Chapter 1475: Wei the Demolisher and Big Dazed (Fourth Update)
Shu Jun looked over and couldn't help but shiver. He indeed saw a living person, sitting beneath a tree, smiling as she looked at them.
Both of their faces turned ashen. The figure was a woman of peerless elegance, who rose from beneath the tree and waved to them from afar.
When they looked again, the woman had vanished, and a single fruit now hung from the withered tree where she had been.
"A Dao Fruit!"
Their hearts pounded wildly. It was a Dao Fruit—though it looked shriveled and wrinkled, it was still brimming with dense Dao resonance.
"Could that woman have been a soul sealed within the Dao Fruit?"
Finally, the cold, desolate wind ceased.
Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun exchanged a glance, then both stepped forward, walking toward the Dao Tree.
When they drew near, they stopped. The Dao Fruit was spinning gently on the branch, and its wrinkled patterns grew clearer and more lifelike with each passing moment.
Wei Suifeng's instincts flared with caution, and he quietly went on guard.
Gradually, the Dao Fruit appeared to them as vast as a planet. Every single wrinkle on its surface was enormous, and each of those patterns was itself composed of finer Dao patterns, forming an incredibly intricate structure.
Yet within those finer patterns, there were even finer ones!
Layer upon layer they looked, and the surface patterns of this Dao Fruit revealed endless detail—the deeper they looked, the more detail there was, the more mystery, the more profundity, the harder it became to comprehend!
The two of them unconsciously became lost in it, like sinking into a strangely captivating puzzle game, their curiosity impossible to resist, driving them to keep examining ever finer details.
What they failed to notice was that, from the outside, the Dao Fruit hadn't changed at all. What had changed was them!
Their bodies were continuously shrinking, drawing closer and closer to the Dao Fruit—smaller and smaller, nearer and nearer, until they were about to be swallowed whole!
Suddenly, Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun saw the very finest point of the Dao Fruit. There lay a woman of peerless beauty, without a single thread of clothing, lying at the very center of the fruit.
She was sleeping within the Dao Fruit—sweet, alluring, enchanting.
"Old Wei!"
Shu Jun suddenly erupted with his divine consciousness, shouting: "Don't let this woman bewitch you!" With that, he sent his divine consciousness crashing into Wei Suifeng's mind, jolting him awake.
Wei Suifeng felt a pang of loss, murmuring: "A different kind of beauty, no less than Jue Wuchen's..."
He quickly came to his senses: "How come Shu Jun wasn't bewitched? Could his Dao heart be stronger than mine?"
What he didn't know was that Shu Jun's aesthetic sense was utterly unconventional—he didn't find this woman attractive in the slightest.
It was then that the two of them realized they had somehow entered the interior of the Dao Fruit. Looking back, they saw endless Dao patterns intertwined, sealing them within this bizarre fruit!
Standing there, they could barely see any light from the outside world—only the infinite Dao patterns!
Strands of Dao patterns shot toward them from every direction like chains. The power contained within those patterns was enough to make even Wei Suifeng, a being at the pinnacle of the Imperial Throne realm, tremble with despair!
Shu Jun too was plunged into hopelessness, crying out hoarsely: "Mu Tianzun, you saved my life once, but I can't repay that life to you now!"
Boom—
Countless Dao patterns engulfed them. Shu Jun closed his eyes, certain he was dead. But then, an incredibly terrifying tremor erupted around them, resisting the Dao Fruit's pattern assault!
"Is Wei Suifeng this powerful?"
Shu Jun was both shocked and overjoyed: "I never would have guessed he had such skill..."
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the Pīxiāng Hall standing before them. Wei Suifeng had actually taken out the entire hall and was using it directly to resist the Dao pattern's onslaught!
The Pīxiāng Hall possessed no inherent power of its own, but it bore countless layers of seals. When the Dao Fruit's patterns erupted, they triggered every seal's power within the hall all at once!
The seals of the Pīxiāng Hall had been laid down by nearly every powerful being from the ancient era to the present—from the Great Emperor to Taichu, from Taichu to the Ten Heavenly Venerables, plus countless Creator Gods, Ancient Gods, and Imperial Throne experts. Now, in a single instant, all of those seals exploded with their full might!
Before the shock and joy on Shu Jun's face could even fully bloom, Wei Suifeng suddenly lunged at him, surrounded by countless teleportation runes that wrapped tightly around the both of them. He shouted: "GO!"
Boom!
