Chapter 1810: The Third Indestructible Substance
The might of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron howled into the city through the collapsed gates of Jade Capital City, its power vast and overwhelming, demolishing the buildings of Jade Capital City like a whirlwind sweeping away withered leaves wherever it passed!
Within the city, one by one, the Ascenders and Hall Masters stepped forward, activating their Dao Fruits. Over twenty thousand Dao Fruits floated in the air, stabilizing the power of the Chaos Cauldron!
A row of precious halls stood guard ahead, the bodies of the fifty-six Hall Masters standing tall and firm.
Suddenly, the Ancestral Court began to shrink rapidly.
Over these three and a half billion years, the Ancestral Court had already shrunk to one percent of its original size. But now, it was contracting at a visible rate. The four walls of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron pressed inward toward the center, the mountains and rivers shrinking swiftly, becoming miniature. This caused the power of the great cauldron to become increasingly concentrated, its might growing stronger and stronger!
The city walls on all four sides of Jade Capital City were shaken, constantly crumbling, showing signs of a complete collapse.
Young Master Zixiao raised his hand, drawing his Dao Sword from his zither. His expression was calm as he looked at Qin Mu standing in the center of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel.
Qin Mu strode forward. On the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel, the Dao weapons of the three thousand Yancheng Ascenders flew about, their divine abilities shooting out in all directions, attacking the thousands of palaces and halls of Jade Capital City. They aimed to cooperate with the power of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron, razing this divine city—which even the Destruction Calamity and Creation Calamity could not destroy—to the ground!
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel revolved around Qin Mu, forming a strange formation. The Yancheng Ascenders standing on the wheel seemed to be perpetually trapped in reincarnation, making it difficult for others to discern the mysteries within.
But Young Master Zixiao and Young Master Lingxiao could see the profound workings of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel in motion.
These Yancheng Ascenders, when the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel completed one rotation, seemed to undergo rebirth. Their cultivation base, magical power, physical body, and primordial spirit were all renewed!
With the wheel turning, they could remain at their peak state at all times, their bodies never tiring, their magical power never exhausted!
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel had two major functions. One was to cast Ascenders into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, stripping them of their physical bodies and magical power, changing their species. Those caught in the Way of Reincarnation might not even know how they died.
The other function was the one currently in use: keeping the Yancheng Ascenders perpetually at their peak, immortal and indestructible!
Young Master Zixiao had once fought with Qin Mu, but that was the Seventh Young Master Qin Mu, not the current Qin Mu.
At that time, the Seventh Young Master Qin Mu opened his vertical eye on his forehead, severing one of his zither strings. Third Young Master Lingxiao had also fought with Qin Mu. Qin Mu sat motionless, and a Dao Fruit on the World Tree met Young Master Lingxiao's full-force strike, forcing Young Master Lingxiao to retreat.
At that time, neither of them had been able to gauge Qin Mu's depth.
Even throughout the past sixteen cosmic epochs, no one knew how many Dao Fruits Qin Mu had, or what divine abilities he possessed. Even when Qin Mu wrote down his method of achieving Dao through Chaos and placed it in the Miluo Palace, no one could understand it.
Even more terrifying was that in the past universe, almost no one had witnessed Qin Mu fighting with their own eyes!
Perhaps Qin Mu had fought before, but those who saw him fight were likely already dead.
Even the Miluo Palace Master had once said that he couldn't quite understand the Seventh Young Master's Chaos divine abilities.
Because of their lack of understanding of Qin Mu, Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao could not deduce Qin Mu's Dao techniques and divine abilities from the Seventh Young Master. Fortunately, over these three and a half billion years, they had studied Qin Mu's Dao techniques and divine abilities thoroughly.
Although Qin Mu's Six Paths Heavenly Wheel was exquisite, it posed little threat to them—it couldn't cast them into reincarnation. But the other function of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel was a fatal threat to Jade Capital City.
