Chapter 418 Eternal Dao (2/2)

The sword nets in the sky did not stop and all of a sudden it took a leap. They were broken down into countless small swords, directed at Chen Beidou.

The cliff shattered a little, and while a part of the sword river formed sword nets, the sword river was still endless. It seemed that Chen Beidou was in a pinch and there was nowhere to escape to.

He never thought of escaping. He just raised his hand.

The tiny sword auras formed by the sword nets were all caught in one grab. There was no way to describe how profound that motion was. It seemed like with that technique, he could even pluck the stars in the sky.

He was calm and his eyes looked insipid. It seemed that Chen Jianmei only did something minor, but occasionally some sword auras would appear on the cliff, and soon they would become countless tiny holes which seemed to have no end to it.

Shen Lian stood calmly as he continued to command the sword river to attack the jade-green cliff.

Underneath Chen Beidou's feet appeared a film of water like Qing Guang which blended into the almost transparent cliff. The spiritual tides were rolling in the cliff like the source of spring water. Seven dots were lit up in the cliff, in the shape of a dipper, pointing at Chen Beidou.

Qing Guang, the spiritual tides and the cliff became one and was inseparable. Shen Lian's sword river could no longer damage the rest of the cliff. It was clear to him that Chen Beidou had laid down the Big Dipper formation in the blink of an eye.

The Big Dipper formation was not some supreme formation, but as it was laid, it broke the connection Shen Lian had with the power of the stars. It also snatched away Mount Zhong's power to control.

The geography and the mountains and rivers in the world contained the profoundness of the Great Way, but it was only during a quiet night when Daoists understood the most profound principles of the world when they were observing the stars of the sky when they were trying to find something unchanging in the ever-moving stars. In the beginning, as they did not know what the name was, they referred to it as Dao. From the movement of the stars, they then reconstructed the formation based on the spiritual objects on earth, which then transferred the Dao of the stars onto earth.

This Dao could make enormous stars follow a certain path. If it fell on the mortal world, its impact was unimaginable, and the principle it demonstrated was something beyond Shen Lian's capabilities.

Without the replenishment of the Qi of heaven and earth and also the power of starlight, the sword river began to slowly subside under the impact, but Chen Beidou and the cliff both did not move.

From the time that Shen Lian began to cultivate the Milky Way sword aura, this was the first time he felt helpless, even though he borrowed a lot of power from heaven and earth.

He remained silent, not expressing any anger.

There was no spark when his eyes met Chen Beidou's, but Shen Lian's mind seemed to be absorbed into Chen Beidou's Big Dipper formation, and through the meaning of Dharma in his eyes, he saw the eternally lonely stars.

The stars were something that would not change even after a few hundred centuries. Every single one of them burned brightly to show the world their uniqueness. The Big Dipper had the brightest stars out there. It was like a clone of Chen Beidou.

It seemed that the rumor was not wrong, that every individual would have their own corresponding star.

Shen Lian did not know where his star was.

There was no knowing of Dao, and there was no end to the heart's desire, and there was no understanding of the repeatability of objects.

In that dazzled state, he felt separated from the self. He could see the heaven and earth, the universe, and the void.

The last bit of sword aura of the sword river eventually stopped flowing while Shen Lian was in a state of trance. There was only the void underneath his feet.