Chapter 1074 — The One Who Rewrote the Laws of Realms
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
And at this moment Shen Mu finally broke through the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Sword Heavenly Palace; before long he broke through the Southern Heavenly Gates of the Martial Dao and Creation Heavenly Palaces as well, leaving only the Painting Dao unbroken.
"Hierarch, the destination is nearly here!
" came Dragon Qilin's voice. Shen Mu opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbid qi, and withdrew his Painting Dao primordial spirit from the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Painting Dao Heavenly Palace, pressing no further.
His painting dao was still far inferior to Kuisou's; even if he held on, he had no full confidence of breaking through this Southern Heavenly Gate and becoming a true god of the painting dao.
"Three elder brothers, the Ancestral Court is nearly upon us; let us go out," Shen Mu said to Dahong and the others.
Dahong, Gu Xiao, and Luo Xiao came forward, each turning his eyes on Shen Mu, and each showed astonishment. The Shen Mu of this moment was greatly changed from the Shen Mu of some months before; the aura he gave off carried a strange Dao resonance, and standing there he seemed cut off from the world.
It was as though a universe were stored within Shen Mu's body, sealed away from the universe outside, and within that inner universe were its own heavenly and earthly Great Dao, its own cosmos and primeval chaos.
"His path of cultivation is absolutely unlike that of other divine-power users and gods!
" Gu Xiao and Dahong thought to themselves.
Shen Mu's path of cultivation was unique.
Before the Longhan era there was no such thing as realms at all; in the long ages from the extinction of the Creator race to the founding of the Heavenly Court in the early Longhan years, it was the age in which the demigod races waxed mighty.
In that span people did not cultivate; bloodline alone decided strength.
Whose bloodline was stronger and whose lineage finer, his power stood higher.
In that span the children of the ancient gods ruled the races of the world, and demigods such as the Langxuan Divine Emperor and the Ancestral God King were the foremost among them.
Around the early Longhan years, the Seven Heavenly Venerates created the seven realms of the Divine Treasury; the Yutian Venerate died, and Shen Mu, improvising upon the spot, comprehended the art of longevity by which one becomes a god, and together with the Haotian Venerate passed down the seven realms of the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Court realm to the world. Only from then on was there any talk of realms.
Therefore it was no exaggeration to say that the realms were created by Shen Mu together with the other Heavenly Venerates.
Many in later ages never thought of this, and rashly measuring Shen Mu by realms only led them to false conclusions about his cultivation and strength; no few gods and demons had died by his hand for that very reason.
To the people of the early Longhan years, the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace cultivation system established by Shen Mu and the Seven Heavenly Venerates had not yet sunk into their hearts; the demigods and other races of this era cultivated the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system mostly in order to win longevity like the ancient gods. The demigods cultivated the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palaces only for long life; bloodline was what decided strength.
Yet in the long ages that followed, more and more people would discover the power of the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system, and bloodline theory would gradually be pushed to the margins.
Bloodline no longer stood for strength; this was a subversion of the demigods and the ancient gods, and so the upheaval of the Longhan era was called the Longhan Revolution.
What it revolted against was the demigods and the ancient gods.