Chapter 1630 — The Duel of Yun and Taichu
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Taichu's gaze fell upon the Imperial Sword in his hand, and he said slowly, "You postnatal beings are truly vermin; no matter how you are killed, you cannot be wiped out. Instead you come back to life again and again, each time stronger than the last. But you have no chance left now."
He surveyed the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven and sighed with feeling. "The Dao of Taichu divides into the primordial One Qi and Divine Consciousness. When Taichu attained the Dao, it became the Taichu Daluo Heaven, divided into the One Qi Daluo Heaven and the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven. I must attain the Dao of Taichu through your death."
A vertical eye in the center of his brows slowly opened, revealing a crystalline, radiant Taichu Prime Stone; the stone was missing half of itself. He smiled and said, "After you die, the two Daluo Heavens will merge, and I shall be the true Taichu."
"Your Majesty, so shall I."
Cloud Heavenly Venerable smiled faintly; a vertical eye in the center of his brows slowly parted its lids to either side, revealing a Taichu Prime Stone. Smiling, he said, "If Your Majesty dies at my hand, then I can borrow Your Majesty's One Qi Daluo Heaven and attain the Dao of Taichu. Your Majesty has the Taichu fleshly body; I have the Taichu Imperial Sword. Who will fall and who will stand, none can yet say!"
Taichu's pupils abruptly contracted. The Taichu Prime Stone in the center of Cloud Heavenly Venerable's brows was precisely the stone he had sought so bitterly and never found!
In those days Taidi's fleshly body had been smashed to pieces in the Chaos Sea, which the Chaos mineral vein had become; the Prime Stone fell into the Chaos Sea, and the Heavenly Venerables went to search for it, and yet not one of them obtained that stone!
Taichu had entered the Chaos Sea more than once to seek the stone's whereabouts, yet the Prime Stone had vanished without a trace, as though it had grown wings.
He did not know that Xu Shenghua had obtained the stone. Xu Shenghua carried it to Black Mountain Holy Land, and together with Lan Yutian comprehended the Dao of Taichu hidden within it; both of them reaped a rich harvest.
Not long ago, Cloud Heavenly Venerable had come to Black Mountain Holy Land to study; Lan Yutian taught him the new cultivation system, and when Xu Shenghua learned that he had obtained Taidi's Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven, he gave him the Taichu Prime Stone, which enabled him to master the power of the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven.
Cloud Heavenly Venerable planted that stone in the center of his brows. With it, rousing the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven was far easier, and he could calmly marshal the power of the Daluo Heaven's Dao Tree and Dao Fruit.
"Your Majesty surely does not know why Herdsman Heavenly Venerable insisted that I go to Black Mountain Holy Land. I learned a great deal there. Besides the new cultivation system, I also obtained this Prime Stone. And more crucially, Kaihuang Shen Ye is in Black Mountain as well!"
Cloud Heavenly Venerable vibrated the Taichu Imperial Sword, his face solemn, his eyes fixed on the tip of the blade. "In the Longhan Era, besides impersonating Herdsman Heavenly Venerable, I also impersonated Kaihuang. In the early years of Longhan I caught a fleeting glimpse, and from their battles I comprehended their divine powers and dharma arts; I can imitate the divine powers and dharma arts of those two so exactly that the false passes for the true! And in Black Mountain Holy Land, with Kaihuang himself, foremost man of the sword Dao, instructing me, the might of the Taichu Imperial Sword in my hand may exceed even Your Majesty's imagining!"
Swoosh —
Cloud Heavenly Venerable swung his sword; the tip of the Taichu Imperial Sword pointed slanting downward. Behind him, purple qi filled the heavens, dyeing the Divine Consciousness Daluo Heaven like a supreme realm cast of purple jade.