Chapter 1569 — Helping the Sovereign Attain the Dao
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The Dao-pattern array on the cliff had been designed by Shen Mu to appear as profound and unfathomable as possible; he had set the runes of primordial Hongmeng qi at its core, supplemented it with the transmutations of the Five Supremes, and blended in Dao patterns drawn from all the great Ways. His own foundation was too shallow, and so he had transcribed many fragments of the Miluo Palace Master's Dao patterns, altering them to confuse the sight and judgment of these nine.
Yet even so, in the course of a single night, Heavenly Venerable Hao, Heavenly Venerable Xiao, and the others had already groped their way into extremely profound reaches. When Shen Mu carefully sorted through the night's comprehensions of the seven Heavenly Venerables and the two Ancient Gods, he discovered that each of the nine excelled in his own domain.
Heavenly Venerable Xu had already felt his way to the threshold of the Demonic Way's transformation into the Taiji Way; the Ancestral God King had groped out the edge of the Heavenly Way's transformation into the Taiji Way; both offered great enlightenment to Shen Mu.
Divine Emperor Langxuan, meanwhile, had glimpsed the Taichu Way from within the Dao-pattern array and left behind many insights, some of which even Shen Mu had not realized, displaying extraordinary natural aptitude and comprehension.
The Sun Ancient God's realization concerned the way of Taiji's evolution; he had even touched upon tracing Taiji's evolution backward to infer the way of Taisu. And Taisu had perceived in it the principle of the Taisu Way, proved in reverse, reaching Taishi, and then evolving Taiji.
What Heavenly Venerable Xiao had pondered out was the path by which the One Qi combined with divine consciousness to evolve Taichu, along with fragmentary interchanges between Taishi and Taichu. Heavenly Venerable Hao too had essentially pondered his way to this same step.
"These nine are of extraordinary intelligence, to comprehend so much in a single night. They have likely held something back as well; what they taught Jiang Yunjian was only the inconsequential parts, while what they deemed most important, they concealed. " Shen Mu could not help but sigh in admiration: "I truly wish I could imprison them here, make them contemplate day and night, and deduce for me every secret of the Miluo Palace Dao patterns.
" Even though the seven Heavenly Venerables and the two Ancient Gods had each held back, not imparting all their comprehensions to Jiang Yunjian, they had still given Shen Mu great inspiration, enabling him to grasp still more. He was just about to settle his mind and carefully organize it all when, suddenly, Jiang Yunjian came rushing over with a panicked face and said hurriedly: "Foster father, Heavenly Venerable Xiao has come back again!
" Shen Mu's expression shifted.
Jiang Yunjian took out a sheet of paper and said: "Heavenly Venerable Xiao told me to give this painting to Taiyi! " Shen Mu took it and looked; what was drawn upon the paper was a golden ship. "So the cloven hoof has shown after all.
" Shen Mu drew a long breath. In order to exhibit Taiyi's majesty, so that these people would not dare entertain doubts, he had moved a golden hall down from the World-Crossing Golden Ship to serve as Taiyi's palace.
The hall was filled with chaos qi, sufficient to blind the sacred pupils of Heavenly Venerable Xiao, Heavenly Venerable Hao, and the others, so that they could not see Shen Mu's true countenance and thereby discover that this Taiyi was Shen Mu in disguise. The one flaw was that the Sun Ancient God had once boarded the golden ship! The exposure had no doubt occurred there.
"Who else is by Heavenly Venerable Xiao's side? " he asked.
Jiang Yunjian said: "No one else, only Heavenly Venerable Xiao himself. " A sharp light flickered in Shen Mu's eyes.
He said in a grave voice: "Yunjian, invite him over!
" Jiang Yunjian's heart leaped in alarm, and he said in a low voice: "Foster father.
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