Chapter 1567 — A Pilgrimage to the Sage
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The Venerables halted and looked one after another toward the Ancestral God King's palm. The Ancestral God King was today the foremost man in the world in his attainments in the Heavenly Dao; he tested the boy with the Heavenly Dao himself, laying layer upon layer of Heavenly Dao seals in his palm.
If Jiang Yunjian truly was Taiyi's disciple, breaking those seals would be no hard thing. And from the way Jiang Yunjian broke them, they too might glimpse Taiyi's arts and divine abilities, and thereby judge the measure of Taiyi's strength.
Jiang Yunjian raised his head and laughed.
"So they are Heavenly Dao seals. I had thought the skills of a Venerable were something transcendent — I never imagined it was such crude sorcery. " He walked straight outward, raised his hand and gave a light tap; at once the Heavenly Principle Seal surfaced into view, the very hub of that great divine ability, the Vault of the Heavenly Dao.
And as the Heavenly Principle Seal appeared, the other forty-eight Heavenly Dao seals surfaced one after another! In the Ancestral God King's palm the ways of Heaven interwove and interlaced, the seals shifting through a thousand forms and ten thousand changes, too many for the eye to follow.
Jiang Yunjian paid the other seals no heed, but broke the Heavenly Principle Seal alone — and at once all the transformations of the Heavenly Dao ceased. Jiang Yunjian unhurriedly broke the remaining Heavenly Dao seals, walked out of the Ancestral God King's palm, sprang down and landed on the ground, thinking, "I am ashamed.
Had my master not taken me to the Sea of Heaven to comprehend the Heart of Heaven, and led me there to perceive the Heavenly Dao and expounded it to me so thoroughly, I could never have broken the Ancestral God King's divine ability. " His master, of course, was not Taiyi. Taiyi had never taken a disciple, had never taught his arts and divine abilities to another, had never passed on the Dao.
Jiang Yunjian's master was Lan Yutian — and it was Shen Mu himself who had asked Lan Yutian to take him as a disciple, an inner-chamber disciple at that.
Lan Yutian had many disciples, but Jiang Yunjian was his only inner-chamber disciple.
Jiang Yunjian was also the first, and for the present the only, person to cultivate the Five Primals system that Lan Yutian had founded. Among the younger generation of Jingping, his strength was the greatest — he was even more accomplished than many of the older generation. That, too, was why Shen Mu had chosen him to receive the guests. God Emperor Langxuan coughed and said, "The young sir's skills are not bad; he has indeed gotten a measure of Taiyi's ability.
I would like to test you as well — do not take offense.
" He was very courteous, yet the moment he made his move it was a Taichu divine ability.
Venerable Xiao's eye twitched.
The Taichu divine ability that God Emperor Langxuan employed relied upon the Dao fruit at the back of his head, yet it was exceedingly exquisite, and watching it he could not help but secretly praise this bastard son of his.
Venerable Xiao understood perfectly well.
He, too, was eager to see whether Jiang Yunjian, this heir of Taiyi, could break the Taichu divine ability.
Jiang Yunjian walked back and forth inside the divine ability and laughed.
"This is a Taichu divine ability. It is a little taxing to break.
But judging by the Way of Taichu my master taught me, this ability of yours is not entirely your own comprehension — even you understand only half of it.
" God Emperor Langxuan could not help laughing. "Such bragging. " Before long, his expression changed in spite of himself.
Jiang Yunjian had actually found the weak point of his Taichu seal, and calmly broke the divine ability! God Emperor Langxuan's face darkened and cleared by turns, and he said suddenly, coldly, "Venerable Mu, it is you, is it not?
Did you think that taking the form of this youth would let you deceive me?
" Jiang Yunjian was puzzled, and laughed.