Chapter 1248 — When the Youth Becomes an Anomaly
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Shen Mu, though he had only just entered the gate himself, had already formed his own understanding of the true Great Dao of Reincarnation, and knew why the Yin Son of Heaven could only ever be a Son of Heaven, and never a Heavenly Master. For the true Great Dao of Reincarnation demands that the Daos of Youdu, of Tianyin, and of Creation be deduced to their utmost limits, carried to the very pinnacle of the pinnacle, before the true Great Dao of Reincarnation can be brought forth, and only then may one become a Heavenly Master.
Of these, the Dao of Youdu holds sixty-four paths, the Dao of Tianyin twelve; while the Dao of Creation was founded by Ling Heavenly Master and developed by the Two Emperors of Chiming, its systems far more numerous by far. The Two Emperors of Chiming, one master of the creation of the primordial spirit and the other of the creation of the fleshly body, were already Emperor-throne powerhouses of the highest order, yet beyond the creation of spirit and the creation of body, a whole host of other creations had never been developed at all.
The Yin Son of Heaven's opening of the Dao of Reincarnation was a work of dazzling brilliance, to be sure, but to hope to open the true Great Dao of Reincarnation without having fathomed these greater Daos was a thing all but impossible to accomplish! "The Yin Son of Heaven's talents are too slight to bear up his ambition.
Yet if even the Yin Son of Heaven has such talents, then what of the Ten Heavenly Masters? " Shen Mu's heart turned heavy.
If such was the Yin Son of Heaven, how terrifying must the Ten Heavenly Masters be, whose learning surpassed his? The Ten Heavenly Masters had made their moves, it was true, but none had ever loosed his full strength, none had ever shown his true capital; after a million years, what had each of them achieved?
Hao Heavenly Master above all.
Hao Heavenly Master was the Yin Son of Heaven's master, and the Yin Son of Heaven was utterly loyal to him; the Fire Heavenly Master, too, was fiercely loyal to Hao Heavenly Master.
And Hao Heavenly Master was moreover one of the very few among the Ten Heavenly Masters who also belonged to the Nine Heavenly Masters of Longhan. So just how far had Hao Heavenly Master's true strength advanced?
"I must reassess the Ten Heavenly Masters, and above all Hao Heavenly Master's strength. " Shen Mu halted, sought out a secluded place, and entered the Dao in dream, madly deducing the Dao of Reincarnation.
Though in the Daos of Youdu, of Creation, and of Tianyin he surpassed the Yin Son of Heaven by a great margin in every regard, and had even deduced the Yin Son of Heaven's Dao of Reincarnation, still, deducing the Dao of Reincarnation inside his dreams proved beset by enormous difficulty. Within his dreamscape, countless tiny Shen Mus lived and died, revolving onward through reincarnation without cease; slow was his progress, yet he gained something for all that.
Imperceptibly, within his Divine Treasury, the Demonic Dao Heavenly Palace, the Creation Heavenly Palace, and the Tianyin Heavenly Palace resonated one with another; the dark primordial spirit, the primordial spirit of Creation, and the Tianyin primordial spirit sensed one another, and the great Daos conversed, converged, and merged.
Gradually a new Heavenly Palace came slowly into being, and a new primordial spirit evolved by degrees.
After who knew how long, the foundation of this new Heavenly Palace was laid, and as his Dharma of the Dao of Reincarnation deepened, a thousand palaces and ten thousand halls went on adding brick and tile of themselves. The Southern Heavenly Gate, the Northern Heavenly Gate, the Eastern Heavenly Gate, the Western Heavenly Gate rose slowly, ever higher.
Within the Divine Treasury the Heavenly River bent its course and ran straight through this new Heavenly Palace.