Chapter 1047
An Individual Without a Shadow
“Yes, the lord of Levelwater City is an Apotheosis Realm elder. Grandmaster told me the city’s defence compares to Formation Palace,” informed Zhuge Xiaosheng.
“Doesn’t that mean the city is a dao artefact?” Mu Yu remarked.
“What… is a dao artefact?”
“You have never heard of the term? Our Formation Palace and Pill Cauldron Sect’s Revealing Cauldron are dao artefacts. Xiaoshuai, you remember the text we figured out in Revealing Cauldron? Read it out for Patriarch.”
“That hala bala text? Let’s see… Dao begets one. One begets two. These two forms produce four phenomena. The four phenomena act on the eight trigrams. Yin and yang are the origins of dao. Thoughts must manifest in the mind for them to take form. One more was… Dao is natural. The nine heavens’ dao artefacts are the universe’s guardian. The five elements’ spiritual artefacts beget all things. Prior to the world being named, it was called Mother of All. I have no idea what I just recited. All I remember is, ‘Heaven’s long-lasting reign ends at dawn. The spirit Shadow God binds isn’t part of the five elements’. The last sentence is a reference to me.”
Mu Yu exclaimed, “I get it now. Yin and yang are the origins of everything, exist in dao artefacts and gift it to the mind. Yin yang qis refers to Primordial Ying Yang. I wasn’t sure what it meant since we hadn’t met Dahei and Dabai when we first saw the text. Thinking back on it now, it’s dawned on me that ‘The nine heavens’ dao artefacts are the universe’s guardian. The five elements’ spiritual artefacts beget all things,’ means there are, at least, nine dao artefacts in existence, and all of them have Primordial Yin Yang. Dad is the owner of Revealing Cauldron. I’m the owner of Formation Palace. The five spiritual artefacts refers to this.”
Mu Yu summoned Wood Spirit Sword to his hand. “Shadow God refers to Shifu. The last sentence should actually be understood as ‘Shadow God’s spiritual bind isn’t part of the five elements’, the ‘bind’ referring to you. Heaven’s reign refers to celestial preservation energy found in the nine immortals. When there are less than nine, the world ends, meaning ‘primordial’ ends.”
“What purpose does this knowledge serve?” Zhuge Xiaosheng inquired.