Chapter 1808: Dao境 Thirty-Six Heavens

She had indeed sustained severe injuries. Although she and Wu Ya had managed to largely decipher the Mi Luo Palace Lord's Red Rope Knot Seal, the residual power that erupted still dealt her a heavy blow.

From his vertical eye in his forehead, Qin Mu clearly saw everything unfolding at the bottom of the chaotic sea.

The lingering power of the Mi Luo Palace Lord's Red Rope Knot Seal had struck Prince Wuji, forcing her deep into the seabed. The force of that blow nearly crushed her.

Wuji employed every possible method to resist, but to no avail.

The Mi Luo Palace Lord's attack had almost completely obliterated her. The Red Rope Knot Seal was far more complex than a mere seal; its intricate rune transformations meant that virtually every rune within the knot was imprinted onto each rune of Wuji's primordial energy, completely suppressing her cultivation.

Had the Red Rope Knot Seal not already been largely diminished, the Mi Luo Palace Lord's strike would have completely dissolved Wuji's cultivation, instantly killing her.

It was only after witnessing this scene that Qin Mu felt such certainty; otherwise, he would have undoubtedly abandoned the Third and Fourth Princes and fled immediately.

The Mi Luo Palace Lord was truly the foremost figure of the sixteen cosmic epochs, possessing immeasurable divine abilities.

It was difficult to fathom the extent of his power when he was still alive.

Prince Zixiao's and Prince Lingxiao's gazes landed on Wuji, their eyes gleaming. Their opportunity had finally arrived; eliminating Prince Wuji and Elder Wu Ya would allow both of them to fully manifest.

And if they could also ensure Qin Mu remained here, they would face no further obstacles.

Moon Celestial Venerable felt a surge of tension, scanning her surroundings and observing everyone's expressions and subtle movements, attempting to discern the opportune moment to strike. At that moment, the World Tree and the Ruins of End were still mutually annihilating, Elder Wu Ya's strength was steadily declining, and Prince Wuji's aura grew increasingly weary and weak.

Yet, Qin Mu consistently held her back, leaving her feeling unsettled.

No one in the Great Abyss of the Ruins of End moved; only the terrifying fluctuations unleashed by the mutual annihilation of the World Tree and the Ruins of End raged uncontrollably.

Suddenly, zither music slowly began to play. Around Prince Zixiao, vast exotic realms reappeared, transforming into sacred and majestic Great Luo Heavens.

Prince Lingxiao raised his Dao spear and plunged it into the chaotic sea, like a divine needle that calmed the ocean, stabilizing its turbulent waves.

Elder Wu Ya desperately channeled the World Tree, attempting to halt the mutual annihilation between it and the Ruins of End. Among them all, he appeared the most disheveled.

His peak period was during the late 16th epoch, a time when countless enlightened beings existed, and he was at his most formidable, utterly unrivaled.

However, upon reaching the 17th epoch, Tai Yi unexpectedly infiltrated, took possession of the 17th epoch's Tai Yi, and with a single axe blow, split his true form. A fire of heat death then consumed him entirely.

After his resurrection, the World Tree never fully recovered to its peak. His current cultivation was less than one percent of what it had been during his prime.

Dying here would be truly humiliating.

He gazed upwards. The lotus leaves Qin Mu used to seal the entrance of the Great Abyss of the Ruins of End had been shattered by the Mi Luo Palace Lord's Red Rope Knot Seal, offering him a glimmer of hope for escape.

Yet, with Qin Mu and the others remaining still, he dared not make any move himself.

At this critical juncture, anyone who moved first risked being besieged by the others.

Prince Wuji suppressed her injuries, surveyed her surroundings, and sneered, "My teacher couldn't kill me, so don't even dream that you can. You believe that with me heavily wounded by my teacher, and with the sacrifice of this old waste, Wu Ya, you can eliminate me? What a foolish pipe dream; you gravely underestimate me."

Beneath her feet, the shattered lotus platform reappeared, rotating and reassembling itself. On the surface of the sea, fragmented lotus leaves also began to restore themselves.

The Dao spear in Prince Lingxiao's hand, which was suppressing the chaotic sea, vibrated ceaselessly. He found himself struggling to contain the turbulent waters, and his expression grew solemn.

Even with Prince Wuji injured to such an extent, her power remained far beyond his reach.

Prince Zixiao swept his hand across his ancient zither. With a click, one end of the instrument opened, revealing a sword hilt. As Prince Zixiao gripped the hilt, veins bulged on the back of his hand.

The ancient zither was his deceased wife's Dao weapon; the sword concealed within it was his own.

After becoming one of the Mi Luo Palace's Four Princes, his longing for his deceased wife led him to continuously refine her Dao weapon. As a result, the ancient zither's power had long surpassed its original might by an immeasurable degree.

