Chapter 1748: Warrior Severing the Root

Joyful Hall Master was flying at full speed. Only her upper body remained; she had been attacked by Shang Jun Ru Hua, which forced her to roll up her Dao Tree and Dao Fruit and flee.

However, she was still severely wounded by Shang Jun, who had severed her two legs.

She had originally intended to seek out Chu Ge Hall Master nearby, but before she could reach Chu Ge Hall Master's descent location, Chu Ge Hall Master was already dead.

So, she made a decisive choice and immediately went to see Long Wind Hall Master.

Suddenly, a streak of Primordial Dao light flew towards her. Joyful Hall Master was startled; wounded by Shang Jun, she was like a frightened bird, hastily trying to dodge. Yet, she saw the Primordial Dao light bend in mid-air and pursue her!

"Seventh Young Master!"

Joyful Hall Master's hair stood on end. The news of Qin Mu killing Chu Ge Hall Master had already reached her. She had not fully descended to the Seventeenth Epoch; a part of her remained in the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court in the Sixteenth Epoch, thus she knew that Chu Ge Hall Master had died at the hands of Seventh Young Master Qin Mu.

Although Qin Mu's Primordial Dao light appeared to have no power, it made her dare not confront it directly. She abandoned the idea of meeting Long Wind Hall Master and immediately rushed towards the Ancestral Court with all her might!

"Long Wind must have also heard the news of Seventh Young Master killing Chu Ge Hall Master. He shouldn't linger. I don't need to rendezvous with him; I'll go directly to the Ancestral Court! I'll be safe there!"

Her speed was incredibly fast, her magic power circulating as space folded layer upon layer, tearing through the void.

And Qin Mu's Primordial Dao light also vanished along with her.

Joyful Hall Master moved away from the Primordial Realm, folding the starry sky along the way, her speed increasing.

Each of the seventy-two Hall Masters possessed unique divine abilities. Joyful Hall Master specialized in the Dao of Space, able to traverse the vast universe with ease. However, the Ancestral Court was too far, and even with her astonishing ability, it would take several days to reach.

Yet, to her surprise, the light persistently followed her, and no matter how fast she went, she could not shake it off.

Joyful Hall Master secretly grew anxious: "Seventh Young Master's divine ability is so fast; I fear I will be overtaken by it before I even reach the Ancestral Court! More importantly, I don't know how many divine abilities he has unleashed! If I stop to confront this one attack, but there are a hundred more divine abilities behind it, wouldn't I be doomed?"

Her speed was unparalleled, which was why Shang Jun had given up on pursuing her.

It was precisely because Shang Jun saw her speed and knew he could never catch her that he returned to the manufacturing plant to continue working and earning money.

But Qin Mu's Primordial Dao light possessed a speed no less than hers, even surpassing it, leaving Joyful Hall Master both terrified and perplexed.

"I attained the Dao through the art of space. If I want to leave, no one can stop me, nor can Seventh Young Master's divine ability catch me. Could it be that..."

Her mind stirred. Her Dao Tree appeared, and a leaf detached from it, flying out. The leaf drifted in the starry sky, then suddenly transformed into the form of Joyful Hall Master, meeting the Primordial Dao light!

Whoosh—

The Primordial Dao light passed directly through the body of the Joyful Hall Master formed by the leaf, as if it had not touched anything!

"It's divine consciousness!"

Joyful Hall Master's mind went blank. She immediately stopped, seeing the Primordial Dao light whoosh in front of her, passing directly through her body.

Joyful Hall Master saw herself shattered by this attack, her Primordial Spirit annihilated, her Dao Tree severed, everything utterly destroyed!

Yet, she felt perfectly fine.

This was divine consciousness at play.

In fact, Qin Mu's Primordial Dao light was not a Primordial divine ability of the Miluo Palace, or it could be said to be a Primordial divine ability, but it was a divine consciousness ability formed by constructing Primordial runes with divine consciousness!

The moment Joyful Hall Master saw the Primordial Dao light, she had already been affected.

However, this divine ability was not intended to harm or kill her, but to create a terrifying illusion for her, forcing her to retreat and preventing her from meeting with Long Wind Hall Master!

"Seventh Young Master doesn't have enough confidence to deal with both me and Long Wind simultaneously, so he used a divine consciousness ability to scare me away. This way, he can kill Long Wind with minimal cost!"

To a Hall Master-level existence like her, divine consciousness abilities were mere parlor tricks. She was incredibly ancient; she had seen not only the Dao of Divine Consciousness but also the complete Dao of the Five Tais.

She should not have been so easily affected, but she had been severely wounded by Shang Jun, and had heard that a powerful being like Chu Ge Hall Master had also died at Qin Mu's hands. Thus, she was prejudiced into believing that Qin Mu was coming to kill her and that she absolutely could not resist.

Understanding this, Joyful Hall Master immediately sensed her own Dao and then activated her magic power to break Qin Mu's divine consciousness ability!

A colossal sound, like the creation of heaven and earth, resonated in her mind. With the divine consciousness ability broken, all the illusions before her eyes immediately vanished. Her physical body, Primordial Spirit, Dao Tree, and Dao Fruit were all intact, without the slightest damage.

"So, should I rush back and join Long Wind to face Seventh Young Master?"

Joyful Hall Master hesitated. She was already deep in the starry sky, an unknown distance from the Primordial Realm. Rushing back now would likely be too late.

Although she clearly knew that Long Wind Hall Master was most likely not dead, and if she went back, she could join forces with Long Wind to repel Qin Mu, but what if?

