Chapter 1283 — The Transformation of Zero and One
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They all gazed at the Great Dao cocoon. A road had been hacked through it by the inner demons of Mu Tianzun, yet the air that seeped from it was still heavy with menace.
For all their numbers, those inner demons had never fought their way down to the deepest heart of the cocoon, and this venture of theirs would surely be fraught with deadly peril. The crowd steadied their nerves, and then Heavenly Lord Xi burst into laughter.
"Wen Ji. . .
Wen Tian'ge is a loyal minister and a man of honor, utterly devoted to the Heavenly Court, a servant beyond reproach!
Then let Brother Wen lead the way into this great cocoon.
What say you, Brother Wen? " The woodcutter said flatly, "Since that is so, I shall naturally lead the way for you all.
" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The woodcutter's cultivation was not high, but his wisdom was beyond measure, and he alone could unravel the killing traps hidden within Heavenly Venerable Hao's Great Dao cocoon. The woodcutter stepped forward first, entering the mouth of the cocoon, and studied the Dao-pattern threads upon it.
These silken strands were the overflow of the Great Dao that Heavenly Venerable Hao had shed while unconscious. "These Dao-pattern threads must be because Heavenly Venerable Hao's wounds were too grave. His flesh could no longer contain the Great Dao of heaven and earth, and it became a burden to him, so it was expelled from his body.
" The woodcutter murmured on: "Judging by the delicate structure of these threads of the Dao's grain, the Dao-pattern threads are formed from his heavenly palaces. Different heavenly palaces make different Dao cocoons. This is the first layer of the Dao cocoon.
" The others followed him, listening as though lost in fog.
The Dao-pattern threads had taken the form of cocoons. Many inner demons of Mu Tianzun had already died here; the group walked past their corpses. In their efforts to break open the Dao cocoons, the inner demons had suffered grievous losses.
Strangely enough, those inner demons had themselves been spun into cocoons, hanging upside down along the passage. The group avoided the corpses; some of the inner demons were not yet dead, their bodies pierced through by the Dao-pattern threads of the cocoons, their eyes glaring at the passersby.
"Heh. The little look of Mu Tianzun.
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" Lü Zheng laughed. They had not gone far before they indeed came upon the second layer of the Dao cocoon.
The Woodcutter Sage continued his careful examination. The cocoon had been hacked open by the inner demons, who had forced a passage straight to its depths. "Judging by Heavenly Venerable Hao's cultivation realm, his Dao cocoon should be divided into thirty-five layers.
But Heavenly Venerable Hao is the son of the Heavenly Emperor and Lady Yuanmu; the Heavenly Emperor's Innate One Qi and Lady Yuanmu's Great Dao of the Returning Abyss, he has mastered them both. " He looked at the inner demons of Mu Tianzun wrapped into cocoons and hung upside down in the passage, his expression grim, and said in a low voice, "The Innate One Qi is one, so the Returning Abyss Dao is zero. One, zero, zero, one. .
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there must be some trick to it.
" "Wen Ji, you thief, are you up to this or not?
" Heavenly Lord Xi could not help himself and shouted, "If we don't press on, and Heavenly Venerable Hao recovers—" He said no more. The Red Emperor, Qi Xiayu, her eyes flickering, gave off clouds of radiance like a nine-hued phoenix, and when the glow dispersed she had changed both her clothes and her face.
Upon her head she wore a circlet crown; she was dressed in short sleeves and a black skirt, hung all over with trinkets of every color, like a village girl of the western lands of the Yuan Realm, utterly unrecognizable as her former self. Heavenly Lord Xi was alarmed, and changed his own appearance as well.