Chapter 1432 — Crossing the Tribulation and Shattering the Pass
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Shen Mu's heart clenched at once; the mighty one from the previous cosmos had cast out his greatest lure!
Divine Emperor Langxuan's dream was to stand first among the Ten Heavenly Venerables, to become a being who had attained the Dao, and yet the Dao Fruit of the mighty one within that coffin had offered something more precious even than his dream: to live on into the next cosmic era of the future. If Langxuan but submitted to him, he would not merely become first among the Ten Heavenly Venerables and rise as a Heavenly Emperor, branding his Great Dao upon the Ultimate Void and lodging his divine consciousness there; he might even escape death when the cosmos perished, and live another cosmic year. How vast was that temptation?
Shen Mu truly feared that Divine Emperor Langxuan would accept it and become the running dog of a mighty one from the last era. Then Shen Mu said suddenly, 'Divine Emperor, now that we have come into this fragment of the Great Luo Heaven from the prehistoric era, why not walk about a while? ' Divine Emperor Langxuan's eyes flickered as he looked at him, and Shen Mu's gaze met his in turn.
Divine Emperor Langxuan nodded as though moved by some ghostly hand, and smiled.
'Indeed.
The Great Luo Heaven is the place we once dreamed of reaching. This is not the true Great Luo Heaven, only a fragment, but even a glimpse of it is better than none.
' The two left that giant coffin behind and walked on side by side.
Shen Mu studied the fragment of the Great Luo Heaven in fine detail, then touched that stretch of void with his hand; when he pressed his palm lightly, a palm print appeared in the Great Luo Heaven fragment, and only after a long moment did it slowly fade. He then stirred his vital essence and tried to brand a few runes of the Great Dao upon it. To his surprise they took hold upon the Great Luo Heaven, though before long his brands vanished.
But while his Great Dao runes were branded there, he felt his Dao heart merge with this fragment of the Great Luo Heaven, a feeling that the heart of Heaven was his own heart! More than that, he felt something stranger still. With the runes of the Great Dao branded upon it, he felt that his Dao endured forever, coeval with the cosmos!
The heart of Heaven is my heart; my Dao endures forever — such is the wondrous virtue of the Great Luo Heaven. Yet it was a pity that when he sought to perceive it in fine detail, his Dao heart seemed to turn utterly foul and turbid, leaving him unable to sense the mysteries of the Great Luo Heaven at all, and the feeling of the heart of Heaven being his heart and his Dao enduring forever faded away with the brand.
Shen Mu tried branding with his divine consciousness; that too would take hold, and just as quickly vanish. A most peculiar feeling rose in his heart: the Great Luo Heaven was like a seal-ink pad that could restore itself, one that could be molded into different shapes.
But this was only a fragment of the Great Luo Heaven.
What was the true Great Luo Heaven like?
Could it be branded in such a way as well?
Divine Emperor Langxuan too was trying to probe the mysteries of the Great Luo Heaven, but even one as formidable as he could not make his Great Dao stay branded there forever. His Dao heart was poorer and his Dao realm shallower, yet his strength was so immense that his brands lasted longer than Shen Mu's. 'The Great Luo Heaven of the Ultimate Void is truly wondrous.
I can feel that if I brand my Great Dao here, I shall be eternal and indestructible.
Even if I am slain, my flesh destroyed, my divine consciousness destroyed, my primal spirit destroyed — even if everything of me is destroyed — still I shall not die. ' Divine Emperor Langxuan was full of feeling.
'That the Great Emperor could die without truly perishing is owed to the working of his Great Luo Heaven of Consciousness. Kai Huang Shen Ye was remarkable indeed.