Chapter 1520 — When the Youth Was Down and Out
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He had passed the method of forging these divine mirrors on to Jingping, and there the cultivators of the painting dao made their living by it, forging divine mirrors and selling them to others under the name Qiankun Mirrors—meaning that they held heaven and earth within.
Shu Jun aimed his Qiankun Mirror at the dao-patterns on the walls of the Miluo Palace. Within the mirror, the image of that dao-pattern slowly unfolded the pattern's internal details; then the details multiplied, and the speed at which the inner details emerged grew faster and faster, dazzling the eye.
Shu Jun's expression shifted slightly. In but a brief moment, the details revealed within the Qiankun Mirror had already filled the entire cosmos inside the mirror!
Suddenly, with a crack, the Qiankun Mirror split in two—burst apart by the infinite details unfolding from that dao-pattern!
Shu Jun's heart ached as though it were being carved out. This was merely one dao-pattern on the wall of the Miluo Palace, and it had already burst his Qiankun Mirror. Yet the dao-patterns here were beyond counting. Did that not mean they could only watch this endless treasure with their eyes, and gain not a single one of them?
Wei Suifeng chuckled and took out a Qiankun Mirror of his own. "How long has it been since the Divine King returned to Jingping? You have not met the Painting Sage, have you? This mirror of mine was forged for me by the Painting Sage himself," he said softly.
"Forged by the Painting Sage himself?"
Shu Jun's face showed envy. The Painting Sage of whom Wei Suifeng spoke was Kui Sou, honored as the Painting Sage, who had entered the Dao through calligraphy and painting and cultivated the Painting Dao Heavenly Palace.
"My junior brother likewise learned his painting dao from him, and mastered only three or four tenths of his skill."
Wei Suifeng aimed his Qiankun Mirror at the dao-patterns on the wall and went on, unhurried, "When I met him, he had been invited to lecture at the Wendao Academy, so I shamelessly pestered him until he forged me two Qiankun Mirrors. These Qiankun Mirrors hold heaven and earth within, with layer upon layer of his painting-dao heavens. That mirror of yours cannot compare with them."
Shu Jun leaned in to look. Within the Qiankun Mirror the Painting Sage had forged himself, the dao-pattern likewise unfolded endless details, and the details revealed by this single dao-pattern swiftly filled the cosmos inside the mirror!
"Do not go on—the mirror will burst..."
Scarcely had Shu Jun spoken when suddenly, within the cosmos of the mirror, another cosmos came into being, continuing to reflect the infinite details of that dao-pattern!
Shu Jun gaped. The second heaven within the Qiankun Mirror was swiftly filled with the details of the Miluo Palace dao-pattern, and then within the Qiankun Mirror yet another cosmos was born, continuing to reflect those details.
After a moment, this bright mirror had, astonishingly, eighteen layers of heaven and earth within it—and all eighteen layers were stuffed to the brim with the details of a single dao-pattern!
And still the details of that dao-pattern were not fully revealed!
Wei Suifeng's expression changed slightly. He hastily turned his hand and took out the other Qiankun Mirror Kui Sou had forged, aiming it at the mirror that had been filled!
The two Qiankun Mirrors reflected each other, and at once mirrors within mirrors appeared; in a twinkling, countless images of Qiankun Mirrors came into being within the two mirrors!
Strangely, each layer of the mirror images contained eighteen layers of heaven and earth within it, and no matter how many details that dao-pattern possessed, they could not fill those countless mirror images!
"The Painting Sage's skill is truly godlike!"