Chapter 1436 — I Know Your Body Better Than You Do
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
For extorting divine stones and primal stones from us, being suppressed a hundred years is nothing. He has offended Her Majesty Taishu, and Her Majesty Taishu loathes him to the bone. On that count alone he will find it hard to attain the Dao in this life.
There is no need to be overly wary of him. " "That is so.
" The male voice in the egg said no more, and quietly awaited the arrival of Consort Yan. Her Majesty the Empress traveled through the great desert of white sand.
The Taiji ancient gods still looked after her: the white sand was made of dead stars, condensed to a high degree, suffused with a dreadful geomagnetic elemental force that twisted space and greatly slowed the rate at which matter changed. The change of matter gives the illusion of time passing, but here matter was nearly still, its rate of change exceedingly slow, giving the illusion that time itself had frozen.
And because the matter of this white sand changed so slowly, it had gathered a vast quantity of energy; when that energy burst forth, it gave birth to unimaginably dreadful sword qi!
Such sword qi spanned the void of the cosmos, could pierce through galaxy after galaxy, destroy star after star — utterly formidable!
Throughout the white sand desert of the Taiji Star Domain, such sword qi was everywhere, impossible to guard against.
In ordinary times, Her Majesty the Empress would not willingly set foot in so perilous a place.
Fortunately, with the aid of the Taiji ancient gods, she had no need to spend her strength dealing with the white sand desert; she had only to press onward. Ahead, wind and sand filled the sky, and Her Majesty the Empress dimly made out a tall figure: it was Shen Mu. Compared with other grown men, Shen Mu was tall of stature, youthful of appearance, with a boy's innocence still on his face — only the beard on his chin was exceedingly stubborn, forever pricking through his indestructible skin.
Shen Mu had already halted in the white sand desert, his aura growing ever denser, ever stronger.
Her Majesty the Empress's brows lifted slightly. The youth stood erect in the desert as the dreadful white sand howled past, and that terrible cosmic sword qi passed straight through his body without doing him the slightest harm. Form without substance — the Dao of Taishi!
Unbeknownst to himself, Shen Mu had all along remained in the twenty-fourth heaven of his Dao realm, in the state called Taishi's Substance and Form Question the Azure Empyrean.
In this state, ten thousand laws could not invade him, ten thousand Daos could not wound him. Even in a perilous place like the Taiji Star Domain, he remained perfectly unharmed!
This was the primordial ground of undefeat! The five primordial Tais, the five great Daos: Taiyi is called Chaos — chaos, vast and void.
Taichu is formless and substanceless, the primordial qi, able to change with the divine consciousness.
Taishi has form but no substance; Taishu has form and substance but no body; Taiji, through the transformations of yin and yang, gives birth to the myriad things. These are the five most ancient, most primal Daos of the primordial order.
To master one of them is to stand upon the primordial ground of undefeat!
What Shen Mu now stirred was a great Dao-entering divine art comprehended from the Dao of Taishi. Though it was only one manifestation of the Dao of Taishi, in these circumstances, to wound him one would need a divine art of the five Tai level, or strength far exceeding his own.
Yet divine arts are divine arts, and the great Dao is the great Dao. Divine arts have flaws in their transformations; only one who has attained the Dao is without flaw. Otherwise the Heavenly Emperor Taichu would not have died, the Taiji ancient gods would not need to hide here and there, Taishi would not have met so ill a fate, and Taishu would not have emerged ahead of her time.
"Empress, we cannot aid you; we beg your pardon.