Chapter 1266 — The Rising Star Surpasses His Predecessors
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
Tai Di did not truly turn his spirit consciousness into the Great Dao; rather, he borrowed the nature of spirit consciousness to visualize the Great Dao of heaven and earth! This already belonged to the level of creating the Dao in the void!
"Tai Di's arts indeed spring from the same source as those of Heavenly Emperor Taichu — both are derivations of the Taichu Dao!
The Innate One Qi and the Dao of spirit consciousness both belong to the Taichu Dao!
" Amid the light strings, Shen Mu was in a state of extraordinary excitement, listening to the zither music rung forth by the fluctuations of the divine abilities, when he suddenly said: "Heavenly Master Bai, can we draw closer still? Many of the Dao rhythms are too faint to catch. " Bai Yuqiong hesitated, then shook her head: "Any closer, and I fear we would exceed what this lantern can bear.
When that happens, I will not be able to protect you either.
" Lan Yutian pleaded: "Elder sister, just a little closer?
" Bai Yuqiong looked at the two of them, and her heart softened.
Biting her pearly teeth, she said: "Very well, a little closer then. But not too close, or I will not have time to escape either.
" Shen Mu glanced at Lan Yutian, and a trace of sorrow rose in his heart: "I am, I suppose, a pearl gone yellow with age — I can no longer pass myself off as young. Heavenly Venerable Yu, though, can keep at it; this time Bai Yuqiong agreed to move the light strings only for his sake.
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" As a youth who had walked out of Yincan Village and studied under the Pill Master, he had once been devastatingly charming to young girls — but that was all in the past.
Now people took Heavenly Venerable Mu for a sinister, cunning schemer, deep and calculating; even if he put on a cute expression, the girls no longer believed it. Bai Yuqiong moved the lantern, and the light strings moved forward with it.
To the two of them she said: "Brother Lan, though I am a disciple of Master Yue, all I have learned are the arts Master Yue possessed several hundred thousand years ago. Master Yue founded the Dao of Space; there is no place in all the world she cannot reach — but I cannot. I long to take her as my master again, yet I have many misgivings.
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" Lan Yutian blinked his big eyes and asked curiously: "What misgivings? " Bai Yuqiong glanced back at Shen Mu, and said nothing. But Shen Mu understood: Bai Yuqiong feared that the friendship between Heavenly Venerable Yue and the South Emperor Vermilion Bird would make her awaken once more, rousing the South Emperor's soul within her.
Bai Yuqiong had her own selfish concerns and her own considerations; she could not be blamed for that.
Bai Yuqiong sensed that the lantern was nearing its limit, and the zither music had grown much clearer; she stopped at once and said: "We can go no further.
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I have always been cautious by nature — how is it that upon meeting you two brothers, I dare take such perilous risks?
" She did not know whether to laugh or cry. Even as Shen Mu watched from afar the battle between Tai Di and Heavenly Venerable Hao and the Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable, and listened to the Dao rhythms carried in the zither music, he measured them against his own insights and gains, and his understanding of the Innate One Qi deepened further.
Tai Di's spirit consciousness transformed into the Dao; at a single stir of his spirit consciousness, the Great Dao was born.
Nor was that all — his Great Dao spread through his whole body, raising his flesh to a most terrifying state; even Heavenly Venerable Hao, controlling the Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable, could not withstand the force of the Great Dao bursting forth when faced with his steel fists! Boom— A dreadful wave of force rolled out, shaking the light strings; and at the heart of the battle, in Tai Di's every movement the Great Dao was whole and heaven-born, and the Divine Artifact Heavenly Venerable fell back again and again under his oppression.