Chapter 1508 — Good Luck and Great Prosperity
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
After the Wind of Heat Death passed, they left the withered tree. Wei Suifeng looked around and saw that the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court was everywhere strewn with broken halls and toppled buildings; even the Dao patterns on these palaces and structures had been worn away until only faint, indistinct lines remained.
And among the broken walls and ruined ramparts there was chaos qi, exceedingly dense and heavy, like so many small ponds; Wei Suifeng even saw that this chaos qi had frozen solid!
Just as they passed by, from one frozen mass of chaos qi a wisp of white vapor curled upward, like a head whose features could not be made out, and breathed a cold breath at them.
Shu Jun hurriedly dragged Wei Suifeng away, fleeing for their lives from that cold wind, and said at a rush, "That is the Wind of Cold Death, a cold wind formed when chaos congeals. If that cold wind blows upon you, everything melts away and becomes Void!"
Wei Suifeng had no choice but to flee for his life with him. They had not run far when Wei Suifeng's expression suddenly went blank: ahead of them, in the Jade Capital City, a thousand palaces and ten thousand halls stood in ordered array; though utterly ruined, one could still make out the grandeur of former days.
Yet before each of these palaces stood a withered tree!
Dead Dao Tree after dead Dao Tree!
Hundreds upon hundreds of Dao Trees came into his view. Wei Suifeng swallowed with difficulty, his throat parched, so shaken that not a single thought remained in his head — only blankness.
Shu Jun led him at a run, and coming beneath a withered Dao Tree he stopped at once and turned to look at the oncoming Wind of Cold Death.
Wei Suifeng stood obediently at his side. Shu Jun said, "Do not touch it."
Wei Suifeng nodded obediently.
Shu Jun stared fixedly at the Wind of Cold Death, in a fever of alarm, and said without taking his eyes off it, "In those years the God King Boyang was our elder brother. His cultivation of divine consciousness was exceedingly strong... mm, a tiny bit stronger than mine. He relied chiefly on Long Xiao. He and Long Xiao joined hands to probe this Wind of Cold Death, and told us that when this wind blows past, all matter melts away, no matter moves any longer, and the particles that compose matter split without cease, until they can split no more. And when they have split to the smallest, the distance between every particle of matter is infinite..."
Wei Suifeng could no longer imagine such a state.
"This is the Void. Even the thirty-five layers of the Void are not so formidable as this Void."
Shu Jun, his hair a tangled puff atop his big head, licked his lips and said, "Boyang and Long Xiao guessed that above the thirty-five layers of the Void there is one more layer of Void, most likely the Void blown out by this Wind of Cold Death. He called it the Ultimate Void, and guessed that perhaps the Wind of Cold Death in this city is a fragment of the Ultimate Void, and that this wind is blown out by the ghosts who died in the Ultimate Void..."
The Void has the power to void. Any living being or substance that steps into the Void is voided.
This so-called voiding means that when a person steps into the Void, his body grows larger and larger, thinner and thinner, gradually changing from solid form into a void-body.
The particles of matter that compose the person are stretched further and further apart, until at last the whole person becomes a host of mutually unrelated particles that vanish into the Void.
This state is voiding.
The third heaven of Shen Mu's Dao Realm, the Great Luo Heaven's Gathering of the Circle into Completion, employed precisely the principles of the Void and of divine consciousness; it was a Dao Realm divine ability he had comprehended from the knowledge of the Creators.
Wei Suifeng stared blankly into the distance.