Boundless Dao light erupted from within the bizarre Dao Fruit. The violent shockwave radiated outward from the fruit in all directions. In an instant, a colossal surge of power shot up from the ancient capital Yujing in the Ancestral Court, blasting away the seals left by the Ancient God Kings, Ancient Gods, the Great Emperor, and Taichu from ages past. The ancient divine city, hidden for eons, suddenly appeared in full view within the Ancestral Court, completely exposed!
And within that vast divine city, the terrifying shock seemed to trigger a chain reaction—one dread-inducing tremor after another was set off, erupting in succession!
Even those far away in the Hundred Thousand Sacred Mountains could see it—in a desolate stretch of the Ancestral Court, wave after wave of terrifying Dao light shot into the sky, shaking the very laws of heaven and earth, pushing aside the white clouds above, and punching straight through the world barrier of the Ancestral Court!
Up in the Heavenly Court, the gods on guard felt the ground shake and the heavens tremble. The entire Heavenly Court swayed violently, cracks splitting across its floors with sharp, rending sounds. The halls wobbled dangerously, on the verge of collapse.
The gods could barely keep their footing. At that moment, they too saw the terrifying Dao light shooting skyward. The beams connected, and in the sky above the Ancestral Court—even beyond the heavens—they formed the shape of a vast, ancient tree!
The Virtual Heavenly Venerable and the Fire Heavenly Venerable, who had remained to guard the Heavenly Court, immediately rose to their feet and suppressed the turmoil. The two Heavenly Venerables looked toward where the light had risen, and their faces changed dramatically. Countless stars were being pushed from their original orbits by that Dao light, throwing the celestial order into chaos!
In Xuandu, the seven Heavenly Venerables—Hao Tianzun, Shi Qiluo, Yan Tianfei, Zu Shenwang, Qiang Tianfei, Langxuan Shenhuang, and Gong Tianzun—were in the middle of refining the Heavenly Dao and the body of Lord Heaven. At this moment, even Lord Heaven's body began to waver, and the countless stars within Xuandu spun into disorder!
The Heavenly Court armies stationed in Xuandu were thrown into chaos by the turbulent stars and constellations. The Heavenly River Navy's great ships were hurled into the air by the surging river, and countless heavenly soldiers and generals flailed helplessly, tossed into the starry void, unable to steady themselves.
"The Ancestral Court is in turmoil!"
The seven Heavenly Venerables rose as one and looked toward the Ancestral Court. Langxuan Shenhuang cried out in shock: "It's the Pīxiāng Hall! The seal I placed on it has been triggered!"
"Mine too!"
Yan Tianfei's face went pale. She sprang up immediately, activated the Ancestral Court's Divine Execution Platform, and vanished in a flash, fuming: "That Mu Tianzun is truly asking for death!"
The other Heavenly Venerables exchanged glances, then roared after her, heading for the Ancestral Court together.
In the ancient capital Yujing of the Ancestral Court, the Pīxiāng Hall was embedded in a Dao Tree, and hanging right at the hall's entrance was the Dao Fruit from that tree. The Dao Fruit and the Pīxiāng Hall's remaining seals were still locked in constant collision and conflict, each trying to grind the other into nothing!
Meanwhile, beneath a pile of broken bricks and rubble, something stirred. After a moment, Wei Suifeng and Big-Headed Shu Jun crawled out from the debris, each brushing the dust off themselves.
Shu Jun looked around and saw that quite a few more buildings in the ancient capital Yujing had collapsed. He couldn't help but mutter: "So Mu Tianzun came from a fine school after all. His talent for demolishing everything he walks past still can't compare to yours..."
Wei Suifeng said coolly: "Naturally. I've been demolishing things since the Longhan era. Do you think that reputation was undeserved?"
The two exchanged a look and burst into laughter.
Amid the laughter, Shu Jun glanced around, and his smile gradually froze. Even his laughter grew softer and softer, until it faded into silence.
A vast river of chaos had appeared before them. The river was filled with chaotic primordial energy, surging endlessly, flowing toward some unknown destination.
Wei Suifeng laughed: "This time, the Ten Heavenly Venerables will have no choice but to enter the Pīxiāng Hall and deal with that Yuansheng of Miluo Palace! Shu Jun, it's time we left... Shu Jun?"
He studied Shu Jun's face and a look of suspicion crept over him: "Don't tell me you're lost?"
Shu Jun snapped back to himself and laughed heartily: "Me, lost? Hahahaha! I am one of the three great Ancient God Kings of the primordial era—how could I possibly get lost... I've just never been here before, that's all. Wei Jiaozhu, does that geography map of yours actually work? Will someone really come looking for us with it?"