Chapter 1770: Invincible in the Guixu
As Qin Mu rose to his feet, the surface of the Chaos Sea instantly twisted, forming a massive Chaos Wheel behind him that churned up the chaos within the sea.
The rotating Chaos Wheel swept up the Golden Ship of Crossing the World. The enormous golden vessel slid sideways across the Chaos Sea, groaning and creaking as it fell into the wheel.
The churning Chaos Sea water cascaded downward in all directions, only to be swept up again by the spinning giant wheel. The scene was magnificent and awe-inspiring, shaking the very soul!
Boom!
Suddenly, the Dao Trees of everyone present erupted into violent flames. The three hall masters—Hehuan, Zengcheng, and Fenghuang—were startled and immediately tried to extinguish the fires. The five Dao Achievers from Miluo Palace also hurriedly activated their divine abilities, attempting to douse the flames on their Dao Trees. But the fire had been ignited by the wind of heat death within the Guixu and was utterly inextinguishable.
They cultivated under the orthodox system of Dao realm achievement. After cultivating their Dao realms to the thirty-sixth heaven and entrusting them to the void, they would generate the Great Luo Heaven, giving birth to a Dao Tree and deriving a Dao Fruit.
The Guixu, however, was the antithesis of the ultimate void. Their Dao Trees, upon arriving at the Guixu Abyss, were suppressed to the point of helplessness. If they could not leave this place, their entire cultivation would likely be dissolved cleanly by this bizarre location!
Even worse, they could feel their Dao realms, layer by layer, being invaded by the heat death and collapsing continuously!
"Sacrifice!"
The three hall masters each shouted, activating their respective treasure halls. The three great halls pressed down, extinguishing the flames on their Dao Trees, allowing the three to breathe a sigh of relief.
Huang Tang's Great Luo Heaven also began to burn at this moment. The flames of heat death blazed fiercely, igniting both his Dao Tree and Dao Fruit!
Huang Tang roared in anger and activated the branch of the World Tree. This branch, refined by Wuya Laoren, instantly pierced through the Chaos Wheel, stirring the Chaos Sea. It took root and sprouted on the sea surface, rapidly growing into a smaller World Tree that propped up patches of void, resisting the power of the Guixu.
The flames on his Great Luo Heaven, Dao Tree, and Dao Fruit immediately died down.
Only Kaihuang Qin Ye's Great Luo Heaven and Dao Tree remained untouched by the heat death, completely unaffected.
The crowd looked up and saw the faces of Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu. Their expressions changed drastically, while Kaihuang and the others showed joy.
"Seventh Young Master!"
The golden ship had already been caught by a Chaos Wheel and fell into its rotation. On board, besides Kaihuang Qin Ye, Yue Tianzun, Lan Yutian, and others, there were also six Dao Achievers, including the Zengcheng Hall Master.
The Zengcheng Hall Master, recognizing Qin Mu's face, felt a chill in his heart. He immediately retreated with the other five, leaping off the golden ship to escape the Chaos Wheel.
Suddenly, he remembered that his Dao Tree was still on the ship.
The Zengcheng Hall Master immediately channeled his mana, trying to retrieve his Dao Tree. But his Dao Tree had bound the golden ship, and its roots were suppressed by Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua within the golden halls, making it impossible to retrieve in a short time.
Earlier, when Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua suppressed his Dao Tree's roots, the Zengcheng Hall Master hadn't taken it seriously. Now, he was secretly lamenting his misfortune, on the verge of tears.
Abandoning his Dao Tree was impossible, especially since his Dao Fruit was still on it!
Realizing he couldn't retrieve his Dao Tree, the Zengcheng Hall Master made a decisive move. One by one, his Dao Fruits detached from the tree.
Since he couldn't retrieve the tree, he would at least retrieve the fruits, preserving part of his cultivation.
The moment his Dao Fruit fell from the tree, Kaihuang's sword light flashed, piercing through one of his Dao Fruits!
By then, Qin Mu had fully risen to his feet.
A massive shadow appeared before the Golden Ship of Crossing the World, enveloping the Zengcheng Hall Master and the other five Miluo Palace experts.
The Zengcheng Hall Master gritted his teeth and charged back onto the golden ship, activating the Zengcheng Treasure Hall to clash head-on with Kaihuang!
