Chapter 1082: The End of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe?

After leaving the magma at the Earth’s core, not long after, in an ancient forest, Huang Long found more fragments of the World Tree. Of course, there weren’t as many as in the magma—only a few pieces this time.

A few days later, above a vast black sea in the core region of the Ruins Continent, space trembled, and a figure appeared—it was Huang Long.

The water of this black sea was a kind of primordial water from the universe, formed from accumulated dark water. Though such dark water was rare, it paled in comparison to the Divine Water of Ten Thousand Luo.

After appearing, Huang Long stared at the black sea formed from this dark water in surprise. The core region of the Ruins Continent was truly full of wonders—once it had been an endless desert made of red gold jade sand, but now it was a sea formed from this dark water.

However, after a brief pause, Huang Long turned his gaze away and stretched out his palm toward the void of the black sea below. Soon, giant dark shadows emerged from the sea. These shadows were actually fragments of the World Tree.

The fragments varied in size—some covered thousands of square miles, while others were only a few square miles in area. One, two, three…

Huang Long pulled these fragments out of the black sea and absorbed them one by one into his body. Meanwhile, the World Tree in his Soul Sea continued to absorb them as well. It wasn’t until over a hundred fragments had been gathered that Huang Long stopped. All the fragments hidden beneath the black sea’s bottom had been retrieved.

Since leaving the magma, over the course of a few days, Huang Long had found tens of thousands more fragments of the World Tree in the core region of the Ruins Continent. As the World Tree absorbed these fragments, his strength continued to grow. Yet, to Huang Long’s frustration, he still hadn’t reached the Hunyuan He Dao realm. He, too, remained at the peak of the later stage of the Hunyuan Taishang realm.

After some time, the World Tree fully absorbed and merged all the fragments Huang Long had pulled out of the black sea. Now, it was absorbing and integrating the fragments at an increasingly rapid pace. Naturally, the speed at which sacred-grade spiritual veins were created also doubled. Now, a sacred-grade spiritual vein could be formed every ten million years.

“Is it really so difficult to advance to the He Dao realm?!” Huang Long muttered to himself in frustration.

Although his strength and that of the World Tree had improved again over these days, Huang Long grew increasingly depressed because he still couldn’t break through to the He Dao realm!

“Of course, if breaking through to the Dao-Compliance realm were so easy, there wouldn’t be so few Sage Hunyuan at that level!” At that moment, the Voice of the World Tree sounded: “But it’s almost there. If I can find as many World Tree fragments as there is core magma in the earth, I’ll definitely be able to break through to the Dao-Compliance realm!”
“What? As much as that core magma?!” Huang Long was speechless.
“That’s right!” said the World Tree. “Compared to my original form back then, my current form is still far behind—probably only one ten-thousandth of it!”
“One ten-thousandth?!” Huang Long was shocked.
The current form of the World Tree was so vast that even Huang Long couldn’t describe it. A single leaf falling from it could cover an advanced divine plane!
Indeed, a single World Tree leaf was larger than a continent in an advanced divine plane!
Back then, when it merged with the Heart of the World, a single leaf was as big as an ancient city. Now, it was even larger than a continent in an advanced divine plane!
Yet, the current form of the World Tree was only one ten-thousandth of its former self?!
If that were the case, back then the World Tree stood at the center of the universe, its branches long enough to encircle all worlds, large and small, and its countless leaves capable of covering the entire universe.
Still, even so, it was split apart by Pangu using his Divine Axe of Creation. One could imagine just how powerful Pangu must have been back then.
“That guy with the Divine Axe of Creation was indeed very strong,” said the World Tree.
Huang Long was mentally connected to the World Tree, and without any barrier, the World Tree knew what Huang Long was thinking.
“But he wasn’t much better than me. His original form was also shattered; now only his artifact spirit remains. I wonder what happened to him after so many eras have passed!” sighed the World Tree.
Among the three thousand universes, only the Divine Axe of Creation was qualified to fight against the World Tree.
Even the Third-Ranked Heavenly Wheel of Fate couldn’t even enter the World Tree’s gaze.
After sighing for a while, Huang Long vanished from that sea of darkness and continued searching for World Tree fragments.
His goal for this trip to the Ruins Continent was simple: to find more World Tree fragments so that both he and the World Tree could break through to the Dao-Compliance realm first.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
Over those days, Huang Long found many more World Tree fragments. The entire World Tree glowed with an increasingly bright and radiant green light.
Meanwhile, the Holy Power of Hunyuan within Huang Long also reached its peak.
Huang Long and the World Tree were now ready to break through to the Dao-Compliance realm at any moment.

While Huang Long continued to search for fragments of the World Tree, in the alternate space at the core of the Ruins Continent, the fierce battle between the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and the three warriors led by Wu Tian was also coming to an end. All life in that alternate space had perished; all mountains, forests, ancient trees, divine trees, and primordial deities were utterly destroyed under the impact of the powers of the saints. The entire alternate space was on the verge of collapse, but thanks to the grand array set up by Wu Tian and his companions, it remained intact. Under their combined attacks, the spirit of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe was utterly at a disadvantage and found itself in a desperate situation. The Confucian Saint, being a powerhouse at the Taiyi realm, posed no threat to the spirit of the axe, but Wu Tian and Jin Wubba, both at the Hedao realm and possessing sacred divine artifacts, posed a serious threat. In particular, Wu Tian’s Martial Elephant Pagoda posed the greatest danger to the spirit of the axe. The axe’s glow gradually dimmed, and the strength of each attack weakened. Without the support of its core power, the spirit of the axe lost a significant amount of its Hunyuan Sacred Energy with every attack. If it hadn’t been for its desperate efforts to sustain itself by drawing on its fundamental essence, it would have long been captured and sealed by the three. “Hehe, Heaven-Opening, I wonder how much longer you can hold on!” Wu Tian sneered as he watched the axe’s glow fade. “He can’t last an hour!” Jin Wubba said, laughing loudly. “In an hour, the Pangu Treasury will be ours!” The Confucian Saint also laughed. “Hmph, the Pangu Treasury?” The spirit of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe sneered. “You’re celebrating too early!” With that, its glow suddenly surged, and it launched a fierce attack. To the shock of Wu Tian and his companions, the spirit of the axe then struck at the array they had set up. Under the force of its strike, the restrictions of their array trembled violently, and one of them suddenly cracked, allowing the axe’s power to penetrate through. The three were stunned. “What’s this?!” Huang Long, who was searching for fragments of the World Tree, sensed the power of the axe’s strike and changed expression. He stopped in his tracks and looked ahead.