Chapter 1532 — The Finest of Swords
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A domain was mastery of laws, and having reached this step, the divine ability users and gods and devils of the world felt only that no road lay ahead, that the path had reached its end.
Yet above domains there lay a still deeper road of cultivation, for the Founding Emperor built his sword domains layer upon layer, and upon the road toward the Ultimate Void, the ultimate domain of sword Dao, the Sword Dao Great Luo Heaven, remained unperfected, so that until the final moment even he did not know what scenery lay above domains.
Wei Suifeng and Prince Youming had glimpsed something deeper from a single Dao pattern in Miluo Palace, but they had never spread it abroad.
Now, as the heavy treasures of prehistoric beings disintegrated within the Nine Heavens of Dao Fire, all present beheld still more profound secrets of cultivation.
The masters of these treasures Shen Mu had gathered had not attained the Dao, yet many had touched its edge, and no few had walked even farther than the Founding Emperor.
As their treasures melted in the Dao fire, they broke down from deep Dao realms into Dao chains and Dao patterns and Great Dao runes, a revelation of great启迪 even to the Founding Emperor. And yet even Great Dao runes kept dissolving in the Dao fire, turning into the purest spirit power and spirit qi.
Within the Dao fire, Heavenly Artisans swung great hammers, beating that spirit power and spirit qi into the molten slurry, while formation masters struck in turn, branding Shen Mu's runes and Dao patterns and domains.
The scene left even the Four Ancient God Emperors staring tongue-tied, for of those melted treasures, not one was weaker than a Celestial Venerable treasure, and some were stronger.
Any single piece brought forth would likely yield nothing to the Founding Emperor's Worry-Free Sword.
More crucial still, such treasures numbered over a hundred.
To produce one or two would be one thing, but to bring forth so many at once was wealth that even the Four Ancient God Emperors combined could not match.
"So many treasures melted down could fill a whole sea," Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon shook his head and murmured, "What sword could need so much divine material?
Such a sword simply cannot be forged, with so much divine gold and divine stuff, to use even one part in a hundred would be fine.
" Hearing this, the Founding Emperor raised a brow, drew the Worry-Free Sword, and said lightly, "Does the Eastern Emperor know how much divine gold and divine material went into this sword of mine?
" Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon studied the Worry-Free Sword, seeing a blade some four feet long, and supposed such a sword could not have taken much material, yet the fame of the Worry-Free Sword was widespread and its might terrifying, for the Founding Emperor had once borne it into the Celestial Court, fought the Heaven Alliance, and beheaded Celestial Emperors.
Such a treasure could never have been made from a few catties of divine gold.
"Within this sword of mine lie hidden thirty-three heavens, its body hollow, able to hold the whole of Worry-Free Village inside.
" The Founding Emperor sheathed his sword and said lightly, "When Li Youran forged for me, the divine gold and divine material he used piled more than mountains high. Even several hundred great mountains would not refine such a sword.
Eastern Emperor, the Dao of casting has already become a Great Dao, not something you can fathom.
" Eastern Emperor Azure Dragon fell sullenly silent. With his temper, had any other man spoken to him so, he would long since have raised a hand to destroy him, but since the speaker was the Founding Emperor, he could only listen.