However, his true weapon of choice remained the sword from within the zither. This very sword was his weapon of enlightenment during his time as the Cosmic Emperor, having suppressed the long history of an entire universe.

Qin Mu inhaled deeply. Moon Celestial Venerable's heart fluttered, and she quickly stepped aside, revealing the Chaos Hall behind her. Within it, the radiance of countless Dao fruits pierced through the chaos, illuminating the entire treasure hall.

Moon Celestial Venerable looked back to see the Dao chains intertwining within the Dao fruits, casting an incredibly bright light upon Qin Mu's World Tree.

On the World Tree, the intricate patterns of its myriad branches and leaves flowed continuously, as the Grand Dao, like dragons, manifested as the very veins and textures of the foliage.

"Mu is also employing all his abilities!"

Moon Celestial Venerable's heart sank. The three Dao fruits and three Dao flowers belonging to Qin Mu emitted Dao chains that interwove into an illusion of sixteen chaotic long rivers, remarkably similar to the sixteen rivers within the Chaos Hall.

This was Qin Mu's thirty-sixth Heavenly Dao realm, though it remained incomplete.

The Cosmic Great Bell, Qin Mu's thirty-fifth Heavenly Dao realm, had been cultivated three thousand years prior. However, he had spent over three thousand years on the thirty-sixth Heavenly Dao realm, which was still only in its rudimentary form and not yet fully mastered.

During the thirty-fifth Heavenly Dao realm, figures like Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, Emperor Kai, and Tai Shi had significantly aided Qin Mu. However, by the thirty-sixth Dao realm, even beings of Xu Shenghua's and Lan Yutian's caliber could offer no assistance; he had to comprehend it entirely on his own.

Qin Mu even suspected that this particular Dao realm might only be achievable after he had returned to the past and experienced all sixteen cosmic epochs.

Nevertheless, the divine abilities contained within the thirty-sixth Heavenly Dao realm already possessed extraordinary power.

Qin Mu's preparation to deploy this move indicated that he, too, lacked sufficient confidence to handle the current situation.

This technique was still immature; its premature use could easily lead to it being broken by an opponent, leaving him at a disadvantage.

*Splash.*

Elder Wu Ya scooped up a handful of chaotic water to wash the blood from his face, breaking the silence. His face, no longer amiable, took on a greenish pallor as he sneered, "Wuji, we have only one path: kill all of them! Afterward, I will leave the Ruins of End, and you will also be free!"

Before his words had even finished echoing, Prince Wuji boldly struck!

The chaotic sea boiled, causing Prince Lingxiao's hands to tremble, his Dao spear unable to quell the turbulent waters.

Prince Lingxiao leaped high, performing a full aerial flip before drawing his Dao spear and swinging it down at Wuji.

Simultaneously, Prince Zixiao drew the sword from his zither. The ancient zither's music swelled as it flew around him, and in an instant, countless manifestations of him appeared throughout the exotic Great Luo Heavens, thrusting towards Wuji from all directions.

On the other side, Elder Wu Ya roared, disregarding any potential damage to the World Tree. He plunged its myriad roots into the chaotic sea, and countless illusory Dao fruits emerged on its branches. Elder Wu Ya's form floated among these ethereal Dao fruits, his arms outstretched. Instantly, countless branches of the World Tree behind him transformed into an array of arms.

The World Tree resembled a monstrous entity with innumerable arms, each hand unleashing a divine ability, striking out at Lingxiao, Zixiao, and Qin Mu.

At that very moment, Qin Mu stepped forward, facing the onslaught of myriad divine abilities. Sixteen chaotic long rivers spun around his form, and an immeasurable expanse of space-time erupted. Elder Wu Ya's various divine abilities passed through these sixteen chaotic rivers, vanishing into the boundless eons and cosmos.

His divine abilities hadn't truly vanished; instead, they continued to traverse space-time. Some might reach Qin Mu in the next moment, while others might take hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to arrive. Some abilities could even require billions or hundreds of billions of years to finally reach him.

By that time, whether Elder Wu Ya would even still exist was questionable!

This was one of the profound applications of Qin Mu's thirty-sixth Heavenly Dao realm!

The sixteen chaotic long rivers crisscrossed around Qin Mu, weaving up and down to form expansive, though not perfectly circular, formations. These formations were sufficient to repel any attack, rendering him impervious to all techniques.

Around Prince Wuji, countless lotus leaves rose, forming a dense forest that impeded the trio's advance. At the heart of this lotus leaf forest stood Prince Wuji and her sixteen-grade lotus platform.

Prince Wuji flicked her sleeve, and the chaotic sea surged skyward, hanging inverted above them.

Qin Mu, Lingxiao, and Zixiao charged into the lotus leaf forest, each unleashing their most potent attacks.

