Chapter 1437 — Peerless Divine Art

At this moment Yan Heavenly Consort was rushing toward the Taiji Starfield, entering the Great Black Sand Desert, while Qiang Heavenly Consort and the divine artifact Yutianzun had followed Jue Wuchen deep into that desert.

Both Qiang Heavenly Consort and the divine artifact Yutianzun were beings of the Heavenly Venerable level; even Jue Wuchen could not have detected them, and she was seen only to walk into a magnificent mining ground, a mining ground of a thousand transformations, so that both Heavenly Venerables clicked their tongues in wonder. They entered that mining ground, and saw that it laid bare all the splendor of the Dao of Taiji: yin and yang begetting one another, generation upon generation without end.

The Dao of Taiji can shape anything alive between heaven and earth, such as the archaic behemoths, flowers and grasses, worms and fish, trees and insects, men and gods, demons and monsters; even ancient gods can be made by it.

It can also shape the lifeless things of the cosmos, such as rivers and mountains, oceans and seas, thunderclouds and lightning, the sun and moon and stars; truly, its creation is wondrous.

Even Qiang Heavenly Consort, and Shi Qiluo who controlled the divine artifact Yutianzun, were dazzled by the sight, praising the power of the Taiji ancient gods and the mystery of the Taiji lode.

Only, for a while they did not know that this place was merely a false mining ground, set up by the true one to deceive their eyes.

Among the egg-born ancient gods, none is more shifting and changeable than the Taiji ancient gods; when they work their forgeries, even Heavenly Venerables cannot perceive the trick within.

Yet Qiang Heavenly Consort and the divine artifact Yutianzun had trailed Jue Wuchen for so long without ever reaching the depths of the mining ground, and they could not help growing fretful and doubtful.

The divine artifact Yutianzun was just about to test the strength of this mining ground when Jue Wuchen's voice came, clear and crisp: "The Empress of Guixu has come to pay her respects to her Dao-brother; I beg her Dao-brother to show himself and grant her a meeting!

" At once the divine artifact Yutianzun restrained itself, and saw the transformations of the mining ground gradually settle into calm, a passage opening beneath Jue Wuchen's feet.

Jue Wuchen stepped forward and walked on into the depths of the mining ground.

The two Heavenly Venerables followed her, and walked on for a long while; just as they were about to lose patience, the way suddenly opened into brightness, and before them appeared a natural altar of peerless magnificence, upon it eight Taiji primal stones, guarding a single divine egg.

The two Heavenly Venerables held themselves in check once more, and watched Jue Wuchen salute that divine egg and seat herself. Jue Wuchen spoke with the divine egg, exchanging pleasantries at first; and just when the two Heavenly Venerables could no longer restrain themselves from showing themselves, her words took a sudden turn, and she began to speak of the great trends of the world.

The divine egg blew its own trumpet until heaven and earth went dim, and the two Heavenly Venerables restrained themselves yet again.

It was at this very moment that the two Heavenly Venerables suddenly each sensed a not-inconsiderable surge of divine power come sweeping toward them. Each was startled, and even this Taiji mining ground swayed faintly in the surge, like a painted scroll quivering in the wind.

"That is wrong! The true Taiji mining ground was born at the beginning of the universe.

To say nothing of the surge of colliding divine powers, even a Heavenly Venerable's full strike could not shake it!

" The two Heavenly Venerables grew wary, and just then a second surge arrived, stronger than the first, as though an existence of the Heavenly Venerable level had struck with all its strength.

The divine artifact Yutianzun gave a long whistle, and all the force within it burst forth without the least reserve; at once the mining ground shattered to pieces, the mountains toppled, the sun and moon crumbled, and countless strange visions, giant beasts and gods and spirits among them, dissolved one by one into wisps of yin and yang qi that drifted away. "So you really were fooling me!

" The divine artifact Yutianzun rose to its full height, only to see a raging tide of black sand come rolling in; in an instant the countless grains of black sand in its eyes swelled to immense size, each becoming a planet, and the Great Black Sand Desert became a star system of incomparable magnificence, a billion stars.

It stood, in fact, within a vast starfield, with planets dancing everywhere before its eyes, blotting out its sight entirely. And Qiang Heavenly Consort now discovered that she too had fallen into a starfield churned like porridge; looking around, she could see no trace of the divine artifact Yutianzun or of Jue Wuchen.

"What a Taiji ancient god, with hands and eyes that reach the heavens!

" Qiang Heavenly Consort could not help crying out in praise.

"Not yet born into the world, and already you toy with Heavenly Venerables in the palm of your hand.

If ever you came into the world, what then? Such tricks cannot trap a Heavenly Venerable.

You had best die inside your eggshell, and spare the world the calamity of your birth, as Taichu brought calamity upon it! " She stepped forward, her mighty divine consciousness sweeping all around, pushing the stars aside one after another; when the stars grew too many, she simply stepped into the void, for all the power of the Taiji ancient god could not reach into the void.

Taichu ranks before Taiji; the Dao of Taichu divides into divine consciousness and the innate primordial qi, and divine consciousness excels at entering the void. Qiang Heavenly Consort, as the reincarnation of the Tai Emperor, excelled in divine consciousness, and the perils of the Taiji Starfield were of no use whatsoever against her.

Only when the Taiji ancient god came into the world, entered the Dao, and reached the thirty-fifth heaven of the Dao realm could it threaten the Tai Emperor; and even then it could not threaten the Tai Emperor's fruit of the Dao.

Only if the Taiji ancient god attained the Dao and imprinted itself upon the ultimate void could it pose a mortal threat to the Tai Emperor.

As the Taiji ancient god itself had said, they were still far from the Dao, and must come into the world and undergo its trials amid the dust of mortals before they could attain the Dao. Otherwise, egg-born ancient gods though they were, there were still no few beings in this world that could threaten their lives.

Qiang Heavenly Consort flashed back and forth through the starfield at great speed, searching for the true mining ground, while elsewhere the divine artifact Yutianzun was swallowed by the Guixu Abyss; a great rift raced through the starfield, and wherever it passed, even the stars were devoured. As the eleventh Heavenly Venerable, Lady Yuanmu's Guixu divine power was truly formidable: she passed to and fro, and even the Taiji Starfield could not hold her back.

The two Heavenly Venerables suddenly each made a discovery, and saw before them a mountain range that stretched across the starfield and pinned down countless planets!

That range was terrifying beyond measure, and the shock it gave was beyond imagining.

The surge of Heavenly Venerable power came from precisely there, and this time the surge was clearer still; the two Heavenly Venerables at once realized that this surge was Yan Heavenly Consort's divine power.

"Could Yan Heavenly Consort be trying to kill the Taiji ancient god?

" Both were startled, and hurried toward that mountain range.