Chapter 1486 — The Brat Churns the River, Startling the Fish to Leap
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
But Kai Huang's sword-dao heavens were a posterior heaven dao, a domain no one had ever trodden, and Kai Huang had needed to perfect and open it up one step at a time, one footprint at a time.
The Nether Heavenly Venerable's Youdu heavens, by contrast, were comprehended directly from the sixty-four Daos of Youdu. From the very beginning, the Nether Heavenly Venerable had cultivated the Great Dao of Youdu; to revive his mother, he had studied it more bitterly and more earnestly than anyone alive.
Compared with Kai Huang, he had one enormous advantage: Kai Huang had conjured the sword dao out of nothing, which was incomparably difficult, whereas he had Tubo at his side — whatever he did not understand, he had only to ask Tubo.
And of course, if Tubo did not understand something, Tubo could come and ask him.
He had remained in Youdu for a million years, and in a million years his mastery of the Dao of Youdu had grown deep enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Tubo's. The only thing he lacked beside Tubo was a body as mighty as Tubo's.
Beside a primal god like Tubo, his own flesh was weak beyond all measure.
"So that is it. Kai Huang could disregard my illusory realm of divine consciousness because his dao heart is too strong — his dao heart and dao realm have already been cultivated to the thirty-fifth heaven."
Palace Heavenly Venerable gritted her teeth and did not retreat. She poured all her strength into the spear and still thrust it onward at the Nether Heavenly Venerable, thinking: "But even the Shepherd Heavenly Venerable could not escape my illusory realm of divine consciousness, while the Nether Heavenly Venerable did. That shows his dao heart stands above even the Shepherd Heavenly Venerable's..."
Yet clearly the Nether Heavenly Venerable was meeting the dao realm for the first time, and had not labored hard at it. Even now, this was the first time he had raised his own dao realm, and so the dao realm opened slowly.
After all, not many years had passed since Kai Huang disseminated the system of dao realm cultivation; even the ten Heavenly Venerables had attained no great mastery in it.
The Nether Heavenly Venerable was, in effect, comprehending the dao and raising his dao realm in the midst of battle, without any preparation beforehand — and this gave Palace Heavenly Venerable hope.
Hummm, hummm, hummm!
By the time Palace Heavenly Venerable's spear reached the Nether Heavenly Venerable, the worlds of Youdu behind his primordial spirit's head had multiplied to eighteen.
A great hand of the primordial spirit reached out and smote down upon her spear. Palace Heavenly Venerable gave a muffled grunt; the great spear in her hand was bent down, and her body was bent down with it!
Dharma power — the dharma power she was so proud of, the dharma power stored in her thirty-five heavenly palaces — was still inferior to the dharma power stored in that incomparably titanic primordial spirit of the Nether Heavenly Venerable.
Her legs buckled, and the horns of the Heavenly Court blared long, lifting her blood and qi once more!
Palace Heavenly Venerable straightened her body, and the great spear became a long whip. Swish, swish, swish — it coiled around the arm of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit, while she flew up with both feet, kicking at the head of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's true body!
Hummm—
Another wave of vibration came, and a nineteenth crease appeared on Palace Heavenly Venerable's face, like that of an old crone.
Her flesh was aging, her vitality draining away, and she could not help but start — yet her strength did not diminish in the least. Her legs were full of terrifying explosive power; so long as she kicked the Nether Heavenly Venerable's head, in a single instant she could burst his skull!
And at that moment, behind the Nether Heavenly Venerable's primordial spirit, the nineteenth world of Youdu slowly opened.