Chapter 1629 — Abnormal Thinking
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
Over the Ancestral Court the void had never been visible before, yet at this moment layer upon layer of void surfaced into view, limpid and distinct.
The Ancestral Court was no longer the desolate scene of former days; many races from the heavens and the myriad worlds had migrated there to settle and flourish, and although the court was so vast that its scattered cities here and there were hardly conspicuous, the living beings of every race upon it were by no means few. At this moment the denizens of the Ancestral Court raised their heads and beheld a sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives. Layer after layer of void stretched upward, utterly transparent, no fewer than thirty-six, and in the thirty-sixth layer two Daluo Heavens had emerged, their Dao Trees standing lush and verdant, glowing in answer to the distant World Tree.
Two Daluo Heavens, two Dao Trees, two Dao Flowers—each suffused with its own resonance of the Dao.
The resonance from one Daluo Heaven was boundless might. The instant it appeared, every heart felt as though great mountains were heaped upon it, and gods as well—mountains crushing their flesh, gods crushing their spirits—pressing them to stoop, pressing them to kneel!
The resonance from the other was like a sword that nothing could withstand, hewing at the gods in their hearts and leveling the mountains upon their bodies!
The two Daluo Heavens hurtled toward each other; soon they met, spun, and collided, and in that brief instant of impact it seemed that might of measureless horror erupted—yet the living beings of the Ancestral Court felt nothing of it. That was because the force of two Daluo Heavens striking together could scarcely pass beyond the Ultimate Void, and the Ultimate Void ceaselessly attenuates the divine might of the Daluo Heavens as it travels; by the time it did emerge from the Ultimate Void, it had still to undergo the attenuation of thirty-five further layers of void, and so it could inflict no harm upon the Ancestral Court. But the dharma arts and divine powers displayed in the duel of the Daluo Heavens left the living beings of the Ancestral Court dazzled and shaken. They could scarcely comprehend them, yet from within them they perceived one marvel after another.
What each person saw was different from the next, but none could see all the Dao mysteries of the Daluo Heavens. The Daluo Heavens exceed all telling; the Daluo Heavens exceed all utterance.
Beneath the two Daluo Heavens, the Hao Heavenly Venerable saw Kaihuang, and Kaihuang saw him.
Each stood atop his own peak, facing the other across the void. "The move you made against us—slaying Tu Bo—Shen Ye, your stratagem truly took me by surprise and caught me off guard. " The Hao Heavenly Venerable wore a look of admiration as he called across the distance.
"But before absolute power, all of this is useless. You have already lost.
" He did not look at Kaihuang; his gaze went straight to the space between the two mountains—and not even to the mountains, but to the Youdu that overlapped the Ancestral Court. In Youdu, the Fire Heavenly Venerable and the Void Heavenly Venerable had already seen through the arts of the Moon Heavenly Venerable and Langwan.
The two of them had once experienced the divine powers of Moon and Lang in the three-roomed house at the end of the Void Bridge, and this time they broke them with practiced ease. On the other side, the You Heavenly Venerable had likewise fallen wholly behind in his battle with the Ancestral God-King; his defeat and death were only a matter of time.
The Hao Heavenly Venerable looked into Youdu.
There, the Book of Life and Death had steadied itself anew, drinking deep of Tu Bo's Youdu Great Dao and feeding it back to Shen Fengqing, while Shen Mu, bearing the Ling Heavenly Venerable, plummeted at desperate speed toward the Jade Lock Pass beneath Tu Bo's feet.