荒墟牧神 - 第744章 素衣坦蕩少俠遊 - 雲海書庫

is your turn." Shen Mu called several times before Haotianzun came back to himself. He forced a smile and began to expound the dharma, taking up where Shen Mu's method of opening the Heavenly Palace left off, but he was somewhat distracted, and as he spoke on, he faltered. "After the Elder Brother's borrowed method opens the Heavenly Palace, one has already become the equal of gods, deathless and ageless. But this is only the first, preliminary attainment; behind it lie layer upon layer of trials. For this is a borrowed dharma, borrowed from the ancient gods and the Heavenly Court, and it must be repaid, or calamity will follow. The first trial at this stage is the Southern Heavenly Gate; only by crossing the Southern Heavenly Gate does one truly settle the Heavenly Palace realm." "This step is: borrowing the dharma of the Heavenly Court, refining the false into the true!" ... Haotianzun quickly steadied his mind and set forth the cultivation method of the Southern Heavenly Gate realm, as Yutianzun had told him. Haotianzun had never cultivated to the Southern Heavenly Gate, nor had Yutianzun; but Yutianzun, as the opener of the Heavenly Palace, had laid down all these realms in one sweep, and his understanding of them had reached a frightening height. Haotianzun was merely repeating Yutianzun's words. Shen Mu continued, beginning to expound the cultivation of the Jade Pool realm; after the Jade Pool, Haotianzun took up the perils of the God-Slaying Terrace realm. Then Shen Mu gave the profound secrets of cultivating the Jade Capital realm, after which Haotianzun spoke of the Lingxiao realm. At last Shen Mu finished the realm of the Imperial Throne, and the seven great realms of the Heavenly Palace were told. Kaihuang's heart sank: "With the seven great realms of the Heavenly Palace told, Mu Qing will surely make his move and kill, will he not? He has already confirmed his identity as Yutianzun, and in the name of Yutianzun he will point out that Haotianzun and Yintianzi are the murderers who killed him. The furious crowd will tear Haotianzun and Yintianzi to pieces! But Yintianzi did not die, so what happened in the interim? Who exactly died? What upheaval took place..." He had barely thought this when Haotianzun's voice came from the divine altar, laughing: "The Elder Brother has left the final realm for me to expound, so I shall reluctantly take it upon myself. Now let us speak of the realm above the Imperial Throne: the Heavenly Court..." Kaihuang's mind roared; his eyes went wide, disbelief written on his face! An eighth realm! There was even an eighth realm! He had never so much as heard that above the Imperial Throne there lay a Heavenly Court realm! Niu Sanduo's mind also roared, blank and empty; from ancient times to the present there had never been any record of this realm, not even a whisper of rumor had ever been heard! "Yutianzun..." On the divine altar, Shen Mu's face was bleak, and he said silently in his heart: "Worthy of the true Yutianzun. I still cannot compare to him; his death was too great a pity... A man like that should not be buried by history!" Haotianzun, on the divine altar, spoke in fits and starts, full of errors and omissions, yet the general framework had been given: the Heavenly Palace was only one palace-hall of the Heavenly Court; within the Heavenly Court there were thirty-six Heavenly Palaces, and the realm beyond the Imperial Throne was the forging of the Heavenly Court, the opening up of the thirty-six Heavenly Palaces! Once one reached the Heavenly Court realm, it would be an immense ascent and leap for the divine-powered, a leap in kind! Yet of this Heavenly Court realm there was not the slightest word in later ages; clearly it had been lost. When Haotianzun finished, he said with a blush: "Gentlemen, it is not that I deliberately speak unclearly, but that the Elder Brother told me he himself had never opened up this Heavenly Court realm. Elder Brother, is that not so?" Shen Mu rose to h