Chapter 1582 — The Emperor First Tests His Edge
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In the sky, stars still fell unceasingly, smashing down toward them, but in mid-fall they crumbled and disintegrated, at last turning into Taichu qi of the chaotic state and merging into the flood that destroyed heaven and earth!
Lord Xiao's strength was too great. His was the Dao attained through force, and in sheer power Shen Mu had never seen anyone reach Lord Xiao's level!
Taichu qi is the one innate qi, born before heaven, existing before heaven and earth were divided; it evolved Taishi, evolved Taisu, evolved Taiji, until at last heaven opened and earth split, and only then was there a world.
Lord Xiao was now driving the Dao of Taichu to its utmost, returning this ruined heaven to the state of Taichu, swelling his own strength!
And at this moment sword light blazed upon the God-Slaying Platform, dazzling beyond compare; the instant it shone, Shen Mu felt the sword dao flourish and swell, present everywhere.
"The Great Luo Heaven of sword dao?"
Shen Mu's heart leaped, and he sensed at once that the source of this sword dao was nothing other than the Great Luo Heaven of sword dao!
Yet by Lord Xiao's own words, this age should be the time after the Supreme Emperor Era fell and before the era of Lord Kai was born.
That is, Lord Kai had not yet been born.
Lord Kai had attained the Dao forty thousand years later, imprinting sword dao upon the Ultimate Void, achieving the Great Luo Heaven of sword dao, cultivating the Dao Tree, blooming the Dao Flower.
In sword dao attainment, Shen Mu was already the first man under Lord Kai, and his senses could not err.
But in the age they now stood in, there was no Great Luo Heaven of sword dao. How then did Lord Kai possess one?
That sword light pierced the rolling Taichu qi in an instant. If Lord Xiao was returning this ruined heaven to the chaotic state and turning it into Taichu qi, then Lord Kai was opening heaven and dividing earth with his sword, remaking the world!
Lord Kai's sword dao had always been vast and majestic; the first sword by which he entered the Dao was the Taihuang Heaven-Pacifying Sword, and all thirty-six heavens of his sword dao were swords that opened heaven and divided earth!
Amid the Taichu qi of the chaotic state, thirty-five heavens appeared, and then one more supreme heaven appeared, steadying the millstone-like rotation of the chaos.
The next moment, the sword light burst; the chaos exploded, and amid a wave of utterly terrifying energy, a figure came hurtling backward, spilling blood the whole way!
The sword light vanished.
Lord Kai still stood upon the God-Slaying Platform. Their exchange had been earth-shaking in might, yet not the slightest wisp of that power had fallen upon the platform.
The God-Slaying Platform was already battered and broken; one more heavy blow and it would surely shatter. Yet Lord Xiao's heaven-shaking strike had been borne wholly by Lord Kai, and the platform was untouched.
Shen Mu hurriedly looked at Lord Kai, and saw blood at the corner of his mouth — plainly his wounds were not light, and he was faring poorly.
But the one who had been knocked flying, spilling blood the whole way, was not Lord Kai; it was Lord Xiao, who had seemed the stronger.
Lord Xiao's wounds were graver than Lord Kai's!
"I understand!"
Shen Mu's eyes lit up and he cried out in joyful astonishment: "I finally understand!"
Lord Ling did not know what he understood and looked at him curiously.
Shen Mu clenched his fists in high excitement and said nothing. Lord Ling tilted her head and thought: "By any reckoning Lord Mu is no longer young — why is he still so childlike?"
She gathered her hair and set her hairpin in place.
"Taichu — it is I who attained the Dao, not the Great Luo Heaven of sword dao."