Prince Zixiao's sword light was the swiftest, flying in from all directions, sweeping through the lotus leaf forest and severing leaf after leaf. Prince Lingxiao's long spear swung down, aiming for Wuji's head.

The lotus platform beneath Wuji's feet erupted with brilliant Dao light, forming sixteen layers of defense. This trapped Zixiao's numerous manifestations from the exotic Great Luo Heavens, preventing him from breaching the lotus platform's defenses.

However, the very next moment, Qin Mu's sixteen chaotic long rivers pierced through the sixteen-grade lotus platform's defenses, allowing Prince Lingxiao's spear to land squarely on Wuji's head!

Prince Zixiao immediately maneuvered his Dao sword, assaulting the lotus platform.

Wuji's head split open and bled from the impact of the spear. She swiftly grabbed a lotus leaf stem, plunging it into Lingxiao's chest, while her other hand seized the tip of the Dao spear, swinging Lingxiao and throwing him toward Qin Mu.

Qin Mu and Lingxiao were sent flying backward.

As countless streaks of sword light pierced Wuji's flesh from all directions, the inverted chaotic sea suddenly descended, shattering countless exotic Great Luo Heavens. Prince Zixiao stumbled out, his true form revealed, as the chaotic sea bore down upon him.

A section of lotus root shot out from the sea. With a blow of air, Prince Zixiao was on the verge of vanishing into dust. Qin Mu stabilized himself, and sixteen long rivers surged forth to protect Zixiao.

*Whoosh—*

Despite this, the airflow from the sixteen holes of the lotus root section still pierced through the long rivers, puncturing Prince Zixiao's body. His wounds were transparent from front to back, and blood poured out, gushing from both sides, forming thirty-two pillars of blood blooming in the air like lotus flowers.

Prince Lingxiao charged forward again, clashing head-on with Wuji. His spear movements blurred into a swirling vortex, never straying from Wuji's body, yet he remained unable to penetrate her defenses.

Each of his spear thrusts encountered a miniature Ruins of End. As his spear tip pierced into it, Wuji's eyes blazed with light, and two dark beams shot forth—one striking his body, the other his Dao spear.

Lingxiao coughed up blood and was sent flying backward. His Dao spear was bent, almost twisted into a circle, its shaft covered in marks of erosion.

Under the dark light's illumination, his Haotianzun body was on the verge of shattering and disintegrating.

Qin Mu activated his Immutability divine ability to rescue Lingxiao. No sooner had he saved him than Wuji struck him with an upward palm strike. His body convulsed violently, then exploded with a roar, his physical form and primordial spirit rapidly expanding and transforming into a cosmic starry sky.

This was the Calamity of Creation; even Qin Mu found it difficult to resist such a formidable divine ability.

Wuji was about to unleash her Calamity of Annihilation divine ability to destroy Qin Mu in a single blow, when Prince Zixiao, despite his injuries, attacked, his sword light piercing her back.

Wuji flicked her sleeve, and Prince Zixiao's body twisted, compressed, and shrank into a minuscule speck, then exploded, on the verge of dissolving into chaos.

The cosmic starry sky Qin Mu had become suddenly annihilated, transforming into chaos. The Chaos Hall emerged, and Qin Mu burst out from within it, his fingers splayed. One palm strike landed directly on Wuji's face, while his other hand activated the Immutability divine ability, saving Zixiao who was on the verge of dissolving into chaos.

Wuji waved her hand, and Qin Mu coughed up blood, stumbling backward and crashing into the charging World Tree.

No sooner had Qin Mu landed than two thuds echoed, signaling that Prince Lingxiao and Prince Zixiao had also crashed onto the World Tree.

Elder Wu Ya immediately attacked the trio. However, the three quickly suppressed their injuries and moved with swift precision. The next moment, Elder Wu Ya spat blood, gasping for breath while clinging to the tree roots.

The three steadied themselves and looked toward Wuji. On her face was a deep, crimson palm print, so severe it seemed to have pressed her nose, eyes, and mouth almost into her skull.

This was the power of the Red Rope Knot Seal that Qin Mu had comprehended and applied on the spot.

Lingxiao straightened his Dao spear and used it to pin Wuji onto the lotus platform. Meanwhile, Zixiao's Dao sword severed all the lotus platform's petals.

Wuji coughed up blood incessantly, struggling but unable to rise.

Zixiao summoned his ancient zither, and as its music resonated, he prepared to deliver the final blow to Wuji and Elder Wu Ya.

Simultaneously, zither music emanated from the Chaos Hall behind Qin Mu.

Moon Celestial Venerable sat calmly within the hall, playing the Zixiao Enlightenment Tune, a piece composed by Prince Zixiao's deceased wife.