Chapter 1545 — Beyond the Cure of Medicine, Beyond the Power to Save
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" Fire Heavenly Venerable forced himself to calm, and his blood-red eyes turned toward the space behind Hao Heavenly Venerable; he rasped: "Speak, Your Highness! I want to know how his divine arts invaded my body!
" "It is very hard for divine arts to invade the body of a Heavenly Venerable; they meet the resistance of the Venerable's own faculties.
But for egg-born ancient gods such as myself and Taichu, it is not so difficult.
" A shadowy figure swayed behind Hao Heavenly Venerable, and from there came the voice of the Taisu Goddess: "The Dao of Taichu divides into divine consciousness and the Innate One Qi.
The Great Emperor learned only the divine consciousness, and with it he could rampage through the world and scarce meet a rival.
When his divine consciousness invaded your bodies, you could not withstand it, could you?
" Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Ancestor Divine King nodded.
"And Mu Tianzun is well versed in my Dao of Taisu, the Heavenly Emperor's Dao of Taichu, and the Dao of Taishi and the Dao of Taiji as well. When he breached your face, he must have used one of these four Tai Daos. " Taisu asked: "Is my guess correct?
" Fire Heavenly Venerable nodded: "His swordsmanship is unutterably strange.
He held his sword and bowed low, and I felt a blade come at me out of the chaos, impossible to evade; by the time it pierced my face, all before my eyes was chaos qi. " "That is a divine art evolved from the great Dao of Taichu.
" The Taisu Goddess said: "This art turns everything the sword light passes through into chaos qi; it is called Hunyuan One Qi. When this strike breached your face, the Dao of Taichu had already invaded your body, carrying another of his divine arts in with it.
How many strikes did your face take? " A thread of hope rose in Fire Heavenly Venerable's heart, and he said hurriedly: "He bowed three times, and then Qiang Tianfei dragged him away.
" "Then you took three strikes. " The shadow behind Hao Heavenly Venerable drifted out and came before Fire Heavenly Venerable, inspecting him up and down; then suddenly it burrowed into his body, wandered about, emerged from his back, and drifted back behind Hao Heavenly Venerable. "Mu Tianzun's first strike, Hunyuan One Qi, drove the Dao of Taishi, the Dao of Taisu, and the Dao of Taiji into your body, placing the structure of your flesh in a state of having form but no substance and no body, the easier to reshape it.
After the first strike, though you felt nothing amiss, the structure of your flesh had already passed through three stages.
" The Taisu Goddess's voice came from behind Hao Heavenly Venerable, drifting and uncertain, and the voice each person heard was different from the rest; she said, unhurried: "The first stage is the Taishi stage — form without substance, without body. The second is the Taisu stage — form and substance, yet no body.
The third is the Taiji stage — form, substance, and body.
Your own cultivation and your attainments in the great Dao were unchanged, and so you did not perceive it. And because you did not perceive it, you could hardly resist his second strike.
" As Hao Heavenly Venerable and the Ancestor Divine King heard her dissect Shen Mu's attack, both felt a chill run through them.
This shuddering rose from their hearts, crawled up along their spines to the backs of their skulls, and bored into their brains. "The second strike was Hunyuan One Qi as well. When it breached your face, it was precisely the moment the second stage erupted; he drove Yin Tianzi's Dao of Reincarnation into your body along with the Hunyuan One Qi.
The Dao of Reincarnation joined with the Dao of Taisu, and the form of your flesh was utterly transformed.
" The more Taisu spoke, the more dreadful it all seemed.
"At the same time, he planted the Dao of Creation within your body. That was his second divine art.