Tales of Herding Gods
Chapter 1549: Founding Emperor's Sword

Celestial Venerable Xiao looked down at Founding Emperor. Back in the first year of the Dragon Han Era, Qin Mu and Founding Emperor were conferred the titles of Celestial Venerable Mu and Celestial Venerable Qin by him. The two of them were short-lived and vanished very quickly.

Only Qin Mu, this Celestial Venerable Mu, occasionally showed his face in the history of the Dragon Han and participated in the huge events in the history of the Dragon Han.

However, Celestial Venerable Qin vanished without a trace. He didn't reappear until a human youth named Qin Ye rose from the ruins of the High Emperor Era and established the Founding Emperor Celestial Heavens. Only then did Celestial Venerable Qin appear in Celestial Venerable Xiao's eyes again.

At that time, in just twenty thousand years, Founding Emperor became a terrifying opponent, forcing the ten Celestial Venerables to have no choice but to take action and destroy Founding Emperor Era.

After that, Founding Emperor went into seclusion and hid in Carefree Village. However, the ten Celestial Venerables still sent people to search for Carefree Village because they knew that this man would definitely make a comeback!

Every one of the Nine Celestial Venerables of the Dragon Han Celestial Venerable had an undeserved reputation. Every one of them had great achievements and world-shaking great achievements!

"Qin Ye, you have achieved the Dao?" Celestial Venerable Xiao's corporeal body shrunk as he asked with a solemn expression.

Founding Emperor didn't reply.

He didn't need to answer.

The aura coming out from his body was the aura of pure sword path without any impurities, giving people an incomparably sharp yet reserved feeling.

He stood there like a Great Overarching Heaven of the sword path, supreme and invincible. At the same time, he was like a sheath that hid the sharpness within his body.

If the sharpness did not appear, it would not hurt anyone.

As soon as the tip of the sword was out, it was like an ocean, rampaging everywhere!

This was achieving the Dao, becoming the Dao!

Achieving the Dao was different from attaining the Dao. Obtaining the Dao meant obtaining the Dao. There was a difference in the depth of cultivation, and there was a difference in cultivation.

On the other hand, achieving the Dao was to become the Dao, which was a world of difference from attaining the Dao.

Celestial Venerable Xiao's expression became even more solemn and even a little jealous. Founding Emperor had already achieved the path in just 40,000 years!

Such a tiny human only used forty thousand years to cultivate to the highest realm. For an existence like him, who was born to be the strongest ancient god, it was even harder to achieve the path!

"Back in the Founding Emperor Era, you proposed the path of the Postcelestial and believed that the path of the Postcelestial could become an existence that was on par with the path of the Precelestial. When you said that, the celestial heavens thought it was a joke. Even Celestial Venerable Hao, Celestial Venerable Hong, and the other ten Celestial Venerables thought it was the biggest joke in the world."

Celestial Venerable Xiao quickly suppressed the jealousy in his heart, and his body shrunk to the size of Founding Emperor's body. The two of them stood on God Execution Stage, but behind Celestial Venerable Xiao was a dazzling light.

His celestial heavens' thirty-six celestial palaces and forty throne halls were blazing with flames that covered an extremely wide area. Meanwhile, his primordial spirit stood in the sky above Numinous Sky Hall. His corporeal body was vast and covered the entire celestial heavens. His emperor's might was matchless!

"At that time, I also thought that you were just a clown, but later on, I changed my opinion of you. Your Sword Dao is like a gorgeous seal. Ever since the universe was created, there are very few in this world."

Celestial Venerable Xiao couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. "You relied on just one celestial palace to cultivate the sword path and establish the sword path. In just twenty thousand years, you could be on par with the ten Celestial Venerables. I've thought more than once that I was truly wise back then. In the first year of the Dragon Han Era, I conferred nine Celestial Venerables and nine Celestial Venerables. Every one of them had extraordinary achievements. This kind of judgment isn't something others can compare to. The wise ruler of the world, who can surpass me?"

Founding Emperor was unmoved.

Celestial Venerable Xiao continued, "After that, when you proposed the cultivation system of the Dao Realm, I admired you even more. The cultivation system of the Dao Realm solved not only the problem of the Postcelestial Dao achieving the Dao, but also the problem of the Primordial Dao achieving the Dao."

He couldn't help clapping his hands and exclaiming in admiration. He said sincerely, "Qin Ye, Celestial Venerable Yu's greatest achievement was to open up the path of cultivation and solve the problem of going from nothing to nothing. However, he died too early, and regarding how to achieve the path, he only suggested to borrow the concept of the celestial heavens, to use strength to achieve the path, to be patched up by future generations. Until now, this path is considered to have been cleared. However, you proposed another path, the path of the Dao Realm. Your achievements aren't much inferior to Celestial Venerable Yu's."

