Chapter 1117: Years (5)

Unconditional welcome, unconditional tolerance, unconditional wholehearted support.

Every mountain, island, river, and sea of Mu Dalu cheered and jumped for joy because of Wu Tie's return.

If Mu Dalu is a strong body, then it is cheering for its own 'spirit' safely returning from beyond the heavens.

The closer Wu Tie got to Mu Dalu's surface, the more he sensed some deep secrets of Mu Dalu, hidden deep by the laws of heaven and earth, impossible for ordinary people to perceive.

Wu Tie looked down upon the earth.

The earth was evolving toward a primordial world.

The origin of the whole world was rising, and the origin of all things in heaven and earth was also rising.

The trees of Mu Dalu were already huge; Wu Tie had once seen towering trees hundreds of zhang tall in the jungle of Great Marsh Prefecture.

But in just a few months, as Mu Dalu expanded and the continent grew, many trees in the mountains and forests had already reached tens of thousands of zhang in height.

Trees tens of thousands of zhang tall had clouds drifting only around their mid-trunks.

When a thunderstorm came, the dark black clouds were like a sea surface, and these giant trees were like small islands rising from the ocean. No matter how lightning flashed wildly in the mid-trunk, the crowns of these trees still bathed in the sunlight above the dark clouds.

This scene was wondrous and magnificent, beyond description.

Moreover, many strange beings with activated bloodlines and enormously huge bodies shuttle through the forest.

Wu Tie saw many, many, in Lao Tie's database, from the ancient mythic era, powerful beings that had gone extinct due to various natural calamities and inter-tribal wars.

A thousand-zhang-long, huge-bodied Lianglong.

Hundreds of zhang tall, brutal and violent Badaowanglong.

Delicate and agile, yet tens of zhang long, leaping like flight to hunt everywhere, the Xunmenglong.

In the swamps and seas, many Xiangliu ran rampant.

In the high skies, Yingdragon spread its huge wings and soared freely.

Herds of Qilin sat cross-legged on rocks, chanting the ancient sages' moral truths; within a radius of ten thousand li, peace instantly prevailed.

Moreover, five-colored Fenghuang descended from the heavens, holding various splendid rice stalks and other wondrous objects in their beaks; wherever they landed, strange spirit veins or rare mineral veins quickly condensed underground.

The whole world was evolving, and Mu Dalu was evolving.

Before breaking the heavenly curtain, Mu Dalu was weak, and Wu Tie was in a state of severe injury.

At this moment, Mu Dalu was striving to restore itself with all its might, and to restore the whole world to its rightful peak state with all its might.

Whether in the number of species or their energy levels, the entirety of Mu Dalu was striving to recover with all its might.

As the guide of all this, Wu Tie, Mu Dalu warmly and ardently welcomed his return, then revealed all of its deepest secrets without reservation before Wu Tie.

Strand after strand of visible Great Dao Chains appeared beside Wu Tie.

These Great Dao Chains are the operational hub of Mu Dalu, the foundation of its existence, the pivot of heaven and earth, the marvel of creation, the root of all things, and the origin of all beings.

Wu Tie cultivated the Primordial Scripture; all of Mu Dalu's Great Dao side gates merged into a single Great Dao Jade Disc.

These Great Dao Chains gently wrapped around Wu Tie, gradually merging into his body. Wu Tie felt Mu Dalu continuously infusing his body with the profound mysteries of the Great Dao and immense power; he hesitated a moment, then opened his mind and body, allowing these Dao resonances and energy to continually enter his body.

"They have three immortals," Wu Tie murmured: "We have less than a thousand years..."

The whole of Mu Dalu trembled slightly; the ever more lively Dao resonance and ever stronger heavenly-earthly primal energy continually merged into Wu Tie's body.

Wu Tie's Three Corpses Avatar and Six Paths Avatar simultaneously turned into spiritual light, flying into the mist that burst forth above his head.

