Chapter 1761: Miro Palace Owner's Compensation

For Qin Mu, these past six months had been an ordeal, yet also a rare opportunity for significant self-improvement.

Limitless Elder possessed an immense understanding of Daoist methods and divine abilities. He had fully mastered the Dao methods of Miluo Palace and a portion of Tiandu’s Dao methods. The only ones he did not comprehend were the Great Dao divine abilities that he had slandered as belonging to the blasphemers of Tiandu, as well as the Way of Gui Xu.

He was unable to use his Dao tree trap to discern the Dao methods and divine abilities of Dao Attainers who did not cultivate Dao trees.

Even so, his accumulated knowledge was unrivaled, making him the foremost being across seventeen cosmic epochs!

Facing such an existence was naturally extremely arduous for Qin Mu. Fortunately, he also understood the Red Cord Knot Seal, a technique specifically created by the Miluo Palace Master to counter the Way of Gui Xu.

Limitless Elder tried to use the Red Cord Knot Seal against him, but Qin Mu repeatedly thwarted it, rendering this most powerful divine ability against the Way of Gui Xu completely useless!

To deal with him, Limitless Elder eventually had to resort to using the World Tree, employing a scorched-earth tactic that involved mutual restraint between his World Tree and Qin Mu’s Way of Gui Xu, attempting to wear down Qin Mu's Gui Xu Lotus.

However, Qin Mu was backed by the Primordial River of Chaos, and his Gui Xu Lotus was rooted in the primordial chaos, constantly absorbing energy. This became his foundation for enduring.

Had he not been backed by the Primordial River of Chaos, Qin Mu, with his own strength, would have long since been defeated and crushed by Limitless Elder.

Limitless Elder did indeed have a way to make the Primordial River of Chaos disappear, but doing so would allow Qin Mu to immediately exit the World Tree’s range of influence, preventing Limitless Elder from throwing him back into the past.

The two remained in a stalemate for half a year.

Under Limitless Elder's oppression, Qin Mu's comprehension of the Way of Gui Xu grew stronger and deeper.

His understanding of the Way of Gui Xu was originally second only to Empress Dowager. Although he had not attained Dao through Gui Xu like her, he had received "assistance" from Second Young Master Wuji, planting lotus seeds that grew into lotus leaves and flowers. The power he could exert through the Way of Gui Xu even slightly surpassed that of Empress Dowager.

Now, his lotus had formed a platform, a second-grade Dao Realm lotus platform. In his comprehension of the Way of Gui Xu, he had already far surpassed Empress Dowager, becoming second only to the Second Young Master across seventeen cosmic epochs.

Through Limitless Elder's tempering, his understanding deepened further, bringing him ever closer to a third-grade Dao Realm lotus platform.

However, his greatest improvement was surprisingly not in the Way of Gui Xu, but in his own World Tree.

The World Tree and Gui Xu Lotus mutually restrained each other. When Limitless Elder activated the World Tree to refine Qin Mu’s Gui Xu Lotus, he inevitably displayed various profound mysteries and wonders of the World Tree.

Qin Mu also cultivated the World Tree.

His World Tree was a true World Tree, not born from visualization, nor derived by Lan Yutian's Xushenghua through Daoist analysis, but rather from Limitless Elder's "assistance."

Qin Mu’s use of the World Tree had always been superficial, as it was directly planted without much personal comprehension.

Limitless Elder's attempt to refine him inadvertently served as a personal demonstration, a hands-on teaching of how to activate the World Tree and how to comprehend the Dao methods contained within it. This naturally brought about a qualitative leap for Qin Mu!

This was also one of the reasons Qin Mu could endure for half a year against Limitless Elder!

However, the crudest method proved to be the most effective. Limitless Elder forcibly refined Qin Mu, spending half a year in total, and finally managed to break Qin Mu's Gui Xu Lotus!

Success was within reach!

With the Gui Xu Lotus broken, Qin Mu suffered a severe blow and fell from the lotus platform. Limitless Elder flicked a finger, and a leaf from the World Tree flew out, landing beneath Qin Mu’s feet.

