Chapter 1712 — The Empress and the Demon Sovereign
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The Empress's aura changed utterly, as though a great abyss of Guixu had come to stand there; space itself tilted toward her, and it seemed even the void would come plunging into her body!
To Heavenly Emperor Hao and the Lingguan Hall Master she felt immeasurably perilous — as though even their Dao trees, even their Daluo Heavens, could find no footing; as though by drawing even slightly near, their very cultivation would be swallowed whole, not a scrap left behind!
This was Guixu Dao-attainment.
In sixteen cosmic epochs, only one being had ever achieved it: the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace, Wuji. Across those sixteen epochs there had been no few Guixu goddesses who cultivated the Guixu path — ancient gods born within Guixu itself — yet not one of them had attained the Dao through Guixu. They bloomed briefly like a flower of the night and then vanished without a trace.
The Empress was the second to attain the Dao through Guixu.
"The master of Miluo Palace is the strongest, the most terrifying being of all!"
Heavenly Emperor Hao was shaken to the core. That the Empress could attain the Dao through Guixu was owed entirely to a single utterance of the Dao left behind by the master of Miluo Palace!
"Lady Yuanmu" had received the illumination of those Dao words, and at last grasped the crux of Guixu Dao-attainment!
For such a being, a single sentence could bring another to the Dao — how dreadful must he be?
More dreadful still: the master of Miluo Palace had never himself attained the Dao through Guixu, yet from the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace he had discerned the very essence of Guixu Dao-attainment!
Heavenly Emperor Hao's heart grew fervent again. If he too could attain the Dao through Guixu, then he would possess at once the Yujing method's attainment through power and the attainment through Guixu — an accomplishment that would surely stand first in the world!
And if he further attained the Dao through the Dao-realm, his strength would press hard upon the Hall Masters of the Seventy-Two Halls!
By then, why would he need to beg favors of the young masters of Miluo Palace?
He would rule all under heaven himself, hold his own against the invasions of Yujing City and Miluo Palace; he would be the Heavenly Emperor revered by countless multitudes — the one and only Heavenly Emperor!
His fame would be without equal!
"Congratulations to the Empress Mother on at last attaining the Dao!"
Heavenly Emperor Hao laughed aloud. "Empress Mother, might this Guixu Dao-attainment be taught to Us?"
The Empress's gaze fell upon him. Heavenly Emperor Hao smiled faintly and glanced at the Lingguan Hall Master.
The Empress's gaze could not help but fall upon the Lingguan Hall Master as well. Though she had now attained the Dao — the Guixu Dao at that — and felt a natural suppression over those who attained the Dao by entrusting themselves to the void, she knew that facing Heavenly Emperor Hao and the Lingguan Hall Master at once, she had not the slightest chance of victory!
She longed to strike this very moment, to subdue Heavenly Emperor Hao, to subdue Taichu, to become the first woman Heavenly Emperor in all history — yet with the Lingguan Hall Master present, she dared not act recklessly.
For though the Lingguan was headless, and Shen Mu had ruined one of his Dao fruits, he still had two Dao fruits and a Dao flower remaining; his strength remained unfathomable.
"This Palace comprehended the Guixu Dao-attainment from the Dao words of our brother of the Lingguan. It is only right that I give all I have learned."
The Empress said, "The method I comprehended is called the Mirror of Guixu. It dissolves one's own cultivation wholly into Guixu, evolving into primal chaos. The Pool of Chaos lies without a ripple, like a bright mirror. Refine this mirror, and one may illumine the original heart, and turn that heart into a single lotus seed."