As long as the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel existed, the Ascenders of Yancheng would be immortal and indestructible, always at their peak, nearly impossible to kill. It could be said that the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel had turned these Ascenders into three thousand types of indestructible substances!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The fluctuations from outside the city grew increasingly intense. The Ancestral Court had already shrunk to one-thousandth of its original size and was still contracting. It seemed that the four walls of the great cauldron were already very close to Jade Capital City.
Of course, this was an optical illusion. The Ancestral Court was extremely vast; even shrunk to one-thousandth of its size, it was still incredibly far from Jade Capital City.
But at this rate of contraction, it wouldn't be long before the four walls of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron reached the edge of Jade Capital City!
By then, all the power of the Chaos Cauldron would be concentrated in a narrow space, striking directly at Jade Capital City!
With the terrifying might of this heavy artifact forged from the Ancestral Court, it could likely shatter Jade Capital City into pieces!
The fifty-six Hall Masters and the eighteen thousand Ascenders were now shaken, looking toward the two Young Masters. But Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao remained calm and composed, watching Qin Mu as he drove the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel through the city, wreaking havoc and destroying the buildings of Jade Capital City, getting closer and closer to them!
Boom!
The city walls on all four sides of Jade Capital City trembled, and another section collapsed. Now, standing within the city, one could clearly see the mountains and rivers on the four walls of the Chaos Cauldron, even the trees on the mountains!
The four walls of the Chaos Cauldron were already very close to Jade Capital City.
Finally, the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel arrived before the forest of Dao Trees within the city. Behind the forest of Dao Trees lay the Chaos Rivers.
In the forest of Dao Trees, the many Ascenders of Miluo Palace felt a wild pressure!
Yes, a wild and unrestrained pressure.
They had all seen the Seventh Young Master Qin Mu before, but their interactions were few. In their perception, the Seventh Young Master Qin Mu had always been gentle and refined—though very mischievous, he carried himself with grace.
But the Qin Mu before them now exuded wildness and dominance!
Qin Mu looked from the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel toward the two Young Masters ahead, his gaze indifferent. The rotation of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel gradually came to a halt.
Behind him, the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City was a mess, with not a single intact building to be found.
The two Young Masters stood before the forest of Dao Trees. The Hongmeng runes around Young Master Lingxiao's Dao Spear were still spinning with a roar, holding up the Chaos Sea in the sky, preventing it from pressing down.
The Chaos Sea had also shrunk countless times, becoming even heavier, bending the Dao Spear more and more, nearly reaching its limit!
Boom!
Another terrifying tremor came, and a section of Jade Capital City's wall collapsed. Countless bricks and stones flew in all directions, and the Hongmeng runes imprinted on them were shattered!
The four walls of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron were now only a hundred li away from Jade Capital City.
The oppressive pressure from this heavy treasure alone made it hard for the many Ascenders in the city to breathe!
The fifty-six Hall Masters could no longer sit still, constantly glancing at the two Young Masters, beads of sweat forming on their foreheads.
Young Master Zixiao and Young Master Lingxiao remained calm and composed, completely unconcerned.
From outside the city came a piercing creaking sound—the city walls of Jade Capital City groaning under the terrifying pressure, on the verge of collapse.
Suddenly, large sections of Jade Capital City's four walls collapsed, and the four walls of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron finally reached the city itself!
Everyone in the city felt as if they were inside the cauldron, at any moment doomed to be buried under its power!
"Young Master!" an Ascender screamed.
Young Master Zixiao played his zither, and the music became intense. Countless Othershore Grand Heavens enveloped Jade Capital City on all sides, resisting the power surging from the Chaos Cauldron. The Othershore Grand Heavens constantly formed and collapsed, but never broke.
Qin Mu raised an eyebrow.
"Seventh Brother, do you know?"
Young Master Lingxiao placed his hand on his Dao Spear. The spear, which had been nearly bent by the pressure of the Chaos Sea, suddenly straightened. The power of the Dao Spear pierced through the Chaos Sea, and the wildly spinning Hongmeng runes spilling from the spear's shaft tore the Chaos Sea apart!
