Chapter 1662 — The Talkative Giant Dragon Shall Not Be Enslaved
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At the very bottom of Guixu, the Sea of Chaos radiated boundless light, and within that light, the Guixu lotus seed that the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace had given to Shen Mu had, at this moment, cracked open. From within it emerged a rootstock covered in sharp thorns, and a single dark-red lotus leaf curled into a cylinder. The rootstock grew, the lotus leaf burst out of the Sea of Chaos, revealing its pointed tip.
Shen Mu's heart stirred faintly.
Ever since he had obtained this lotus seed, he had tossed it into the Great Abyss of Guixu within his spirit treasury and had never paid it any mind. He had not expected that this time, having obtained the Heavenly Emperor Hao's cultivation method from the human skin sent by Xing An, and having comprehended the Dao of Guixu that the Heavenly Emperor Hao had realized, it would actually take root and sprout just like this!
"Heavenly Venerable Hao and Xing An truly are my lucky stars! " The rooting and sprouting of the Guixu lotus seed could be said to have resolved the most critical link in his cultivation system!
Shen Mu gazed at the great abyss within his spirit treasury, and saw that single lotus leaf slowly unfurling, growing bit by bit, becoming larger.
The veins upon the lotus leaf were the Dao of Guixu, extending without cease.
Shen Mu's comprehension of the Dao of Guixu was in truth not inferior to that of the Heavenly Emperor Hao, nor even weaker than that of the Goddess of Guixu, Lady Yuanmu, and the Empress. He had once studied the physical bodies of Yuanmu and the Empress thoroughly, and all manner of Guixu runes had been unified by him through the microscopic and macroscopic arts of calculation.
Yet the true Dao of Guixu was not so simple.
The true Dao of Guixu in fact concealed the Dao of the universe's birth and destruction. Shen Mu had already accumulated many insights in this regard, but they were still insufficient to make the Guixu lotus seed grow.
The Guixu lotus seed contained the complete Dao of Guixu, and how to induce it to sprout was the matter of utmost importance. This time, comprehending the Heavenly Emperor Hao's cultivation method had precisely filled in the missing link. Although that Guixu lotus leaf grew within the Sea of Chaos, floating upon the surface of the sea, it was not stained by any chaos qi, not touched by any dust, spotless and flawless.
As the lotus leaf grew, another lotus leaf also emerged from the Sea of Chaos, and then a flower bud revealed its pointed tip from within the Sea of Chaos.
Twin lotuses on a single stem!
As the lotus leaves and lotus flower grew, all manner of profound principles of the Dao of Guixu came rushing into Shen Mu's mind in a throng. Among them was concealed the profound principle of the wind of heat death, the other extreme opposed to the Ultimate Void.
But the wind of heat death was only one among them; the most important was still the wondrous principle of the universe being destroyed into chaos and being born again from chaos! He comprehended ever more deeply, and gradually seemed to fall into the withering and flourishing of his own self.
His aura withered and decayed at flying speed, and the power of Guixu within his Primordial Fetus spirit treasury grew ever stronger, devouring Youdu, devouring the Yuan Realm, devouring all the heavens and myriad worlds, dragging Xuandu in as well, plunging the universe of his spirit treasury into heat death!
In the end, the Ancestral Court too was collapsing, falling ceaselessly into Guixu. At last, everything within his spirit treasury returned entirely to chaos. The heavy chaos qi was like an ocean, and only the twin lotuses on a single stem and the World Tree remained. Even his Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court were all buried within the chaos of Guixu!
Not only that, but thirty layers of void were hidden within his spirit treasury, and these voids were annihilated together with it, utterly erased!