Chapter 414 — The Storm Approaches
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These four realms are four steps, and every step is hard, and the time each step takes to cross is exceedingly long. This creation of Shen Mu and Ling Yuxiu might well turn four steps into three, letting divine-power wielders press straight to the divine realm in far less time.
This was merit vast enough to stand on par with creation itself. There is no road in this world; when enough people walk it, a road appears.
A change in the system of cultivation brings changes in the arts and divine powers, and the great Dao of heaven and earth changes with it. How vast the upheaval their Primal Spirit Guide would set off, these two youths could not have foreseen.
Because the creation of a cultivation art is so hard, the realization it brings is profound; their Dao hearts had reached the level of grandmasters, and at this moment each had fallen into a sudden enlightenment of their own.
Imperial Preceptor Jingping's creation of the three basic sword forms had likewise made him a grandmaster in that instant, lifting his state of mind from technique to the level of method.
It was precisely such a transformation that Shen Mu and Ling Yuxiu were undergoing. They could only be said to have completed the art of the Primal Spirit Guide; how one might strengthen one's own primal spirit at the Six Harmonies realm remained a blank. Cultivating and strengthening the primal spirit was in truth a matter of the Seven Stars realm, and no art possessed a method for strengthening the primal spirit at the Six Harmonies realm, which meant that these two pioneers could take a step ahead of all others, comprehend for themselves the cultivation methods of the Six Harmonies primal spirit, and open up yet more methods besides.
"Emperor! " The Blind Elder suddenly kicked Emperor Yanfeng in the shin, all trace of jest gone from him, his face grave. "Have you sensed what change has appeared between heaven and earth?
" Emperor Yanfeng was about to fly into a rage; at these words he started slightly, sensed with care, and said in astonishment, "There is indeed a change, faint as though it were and were not, and very strange.
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" "Deaf Elder, Lame Elder, wake up, both of you, and sense the great Dao between heaven and earth with care! " The Blind Elder called over the Deaf Elder and the Lame Elder, and these two old men too sensed a faint fluctuation, like spring rain stealing in on the night wind, moistening things in silence, very light, very slow. "What has happened?
" the Deaf Elder asked in amazement. "The moment Shen and Princess Xiu created that art of the Primal Spirit Guide, this change came on all at once.
It is most uncanny.
" The Blind Elder said, "Sense it with care, both of you. The great Dao of heaven and earth seems to be undergoing a wondrous change in the unseen; the tremor is very faint, but it cannot escape my Dao heart.
" Lame Elder and Deaf Elder alike, and Emperor Yanfeng too, were grandmasters of the highest order. Lame Elder had comprehended the mystery of the divine leg on his own, bringing speed to the level of the divine through an art he had created himself, and his Dao heart was exceedingly strong.
Deaf Elder, for his part, had brought the Dao of painting to its utmost, until his painting could be called divine, could be called sage. And Emperor Yanfeng, relying on the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art, which was not reckoned especially outstanding, had at one stroke deduced that art to the very highest level, ranking it alongside the peerless lore of the three great holy lands; and the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art he relied upon was no more than a few primitive dragon-language characters from the Jade Register of the Heavenly Emperor.