Chapter 1630 — The Duel of Yun and Taichu
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Cloud Heavenly Venerable's heart sank. The one who watched him most closely was, he feared, none other than Taichu.
Because of a flaw within his own being, Taidi had taken the Taichu Imperial Sword as his foundation, growing a Dao Tree, opening Dao Flowers, and bearing Dao Fruit. In the battle of the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven, Taidi perished, body and Dao alike; Cloud Heavenly Venerable seized the moment to take the Taichu Imperial Sword into his grasp and frightened Hao Heavenly Venerable away, and so the Imperial Sword became his divine weapon.
That sword was Taichu's companion treasure from birth. The very moment Taichu had broken from his shell into the world, Taidi had snatched it away, and the craving for that sword had been Taichu's obsession ever since.
The instant Cloud Heavenly Venerable's figure rushed into the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven, a One Qi Daluo Heaven came hurtling viciously at him and slammed into it!
Cloud Heavenly Venerable could scarcely keep his footing; fortunately his Dao Tree was not flawed as Taidi's had been, but whole and complete, and could bear the shock.
Swoosh —
The Dao Tree's roots danced, stabbing into his back, and at once a rolling torrent of the Dao of Divine Consciousness came surging in through those roots to empower his fleshly body.
Within Cloud Heavenly Venerable's body the Spirit Embryo was opened and evolved into the continent of the Ancestral Court; a river of stars soared aloft and became Xuandu; the Heavenly River pierced the vast sky, surging up from the Heavenly Sea and running through all of Xuandu.
This Heavenly River rushed down from Xuandu, circled once about the Four Extremes of the cosmos, and established the Four Extremes Divine Treasure; one after another, the great Divine Treasures of the Four Extremes Heavens were opened.
Then Yuandu was opened; the Heavenly River swept over Yuandu, flowed into Youdu and became the Nether River, and Youdu was opened.
The Nether River flowed from Youdu into Guixu, and Guixu was opened.
From this, the seven great realms of the new Divine Treasures were all cultivated by him!
These were the seven realms of the new Divine Treasures that Lan Yutian had taught him. They differed from the old seven realms of the Divine Treasures: they did not borrow the power of heaven and earth. Of the old seven Divine Treasures, apart from the Spirit Embryo, all six realms borrowed strength from things outside, from the ancient gods.
The new Divine Treasures, by contrast, consisted in observing and comprehending the Dao of heaven and earth in order to open the Divine Treasures, borrowing nothing from without; instead, one took oneself as a cosmos, drawing upon the Dao of heaven and earth to evolve within the body a cosmos of grandeur and wonder.
Cloud Heavenly Venerable's cultivation and strength advanced by leaps and bounds. In truth, once he had cultivated to the Youdu realm, he had already thrown off life and death, becoming like a deity, possessed of immeasurable lifespan, coeval with heaven and earth.
If possessing immeasurable lifespan were taken as the standard for becoming a god, then the sixth realm of the new Divine Treasures, the Youdu realm, could well be called the divine realm.
But in the realms Lan Yutian had founded there was no such thing as a divine realm; there was not even a realm called the Heavenly Palace.
After Cloud Heavenly Venerable had opened the seven great Divine Treasures, his primordial spirit stood upon the Ancestral Court; the great Dao gathered, and he passed through the Four Heavenly Gates, underwent the baptism of the Jade Pool and the Jade Terrace, endured the tempering of the Dao Heart in the Heavenly Sea, and entered the God-Slaying Platform and the Nine Prisons Platform.
Ahead all was dim and hazy, vast and primordial; his primordial spirit appeared before a majestic, magnificent Jade Capital City, and yet he could never step inside it.