He displayed the bearing of a celestial emperor of a generation, graceful and romantic. "Qin Ye, I have to say that you have shocked me. However, if you want to stop me from achieving the path, I have no choice but to bury you. Do you know what your greatest weakness is?"

Founding Emperor still stood there quietly without saying a word.

Celestial Venerable Xiao said, "You are the one who followed Celestial Venerable Mu here. The greatest asset of a Dao practitioner is actually the Great Overarching Heaven. Your Sword Dao is imprinted in the Great Overarching Heaven, which contains your boundless power. However, you are achieving your Dao in the present generation, not in the past. The era we are in is the past era, the era before you were born."

He smiled and looked around at the desert sand. He said leisurely, "This is forty thousand years ago. In this universe, there's no Great Overarching Heaven. This is the ruins of the High Emperor Era. You abandoned your greatest advantage and came here. Facing an existence like me who achieved the path by force, it's truly a foolish move!"

Far away, Qin Mu frowned slightly. Celestial Venerable Xiao was right about one thing. Founding Emperor had just achieved the Dao, and he had returned to the past. However, there was no Great Overarching Sword Dao in the past.

Was Founding Emperor, who didn't have the Great Overarching Sword Dao, really a match for Celestial Venerable Xiao?

Founding Emperor stood with his hands behind his back, and his eyes were filled with mockery.

Celestial Venerable Xiao attacked!

The moment he made a move, the world shattered. This attack was aimed at Founding Emperor, but the aura that Celestial Venerable Xiao gave off was enough to turn the entire desert into a chaotic state of primordial qi!

Countless grains of sand shattered and turned into the smallest particles. The particles were annihilated and returned to the state of chaos.

The countless skeletons in the desert tumbled in the primordial qi. Even the divine bones were destroyed one after another, turning into primordial qi!

The power of Celestial Venerable Xiao's strike exploded, and the stars in the sky were already tattered. At this moment, the broken stars exploded one after another and vanished!

The world that had been destroyed seemed to have returned to the formless, formless, and formless primordial chaos. It was the era where the heavens had yet to open, the earth had yet to open, and the Great Dao had yet to take shape!

Qin Mu saw that the situation wasn't good. Celestial Venerable Xiao had burst forth with the power to achieve the path. Wherever this power passed, even he would be greatly threatened. He immediately raised his Taiyi walking stick and stabbed it down heavily.

The power of the Taiyi Crutch burst forth, and with him as the center, it surged in all directions, blocking the power contained in Celestial Venerable Xiao's divine art.

Celestial Venerable Ling stood beside him, and the two of them instantly felt like they were floating in the wind and rain. They were like a lone boat in a stormy sea, drifting along with the waves, going up, down, left, and right, rocking violently!

Both of them were indescribably shocked, and their expressions were solemn.

Stars continued to fall from the sky as they crashed down. However, they crumbled and disintegrated as they crashed down. In the end, they transformed into chaotic primordial qi and merged into the destructive torrent!

Celestial Venerable Xiao's abilities were too strong. He used strength to achieve the path, and in terms of strength, Qin Mu had never seen anyone who could reach Celestial Venerable Xiao's level!

The Qi of Absolute Beginning was one of the innate, born from nature. Before the heaven and earth were formed, it already existed. It evolved into the beginning, the elements, and the taiji. In the end, heaven and earth were opened, and only then did the world exist.

Celestial Venerable Xiao was currently utilizing the Dao of Absolute Beginning to the extreme, allowing this dilapidated heaven to return to its original state and strengthen his own abilities!

At this moment, sword light shone on God Execution Stage, and it was incomparably dazzling. When the sword light shone, Qin Mu immediately felt his Sword Dao flourishing and was everywhere.

"Great Overarching Sword Dao?"

Qin Mu's heart jumped, and he immediately sensed that the source of this sword path was the Great Overarching Sword Heaven!

However, according to Celestial Venerable Xiao, this era should be the era before the Founding Emperor Era was born after the destruction of the High Emperor Era.

In other words, Founding Emperor wasn't born yet.

Founding Emperor achieved the Dao 40,000 years later, and his Sword Dao was imprinted in the Ultimate Void, forming the Great Overarching Sword Dao Celestial Heavens. He cultivated the Dao Tree and bloomed the Dao Flower.

In terms of attainments in the sword path, Qin Mu was already the number one person below Founding Emperor, so his senses definitely wouldn't be wrong.

However, in the era they were in, there was no Great Overarching Sword Dao. How did Founding Emperor have it?

The sword light instantly pierced through the surging Origin Qi. If Celestial Venerable Xiao was able to return this dilapidated heaven to the state of chaos and transform it into Origin Qi, he would be able to split heaven and earth apart with his sword to create a new world!

Founding Emperor's Sword Dao was originally grand and majestic. The first sword he had entered the path was the Supreme Emperor Heaven Quelling Sword. His Sword Dao had thirty-six heavens, and they were all swords that could split heaven and earth!