The Zengcheng Treasure Hall spun rapidly around him, colliding constantly with Kaihuang's sword Dao. The hall expanded and contracted, shrinking to the size of a grain of sand or expanding into a dazzling divine city. Kaihuang's sword light darted through the city like entering a maze, unable to break through and reach his true body.
Leaving his Dao Tree on the ship was one thing, but losing his Dao Fruits would severely weaken his strength.
Xu Shenghua's eyes flickered. Seeing that Kaihuang was struggling to win, he immediately began deducing and calculating the internal structure of the Zengcheng Treasure Hall.
The Zengcheng Hall Master was clearly a master of numerology. His Zengcheng Treasure Hall contained numerical puzzles; solving them would allow one to harm him.
"It's a pity that Linxuan Dao Lord isn't here. If he were, breaking the Zengcheng Treasure Hall wouldn't be so difficult."
Xu Shenghua focused entirely, trying to decipher the structure of the Zengcheng Treasure Hall. Lan Yutian, on the other hand, was completely in the dark, understanding nothing of the maze-like layout.
He had little talent for numerology.
Just as the Zengcheng Hall Master returned to the Golden Ship of Crossing the World, the sea surface boiled and exploded. Another massive Chaos Wheel rose from the sea, followed by six more, twisting time and space.
The five Miluo Palace Dao Achievers who had followed the Zengcheng Hall Master also intended to return to the golden ship. One of them, caught off guard, passed through a huge Chaos Wheel and vanished instantly.
The other four Miluo Palace Dao Achievers were startled. Two of them exchanged glances and then passed through the newly risen Chaos Wheel to search for their companion. The remaining two rushed onto the golden ship to help the Zengcheng Hall Master fend off Kaihuang Qin Ye.
The two who entered the Chaos Wheel suddenly saw a flash of light. When their eyes adjusted, they were horrified to find that their physical bodies had transformed into two chicken-headed dragons!
Their original bodies had completely disappeared!
Not only that, but their primordial spirits had also changed, becoming the primordial spirits of chicken-headed dragons!
"Don't panic!"
One of the Miluo Palace Dao Achievers opened his mouth, but only a crowing sound came out. He quickly communicated using Dao language, shouting, "This is Seventh Young Master's specialty—the Dao of Reincarnation! He can change our physical and primordial spirit structures, but he cannot change our understanding of Dao techniques and divine abilities! Our Dao Trees and Dao Fruits are still here!"
The two chicken-headed dragons immediately sensed their own Dao techniques and divine abilities. Finding them still intact, they relaxed.
They looked around. This world within the Chaos Wheel was filled with bubbles of various sizes, floating in colorful, dreamlike, and bizarre patterns.
Suddenly, they spotted another chicken-headed dragon. Their spirits lifted. Activating their Dao Trees and Dao Fruits, they quickly transformed their bodies into a chicken-headed, human-bodied form, immensely powerful. Flapping the wings on their backs, they flew toward that chicken-headed dragon.
As they passed through a bubble, their minds became hazy. When they came to their senses, they found themselves transformed again, now as two green snakes slithering along the ground.
"Seventh Young Master's techniques cannot harm Dao Achievers!"
The two sensed their Dao Trees and Dao Fruits again, activated their divine abilities, and reshaped their bodies. The power of Dao Achievers was fully displayed. In an instant, they became snake-headed, human-bodied forms, still immensely powerful, and charged out of the bubble.
But the moment they left this bubble, they entered another, transforming into two ancient trees.
Their consciousness became somewhat confused, but soon they remembered who they were. The two ancient trees uprooted themselves, becoming two towering tree-men, and strode out of this bubble world.
They stepped into another bubble and fell into a vast sea, turning into two tiny fish.
When they entered the next bubble world, they became two wildflowers by the roadside.
Entering another bubble, they turned into two grasshoppers, hopping around.
Each time they entered a new bubble world, their consciousness grew fainter. But as Dao Achievers, they were strong, holding firm to their Dao hearts and always managing to wake up.
However, each awakening took longer than the last, making the two worry whether they would be able to regain self-awareness the next time.
Staying in the bubble worlds was not an option either, because the bubbles would occasionally burst and annihilate. Each explosion was like the destruction and creation tribulations of opening up heaven and earth, draining their cultivation and strength.
Moreover, when a bubble burst, new bubbles would form, endlessly.
The two Dao Achievers kept shuttling through bubble after bubble, but the other Dao Achiever they were searching for had long since vanished without a trace.
