Chapter 1737 — Wisdom Light Piercing the Nine Heavens
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The two figures, one great and one small, collided for the first time in midair, and in the fleeting instant of that first clash Lingguan at once discerned what set Xu Shenghua's Dao-realm domain apart. The thirty-six heavens Dao-realm domain Lingguan unleashed through his Dao fruit was outward-released, spreading wide, no different from the domains of other Dao Attainers and gods.
Yet Xu Shenghua's Dao-realm domain was inward-drawn, wholly contracted! Even in Shen Mu he had never seen such a use.
This alone revealed that their cultivation systems had turned diametrically opposite, and Xu Shenghua's way of cultivation was vastly different from Shen Mu's as well!
Outward release meant a broader shroud, and in warfare on a grand scale, once the domain unfolded, every being that entered would be affected.
Take Tai Di's supreme divine-consciousness domain for instance: spread open, to envelop a continent was child's play, and all within lay trapped in his domain, unable to struggle. An inward-drawn domain, by contrast, was centered within the cultivator's own body, and its shroud could naturally never be as vast as an outward-released domain; only after the cultivator's divine treasury was released would its scope expand. Xu Shenghua gathered his thirty-three heavens domain into one, hidden within his body and held without release, its cohesion powerful beyond imagining!
He cut into the ancient god Lingguan's thirty-six heavens Dao-realm domain, and the mighty power concealed within his body made it hard even for those thirty-sixfold domains to wound him! In the instant they collided, the two slipped past each other.
In the fleeting moment of parting, their divine arts shifted unfathomably, dazzling and indiscernible to onlookers, yet in each other's eyes every art of the foe stood vividly clear, and the Dao methods and principles hidden within each art were mirrored with perfect clarity in their hearts.
A brute like Shen Mu, when slaying an ancient-god clone of Lingguan, never sought to comprehend or dissect the marvel and skill of the clone's arts, but simply killed outright, yet Xu Shenghua was different.
He could savor the beauty of Lingguan's arts and the wonder of his Dao methods, and then break them.
When their forms had fully slipped past, they stood back to back, yet each one's arts still streamed unceasing toward the other! By the time the two separated, each alighting upon a mountain peak, they had already exchanged more than sixteen hundred kinds of divine arts, each bearing a different Dao principle, without a single repeated move. As their feet came down, two thunderous booms rang out, and the two Great Black Mountains were pressed sinking beneath their feet, splitting open.
The riven mountains were a passage for the prehistoric powerhouses seeking to steal through the World Tree into this world. The passage had been dark, but now light appeared to guide them as they stowed away into this universe!
Thud, thud, thud.
Xu Shenghua's body trembled faintly, and muffled booms sounded from within him; of those more than sixteen hundred blows, forty-nine had struck him, and now, once he landed, their power could no longer be suppressed and erupted from inside him!
Forty-nine wounds burst open across his body, blood streaming, but then the power of Taiyi Dao dew erupted, fully restoring the injuries to his flesh, divine treasury, and primordial spirit. Xu Shenghua turned.
"Xu Shenghua, you are indeed formidable!
" The ancient god Lingguan turned as well, and within his own body came a muffled boom as the art with which Xu Shenghua had breached his defenses erupted inside him. The ancient god Lingguan gazed at the slender wound upon his chest and could not help but praise: "Your arts shift in numberless ways, truly beyond my expectation.
I studied under Miluo Palace, and though the Lord of Miluo Palace never acknowledged me as disciple, all still call him teacher.