荒墟牧神 - 第1489章 混沌未分，此樹我栽 - 錦書坊

Everyone hurriedly crowded around, only to see that although Shen Mu had already become a dried corpse, the vertical eye between his brows had not dried out — its eyeball was still rolling and swiveling about. "No harm, no harm! Everyone disperse, disperse!" The Blind Elder waved his hand, shooing away the onlookers. "Nothing worth seeing here. He won't die." "A pity the Deaf Elder isn't here," Grandmother Zhu said regretfully. "Otherwise he could have painted a portrait of this, and it would have been handed down through the ages." The vertical eye between Shen Mu's brows turned to look at her with a resentful glare, and Grandmother Zhu hurriedly fled. This World Tree was still devouring and absorbing the energy within his body, leaving him with not a shred of cultivation. Not only that — the Great Dao runes he had cultivated, his Dao patterns and Dao chains, had all been absorbed, not one trace left behind! His mana had been stored in the myriad heavens and worlds of his Yuan Embryo God Treasury, and in each of the great heavenly palaces. Yet in but a short span, his myriad heavens were annihilated, and even the Ancestral Court kept shrinking! Even his heavenly palaces were collapsing one after another, transformed into pure, attribute-less energy and devoured by the World Tree! What was more terrifying still: one root tendril after another had coiled around his primordial spirit, seizing the power of his primordial spirit! Shen Mu's primordial spirit, too, shrank at flying speed, until at last it lost all its energy and became a tiny soul and spirit embryo, standing alone and forlorn beneath the tree, looking utterly helpless. In but a brief moment, the Ancestral Court had shrunk to its limit, leaving only four mineral veins and a single piece of Taiyi's eggshell. Then the four mineral veins vanished one by one; block after block of divine stone had all its power devoured by the World Tree and crumbled to dust! After the four mineral veins disappeared, only the Tai Chu eggshell, the Tai Su eggshell, the Tai Ji eggshell, and the Taiyi eggshell remained, along with one whole Egg of Tai Shi. Crack— The Tai Su eggshell suddenly split, and was at once ground to powder by the World Tree's power, transformed into utterly pure Tai Su Dao and absorbed by the World Tree! Even the Tai Su primal liquid was absorbed utterly clean by the World Tree! From the Egg of Tai Shi in the air came a shriek of alarm. The great egg went whistling away, trying to flee this place, but Shen Mu's God Treasury was now no longer large — only the land shrouded by the World Tree remained. However it rammed and crashed, it could not escape! Crack, crack — the two Tai Chu eggs shattered of their own accord as well. Then the two Tai Ji eggshells were destroyed. Only that one Taiyi eggshell was firm enough, and was not ground away by the World Tree. Whoosh— The Egg of Tai Shi flew over and hid trembling within the Taiyi eggshell. Root tendrils stretched toward it; the Egg of Tai Shi rolled with a lurch, propping up the eggshell, while it hid beneath the shell, striving to shrink the divine egg. A crunching, cracking sound came, as though something were gnawing at the eggshell. On the surface of the Taiyi eggshell, fine cracks actually began to appear. Before long the cracks multiplied and grew dense. The Egg of Tai Shi thought to itself, This is bad — and then the Taiyi eggshell burst apart, each fragment annihilated by the World Tree's power, transformed into Taiyi Dao and absorbed by that World Tree! The ancient god Tai Shi within the egg nearly fainted. He saw the World Tree's root tendrils rolling toward him — they would surely crush his eggshell too, and even absorb the primal liquid within his egg! Absorbing the Tai Shi primal liquid would be one thing, but if this monstrous tree absorbed him as well, would he not die and have his Dao extinguished before he was even born? Just then a beam of light shone down from the sky. The Egg of Tai Shi immediately f