This leaf rapidly expanded, its veins and patterns crisscrossing like the mountains and rivers of a continent. As Qin Mu descended towards the World Tree leaf, its veins also grew larger and larger.

Before he even landed on it, the leaf had transformed into a vast continent, carrying him, and was about to rush into the Primordial River of Chaos!

Limitless Elder’s expression was solemn, as if facing a formidable enemy. The World Tree behind him suddenly erupted with Dao light. He had sensed Giant Tai Yi’s presence as soon as the giant stepped into the Primordial River of Chaos.

The reason why another long river appeared ahead after Giant Tai Yi cleaved the first Primordial River of Chaos was also due to Limitless Elder’s obstruction.

There were few beings in this world who could make him feel danger. Second Young Master Wuji was one of them, and Tai Yi was another!

As for the other Young Masters of Miluo Palace and the other blasphemers of Tiandu, he held them in utter disdain!

Giant Tai Yi’s actions were incredibly ostentatious and flamboyant. The moment he stepped into the Primordial River of Chaos, the Dao light erupting from his Grand Celestial Realm had already shone down from above, illuminating Limitless Elder with a swish.

This was also what forced Limitless Elder to forcibly break the Gui Xu Lotus and deal with Qin Mu first.

Suddenly, the Primordial River of Chaos became violently turbulent. Limitless Elder stood beneath the tree and looked up, seeing the Primordial River of Chaos suddenly split open. An axe light cleaved through the turbulent chaos, with the primordial destruction tribulation on either side split in two.

That axe light was incredibly sharp and terrifying. This divine ability actually pierced through the destruction tribulation, whistling towards the World Tree and striking down towards Limitless Elder’s head!

Within the destruction tribulation, primordial chaos energy surged violently. Vaguely, behind the vast primordial chaos energy, an incredibly majestic giant figure could be seen, stepping through the river and advancing towards them!

The primordial chaos energy in the river washed over his rock-like body, causing him no trouble. The destruction tribulation seemed unable to harm him in the slightest.

At the same time, Tai Yi’s Grand Celestial Realm also appeared above Limitless Elder's head. A Dao Fruit emerged on his Dao tree, and the Great Dao contained within the Dao Fruit erupted!

Tai Yi now re-emerged with the heroic demeanor he displayed when he crossed sixteen epochs of destruction tribulations, went directly to Miluo Palace in the First Epoch, and battled the Miluo Palace Master!

The Miluo Palace Master was able to defeat Tai Yi and cast him down into the Fourth Epoch’s destruction tribulation, but Limitless Elder was not the Miluo Palace Master.

Although he understood more than the Miluo Palace Master, and although he was uniquely gifted, having attained Dao through the World Tree, his mastery of the Dao was not cultivated by himself.

Limitless Elder’s state was akin to someone who knew the 'what' and the 'why,' but his power was not from personal cultivation.

Facing Tai Yi's axe, Limitless Elder's white hair fluttered as he unleashed all his strength!

Boom!

Within the sixteenth epoch’s destruction tribulation, countless dark and thick roots, like black dragons stirring up rivers and seas in the tribulation, rushed towards Tai Yi’s true form.

The scene was like ten thousand dragons surging through primordial chaos!

The World Tree was naturally immutable matter. Its roots could appear in any era, in any destruction tribulation. It was even more solid and indestructible than Miluo Palace.

Its roots rapidly climbed Tai Yi’s legs, wrapping upwards, attempting to drag Tai Yi into the sixteenth epoch’s destruction tribulation.

At the same time, behind him, the World Tree's main body radiated Dao light. The Dao light on the World Tree converged, congealing into the forms of Dao Fruits—thirty-six thousand Dao Fruits, each emitting a different light!

These were not true Dao Fruits, but projections of the Dao Fruits of all Dao Attainers who cultivated Dao trees across the sixteen cosmic epochs.

Even so, this power was truly unparalleled!

Under the illumination of those Dao Fruits, the Great Dao seemed to flow submissively and windingly through the branches and leaves of the World Tree, making the entire World Tree resemble an aggregation of all Great Daos from the First to the Sixteenth Epoch!

