Chapter 1520 — When the Youth Was Down and Out
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Shu Jun's eyes went wide. Layer upon layer of mirrors within mirrors ceaselessly copied the details of the Miluo Palace dao-pattern, revealing more and more detail, while more and more of the mirrors within mirrors were filled to the brim.
Both men's scalps went numb. The knowledge held in a single Miluo Palace dao-pattern was so vast that it truly exceeded their expectations!
"If the Painting Sage's skill were cultivated to its peak, I fear it would be even more formidable than Divine King Gong Yun's illusion realms!" Shu Jun said in a low voice.
At last, the mirrors within mirrors no longer revealed more detail. At the very bottom of one of the mirrors, a rune-seal appeared.
This rune-seal was the core of the Miluo Palace dao-pattern!
Shu Jun and Wei Suifeng exchanged looks. There were too many mirror images; at this moment they could not make out that rune-seal clearly.
"The Painting Sage must be asked to act in person before the details of that rune-seal can be seen clearly."
Wei Suifeng studied the scenes in the two mirrors closely, and the corner of his lower eye twitched. He could not count how many layers of mirror images lay within the mirrors!
Shu Jun could not count them either, and beads of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
As for the steps by which divine abilities and dao arts are cultivated, they knew them well.
Divine abilities and dao arts first require an understanding of the dao-runes; dao-runes compose divine abilities, compose dao arts. And once one's accumulated store of knowledge reaches a certain level, one may gather dao-runes and cultivate a dao-pattern.
A dao-pattern is the grain and vein of the Great Dao, holding within it the mysteries of the Great Dao.
To compose divine abilities and dao arts from dao-patterns lends them greater power.
By and large, divine abilities of the dao realm are composed of dao-patterns.
But dao-patterns are not the summit. Only after cultivating a dao-pattern may one attempt to compose the rules of the Great Dao from dao-patterns, forming a domain.
To form a domain is to grasp the rules; and at this stage one has still not grasped the Great Dao.
The reason they are called the rules of the Great Dao is that the Great Dao lies above the rules!
That is to say, a domain may be a constituent part of the Great Dao.
Kai Huang's sword-dao domain had already reached as many as thirty-five layers. When a single sword flies out, thirty-five layers of sword domain overlap, each layer unlike the others, each expounding a different principle.
Only when he cultivated the sword dao to the thirty-sixth layer of sword domain would he be reckoned to have attained the Dao!
And now, a single dao-pattern on the wall of the Miluo Palace revealed a construction of such complexity, well-nigh infinite—and upon those walls there were countless different dao-patterns besides!
To what height the master of the Miluo Palace had attained, Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun simply could not imagine!
Wei Suifeng said, his voice hoarse, "A master of the Miluo Palace so powerful—can Tai Yi contend with him? Such a divinity must surely lie beyond the scope of those who have attained the Dao, must he not?"
At that very moment, a terrifying tremor suddenly came from within the Miluo Palace!
Both men's scalps went numb. Plainly Tai Yi and the master of the Miluo Palace had broken off their talks and come to blows!
Wei Suifeng turned his hand and put away the two mirrors, hiding them in his divine treasury. The two fixed their eyes upon the Miluo Palace. Within it, it seemed a world-cleaving giant was splitting chaos apart with a giant chaos axe, severing the primordial, hewing open with one axe a bright and limpid heaven and earth!
Yet another terrible tremor seemed all the more unfathomable. The tremor borne of Tai Yi's strikes still gave them a sense of something they could grasp, but the other tremor was beyond all grasping!
Boom—