Chapter 1799 — Seizing Life Through Control
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
And before her Xu Shenghua stood where he was, halos of samsara spilling ceaselessly from between his brows.
The Empress had fallen into his Samsara art — not an illusion of the divine consciousness, but a samsara of the mind. His Dao of Samsara was not so deep as Shen Mu's, and the Empress had cultivated the Dao of Samsara too; to sink her into samsara was extremely difficult, and he must first suppress the Empress's own Dao of Samsara.
So he used the Samsara art to cultivate other consciousnesses within the Empress's mind, and at the same time drove the art without pause, making her fall deeper and deeper into samsara.
At the side Lan Yutian still strove and clashed with the Empress. Though she had fallen into samsara, when she slew Yuanmu and Taichu within it she was in fact using divine arts.
Those arts would be unconsciously executed by her body, so Lan Yutian must guarantee Xu Shenghua's safety and block them.
Xu Shenghua, dividing one mind to two uses, roused the five ore veins within his divine treasury and tried to imitate the Red Rope Knot Seal with his own Dao arts.
The Red Rope Knot Seal was a Dao art of Miluo Palace, its power rooted in the Hongmeng rune. The Hongmeng rune had been copied by Wei Suifeng and sent to Jingping; many had studied it, but few could cultivate the Hongmeng rune, let alone Hongmeng primordial qi.
To cultivate the Hongmeng rune, one must first cultivate the Taiji, Taisu, Taishi, Taichu and Taiyi runes, advancing layer upon layer.
And the same was true of Hongmeng primordial qi.
When Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian founded the Ancestral Court Dao-realm system and cultivated to the World Tree, they had been obliged to cultivate the Five Tai runes and turn them into the five Tai ore veins.
Here Lan Yutian's attainment was the deepest, but Lan Yutian must block the Empress's unconscious attacks; so only Xu Shenghua could execute the Red Rope Knot Seal.
The Golden Ship of Salvation tore into the air and rose, carrying the three of them higher and higher, rushing into layer upon layer of void, bound for the Ultimate Void.
Suddenly space secret realms unfolded one after another, snatching at the Golden Ship of Salvation; the Dao Tree of the Hall Master of Joy stood ahead. This Hall Master had by now descended fully into the Seventeenth Epoch, and the Dao wound Lord Shang had left on her had healed; she had regained the bearing of a Hall Master.
Her art erupted, and the Golden Ship of Salvation could not fly into the Ultimate Void at all, but could only weave through the various spaces formed by her Great Dao.
Suddenly the Moon Heavenly Venerable's qin music came; the melody rose and fell, and cut apart the Hall Master of Joy's art.
Space became blades: thirty-six levels of formless blades chopped at the Hall Master of Joy.
The Hall Master of Joy sneered; countless leaves flew from the Dao Tree, turning into one Hall Master of Joy after another, surging at the Moon Heavenly Venerable from all sides.
Her arts swept over the golden ship and dragged it back again.
Every Hall Master of Joy transformed from a leaf of the Dao Tree wielded a different art — such was her strength!
The Moon Heavenly Venerable plucked a stirring note, and in every direction space-facets stood in ranks; suddenly within every space-facet were thirty-six heavenly palaces and seventy-two treasure halls, becoming a vast and towering Great Heavenly Court.
Beneath the Great Heavenly Court the figure of Jiang Baigui emerged, charging out from those space-facets to do battle with the Hall Master of Joy. Tens of thousands of Hall Masters of Joy wielded tens of thousands of different arts, and tens of thousands of Jiang Baiguis broke them with tens of thousands of different moves.
The clash of two beings who cultivated the Zaiji Void was a splendid sight indeed.