What if Long Wind Hall Master had already been killed by Qin Mu? Wouldn't rushing back be walking straight into a trap?

"We, the three Hall Masters, were ordered to descend to the Seventeenth Epoch to allow the two Young Masters of Miluo Palace and other Hall Masters to descend. This objective is crucial!"

Joyful Hall Master flashed away, silently thinking: "Long Wind, my friend, it's not that I'm afraid of death and don't want to save you, but saving you is too risky. For the grand plan of Miluo Palace's descent, I must reluctantly let you down..."

Qin Mu arrived at Flying Wheel Fortress. Looking around, he saw a scene of devastation. The Golden Ark of Salvation had crashed through the ruins left by Yan Yunxi and Bai Yuqiong, crushing and driving the third Hall Master all the way out of the Primordial Realm into the external starry sky.

Qin Mu sensed the aura of the Golden Ark of Salvation. With a single step, he followed the traces left by the Ark out of the heavens, thinking to himself: "That Joyful Hall Master just now was indeed extremely skilled, with unparalleled speed, even faster than me. Like Moon Heavenly Venerate, she also cultivated the Boundless Void, attaining the Dao through space. However, in terms of foundation, she is much stronger than Moon Heavenly Venerate. Such an existence is extremely dangerous..."

In the starry sky, the Golden Ark of Salvation was tightly entangled by countless roots. These roots, like coiling dragons, clung to the surface of the golden ship. Some roots even penetrated the palaces on the golden ship, appearing extremely bizarre and eerie.

Long Wind Hall Master's power erupted completely, transforming him into a giant of immeasurable size. Roots danced around his feet; some wrapped around the golden ship, while others flew through the starry sky, entwining with planets, pulling his enormous body towards the Ancestral Court.

The Golden Ark of Salvation grew larger and larger, severely slowing his progress.

Yet, he could not free his roots from the ship. His battle with Lan Yu Tian was, in a way, exasperating. That seemingly naive and honest young man was incredibly slippery. He killed one Lan Yu Tian, only to find it was a humanoid artifact created by a creation divine weapon. He killed another, and it was still a humanoid artifact!

By the time he had killed all dozens of Lan Yu Tians at the bow of the ship, he still hadn't found Lan Yu Tian's true body.

At that moment, he happened to perceive the death of Chu Ge Hall Master, which unsettled him. He immediately decided not to contend with this slippery fellow and left at once. Unexpectedly, the Golden Ark of Salvation accelerated again, crashing into him from behind, knocking him disoriented!

Long Wind Hall Master stopped to fight, but could not find where Lan Yu Tian was hiding. He had no choice but to abandon the golden ship and resume his journey.

But the golden ship crashed into him from behind once more, crushing him beneath its hull. Once or twice might have been acceptable, but the crucial point was that this golden ship pursued him relentlessly. Each collision was incredibly heavy, enraging him. So, countless roots flew out, piercing into the palaces on the golden ship, searching for the whereabouts of the smiling little fatty.

He did not find the smiling little fatty, but to his horror, he discovered that every time his roots entered a palace, the golden ship would grow a bit larger, and another golden palace would appear on the deck.

He continuously branched out more roots, piercing into more golden palaces, only to find that the number of golden palaces seemed infinite, and the golden ship grew larger and larger!

Even more infuriating, the smiling little fatty kept appearing in various halls, using strange and bizarre hand seals to seal his roots within the halls, preventing him from retracting them!

When he had descended this time, he had brought few roots with him, only a portion. A tree without roots dies; he absolutely could not abandon these roots. Therefore, although he knew he had fallen into a trap, he was helpless. He could only drag the Golden Ark of Salvation and rush madly, hoping to reach the Ancestral Court before Qin Mu could find him.

However, dragging such an enormous golden ship through the starry sky was truly arduous, making him silently groan with difficulty.

As a Hall Master of the Seventy-Two Halls of Jade Capital City, he had naturally seen divine artifacts like the Golden Ark of Salvation, and he had heard other Dao achievers mention rumors about it.

But the Golden Ark of Salvation was the Miluo Palace Master's treasure, and it was badly damaged. No one dared to board it to investigate its secrets. Thus, he knew little about the Ark's mysteries, which led to him being trapped by Lan Yu Tian.

"Where in the world did this little rascal come from? So insidious and malicious, using such a devious method to trap me!"

Long Wind Hall Master's heart suddenly stirred: "Earlier, he called Seventh Young Master 'brother.' Could he be Seventh Young Master's biological younger brother? No wonder, it's clearly a shared lineage!"

He struggled to drag the golden ship, his roots extending beneath his feet. Some roots penetrated a sun ahead, while other roots embedded themselves in the void, piercing through the thirty-six layers of void, pulling his enormous body closer to the sun.

A Dao achiever possesses boundless power. Although Long Wind Hall Master achieved the Dao as a divine tree, he should not have been in such a sorry state. However, Lan Yu Tian was too cunning; though clearly no match for him, he had devised this strange method to trap him.

"You should cut your roots like a true warrior."

Suddenly, a voice came, clearly entering Long Wind Hall Master's ears.

Long Wind Hall Master's heart tightened, and he hastily looked up. He saw the thirty-six layers of void twist and form a ring, and even the sun ahead followed the swirling voids, rising and settling within the ring!

Under the sunlight, the thirty-six void rings emitted various colored lights, growing smaller and smaller, vertically positioned behind the head of a youth with graying temples.

"Cut your roots like a true warrior, and you will still have a path to survival."