Chapter 1383 — The Peerless Divine Eye
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" From the ore vein of the Ancestral Court within his Primal Fetus Divine Treasury, he dug out Tai Yi's two chaos eggs, took one of them, and, circulating his mana, stuffed it into his third eye. Tai Yi had not told him the outcome he wished to know, and so there was a certain measure of spite in this act, even though the chaos eggshell was of no use whatsoever to Tai Yi.
He set the chaos eggshell in place, and the Lord of Earth moved next, striking out with the horn of origin and driving it into Shen Mu's vertical eye.
Then, with a light flick of his hand, the radiating striations spun like gears and came to rest one after another. Shen Mu took out the Taiji primordial stone; it flew into his vertical eye and became its pupil.
The Lord of Heaven followed close behind, filling the anterior chamber of his vertical eye with the Heavenly Way crystal and imprinting it again and again with his own cultivation of the Heavenly Way. The Lord of Earth said in a low, heavy voice, "Heavenly Venerable Mu, rouse your pupil—I will lend you my strength!
" Shen Mu did as he was told and roused the pupil of his vertical eye. At once the Taiji primordial stone within the pupil began to turn, and the two qi of yin and yang revolved faster and faster until they became the Way of the Taiji.
At the same time, the Lord of Earth roused the sixty-four Great Ways of the Dark Capital, imprinting them again and again, and together with the Lord of Heaven raised the power of this vertical eye of his.
How long passed, no one could say; at length the two divinities each dispersed their mana and stepped back, and the yin and yang qi diffusing through Shen Mu's pupil gradually settled.
This eye brimmed with the breath of the Heavenly Way, the Great Way of the Dark Capital, and the Way of the Taiji; a single eye, and yet its power and its might felt in no way inferior to a Heavenly Venerable's treasure. The Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth looked delighted.
The Lord of Heaven said with a smile, "Heavenly Venerable Mu, how does the power of this divine pupil feel?
Can it match the divine pupil you once had? " The Lord of Earth was eager as well.
"Why not rouse it and let us see for ourselves the power that comes of joining the strength of the Lord of Heaven with that of the Lord of Earth? " "Very well!
" Shen Mu shook off the dejection of moments before, closed both his eyes, and roused only the vertical eye at the center of his brow. The vertical eye opened, his mana poured into it, and first of all he roused the power of the chaos eggshell.
The Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth waited a while, yet the eye showed no sign of movement at all, and they could not help but grow doubtful. The Lord of Heaven cleared his throat.
"Heavenly Venerable Mu, you may rouse the power of this eye now.
" Still Shen Mu gave no response.
The Lord of Heaven reminded him once more, and saw that Shen Mu was utterly at a loss. He murmured, "I am blind.
.
. This eye of mine sees nothing at all!
Only chaos, and nothing but chaos!
" The Lord of Heaven and the Lord of Earth were startled, and hurriedly examined their work.
The iris and the crystal they had refined for Shen Mu were flawless, the Taiji primordial stone was flawless—and yet Shen Mu saw nothing at all.
Not only that, but tendrils of chaos qi were seeping out from the depths of his pupil, gradually plunging the Great Way of the Dark Capital into chaos, and the Heavenly Way soon sank into chaos as well—vast, boundless, and utterly turbid. "Could it be the doing of that eggshell?
" Neither divinity had any idea what to do. The Lord of Heaven ventured, "Heavenly Venerable Mu, what if you were to dig out this eye, take out that eggshell, and replace it with the other Taichu eggshell? " Shen Mu hesitated.