Chapter 1714 — The Young Lord Descends
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Heavenly Venerable Yun stepped forward and roused the Taichu Imperial Sword.
The whole Taichu primordial stone at the center of his brow blazed with light; with a ding, the radiance of the Dao shone upon the Taichu Imperial Sword.
The power of the Dao of Taichu within the Imperial Sword rose steadily. Whoever holds the Taichu primordial stone commands the Imperial Sword; in those years, with the Great Emperor's primordial stone in hand and the Imperial Sword in his grip, even Taichu had been forced to submit and become his adopted son!
At the same time Heavenly Venerable Yun deployed sword dao through the Taichu Imperial Sword. Behind him his divine-consciousness Dao Fruit revolved, and thirty-six layers of divine-consciousness domains stacked one upon another!
His own art was the Zixiao Biluo Art, which excels at drawing sustenance from other arts; purple qi stretched ten thousand zhang, streaming and swaying behind him!
The variations of this single sword stroke, its power and might, were formidable beyond all expectation!
Heavenly Venerable Yun had fought Taichu twice. The first time he could barely hold his own against Taichu; the second time he was already Taichu's equal, and even took advantage of Taichu's inattention to snatch away his share of the Taichu primordial stone!
Heavenly Venerable Yun grew stronger with every bout, and now, in this test of Shen Mu's ability, he already commanded the fighting strength of a true Dao-attainer!
He could be called the man of highest cultivation talent of the Longhan era. Shen Mu and Heavenly Venerable Hao, in place of Heavenly Venerable Yu, had transmitted the method of attaining godhood—but that had only fixed the realms of the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Court; as to how each realm was to be cultivated, everyone was utterly in the dark.
All stood at the same starting line, and Heavenly Venerable Yun was the first to explore and grasp the Imperial Throne realm, and the first to cultivate his way to the Imperial Throne realm!
This sword of his was truly subtle beyond number, past all describing!
And yet, when the stroke came before Shen Mu, it met Shen Mu's finger.
That finger was the Hongmeng Finger: with the primal qi of Hongmeng it framed Hongmeng runes, forming countless transformations of runes intricate beyond measure, evolving the Five Primes, evolving the ten thousand daos of the heavens!
The pointing of that finger was like the birth of the cosmos: in an instant it passed through the transformations of the Five Primes, and thereafter gave rise to the ten thousand daos of heaven and earth.
Before, that finger of Shen Mu's had held no variation at all; it simply imitated the Miluo Palace's dao patterns upon the walls of Miluo Palace. But after Heavenly Venerable Ling imparted to Shen Mu what he had comprehended over forty thousand years, Shen Mu had at last taken it all in and made it his own!
The sound that finger gave off was no longer the splitting of air, but a bell-toll like a great bronze bell. With a boom, the shock rattled Heavenly Venerable Yun's steps, and he fell back again and again, shedding the force of the blow.
Shen Mu lifted his hand and looked at his finger: at the tip was a spot of bright red.
The Taichu Imperial Sword's might was formidable indeed; this stroke of Heavenly Venerable Yun's had actually broken through his Hongmeng Finger and pierced the tip of his finger!
When Jingping's talks with the Heavenly Court broke down, Shen Mu returned from the Ancestral Court and was waylaid by Taichu; the two fought within Taichu's Great Luotian of the One Qi, and there Shen Mu fell to the schemes of the Miluo Palace's Third Young Master. Aiming at his weakness, the Third Young Master had devised the great divine power of Hongmeng's Transformation into the Dao, and through the hand of the master of the Twenty-Four Treasure Halls had used it to reduce Shen Mu to the state of Hongmeng.