Chapter 1649 — The Number Forty-Two
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In the last golden hall of the Golden Ship of Deliverance, Shen Mu reached out and lightly touched that Dao flower. The Dao flower revolved and cut his finger.
"The Dao flower is still here.
.
. The Dao flower is still here. .
.
" Shen Mu murmured, as if he felt no pain at all. "You told me that we would meet again in the Chaos Hall in the future.
What did you mean? You should still be alive, right? Possibly still alive. . . " The sword blade inside the Dao flower turned, giving off a tinkling sword chime, as if responding to him. Shen Fengqing and Taishi entered the golden hall; their gazes fell upon the Dao flower, and Taishi asked doubtfully, "Is this Kai Huang's Dao flower?
" Shen Mu nodded. "I still do not understand exactly what is going on. How could Kai Huang's Dao flower survive the Fourth Young Master of the Miluo Palace's attack? That blow by the Fourth Young Master of the Miluo Palace was aimed at Ling Heavenly Venerable.
Its power was enough to erase Ling completely.
The power of that zither string alone was enough to destroy Kai Huang utterly, leaving nothing behind. Yet this Dao flower was preserved. . .
" He mused, "There should be some power I have never noticed that protected Kai Huang's Dao flower and left him a thread of life.
This person's arts are immense.
. .
Chaos Hall, Chaos Hall. .
. What place is this?
" He was somewhat bewildered.
Shen Fengqing swiftly made a circuit of the treasure hall without finding Kai Huang's "ghost. " His face showed astonishment, and he said distractedly, "Little brother, I clearly saw the old ancestor's ghost. Strange—if it is not here, where could it be?
" "Are you sure it was him? " Shen Mu asked.
"It was definitely him!
" Shen Fengqing said. "I absolutely cannot be mistaken!
That bearing, that presence, and that sword path—it was definitely him!
" Taishi hesitated for a moment and said, "His features were also his. But we could not touch him; we could only pass through his body.
. .
" Shen Mu pondered, pacing back and forth, and murmured, "Why can we not touch him?
Could he be in the Immutable state?
" He thought of Ling Heavenly Venerable's experience.
Back then, when he had rescued Ling Heavenly Venerable and left behind the Miluo Palace Dao patterns, he, Kai Huang, and the others had remained in the Divine Sense Great Luo Heaven to battle the Great Emperor. Ling Heavenly Venerable cast a spell, sending them forty thousand years into the future, while she herself stayed forty thousand years in the past. At that time, there were two Ling Heavenly Venerables—the one in the real-world perspective and the one trapped in the Immutable divine ability of the Heavenly River. Both were in an unobserved state. If anyone's gaze fell upon Ling Heavenly Venerable, she would collapse, and the Ling Heavenly Venerable trapped in the Immutable divine ability of the Heavenly River would become the sole true reality. This is the uniqueness of matter under observation.
In the unobserved state, Ling Heavenly Venerable had two possibilities: one living in the real world, the other dying and being reborn endlessly in the Heavenly River. Only Ling Heavenly Venerable herself could break this state, and at that time she was absorbed in studying the Miluo Palace Dao patterns, waiting for the arrival of Shen Mu's era. She had broken it only once, when she met Kai Huang. Hence, over the length of forty thousand years, Ling Heavenly Venerable had almost never appeared. "Kai Huang may also be in such a state. " Shen Mu paced as he pondered.