Chapter 1212 — The Plain Maiden Descends to the Dust
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
" "Taiyi has no form, no state, no substance, no qi; he can become any of the ten thousand things, can appear in any age of history, can take the shape of any person.
He was also the first ancient mine god to be born in perfection, and his realm is already beyond all understanding. " The Taisu Divine Stone had now been utterly spent, yet the egg fluid in Shen Mu's belly had dwindled by only a tenth, and he could not help frowning. "Then so be it — before I leave the Ancestral Court, I will first pay a visit to Gong Tianzun's mine vein and collect my tenth of the Taisu Divine Stones.
" He turned about and set off toward the Taisu Mine Vein. In the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains, the woman Taiyi, the Dragon Qilin, and Yan'er finished patching the black mountain that had split open, then carried their buckets off — when all at once the woman Taiyi halted and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Taisu, greetings. " Scarcely had she spoken when a tall woman, cold and aloof, her face like ice and frost, stepped out from the shadow of a black mountain, dark-blue radiance behind her shifting between void and solid, impossible to seize or fathom. Yet the radiance of her Great Dao was not whole; it was riddled with great gaps — a piece missing here, a section lost there.
The goddess frowned slightly and said, "My name is Taisu? " "That is what people will call you hereafter. " The woman Taiyi smiled.
"The reason I took a woman's body was to meet you. Between women, words come perhaps more easily.
" The goddess Taisu cared nothing for any of it. "Fellow Daoist, your kindness is noted. Fellow Daoist, this Mu Tianzun runs wild and does evil — why do you still tolerate him?
What he has done, how overbearing it is!
He destroyed my divine egg, ruined my cultivation, robbed me of my primordial fluid; this hatred cannot share the same sky with him!
We were born of the same source — you ought to aid me!
" The woman Taiyi smiled. "Fellow Daoist, you and I are both innate divinities; we are the Dao itself, and once mortal thoughts take root, one's cultivation sinks the lower.
Why haggle with him over every trifle? " Taisu shook her head.
"You have already attained the Dao — that is why you can be so magnanimous, so aloof.
But the chance for me to attain the Dao has been shattered, and I will never tolerate him!
We divinities are destined from birth to be the lords of heaven and earth, the rulers of the universe.
Look at Fellow Daoist Taichu — what glory he has, what vast divine powers! If you have ambitions, you must fulfill them; if you have hatred, you must wash it away in blood.
Otherwise, what use is all this power? " The woman Taiyi frowned. "The deeper one wades into the world, the farther one drifts from the Dao. Fellow Daoist Taisu, the mortal heart in you is too heavy; I fear it will be a great obstacle to you.
" Taisu said coldly, "Fellow Daoist, in skill and divine power I cannot match you, but you must not bar my way. This hatred I will surely repay!
" The woman Taiyi urged her: "You and Taishi plotted together how to seize the world, how to rule all the heavens and ten thousand realms, how to root out those who differed from you. It is because that cause was planted that you reap this fruit today. Why go on being wrong? " Taisu's expression shifted a little, and she said in fury, "The place where Taishi and I conferred was within that boy's eyes — even he did not know of it, yet you knew. Your divine powers are indeed unfathomable.
But since you knew of it, you must also have known that calamity would force me to be born ahead of my time. Why did you not stop him sooner?
Fellow Daoist, you are too partial! " Furious, she laughed and flicked her sleeve.