Chapter 1091 — The Last Lesson Before Parting
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Suddenly something occurred to him, and a flicker of doubt stirred.
Right now Ling Tianzun, Yue Tianzun, and Yun Tianzun were all absent from the Xiaohan Heavenly Court. What on earth had happened, that all three Heavenly Venerables should be sent out together?
Yun Tianzun and Yue Tianzun were one thing; their strength was unfathomable. But Ling Tianzun was hardly known for her fighting power. In truth, her cultivation realm had always been low.
The last time Shen Mu had met Ling Tianzun, she had been no more than a True God.
To her, the height of one's realm meant nothing; what mattered was the study of her own divine abilities.
That Ling Tianzun too was absent from the Heavenly Court meant the matter was urgent and grave.
The Heavenly Dragon Treasure Chariot halted. Shen Mu slipped quietly into the Xiaohan Heavenly Court and found Ling Tianzun's dwelling, where a host of little bamboo horses were still sorting through scattered manuscripts. Her residence remained a scene of utter disorder, a chaos of clutter.
At the sight, Yan'er could not help but relapse into her old ailment, and busied herself tidying up for Ling Tianzun.
Shen Mu helped sort the books and drafts as well, and all at once came upon a stack of drawings. He froze.
He leafed through the stack at speed. Ling Tianzun had drawn a young woman, along with all manner of creation runes.
"Langwo!"
Shen Mu's heart skipped. Yet on closer inspection, he confirmed that what Ling Tianzun had drawn must be Langwo in her maiden years.
The Langwo of that time was lovely of form, pure and brimming with vitality; a single glance set the heart pounding, stirring the feeling of being in love.
Compared with the Creator Langwo of her girlhood, the later Divine King Langwo was more beautiful still, yet her heart had grown cold by degrees, with less feeling and more reason.
Ling Tianzun's brushwork had not attained the Way of Painting, yet she had captured the girl's beauty all the same. Clearly this was not the first time she had seen Langwo.
Shen Mu steadied himself and looked through the other drawings. Most of them were covered in creation runes.
Beyond these, he found another kind of drawing: the blueprint of an artifact of immense size and staggering complexity.
Shen Mu scanned it quickly, his expression grave. "A creation artifact!"
This was not a mere artifact. It was a structure, an edifice of one!
The creation artifact was colossal beyond measure and monstrously intricate, a leviathan that pushed the Way of Creation to its utmost limit!
"Could this creation artifact be the very one that will stand in the Zaofu Heavenly Palace of later ages? The one Lady Yuanmu used to create Yun Chuxiu, and the Ten Heavenly Venerables used to forge the artifact Yu Tianzun?"
Shen Mu mused. The blueprint was extraordinarily complex, and judging by the materials it required, there was no divine gold or divine iron in all the world capable of forging a creation artifact. Not even treasures such as Guixu Abyss Iron or Tianyin Gold would do.
Guixu Abyss Iron and Tianyin Gold both harbored a natural dao-rhyme and possessed attributes of their own, whereas forging a creation artifact demanded a divine metal wholly devoid of attribute, so that the Way of Creation might be pushed to its absolute limit!
"No wonder Yun Tianzun went to the Zhaoyang Hall to steal treasures. Beyond the Taidi Seal and the Taidi Altar, his aim was to find a treasure that could perfectly accord with the Way of Creation. Such a treasure could indeed only appear in the Ancestral Court."
He saw yet other drawings: the consciousness runes contained within the Taidi Seal and the Taidi Altar. Ling Tianzun had deconstructed both, and from them had comprehended the runes of divine consciousness.
Though the Creators of the Primordial Era possessed mighty consciousness, they had never developed it along the path of runes; of the runes of the Great Dao they knew nothing at all.