Chapter 1328 — Twenty-Four Tiers of the Mystic Realm
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His unleashing of divine abilities grew slower and slower. Gradually, the divine abilities harboring the Way of the Grand Simplicity were drawn out of him, and then he attempted to create divine abilities of the Way of the Great Ultimate and the Way of the Great Beginning as well.
"Grand Simplicity suddenly splits the chaotic bud; the Great Ultimate evolves and yin and yang proceed!"
"The Great Beginning's form and substance questions the blue void!"
When Shen Mu unleashed this final move, he suddenly felt his mind go utterly blank. Divine ability and Dao method had nothing left to sustain them, and at once he awoke from the state of entry into the Way.
He was in the thirtieth void. Now that he had awakened, the void's immense power immediately came crushing down. Shen Mu's fleshly body began to dissolve madly, his body cracking apart and crumbling.
He acted on the instant, fleeing from the thirtieth void at once!
It was the first time he had delved so deep into the void, and doubt and confusion filled his heart. "Strange — how did I end up here? The thirtieth void is not a place I could possibly reach..."
He retreated swiftly to the twenty-ninth void, but the void's power was still immensely strong, beyond what his fleshly body could endure.
If he had still possessed the primordial stone of the Great Origin as before, his primal spirit could barely have reached this place, though it could not linger long. Now, without the primordial stone of the Great Origin, the strength of his primal spirit was far inferior to what it once had been, and reaching such a perilous place was utterly impossible!
Had he been clear-headed, he would never have taken such a risk, gambling his life to breach such high void. But when he sank into the state of comprehending the Way, he had no such misgivings.
In the instant he retreated from the thirtieth void to the twenty-ninth, he lifted his head and gazed upward, trying to see into the deeper strata of the void, yet he could see nothing at all, and could not help feeling some regret.
"I wonder what the ultimate void truly holds..."
He retreated from the twenty-ninth void to the twenty-eighth, and only then did he feel somewhat better. But the twenty-eighth void was the limit of his primal spirit; his fleshly body was far from being so formidable.
Without the primordial stone of the Great Origin, the weakening of both his primal spirit and his fleshly body was indeed severe.
Shen Mu descended from void to void, and when he came to the twenty-third void, the void's damage to his fleshly body finally dropped to its lowest point.
He could not help wiping cold sweat from his brow. To have come muddle-headed to the thirtieth void had been far too perilous.
Now that the peril had passed, he at once began savoring what he had gained during his entry into the Way.
Ever since that last time, when Xu Shenghua had spurred him into the Way and he had comprehended the ninth tier of divine ability, the Void-Form Guest of the Great Ultimate, his accumulation had deepened day by day, and his understanding of the Way of the Great Ultimate, the Way of the Grand Simplicity, the Way of the Great Beginning, and the Way of the Great Origin had grown ever more exquisite.
His knowledge of the Taigu, Longhan, Chiming, Shanghuang, and Kaihuang eras had also grown ever greater, until at last, both history and his understanding of the Way were transmuted in this single entry into the Way into divine abilities uniquely his own.
"From the ninth tier of divine ability, I vaulted in one leap to the twenty-fourth tier — one could say my cultivation in the Dao realm has come directly to the level of the twenty-fourth tier."
Shen Mu could not help but marvel. This entry into the Way — the benefits the primordial stone of the Great Beginning had brought him were simply too great.
Yet the final three tiers were not complete.
Grand Simplicity suddenly splits the chaotic bud!
The Great Ultimate evolves and yin and yang proceed!