Chapter 709 — An Ageless Friendship with the Old Man of the Netherworld

Tian Shu had sobered up more than half. He muttered to himself, "Set my heart at ease? I don't even know where my body is right now. If it's still alive, my heart must be about to leap out of my mouth.

. . " Long Qilin and Qi Jiuyi knew nothing of this.

The two fellows were still drinking. Long Qilin poured the wine straight down his throat, and a whole jar was soon drained.

Qi Jiuyi, however, had thrust his head into a jar. The mouth of the jar was rather wide, and his head fit in with room to spare.

Long Qilin chuckled without end. "Third Brother, drinking like that, you'll suffocate yourself. Third Brother, Third Brother. . . " His expression shifted slightly. He saw Qi Jiuyi's head stuck in the jar, his body motionless. Long Qilin was about to rescue him when suddenly Qi Jiuyi's head popped out of the jar.

He grinned. "Scared you, Second Brother? Your head's too big—you couldn't fit it in. Drinking with your head in a jar is especially satisfying.

I can even stick nine heads into nine jars.

Wait a moment. . . " He staggered to a door, opened it, and carried out nine wine jars.

He opened them, shook his body, and revealed nine heads—nine phoenix heads.

With a series of plops, the nine heads plunged into the nine jars and drank. Shen Mu watched and could not help shaking his head. Qi Jiuyi was an outstanding young man of the Outer Heaven Court. Named Jiuyi, he was naturally a man of exceptional intelligence. But the blow he had suffered was too great, and he had sunk to the level of calling that fat dragon his brother.

Sooner or later, this scene today would become a great stain on his life. "Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha's cultivation art has a flaw. The divine blade Dique he forged will have a weak point. There, I can open the Gate of Heaven's Mandate to connect to Youdu.

The key is where this flaw is.

. . " Shen Mu's eyes flickered.

Using his vital essence, he constructed the corporeal form and primordial spirit form of Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha. He transformed the Emperor Shakra Heaven King Sutra into a diagram of vital essence circulation and filled it into the structures of the corporeal body and primordial spirit, calculating carefully. "This flaw is in constant motion. " Shen Mu calculated for several months. His gaze fixed on a certain point in the vital essence circulation within Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha's body. That point was the weak spot in his cultivation art.

Shen Mu then used his own vital essence to construct the dual structure of the divine blade Dique. He imagined himself as Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha, forging this divine blade.

As the cultivation art was activated, the flaw in his own art would unconsciously merge into the divine blade Dique during the forging. Clang, clang, clang—the sound of forging echoed in his ears, stroke after stroke. Shen Mu's brain raced madly. Various symbols of divination and calculation leaped ceaselessly in his mind.

After an unknown length of time, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and laughed aloud. "I've calculated it! " He looked around. Long Qilin had drunk himself unconscious and lay on the ground. Qi Jiuyi, in his drunkenness, had reverted to his true form—a nine-headed phoenix lying in the corridor, one phoenix leg pinned under Long Qilin, nine heads thrust into nine rooms.

Tian Shu was faring better. He sat on one wine jar, holding another, drinking slowly and methodically.

"Wake up, all of you, wake up!

" Shen Mu kicked Long Qilin and Qi Jiuyi and laughed. "We can leave now.

" Qi Jiuyi sobered up and looked around in confusion. Long Qilin also yawned and woke.

Qi Jiuyi suddenly remembered that he had sworn brotherhood with this Long Qilin and the Left Junior Assistant of the Kaihuang Heaven Court. His face flushed red, and his heart was filled with unease. Tian Shu came over carrying a wine jar, his goat hooves clicking crisply on the ground.

He smiled. "Third Brother, sober now? Rest assured, we only swore brotherhood while drunk. We didn't do anything excessive. " Qi Jiuyi's expression stiffened.

He stammered, "I'm the Third Brother?

" Long Qilin got up and shook his head. "You're a hundred and ten years younger than me, so of course you're the Third Brother. We swore an oath to Tubo that we would die on the same year, same month, same day.

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. " "An oath to Tubo?

" Qi Jiuyi's eyes were filled with terror and blankness. He was at a loss. "Drinking really causes such trouble. . . " Shen Mu walked along the corridor, examining room after room. "It's not the drinking that causes trouble—it's that the wine intoxicates without the drinker being drunk. The fine wine here is actually something manifested from the spirit. That's why you can never drink it all. The Left Junior Assistant of the Outer Heaven Court, Yan Shaoqing, must be an existence with extraordinarily powerful spiritual divine abilities. He transformed these fine wines from his powerful spiritual divine abilities.

You are in primordial spirit form. When a primordial spirit drinks, it is drinking his spiritual divine abilities. His divine abilities give you the sensation of being drunk.

" Long Qilin, Tian Shu, and Qi Jiuyi followed him.

Long Qilin asked curiously, "There's such a divine ability? So we've been drinking air all along? " "Not exactly air—it's Yan Shaoqing's spiritual manifestation. " Shen Mu opened a door, peeked inside, and took out a jar of fine wine. A fierce spiritual impact surged from his primordial spirit.

His spirit actually made the jar of wine grow fainter and fainter, until finally the jar of wine vanished before their eyes. "This is me using my own spirit to erode Yan Shaoqing's spirit. Of course, he is very powerful and has conjured countless jars of fine wine. My spirit is not yet enough to completely dispel the illusion he created. Every time you drink, it is equivalent to one spiritual attack from him. That is why you feel drunk. " Shen Mu calculated the rooms.

Suddenly his eyes lit up. He laughed.

"This is the time, this is the place! " The others were puzzled. Shen Mu suddenly pushed the door open.

A burst of light erupted from behind it, making everyone involuntarily raise their hands to shield their eyes. Shen Mu stepped into the room. Long Qilin hurried in after him. Tian Shu and Qi Jiuyi also rushed across the threshold.

When their vision recovered, they could not help exclaiming in wonder. This was not a room at all, but a strange, staggered structure of space formed by various runes. Different runes constructed different spatial fragments, and these fragments interlocked like gears. Tian Shu murmured, "I've opened every room here. Why have I never seen this one before?

" Only then did he notice that Shen Mu, walking ahead, had become a paper-thin figure! Shen Mu was like a sheet of paper with no thickness, walking ahead of them!

Tian Shu shook his head and suddenly realized he could see his own backside! He too had become a paper-thin figure!

Long Qilin and Qi Jiuyi were no different! They were all primordial spirits.

A primordial spirit was at least three-dimensional. Yet upon entering this room, they had been stripped of thickness by this strange space.

"This room has always existed, but it is the flaw of Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha.

Moreover, the room is constantly wandering and changing.

Even if you opened all the doors at once, you might not find it. " Shen Mu's mouth appeared on the back of his head, making Long Qilin, Tian Shu, and Qi Jiuyi shudder. The mouth on the back of Shen Mu's head opened and closed. "You must calculate the exact time and the exact room, then open the door, to find this place.