Chapter 1417 — The Banners Change Atop the City Wall
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Kaihuang halted his steps and said with a cold laugh, "Quite apart from anything else, being one of the founding five elders is enough to seat me among the Heavenly Venerables. But I am more than that. I founded the Dao Realm, making up for the deficiencies of the Heavenly Palace realms — establishing the Dao in the postnatal! The Dao Realm I founded, joined to the Heavenly Palace realms, lets the thirty-six heavens of the Great Dao be imprinted upon the ultimate void: so long as the universe endures, I endure!"
His palm pressed the sword hilt; he drew the blade with a fierce wrench of his arm, sword-light brimming to the heavens.
Shhhk —
The radiance of the Carefree Sword filled the Heavenly Court. Before the Southern Heavenly Gate there rose thirty-five heavens, from the Taihuang Pingtian Sword and the Taiming Qitian Sword to the Sword Domain of the Shangqing Realm and on to the Sword Domain of the Yuqing Realm, laid bare before every god and sage in attendance!
Thirty-five heavens of sword domain — the sword way, and nothing but the sword way — yet it displayed a might in no way inferior to the thirty-five layers of the Heavenly Palace. From the lowest heaven upward the aura of the sword way grew ever denser, until at the Yuqing Realm domain the sword way had almost turned to substance, so that all who cultivated sword arts, sword techniques, or the sword way felt themselves gazing up at a peak too high to climb, seized with the urge to bow down in worship!
The instant those thirty-five heavens of the Dao Realm appeared, the divine weapons of everyone present began to ring of their own accord, clinking and chiming and giving off wave upon wave of divine might, as though those weapons trembled before the summit of the sword way, shuddered, and bowed down to the sword domain!
This was a phenomenon such as even the Ten Heavenly Venerables had never produced!
Behind Kaihuang, the thirty-five heavens of the Dao Realm blazed brighter and brighter, ever more soul-shaking; his words were swords, aimed at the heart of the Dao — at the heart of the Dao of every god and sage!
Even the Heavenly Venerables could feel a keen blade leveled straight at the weak point in their hearts of Dao.
Kaihuang said calmly, "The Dao Realm I founded is not the same as what the so-called Ten Heavenly Venerables possess. My Dao Realm is not merely the founding of a new method of cultivation, making up the deficiency of the Heavenly Palace's cultivation system; it is likewise a road by which the postnatal overcomes the innate!"
"Such shameless boasting!"
The nine Heavenly Venerables frowned, and before any of them could speak, Shen Mu had already slapped the armrest of his throne and shouted sternly, "Heavenly Venerable Shen, you boast too wildly! To dare claim that you have made up the deficiencies of the Heavenly Palace's cultivation system — it is nothing but you blowing your own trumpet and gilding your own face! And as for postnatal overcoming innate, that is a boast without bound or limit, contemptible beyond words!"
Kaihuang laughed heartily, leveled his sword at Shen Mu, and spoke with words that shook the heart, vast and magnificent: "Heavenly Venerable Mu, the people of this world cultivate only innate methods; they do not cultivate postnatal divine abilities or the postnatal Great Dao. It is simply that they have not seen the principle that the postnatal overcomes the innate! Once my sword way is complete, I can imprint the sword way upon the Great Luo Heaven, upon the ultimate void: so long as the universe endures, I endure! By this path alone, may I not sit among the Heavenly Venerables?"