The Dao Flower had not yet borne fruit.
Although his face was unclear, Qin Mu knew who he was.
He was the Primal Sage of the Miluo Palace, the master of the Pixiang Hall.
The Primal Sage of the Miluo Palace had already died at the hands of the Ten Heavenly Venerables. The figure appearing before Qin Mu was the Primal Sage of the Miluo Palace from a past cosmic era, when he was still alive.
He was a powerful being who had survived three cosmic epochs, his strength extraordinary. His phantom was hazy and indistinct, his power transmitted from the Sixteenth Cosmic Epoch, so strong that it twisted time and space.
The Primal Sage of the Miluo Palace bowed deeply, his voice rumbling and shaking: "The Primal Sage pays respects to the Seventh Young Master! In past universes, we failed to stop the Seventh Young Master, but in this unknown future, we must try no matter what!"
He was an existence who had attained enlightenment through sacrifice. This bow was not only a salute to Qin Mu's title as Seventh Young Master but also a bid for Qin Mu's life!
At that moment, his Dao Tree, Dao Flower, and Dao Fruits burst forth with countless Dao patterns and Dao chains, blazing and boiling, transforming into an incredibly terrifying divine technique. In this bow, they attacked Qin Mu!
His Dao techniques and methods specifically targeted the primordial spirit. Qin Mu had once obtained a teaching rod refined from a branch of his Dao Tree. As long as the opponent had a primordial spirit, it would strike true!
Qin Mu had also studied the principle behind this. The reason the Primal Sage's divine technique always hit its mark was mainly because the Primal Sage's Dao was the Dao of Sacrifice.
The power of sacrifice was extremely strange, penetrating everywhere, formless and intangible. It was the thoughts of all living beings. Wherever thoughts reached, there was no defense!
Boom!
Qin Mu's primordial spirit was blasted high into the air, falling backward. It endured this strike, nearly splitting apart.
The Primal Sage of the Miluo Palace soared into the air, his Dao Tree rising with him. The Dao patterns and Dao chains in the air combined into an ancient altar.
The sacrificial Dao he had taught the Grand Emperor contained hidden flaws, preventing the Grand Emperor from becoming a true accomplished cultivator. But he himself was flawless.
Qin Mu's primordial spirit halted midair, its split form suddenly stopping its fissure. It gathered Dao into a sword and met the Primal Sage head-on!
The Primal Sage roared, his two Dao Fruits spinning and expanding, erupting with astonishing Dao light. The thirty-six layers of the Heavenly Dao Realm swept down, enveloping Qin Mu layer by layer!
His two Dao Fruits each contained thirty-six layers of the Heavenly Dao Realm, trapping Qin Mu within the Dao Fruits.
Then the Dao Flower flew up, wrapping the two Dao Fruits inside. The Dao Flower spun and returned to the Dao Tree.
The Dao Tree stood tall, floating above the altar. The Primal Sage stood beneath the altar, shouting fiercely. The hair bound on his head burst open, black hair flying wildly.
"Seventh Young Master, bear the thoughts of all living beings from past universes! Supreme Sacrifice!"
He bowed deeply. On the altar, the Dao patterns and Dao chains within the Dao Flower boiled. The seventy-two layers of the Heavenly Dao Realm rumbled and shook. He intended to use Qin Mu's primordial spirit as a sacrifice to the countless living beings who had died in the destruction of past universes!
Chi!
The moment the Primal Sage bowed, a sword light pierced through the seventy-two heavens, stabbed through the two Dao Fruit phantoms, pierced the Dao Flower phantom, split the Dao Tree in two, and cut through the altar!
The Primal Sage straightened up. A sword mark appeared between his brows, splitting downward along the midline of his forehead, reaching his nose bridge, his philtrum, his chin, his throat, his chest, and his lower abdomen.
The Primal Sage's body trembled. He forcibly used his own Dao cultivation to stop the power of this sword strike.
On the altar, Qin Mu's figure flickered in and out of view amidst the surging Dao light.
"Primal Sage, the Grand Emperor was harmed by your sacrificial Dao, leading to the massacre of the Creator race and causing the first calamity of this universe. Every disaster that followed also originated from this."
Qin Mu flicked his sword, the blade ringing and vibrating: "You claim to be for your own people, your own living beings. But without your stowaway crossing, how could the Sixteenth Cosmic Epoch have reached its end in just six hundred million years? Parasites!"
As the sword sound came, a terrifying sword light burst forth along the Primal Sage's midline, causing his body to split apart with a swoosh!
"You accomplished cultivators who cling to life by stealth are no different from the Ten Heavenly Venerables. You are just a group of profiteers occupying positions without doing any real work."
Qin Mu turned and walked toward the next hall.
Behind him, the Primal Sage's phantom was devoured by the Return to Void, while the phantoms of his Dao Tree, Dao Fruit, and Dao Flower were absorbed by the World Tree.
The World Tree rumbled and shook, continuously growing, pushing the divine storage universe higher and wider.
At the same time, a strange vibration came from the void. The thirty-second layer of void emerged, imprinting Qin Mu's Dao upon it.
"The Seventh Young Master's twisted theories are adept at deceiving people!"
The halls shook. The remaining sixty-seven accomplished cultivators stood with their majestic forms before their respective halls, their faces indistinct.
They could not see Qin Mu's face, and Qin Mu could not see theirs.