Accompanied by a low rumbling sound, the several supreme treasures in Wu Tie's hand—led by the Golden Relic Pagoda, the Great Dao Forge, the Primordial Crown, the Human Race Holy Sword, and the Four Evil Weapons—all flew up and likewise sank into the mist above his head.

Above Wu Tie's head, within the mist, three thrones appeared.

The Three Corpses Avatar sat upon the thrones; above the central True Self's head, a fine thread of spiritual light, like the stem of a lingzhi mushroom, spread out and quickly grew into a Cloud Gate Divine Palace ten thousand zhang high, with two layers.

Within the Cloud Gate Divine Palace, in the upper palace, three thousand thrones hovered high in the clouds.

In the lower palace, eighty-four thousand thrones were each wrapped in clouds and rosy light.

Wu Tie's body trembled slightly; boundless light and heat rose from all directions of Mu Dalu and swiftly surged into his body.

Within the Cloud Gate Divine Palace, on each throne appeared a figure identical in appearance to Wu Tie.

Besides the Three Corpses Avatar, the Three Thousand Great Daos and Eighty-Four Thousand Side Gates, all the Dao that Wu Tie had comprehended, condensed into an avatar. The original Six Paths Avatar, which had been six bodies, under the great refinement of heavenly-earthly force, had become a black-clad Daoist, proudly occupying the throne near the center in the upper divine palace.

Behind Wu Tie, the Merit Golden Light continually separated into clusters of golden light, continually merging into these Dao avatars' bodies.

As the Merit Power was infused, deep within Mu Dalu's world, authority positions opened one after another, locking onto the Dao avatars that Wu Tie had condensed.

If Wu Tie wished, those Dao avatars he had condensed could, like inlaid pearls, enter those authority positions one by one, fill them, and control the heavenly-earthly might they possessed.

Wu Tie muttered lowly: "Ji Baijie's path went wrong…… that was merely an innate supreme treasure…… true divine investiture is obtaining heaven and earth's acknowledgment, with heaven and earth actively opening the fixed-numbered heavenly-earthly authority positions…… occupying those heavenly-earthly authority positions, Mu Dalu will not perish, nor will it ever fall."

"But these heavenly-earthly authority positions are so precious…… am I to monopolize them alone?" Wu Tie murmured: "I understand, you urgently need to complete the subtleties of heaven and earth's operation…… but give me a little time, let me think it over properly."

"If I complete you, I will be bound to you in life and death, sharing the same fate, and can no longer be carefree and unrestrained."

Wu Tie forcibly suppressed his palpitations and impulses, and flew slowly toward the direction of Martial Capital.

Saying he flew slowly was merely Wu Tie's own assessment at the moment.

On the ground, to those other human cultivators, the void merely flashed a streak of spiritual light; they could not even catch Wu Tie's silhouette.

At this moment, Wu Tie had completely succeeded in merging with the Dao; he stood at the pinnacle of great perfection in this great realm, his strength and means far surpassing the limits imagined by ordinary people.

Ahead, a giant tree a hundred thousand zhang tall, with astonishing volume, blocked the way.

Wu Tie lightly pointed; the giant tree, entirely entwined with immense azure wood power, let out a roar, and its trunk's substance suddenly changed from pure wood to bronze.

The trunk became bronze, yet the giant tree remained a giant tree, still able to absorb sunlight and rain, still able to grow and propagate.

Moreover, after the trunk turned to bronze, the giant tree's origin became over a thousand times stronger, and it spontaneously gained many numinous qualities, directly able to draw heavenly lightning into its body to frenziedly temper its trunk.

Wu Tie's body trembled slightly.

After merging with the Dao, it is simply 'the change of the Dao'.

Within the scope permitted by the Great Dao's laws, to interfere slightly with the Great Dao and cause change.

Wu Tie's 'God Emperor' realm broke through just like that, silently and unnoticed.

Above the God Emperor, the gods call it 'Ancient God', while Mu Dalu calls it 'Sage'.

Wu Tie smiled, directly broke through space and instantaneously shifted; ahead, Martial Capital already loomed into view.