Chapter 1110 — When the Hero Becomes the Evil Dragon
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
"Unraveling the Way of Taishi is no harder than creating, out of nothing, a divine ability like Material Immutability! If Heavenly Venerable Ling could create such an earth-shaking great divine ability, then I too can unravel the mystery of the Way of Taishi!
" He stood upon the head of the divine dragon he had visualized, closed his eyes, and actually fell into a dream. In the dream, thousands upon thousands of tiny Shen Mus surrounded the Egg of Taishi, listening to the Dao-sound that issued from it, savoring its Dao-rhythm, striving to record the wonders concealed in that sound in the form of runes of the great Dao.
"Maha.
. .
" One tiny Shen Mu propped up his chin, licked his brush, his face smeared black and white with ink.
"Guji! " Another tiny Shen Mu on the other side, exhilarated, wielded his brush like flying, recording the great Dao he had comprehended in the form of runes.
Before he knew it, more than ten days had passed. Shen Mu woke from the dream and put away the Egg of Taishi.
Ahead, the Heaven Court was in sight; the Egg of Taishi was a matter of great consequence, and no outsider could be allowed to learn that this ancient god's egg had fallen into his hands. These past days, entering the Dao through dreams, he had sorted out five Taishi runes—only the Way of Taishi was muddled and obscure, and whether these five runes were right or wrong he had no way to verify.
"I need to find the notes of Heavenly Venerable Ling that Eldest Senior Brother hid away, comprehend Heavenly Venerable Ling's divine ability, and then check the two against each other; only then will I know whether the five runes I have comprehended contain any error. " Shen Mu's head ached badly.
"Eldest Senior Brother isn't a squirrel that's cultivated into a spirit—why does he love hiding things so much?
" Verifying the five Taishi runes was of the utmost importance. Even if only one of them was correct, he could start from that single correct rune and gradually derive ever more runes.
All things are hard at the beginning.
To create something from nothing, to establish the 'one'—that was the most important solution of all!
Only with the one can there be two, three, four, five!
The Heaven Court drew near. Shen Mu altered his appearance—not assuming Mu Qing's face, but taking the form of a demigod to slip into the Heaven Court. The Heaven Court now had none of the grandeur of Longhan's early days. More than ten of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces had already left it, flying off to every corner of the cosmos, and many of the Seventy-Two Treasure Halls had departed as well.
The Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and the Seventy-Two Treasure Halls together made up the Heaven Court, and along with the Jade Capital, the Heavenly Street, the Heavenly Market and other structures they formed its main body; now, with so many palaces and halls gone, the Heaven Court looked riddled with holes. Moreover, the departure of these palaces and halls had carried off no small number of the Heaven Court's armies.
The Heaven Court had even sent troops to block them, and battle after battle between gods and demons had broken out, until everyone in the Heaven Court lived in fear and unease. Passing by the Jade Capital, Shen Mu saw from afar that the Great Sun Star Lord was like a dull-witted bird, squatting stupidly on the gate tower of the Jade Capital, wooden and blank, utterly without spirit; only after a long while did it flap its wings, yet it did not know where it ought to go.
"The day the Great Sun Star Lord takes an arrow in the back is probably not far off either," Shen Mu thought. He searched everywhere in the Heaven Court, but still found no trace of Dragon Qilin, Yan'er and the others. After those two rascals joined with the six heavenly dragons and made off with the Azure Sky Canopy of Colored Glass, no one knew where they had gone into hiding.
"They have most likely already extinguished the lantern and returned to the ghost ship.