Chapter 1519 — The Ancient Capital Sets a Trap
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I am going to change bodies. " Their hearts leapt into their throats as they watched Tai Yi jump into the Chaos River.
After a moment, the water churned and splashed, and a young man emerged from within. He had fine features and a vigorous bearing, and he held a wooden spear adorned with several tender green leaves. "Let us go. " The two had no idea where he had gone or whose body he had exchanged for this one. They studied the wooden spear in the youth's hand, unable to tell what kind of wood had been refined into it.
Young Tai Yi led them into the second Chaos River.
This time, he was not as composed as his aged form. His spear techniques and divine abilities were far more elaborate, no longer plain and unadorned.
Though the two men's vision was nowhere near Tai Yi's, they could still see that while young Tai Yi's spear arts were suited to close combat, they lacked the feeling of the Great Dao reduced to utmost simplicity that old Tai Yi had conveyed. Fortunately, the young form had stronger physical functions. He fought his way forward in a violent charge, though with considerably more danger.
The journey kept them trembling with fear, yet they crossed the great river safely. On the opposite bank, however, another Chaos River awaited them. Young Tai Yi frowned and observed it for a while.
"This river will be difficult to cross. Wait here while I change bodies.
" With that, he jumped into the river once more.
Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun were already accustomed to it.
They stood waiting at the bank, and after a while an alluring woman emerged from the water, a slender sword dangling from her hand. With a charming smile, she said, "Come with me, both of you.
" The woman led them across the river. Sword light flashed like lightning, darting through the chaos with sharp hissing sounds and cutting down the many strange and dangerous things within it, sending them plunging into the depths. They crossed one great river after another, and Tai Yi changed into more than ten different forms, while the weapons in his hands changed more than ten times as well.
Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun were filled with doubts, unable to understand where he had obtained all those weapons. They came to another great river. This time Tai Yi took the form of a burly man with a divine bow slung across his back.
Wei Suifeng found the bow strangely familiar, and the corners of his eyes twitched. "That looks like the divine bow our junior brother carries!
How strange.
Did Tai Yi go to the previous universe and borrow the bodies and weapons of other beings who attained the Dao? How did he reach the previous universe?
Could this Chaos River truly lead to other universes? " Shu Jun also saw that the bow resembled the one Shen Mu had dug out of the mineral vein. He was equally perplexed. Had all of Tai Yi's former shapes been borrowed from the bodies of other beings who had attained the Dao? His abilities were simply too vast to imagine.
Neither of them asked further questions. Instead, they looked down into the river, but the chaos below was thick and hazy, making it impossible to see what lay beneath. Suddenly, a fierce wind swept past. The burly Tai Yi raised a hand to shield himself, and at once the Chaos River surged.
Its surface grew thin, and Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun suddenly realized that they seemed to be standing atop clouds. Beneath them stretched the boundless Ancestral Court.
Yet this was not the Ancestral Court of the present day, but an older and far more ruined one. That Ancestral Court was collapsing. Below, not only was the Ancestral Court collapsing, but the entire universe was collapsing and contracting. Only one magnificent giant tree stood between heaven and earth, unmoved by the great destruction.
The two men shuddered repeatedly. Through the chaos, they faintly saw mighty figures arriving at the roots of that great tree as the universe crumbled.