They spoke in unison, their voices shaking, echoing through the divine storage universe.
"We are not talented enough to debate the Seventh Young Master. Since we cannot argue with you, we will have to send you on your way!"
Behind the sixty-seven halls, Dao Trees rose and swayed, their branches dancing and roots writhing.
The sixty-seven phantoms of accomplished cultivators from past universes each activated their own power, their Dao Trees, Dao Flowers, and Dao Fruits. In an instant, the entire Jade Capital nearly boiled over!
The prehistoric accomplished cultivators, their Dao, their realm techniques, all combined perfectly at this moment. The power of Qin Mu's Jade Capital was nearly pushed to its limit by them.
"Send the Seventh Young Master on his way!"
Sixty-seven voices crossed time and space, transmitting into Qin Mu's mind, exploding repeatedly within his Spiritual Embryo divine storage.
"Miluo Burial Path!"
This power was world-destroying. The next moment, it struck Qin Mu's primordial spirit!
With this strike, all heavens were extinguished, the Heavenly Court shattered, the Celestial Palace collapsed. The Mystic Capital, the Primordial Capital, and the Nether Realm were all buried!
Layer after layer of void shattered and collapsed. Even the Ancestral Court was broken, annihilated, and beaten into chaos by this strike!
No matter how vast and mighty Qin Mu's primordial spirit was, it was utterly powerless against this Burial Path power!
Boom!
Qin Mu's divine storage universe was completely destroyed. The wind of heat death howled, turning everything into rolling, spinning chaotic energy. Only Qin Mu's Jade Capital remained.
This Jade Capital was like the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, existing since ancient times, enduring the great destruction of the universe without perishing.
The sixty-seven phantoms of accomplished cultivators stood within the Jade Capital, looking around. They saw chaos sweeping everything, the Return to Void spinning, devouring the chaotic energy.
Not far away, the World Tree stood amidst the chaos, completely unmoved by the great destruction of the universe.
"His Chaos Hall is still there!" one accomplished cultivator exclaimed.
At the center of the Jade Capital, chaotic energy filled the air. A grand hall floated within, motionless.
Beneath a Dao Tree, a burly accomplished cultivator with a hazy, indistinct face and a halo of light spinning behind his head spoke in a deep voice: "The Chaos Hall is formed from his Dao. We must shatter this hall. We cannot allow him to make a comeback!"
Someone was puzzled: "The Seventh Young Master has already been blasted to pieces, his soul scattered. How can he make a comeback?"
The Return to Void swept away all chaotic energy, leaving only the Jade Capital, which it could not swallow.
Just then, suddenly, the Return to Void tide erupted. The Twin Lotus rose from the stream of light, spinning. As they spun, the flower buds opened petal by petal!
"Not good! It's the calamity of cosmic creation!"
Suddenly, one person shouted sharply: "Our Dao Trees and Dao Fruits can survive the calamity of destruction, but they cannot survive the calamity of creation!"
Before his words faded, from the Great Abyss of Return to Void came a sound like a bell, or like the supreme Dao tone. Accompanied by this sound, a new universe burst forth from the Return to Void!
Countless worlds gushed out from the Return to Void. Time and space formed, shaped like a cosmic bell, expanding outward along the bell's wall. At the center was the Ancestral Court!
All heavens, countless stars and galaxies, all emerged at once. Their numbers grew, and the universe expanded.
This calamity of creation could not be avoided even by the Jade Capital. The projections of those accomplished cultivators felt an irresistible force coming from within their bodies, from their Dao Trees, Dao Flowers, and Dao Fruits!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One by one, Dao Fruits split open and expanded. Dao Flowers swayed and withered. Dao Trees toppled and decayed.
Their Dao disintegrated and collapsed in the calamity of creation, becoming nourishment for this new world!
Dong!
The bell sound was like a warning bell, or like the sound of creation, scattering their thoughts and consciousness into chaos.
The bell sound faded. The Jade Capital was in a mess.
Some had not yet died, but they had no strength left. They lay fallen before their own halls.
Vaguely, they saw a figure walking from beneath the World Tree, drawing closer and closer. The figure entered the Jade Capital, walked before them, and stepped over them.
One by one, the fallen phantoms of accomplished cultivators exploded with a bang, devoured by the Great Abyss of Return to Void. Their withered, collapsed Dao Trees, their cracked Dao Fruits, their scattered Dao Flowers became nourishment for the world.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed Qin Mu's primordial spirit by the ankle.
Qin Mu stopped and looked down. The accomplished cultivator's voice was hoarse: "Seventh Young Master, we also have the right to live..."
Qin Mu shook her off and continued forward.
"Nan Xiang, you do have the right to live. But it cannot be at the cost of sacrificing our lives to allow you to survive."
As his figure passed, the phantom of Nan Xiang Yuanjun exploded, turning into surging Dao light devoured by the Return to Void.
Qin Mu walked to the center of the Jade Capital. The seventy-two accomplished cultivators and their Dao Trees had all dissipated. The Jade Capital was renewed.
He paused, his gaze falling on the chaotic energy at the center of the Jade Capital. There was a Chaos Hall, a hall condensed from his lifelong Dao!
The power of these accomplished cultivators, their Dao Trees, Dao Flowers, and Dao Fruits, had all transformed into his power, giving him enough strength to step into this chaos!
Qin Mu took a long breath and walked into this chaos!
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