Thus, they experienced countless cycles of reincarnation. Finally, when they rolled into another bubble world, they transformed into two Chaos Stones.
The consciousness within the two Chaos Stones gradually sank along with the chaotic energy, turning into a chaotic state.
Another object rolled into this bubble world and landed, also becoming a Chaos Stone.
The three Chaos Stones lay there motionless, devoid of any consciousness or thought.
By then, only an instant had passed in the outside world.
The moment the Hehuan Hall Master and Fenghuang Hall Master used their respective treasure halls to extinguish the flames of heat death, they made a decisive decision and turned back, trying to leave the Guixu.
But to their horror, they could not see the entrance to the Guixu.
Looking up, they could only see sky-like wheels, within which surged the great tribulation of destruction!
The Hehuan Hall Master reached out and grabbed the Fenghuang Hall Master's hand as she flew up, pulling her back. She shook her head and said in a low voice, "Don't go! Entering there means falling into the Dao of Reincarnation, a fate worse than death!"
The Fenghuang Hall Master suddenly recalled the rumors about the Miluo Palace's Seventh Young Master and quickly stopped, breaking out in a cold sweat.
In ancient legends, people who had entered the reincarnation space within Seventh Young Master Qin Mu's dreams had encountered all sorts of strange phenomena. The tales were quite eerie.
The current Qin Mu already bore the aura of the Seventh Young Master, forcing her to act cautiously.
"I still have Third Young Master Lingxiao's divine ability, which can severely wound Seventh Young Master and break through his strange domain!" the Hehuan Hall Master said solemnly.
The Fenghuang Hall Master felt relieved.
Suddenly, three Chaos Stones fell from one of the sky-like wheels, dropping past them into the Chaos Sea.
The two hall masters glanced at the three stones, puzzled, but paid them no mind.
At that moment, countless white hairs flew out from behind Qin Mu, each like a sword, attacking him from behind!
Each white hair transformed in countless ways, evolving various Guixu divine abilities, trying to devour Qin Mu.
Suddenly, the Chaos Wheel rotated, blocking the strands of white hair, preventing them from getting anywhere near Qin Mu!
"Old Seventh, your skills have improved!"
Beneath the Chaos Sea, lotus leaves floated. Suddenly, a massive face emerged. White hair drifted around that face, eerie and strange.
The Hehuan Hall Master and the others looked through the layers of Chaos Wheels at that face. They saw a woman bound by five thick red chains, pinned beneath the sea, unable to escape.
"Second Young Master Wuji!"
The Hehuan, Fenghuang, and others were startled and quickly bowed, saying, "Hehuan, Fenghuang, and Zengcheng pay respects to Second Young Master!"
The white hair that had just attacked Qin Mu belonged to the Second Young Master, who was suppressed in the Chaos Sea.
Because of a grave offense, she had been imprisoned in the Chaos Sea by the master of Miluo Palace. Red ropes tied into knots formed five chains, trapping her at the bottom of the sea.
Seeing Qin Mu arrive, she was eager to fight and struck at him without mercy. But she was suppressed by the Miluo Palace master. The slightest movement would lock her in the red ropes, preventing her from harming Qin Mu.
Second Young Master Wuji's face swam beneath the sea surface, darting east and west, forward and back, as she examined the crowd. Suddenly, she giggled, "The hall masters of Miluo Palace, three at once! Old Seventh, can you handle them?"
She couldn't help but laugh, saying, "Choosing to ambush them here—aren't you underestimating me? If I join forces with these hall masters, do you think you stand a chance?"
"Second Sister, as long as you haven't escaped, you can't do anything to me."
Qin Mu turned around. The Chaos Sea roared and churned under the influence of the six Chaos Wheels, sending waves crashing against the two hall masters' treasure halls and Huang Tang's small World Tree, shaking everyone. He smiled faintly, "Even if you join forces with them, you can't harm me in the slightest. I have plenty of ways to make you obedient!"
Second Young Master Wuji was furious and sneered, "Old Seventh, your audacity grows..."
Qin Mu flicked his fingers. Suddenly, the power of the five red ropes suppressing Second Young Master Wuji erupted. She groaned and was driven back into the depths of the Chaos Sea.
"Making threats, Second Sister, you're not qualified."
Qin Mu turned around and said calmly, "Unless the teacher unties your red rope knots, you'd better behave yourself in front of your little brother. Everyone!"
His voice suddenly exploded above the Chaos Sea, shaking the waves into a frenzy.
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