Chapter 655 — The Star Lord's Riddle
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The First Ancestor Human Emperor drew a long breath, planted his feet at the stern in no tidy stance, and said in a low voice: "One against one, we may yet have a battle in us! Since it is hard to escape the Great Sun Star Lord's tracking and pursuit, then we may as well wound him gravely, so that he dare not give chase!
" Shen Mu watched the ever-changing sun, dazed.
Then suddenly he took out his Sun Jade Eye at speed, studied the jade eye, then gazed off at the sun again, and blurted: "Is the one coming really the Great Sun Star Lord? " "It is the Great Sun Star Lord beyond all doubt! " Chi Xi tossed the Zhentian Tower above the tower-ship, entered it, and went straight to the thousandth floor.
Taking down the tower's guardian treasure, Chi Xi said in a low voice: "Apart from him, no one has the power to command the sun's might! " Shen Mu's mind was somewhat disordered. He murmured: "But why are most of the formation structures of my Sun Jade Eye identical to this sun's formation structures.
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. ? The jade eye is a treasure from the Qushan Shrine of the Supreme Emperor's era, and the Great Sun Star Lord should have existed as far back as the Longhan Era, no?
Why would he deploy formations of the Supreme Emperor's era. . . " Ling Yuxiu said: "The Great Sun Star Lord lived through the Supreme Emperor's era. He could have learned the formation arts and divine abilities of that era.
What is there to be astonished at? " "No, that is not it!
" Shen Mu shook his head: "Divine abilities depend upon the Way.
Once one's own arts are fixed, one essentially continues along one's own road, and learning another's divine abilities and arts can never reach the peak in any case. The Great Venerable is one example. " Ban Gongcuo, furious beyond measure, shouted: "Shen, when you give examples, could you have some regard for other people's feelings?
You and I are in the same boat, after all! " "The Great Venerable originally cultivated shaman arts; in shamanic divine abilities he was a grand master rarely matched in the world.
His attainments in soul and primordial spirit remain rare even today. Yet he divided his mind, and went off to learn the Daoist sect's Dao and sword, the Buddha dharma of the Great Thunder Bell Temple, the arts of the Celestial Sage Sect, the arts of Little Jade Capital, until his own abilities became merely passable. " Shen Mu went on analyzing, lost in his own reasoning: "If I were the Great Sun Star Lord, I would learn the formations of the Supreme Emperor's era, but I would alter them, making them best suited to myself. Yet the Great Sun Star Lord has made almost no alterations at all.
That is unreasonable. And moreover, from what Senior Chi Xi and the First Ancestor say, he is a sacred one born from the sun, which makes it even more impossible that he would learn the divine abilities of the Supreme Emperor's era. Because he simply could not learn them! " Ling Yuxiu was baffled: "Why could he not learn them? " "He was born from the sun, and the great Way within him is already fixed. A change of arts begins with a change of divine abilities: change the divine ability and the art changes; change the art and the Way changes.
" Shen Mu explained: "The great Way within the Great Sun Star Lord does not change.
If he goes to learn altered arts and divine abilities, he naturally cannot master them. Like Tu Bo. Tu Bo too is an innate sacred one, and he should be unable to learn King Yama's arts and divine abilities.
" Far off, the sun's formation had taken shape. Suddenly a beam of incomparably thick light burst through the bonds of space and shone toward the tower-ship! The beam passed a star, and in an instant that star was pierced through, a great hole torn in it.