Chapter 1684 — Clash of Players
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Thump!
Lady Yuanmu and Ling Tianzun, one behind the other, slammed down onto a lotus leaf at the very bottom of the Great Abyss. Lady Yuanmu had still failed to kill her, and she could not help a rising sense of exasperation.
The two women stood, one at the left end of the lotus leaf, the other at the right.
Ling Tianzun's expression remained as calm as ever. Every attack Lady Yuanmu launched at her seemed utterly immaterial. To kill her was, indeed, no easy matter. Once, the Fourth Prince of Miluo Palace had possessed the chance, but Kaicheng Shen Ye had warded off that disaster in her place.
To kill her, unless an existence at the level of a Miluo Palace prince made a move, there was simply no possibility at all.
Lady Yuanmu watched her with wary eyes, while Ling Tianzun surveyed her surroundings, her gaze at length coming to rest on the twin lotus blossoms standing here and there. She said in surprise, "This is Guixu? Who would have thought so many deep mysteries are hidden within!"
She studied those twin lotus blossoms one after another. Above this stretch of Chaos Sea there were no fewer than seventeen Great Abysses of Guixu, corresponding to seventeen universes.
These seventeen universes had come into being in a definite sequence, and yet here in Guixu that very order of cause and consequence seemed not to exist.
For ordinary people, such a state of affairs was beyond comprehension, but for Ling Tianzun, it was simplicity itself.
To her, the essence of a universe was mass and energy; the seventeen universes were merely seventeen states of mass and energy.
And the Great Abyss of Guixu was an unchanging point, from which all seventeen states could be observed at the same time. It bore a kinship with her divine art of the Unchanging, only it was far more profound.
"This is another point of the Unchanging in the universe, apart from the Great Black Mountain."
Ling Tianzun murmured to herself: "The World Tree of the Great Black Mountain became the model for the Dao trees of all accomplished ones precisely because of its unchanging nature. An accomplished one's Great Dao is branded into the ultimate void in the form of a World Tree, holding out the hope of surviving the great tribulation of cosmic annihilation. And Guixu is another point of the Unchanging. By rights, a path to attainment should also lie hidden here..."
Lady Yuanmu felt a shiver run down her spine.
When she had met the Second Prince of Miluo Palace here, the Second Prince had told her that another path of attainment existed—the very nature of the Guixu Goddess—and that only an ancient god born in Guixu could accomplish it.
Little did she imagine that Ling Tianzun, no sooner had she arrived, would detect the existence of another path of attainment, and would see through the principles of both the World Tree and the Guixu paths at a glance!
Such endowment and insight truly defied heaven!
"This kind of attainment requires cultivating the Dao of Guixu and planting a lotus in the chaos. Easy to say; in practice, a little troublesome."
Ling Tianzun tilted her head and thought for a moment. "It does not seem especially troublesome, either..."
A smile hung on Lady Yuanmu's face as she said softly, "Sister Ling, if you say it is not troublesome, then how does one achieve this Guixu attainment? Tell me—do you think this lady has already achieved it?"
Ling Tianzun cast her a glance and shook her head. "You have not. The road you walk is only the traditional method of Dao-tree attainment. And yet your Dao of Guixu clashes with the ultimate void, so you can never bring a Dao tree to maturity. Your path has gone astray."
Lady Yuanmu's aura stopped dead. She was the most powerful existence in the world today—no one had ever dared to say to her face that her path had gone astray!