Chapter 1509 — The House Wrecker and the Muddlehead

Shu Jun looked, and could not help but shudder. He had indeed seen a living person, sitting beneath a tree and gazing at them with a smile.

The two men's faces turned ashen. They saw that the figure was a woman of peerless beauty, who rose from beneath the tree and beckoned to them from afar.

They looked again, and the woman had vanished; upon the withered tree of a moment before there now hung an additional fruit.

"A Dao Fruit!"

Their hearts pounded wildly. It was a Dao Fruit; though it looked shriveled and wrinkled, it was still filled with a rich Dao resonance.

"Could that woman just now have been a soul hidden within the Dao Fruit?"

At last, the Wind of Cold Silence died away.

Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun exchanged a glance, then together set their feet in motion and walked toward that Dao tree.

When they had drawn near, the two halted. They saw the Dao Fruit revolving gently upon the tree, and then the shriveled patterns upon it grew ever clearer, ever more distinct.

Wei Suifeng was on his guard, secretly wary.

Gradually, in their eyes the Dao Fruit swelled until it was as vast as a star. Every pattern upon it appeared incomparably coarse, and these patterns were composed of finer patterns, their structure endlessly complex.

Yet within the finer patterns there were still finer patterns!

Layer by layer they gazed, and the patterns upon the surface of the Dao Fruit revealed endless detail; the finer they looked, the more detail there was, the more mystery, the more profundity, the harder to comprehend!

Unconsciously the two were intoxicated by it, as though sunk in a puzzle game of strange charm; unable to restrain their curiosity, they kept observing ever finer detail.

Yet what they did not notice was that from the outside, the Dao Fruit had not changed in the least; it was they themselves who were changing!

Their two bodies were shrinking without cease, drawing ever closer to the Dao Fruit, smaller and smaller, nearer and nearer, until it seemed they would be swallowed into it!

Suddenly, Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun saw the most minute recess of the Dao Fruit, and there lay a woman of peerless beauty, not a stitch upon her, lying thus at the very center of the Dao Fruit.

She was sleeping within the Dao Fruit, sweet, alluring.

"Old Wei!"

Shu Jun's consciousness abruptly erupted, and he shouted, "Do not be bewitched by this woman!" With that, his consciousness struck Wei Suifeng's mind and jolted him awake.

Wei Suifeng was left forlorn and bereft, murmuring, "Another kind of beauty, no less than Jue Wuchen's..."

Then he came to himself: "How is it that this fellow Shu Jun was not bewitched? Can his Dao heart be stronger than mine?"

He did not know that Shu Jun's aesthetic sense was unlike other men's, and he did not find the woman beautiful in the least.

At this moment the two noticed that they had come into the interior of the Dao Fruit. Looking back, they saw endless Dao patterns entangled, sealing them within this strange Dao Fruit!

Standing here, they could see almost no light from the outside world, only endless Dao patterns!

Dao patterns shot in from all directions like chains, and the power contained in those patterns made even a being of Wei Suifeng's caliber, at the Imperial Throne Great Perfection realm, tremble and feel despair in his heart!

Shu Jun too sank into despair, and cried himself hoarse: "Shepherd Heavenly Venerable, you saved my life, and I cannot repay you with a life of my own!"

Boom—

Countless Dao patterns submerged them. Shu Jun closed his eyes, thinking himself dead, yet all around came an incomparably terrifying pulse, resisting the Dao Fruit's strangling patterns!

"Wei Suifeng is this formidable?"

Shu Jun was both startled and delighted: "I never would have guessed he had such ability..."

He had just opened his eyes when he saw the Pixiang Hall standing before them; Wei Suifeng had actually brought out this Pixiang Hall and was using the great hall itself to withstand the assault of the Dao patterns!

The Pixiang Hall possessed no power of its own, but it bore countless layers of seals; as the Dao Fruit's patterns burst forth, they roused all the power of the Pixiang Hall's seals at once!

The seals of the Pixiang Hall had gathered the seals of nearly every mighty one from the ancient era to the present: from the Great Emperor to the Primordial, from the Primordial to the Ten Heavenly Venerables, and besides these the great seals of countless Creators, Ancient Gods, and Imperial Throne powerhouses. Now the power of these seals erupted in a single instant!

Before the shock and joy on Shu Jun's face could bloom, Wei Suifeng suddenly lunged toward him, countless teleportation runes dancing around his body, wrapping the two of them in layer upon layer, and cried sternly, "Go, now!"

Boom!

Boundless Dao light erupted from within this strange Dao Fruit; a violent tremor burst out in all directions from the Dao Fruit as its center. In an instant a monstrous power surged skyward within the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, shattering clean the seals left by the God Kings, Ancient Gods, Great Emperor, Primordial, and others of the ancient era, causing this incomparably ancient divine city to appear all at once within the Ancestral Court, utterly exposed!

And within this vast divine city, this terrifying impact seemed to set off a chain reaction; one after another, incomparably terrifying pulses were triggered and burst forth in succession!

Even the people far away in the Hundred Thousand Sacred Mountains could at this moment see, in a desolate region of the Ancestral Court, wave after wave of terrifying Dao light rushing into the sky, shaking the Great Dao of heaven and earth, pushing aside the white clouds above, and piercing through the world barrier of the Ancestral Court!

And in the Heavenly Court, the gods guarding it felt the earth quake and the mountains shake; the whole Heavenly Court trembled without cease, the ground of the Heavenly Court cracked with a crunching sound, and the halls swayed, on the verge of collapse.

The gods could scarcely keep their footing, and just then they too saw that terrifying Dao light surging skyward; the beams of Dao light joined together, and in the sky of the Ancestral Court and even beyond the heavens, the radiance formed the shape of a vast, boundless great tree!

The Heavenly Venerable of Void and the Heavenly Venerable of Fire, who had remained to guard the Heavenly Court, rose at once and quelled the turmoil of the Heavenly Court. The two Heavenly Venerables looked toward the place where that light arose, and their faces changed drastically; they saw countless stars pushed from their original orbits by the Dao light, the whole firmament thrown into chaos!

In Xuandu, the seven Heavenly Venerables—the Heavenly Venerable of Heaven, Shi Qiluo, the Heavenly Consort of Beauty, the Ancestral God King, the Heavenly Consort of Qiang, the Divine Emperor of Langxuan, and the Heavenly Venerable of the Palace—were refining the Heavenly Dao and refining the body of the Lord of Heaven. At this moment the body of the Lord of Heaven too was shaken, and the countless stars of Xuandu were thrown into disorder!

The various armies of the Heavenly Court guarding Xuandu were thrown into disarray by the chaotic stars and constellations; the Heavenly River Navy that guarded the Heavenly River had its tower ships and great vessels one after another flung up by the turbulent Heavenly River, and countless heavenly soldiers and generals flailed their limbs as they were hurled into the starry sky, unable to steady themselves.

"Something has happened in the Ancestral Court!"

The seven Heavenly Venerables rose together and looked toward the Ancestral Court. The Divine Emperor of Langxuan cried out in alarm: "It is the Pixiang Hall! The seal I left in the Pixiang Hall has been triggered!"

"Mine has been triggered as well!"