Thirty-five heavens appeared in the form of a primal chaos First Beginnings High, and then another supreme heaven appeared, freezing the rotating primal chaos in place.

The next moment, sword light burst forth, and chaos exploded. Amidst the incomparably terrifying energy fluctuations, a figure flew backward, spilling blood along the way!

The sword light vanished.

Founding Emperor was still standing on the God Execution Stage. When the two of them clashed, the power was so overwhelming, but it didn't land on the God Execution Stage at all.

The God Execution Stage was already in tatters, and if he suffered another heavy blow, it would probably shatter. However, Celestial Venerable Xiao's earth-shattering blow was received by Founding Emperor and didn't hurt the God Execution Stage.

Qin Mu hurriedly looked at Founding Emperor and saw blood flowing out from the corner of his mouth. It was obvious his injuries weren't light and weren't easy to deal with.

However, the person who had fallen and spilled blood wasn't Founding Emperor. It was Celestial Venerable Xiao who looked even stronger.

Celestial Venerable Xiao's injuries were even worse than Founding Emperor's!

"I understand!"

Qin Mu's eyes lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised. "I finally understand!"

Celestial Venerable Ling didn't know what he understood, but she looked at him curiously.

Qin Mu clenched his fists in excitement and didn't say anything. Celestial Venerable Ling tilted her head and thought to herself, 'Celestial Venerable Mu shouldn't be young anymore. Why is he still so childish?'

She gathered her hair and inserted the hairpin.

"Tai Chu achieving the Dao, it's not the Great Overarching Sword Dao."

Founding Emperor continued to stand on the God Execution Stage and looked at Celestial Venerable Xiao who was still bleeding profusely. He said indifferently, "The Great Overarching Sword Dao doesn't affect me much. Because I'm the sword Dao, the Great Overarching Sword Dao, the Dao Tree, and the Dao Flower on the Dao Tree."

"Yes!"

Qin Mu said excitedly to Celestial Venerable Ling, "I think so too!"

Celestial Venerable Ling smiled and thought to herself, 'As expected of a child.'

"I can be at ease this time."

Qin Mu let out a sigh of relief and took out Celestial Emperor's corporeal body. His gaze flickered as he said with a smile, "Celestial Venerable Hao is about to escape. Ling, we have to be prepared!"

Celestial Venerable Ling frowned and said, "Celestial Venerable Hao's abilities aren't inferior to Celestial Venerable Xiao's. I'm afraid I can't help much."

Qin Mu thought about it and said, "In the Jade Capital City of the ancestral court, I saw the destruction and decay of sixteen universes, and I realized the principle of the universe's life and death. That is the eternal rule of mass energy! The quality and energy of the entire universe are interchanging, and the total quantity of mass energy is the same. It's not easy for you to comprehend material things, but if you can go one step further and comprehend it, it might not be easy. Even Taiyi might not be your match."

Celestial Venerable Ling asked curiously, "What do you mean by the quality doesn't change? How can the quality change?"

Qin Mu squatted down, and there was still a piece of sand under Tai Yi's walking stick. He stretched out his finger to paint on the sand and said, "I comprehended a primordial rune from the founder of the Jade Capital City of the ancestral court, the master of Miluo Palace. I have been comprehending it for the past few days, and perhaps the secret to the transformation of mass energy is hidden in this rune. However, I still don't quite understand the calculation of mass energy. It requires incomparably complicated calculations. On the other hand, the Dao markings of the master of Miluo Palace hide the transformation of these runes."

Celestial Venerable Ling also squatted down and looked at it for a moment. She took off her hairpin and painted on the ground. The two of them calculated together.

On the other side, Founding Emperor and Celestial Venerable Xiao were fighting to the point that the world was falling apart, but the two of them ignored them.

"Celestial Venerable Mu, you finally died in my hands! Hahaha!"

Celestial Venerable Hao's voice rang out, and Qin Mu took a glance. He saw a tattered huge bell above Celestial Venerable Hao's head. It was riddled with holes and leaking air.

He retracted his gaze and continued to calculate with Celestial Venerable Ling.

Celestial Venerable Hao slaughtered his way out from the forty thousand years and was overjoyed. Suddenly, he saw Founding Emperor and Celestial Venerable Xiao fighting to form a storm. A cane supported a piece of pure land, and Qin Mu was perfectly fine. He didn't die at all. Instead, he squatted on the ground with Celestial Venerable Ling. Their heads collided, and no one knew what they were writing on the ground.

Celestial Venerable Hao grunted, and blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.

"Didn't you say that as long as you killed over twenty thousand of you over forty thousand years ago, you would die?" he muttered.

"I didn't say I would die."

Qin Mu stood up and said with a smile that wasn't a smile, "Besides, do you really believe me, Nephew?"