Chapter 1593 — Forged a Thousand Times Yet Undying
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
He owed Hong Tianzun a favor, but Hong Tianzun could not produce the IOU, so he turned his face and denied the debt.
" At this, Kaihuang could not help but shake his head. "He is too unrefined. Back then, when he summoned Hong Tianzun's soul, Hong Tianzun's body beyond the body was most likely summoned to death as well.
That body beyond the body was at best of the Jade Pool realm—how could it withstand his divine ability? When Mu Tianzun summoned souls in the Tianyin Realm, the body beyond the body in Jingping had its primordial spirit leave the flesh and died a wrongful death.
In all Mu Tianzun does, he never leaves a single drop unaccounted for—only, he is too unrefined, utterly without propriety.
" Yun pondered a moment and thought to himself, "Emperor Kai seems to bear no small resentment toward Mu Tianzun. " Though he sat in the Daluo Heaven and, by means of the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness, knew all that passed in the world, he did not know what had happened in the Land of No Sorrow; and Shen Mu's rampage through the Land of No Sorrow was far more than a mere lack of refinement. Yun went on, "The Grand Emperor had his limits.
His divine consciousness was imprinted in the Ultimate Void; when he learned the Dao arts and divine abilities of later ages, those arts were hard to imprint in the Ultimate Void—and whatever cannot be imprinted there may be called unlearnable. What is more, his primordial spirit was outside, trapped in the Immutable Divine Ability, and only his divine consciousness remained here. In these years, what he learned can be counted on the fingers of one hand; the Mystic Art of Creation is one of the few he could master. But I am different. " He said mildly, "My primordial spirit is right here, and my cultivation art is peculiar: my Violet Empyrean Azurefall Art can blend the strengths of a hundred schools. What he could not learn has in the end profited me. But I too have a weakness—I have no fleshly body.
" He sighed.
"The fleshly body is the root of the Dao. As the saying goes, when the body dies the Dao is extinguished: let the body die and the cultivation dies with it. Though at our stage the Dao is not extinguished when the body dies, without a fleshly body it is hard to advance and impossible to raise one's cultivation, and so to this day I am still at the Imperial Throne realm.
" He himself did not know what stage his cultivation had reached, and said, "Yet I also possess the Dao Tree, and the Dao Fruit besides. I can feel that I seem to have attained the Dao, and yet seem not to, and so I am forever caught between gain and loss. Perhaps only when I return to a fleshly body will I understand my own realm. " Kaihuang said, "Your fleshly body has already been rescued by Mu Tianzun. He must be carrying it on his person, hidden in the vertical eye at his brow. There is no need for you to seek a new body.
That vertical eye of his is extraordinary; even with Hao Tianzun's strength, he cannot damage that eye. " Yun said, sick with worry, "But now Mu Tianzun has been carried off by Hao Tianzun, his life or death unknown. .
. " Ling's brows were locked as well. "He is fine. " Kaihuang spoke light as wind and cloud.
"To force our way into the Heavenly Court would only make Xiao Tianzun and Hao Tianzun join hands—we do not have that strength. But I must make a trip to the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, to guard against Hao Tianzun sinking him into the Long River of Chaos. Apart from the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court, there is nowhere under heaven able to take his life. " He flickered and was gone.
Yun hastily called him back. "Shen Tianzun, this golden ship! " "Let Ling keep it for now; when he returns, give it to him. " Kaihuang turned into a streak of sword light and flew far away.
Yun studied the World-Ferrying Golden Ship.
Shen Mu had been taken by Hao Tianzun, and the golden ship had been left here.