He had to block this attack.

Not only block it, but he also had to severely injure Tai Yi, or even kill him!

Tai Yi was even more dangerous than Qin Mu. Qin Mu was merely a Seventh Young Master who liked to stir up trouble in the past epochs, but Tai Yi was a genuine blasphemer of the Dao!

A desecrator of the Great Dao!

As the divine axe and the World Tree were about to collide, at the same time, the Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master of Miluo Palace, along with all the Miluo Palace Masters and Dao Attainers, activated their respective Dao methods and divine abilities to their utmost!

This was a heaven-sent opportunity, a chance to resolve Miluo Palace's two major opponents in one go.

To not seize it would be against heavenly principles!

In the Ancestral Court Jade Capital City, above the First Epoch’s destruction tribulation, Miluo Palace floated, carrying seven palaces.

In the Grand Supreme Hall, First Young Master Grand Supreme opened his eyes, his gaze profound, looking towards the battle in the Seventeenth Epoch.

The Grand Supreme Hall no longer retained its former grandeur but was now a thatched hut. Its door was open, and Grand Supreme, observing the scene from afar, shook his head and whispered, "Ling Xiao, Zi Xiao, you both still underestimate these two."

His gaze fell on the tightly closed door of Miluo Palace. Beyond that door was his teacher, the Miluo Palace Master, whose Dao heart was dead and physical body corrupted.

"Teacher casting Tiandu down to the Fourth Epoch had profound meaning. Tiandu rose in the Fourth Epoch. Teacher destroyed him in the Seventh Epoch and sent him to the Fourth Epoch, likely to compensate for his own mistakes."

First Young Master Grand Supreme whispered, "Now, I understand Teacher's painstaking efforts. But you are still stubbornly deluded…"

He did not leave the Grand Supreme Hall to stop the Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master. He was naturally indifferent to fame and fortune. With the Miluo Palace Master's Dao heart dead and Second Young Master Wuji suppressed, if he were to preside over Miluo Palace, the Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master would be no match for him.

But he had no desire for such things.

At this moment, his gaze fell on the Primordial Chaos Hall not far away. The Primordial Chaos Hall was an achievement of the Seventh Young Master, Qin Mu. Its door was now surprisingly open, revealing a vast and indistinct primordial chaos within.

Seventh Young Master Qin Mu pushed open the hall door and stretched lazily, looking utterly carefree.

Their gazes met. Seventh Young Master Qin Mu smiled slightly at him and nodded in greeting.

First Young Master Grand Supreme closed his hall door, ignoring him.

"He disdains me…"

Seventh Young Master Qin Mu curiously looked towards the battle in the Seventeenth Epoch. Suddenly, his gaze shifted, and he saw a mass of immutable matter in the Primordial River of Chaos, his heart stirring slightly.

"Ling…"

He turned around, returned to the Primordial Chaos Hall, and closed its door.

The moment the Primordial Chaos Hall door closed, in the Fifth Epoch’s destruction tribulation, a Dao Fruit rose from the immutable matter, radiating brilliant light as it broke through layers of chaos from the river surface and whistled towards the Seventeenth Epoch.

At the same time, in the Sixth Epoch’s tribulation, another Dao Fruit emerged from the water, flying from the river surface together with the previous one. This Dao Fruit was also hidden within a mass of immutable matter.

From the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Epochs, all the way to the Sixteenth Epoch, a Dao Fruit emerged from the immutable matter within the tribulation, with only the Seventh Epoch showing no such phenomenon!

By the time they reached the sixteenth epoch’s destruction tribulation, a total of eleven Dao Fruits whistled over, arriving behind Tai Yi.

And in Tai Yi's Grand Celestial Realm above the Seventeenth Epoch's World Tree, Tai Yi’s Dao Fruit shone brightly, reflecting and complementing the eleven Dao Fruits!

The Miluo Palace Master’s compensation for his mistake lay precisely in this!

He had given Tai Yi, who was also Tiandu, a chance to start anew!