Around the spear, a terrifying vortex formed, spinning with a roar.
Young Master Lingxiao said indifferently, "Jade Capital City was forged by the Teacher to carry all living beings through the Destruction Calamity and Creation Calamity. This divine city can be said to be the third indestructible substance in the seventeen universes, past and present."
He suddenly spun the Dao Spear, and the collapsed walls and towers of Jade Capital City instantly restored themselves!
Jade Capital City expanded with a roar, spinning along with his Dao Spear!
A terrifying upheaval came, and the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron was torn apart by the expanding, spinning Jade Capital City!
Young Master Lingxiao reached out and pulled out his Dao Spear. Jade Capital City rapidly shrank and descended. A sound like the sky shattering and the earth splitting rang out as the ground of the Chaos Cauldron cracked open with a violent tremor, smashed through to create a huge hole!
Around Jade Capital City, countless shattered landmasses flew in all directions.
Young Master Lingxiao brandished his spear, and Jade Capital City abruptly halted its descent, shooting upward to meet the pressing Chaos Sea!
Boom!
Jade Capital City pierced through the Chaos Sea, shattering it into pieces!
The Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City was called "Ancestral Court" because it sat within the Ancestral Court, not because it was part of it.
In fact, this divine city had been forged since the Second Epoch. Over one cosmic epoch after another, it had long become vaster than the Ancestral Court itself!
Jade Capital City flew out of the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron. Below, the Ancestral Court had shattered into countless landmasses, with earth, water, wind, and fire surging and roaring, as if it were the end of the Ancestral Court!
This was the power of the third indestructible substance—Jade Capital City, the sanctuary for countless Ascenders!
The first indestructible substance was the World Tree. Because the Miluo Palace Master had realized the Dao beneath it, the World Tree gained sentience, and the Boundless Old Man was born from within it. The World Tree naturally ignored the Destruction Calamity and Creation Calamity, becoming the best channel for prehistoric beings to sneak through.
The second indestructible substance was the Guixu Great Abyss, where Young Master Wuji was born.
With each epoch, a new abyss appeared in Guixu, providing a passage to the next epoch. But Young Master Wuji devoured the other Guixu Goddesses, controlling the abyss, and no one dared to borrow the path from there except the Heaven Openers.
The third indestructible substance was Jade Capital City, created by the Miluo Palace Master!
As Qin Mu had said, this divine city was forged solely to withstand the Destruction Calamity and Creation Calamity, possessing little offensive power. But at the same time, it was a divine city refined by the Miluo Palace Master!
It didn't need overwhelming power—just three simple collisions were enough to shatter the Ancestral Court Chaos Cauldron and the Chaos Sea that Qin Mu had painstakingly built over three and a half billion years!
This was the foundation and capital of Young Master Lingxiao and Young Master Zixiao!
This divine city could never be broken!
Within the Six Paths Reincarnation, Qin Mu suddenly let out a long cry, and the shattered Chaos Cauldron immediately began to reassemble!
Young Master Zixiao smiled faintly. Behind him, the Zixiao Dao Hall blazed with purple light. Jade Capital City became even more vast and magnificent, absorbing all the flying fragments of the Ancestral Court into itself.
Qin Mu's eyelids twitched. The Chaos Cauldron reassembled, but instead of containing Jade Capital City, it found itself inside the cauldron.
"Seventh Brother, today is the day you set off on your journey."
Young Master Lingxiao gripped his Dao Spear, his body sinking slightly: "Please."
Qin Mu raised his brows, stepping out of the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel. His voice was deep: "Brother, I leave it to you."
Qin Fengqing immediately disengaged from the wheel, stepping between the Six Paths to take control of the wheel: "Be careful! Don't let yourself get killed! If... if you can't hold on, just go back to the past."
Qin Mu grinned. The Chaos Hall rose, and the Chaos Sea flew toward it, surging in with a roar. He laughed: "In this battle, there is absolutely no way I will lose!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Chaos Hall vanished. The sixteen Chaos Rivers spun, roaring as they revolved around him!