Chapter 1580 — Forty Thousand Years of Storm and Song
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Within Heavenly Lord Xiao's body, half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit roared in fury, contending for mastery of Heavenly Lord Xiao's flesh.
Half of Heavenly Lord Xiao's body went numb, seized by the Great Emperor's primordial spirit, and in an instant his composure was gone.
From the back of his head a string of heavenly palaces burst forth, transforming into the Great Heavenly Court, which crushed and refined the Great Emperor outright; in a moment the Great Emperor's primordial spirit was shattered and became his nourishment. His strength was too great; even the Great Emperor's primordial spirit could pose no real threat to him.
He regained mastery of his flesh, and the very next moment would strike to slay Lord Ling.
With his present strength, at such close range, he would leave Lord Ling no chance of escape at all!
So swift was his strike that Lord Ling would have no time to employ the Unchanging divine ability!
Yet in the very instant before he could act, the Unchanging divine ability turned, and half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit appeared once more, contending with him for mastery of his flesh!
"Damnation!
" Once again half of Heavenly Lord Xiao's body went numb; the vexation seething in his heart had no outlet, and he had no choice but to destroy and refine the Great Emperor's primordial spirit once more.
Just then, Lord Ling had already withdrawn, leaping back, and Shen Mu too sprang up from the desert; his Divine Treasury domain swiftly healed all his wounds, and he rejoined Lord Ling.
"Your divine ability is not bad at all, Sister Ling! " Shen Mu said with a laugh.
"You taught it well.
" The two exchanged a smile, and just then Heavenly Lord Xiao's voice came to them: "Lord Ling, Lord Mu, did you think the Unchanging divine ability could trap me in the Great Emperor's grip and leave me helpless forever?
You underestimate Xiao Weisu. The immutability of matter is, after all, merely a transformation of matter; but in the Taichu era when the cosmos was opened, matter did not exist at all. Without substance, without form, without state—this is Taichu, this is the Innate One Qi! " Shen Mu's heart went cold; he snatched up the Taiyi cane and rushed at full speed toward the God-Slaying Platform.
Lord Ling followed close behind.
Both moved with incredible speed, and yet on the God-Slaying Platform Heavenly Lord Xiao's body and primordial spirit had already begun to transform into the state of the Innate One Qi!
"The Five Innate Primal Modes are five supreme Daos. The Unchanging divine ability is a divine ability that fixes matter, and judging by the way it can trace time backward, Lord Ling, you truly possess excellence beyond others—beyond even me. But as for the five supreme Daos, all you can restrain is the Way of Divine Consciousness split off from the Taiji Dao and the Taichu Dao!
" Heavenly Lord Xiao's voice carried to them, and before the two could reach the God-Slaying Platform, his form had already vanished, wholly transformed into the Innate One Qi.
Not only he—even half of the Great Emperor's primordial spirit transformed along with him into the Innate One Qi!
Lord Ling immediately sensed that her Unchanging divine ability had been broken.
The first to break the Unchanging divine ability had been Shen Mu; Shen Mu had used the Taishi Dao's form without substance—no matter, only a state of energy—to break the Unchanging divine ability. Heavenly Lord Xiao, by contrast, used the Taichu Dao and transformed into the Innate One Qi to break it; the two methods, different roads, arrived at the same end.
From the moment Lord Ling conceived the idea of the immutability of matter to the full development of the Unchanging divine ability, nine hundred sixty thousand years had passed—a span that could hardly be called brief.