Chapter 1214 — The Primeval Art and the Method of Immutability
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The ghost ship burst roaring out of the water. In the instant it clove the surface of the Surging River, the river flung up shattered jade and spilling pearls, and beneath the blaze of the rising sun a row of rainbows hung above the vessel.
Riding wind and wave, the ghost ship bore down on Shen Mu.
Shen Mu sprang into the air and landed on its deck.
"Senior brother." He bowed in salute.
"Junior brother."
The Yunluo Emperor Wei Suifeng returned the salute, and as he straightened, tens of thousands of black coffins appeared behind him.
Those black coffins stood silent upon the ship; one after another they opened, and from each stepped a god-devil officer or soldier of the Feathered Forest Army.
Shen Mu smiled and called out in a clear voice: "I have come today to keep my promise, and to free you all from the state of matter's immutability!"
Wei Suifeng was shaken with emotion, and so were the officers and men of the ghost ship, yet not one of them spoke.
Suddenly a phoenix came flying on beating wings, and with a great thud a stone coffin struck the deck.
Wei Suifeng frowned slightly. That phoenix was Feng Qiuyun, the Qiuyun Divine Venerable in the service of the Earth Mother Yuanjun, and within the coffin lay the ancient corpse of the Supreme Emperor, likewise assimilated by the ghost ship.
At the same moment, a great plume-crested fire-pheasant dragon poked its head out from behind the palace on the ship, peering about, stirred like the rest.
That was Lin Xiao, a master under Lady Yuanmu.
Beyond this, the ever-mad Dragon Elder King of the Dragon Elder Kingdom had now fallen quiet, and in the great hall where the Empress's corpse and Jue Wuchen were held down, the eight Dragon Elders seemed to have heard those words as well, and slowly turned their dragon heads.
Wei Suifeng glanced back and said mildly, "There is a rare swarm of monsters and goblins aboard this ship, junior brother. Breaking the ghost ship will likely bring you no peace."
Shen Mu said with feeling, "True enough. There are many monsters and goblins on this ship, but many and not strong. Ling Heavenly Venerable sealed himself within the Heavenly River and became one with it; the monsters and goblins there are the ones truly to be feared. Senior brother, shall we begin?"
Wei Suifeng hesitated, then nodded.
Feng Qiuyun was beside herself with excitement; in the dragon eyes of the Dragon Elder King, half turned to stone, flames blazed, ready at any moment to break free.
Shen Mu steadied his heart and roused the Taishi Way. Great-Dao runes flowed out from between his brows, more and more of them.
In everyone's ears sounded what seemed the summons of the gods, the summons of all living things, chanting one and the same name — the name of Taishi!
This was the Dao-sound of the Taishi Way, most strange. When Wei Suifeng had once tried to split the Ancient God Egg, this same Dao-sound had erupted.
Wei Suifeng could not hide his excitement: "It seems my junior brother found the notes Ling Heavenly Venerable left for him, fully unraveled Ling Heavenly Venerable's art of immutability, and taking that art as his point of entry, broke open the great Dao hidden within the Taishi Egg! This time we are saved!"
He knew well how hard it was to comprehend Ling Heavenly Venerable's art of immutability.
He had possessed Ling Heavenly Venerable's notes for a long time and studied them long and hard, and had never cracked them.
The Heavenly Court's Ten Heavenly Venerables had possessed those notes for even longer, and they too had gained nothing from them.
For Shen Mu to unlock the mysteries of Ling Heavenly Venerable's notes in so short a time — such talent was all but unfindable in this world!
And to break open the Taishi Way hidden within the Taishi Egg was harder still, a task whose difficulty matched the notes themselves, or surpassed them!