Chapter 930 — A Reunion Like First Love

His heart pounded as in first love, and his face flushed red.

Shen Mu glanced at him and coughed once.

To Qi Jiuyi's ears the cough was a thunderbolt from a clear sky, shattering his tender feelings to pieces.

Qi Jiuyi was startled: "The first time I see this woman, and she has already affected my Dao heart!

She is too beautiful, and she does not know restraint. " Shen Mu said with a smile: "Sister Chuxiu and Brother Jianli make a fine couple; it is a pity you became brother and sister.

" Yun Chuxiu's face reddened slightly, with a maiden's shyness, and she stole a glance at Yun Jianli.

Yun Jianli said gravely: "Your Heavenly Venerate jests.

A dying man—how would he dare delay sister Chuxiu? I already have a family, and a son.

Is Your Heavenly Venerate married? " Shen Mu's breath was weak, but he roused his spirits and laughed heartily: "Brother Jianli, I too am a dying man. If you do not mind, you may address me as Cult Master Shen, as Brother Qi does, and need not call me Heavenly Venerate.

To tell you the truth, I only recently turned thirty-three.

" Yun Chuxiu was surprised, and covered her mouth as she laughed: "Your Heavenly Venerate is even a few years younger than I.

" Seeing her bearing, Qi Jiuyi again seemed to hear a lovely, moving song at his ear, and the imagined scenes of conjugal bliss appeared once more. Shen Mu coughed once to wake him. Qi Jiuyi's forehead broke out in cold sweat: "It is over!

My Dao heart is finished! Though Si Youyou of the Yuan Realm is beautiful as well, Si Youyou never seduces others, whereas this woman has made beauty and charm into weapons! " Shen Mu looked at Yun Jianli and said: "I have heard that when the Yun family cultivates to the Divine Bridge realm and tries to step into the divine realm, they suddenly drop dead.

Heavenly Venerate Yun was the Heavenly Venerate who opened up the Divine Bridge divine treasury—why should his descendants suffer such a fate? " Yun Jianli said gloomily: "That I do not know either. Every generation of the Yun family has engaged countless famous physicians and divine men to examine the affliction, yet none could discover its cause.

In truth, I reached the Divine Bridge realm five years ago, and to this day I dare not take the final step.

" Shen Mu's curiosity was roused, and he said: "I am fairly well versed in the healing arts. Could you open your divine treasuries and let me look?

" Yun Jianli, open and unguarded, opened his divine treasuries.

Shen Mu looked closely and saw that each of Yun Jianli's divine treasuries was quite normal; the Divine Bridge divine treasury was vaster than others', but beyond that there was nothing unusual. Shen Mu's gaze fell upon his primordial spirit.

Yun Jianli's primordial spirit was exceedingly powerful, standing upon the Divine Bridge with a graceful, soaring radiance.

Shen Mu examined it closely, but could find no problem.

His gaze grew ever deeper as he looked toward Yun Jianli's heavenly palace. Weng.

Suddenly flames blazed at the back of Shen Mu's head, forming a wheel of fire, and within the wheel was a great fiery eye that stared straight into the deepest recesses of Yun Jianli's heavenly palace!

Yun Jianli was startled; the wheel of fire behind Shen Mu's head felt to him like the blessing of an Ancient God, yet somehow different.

"Worthy of a Heavenly Venerate—even I cannot comprehend such divine ability.

" He could not help but feel respect: "Heavenly Venerate Mu is thirty-three, and to have such achievements at so young an age is truly terrifying.

" After a moment, the wheel of fire behind Shen Mu gradually faded. The third eye at his brow slowly opened, continuing to observe where exactly Yun Jianli's problem lay.

This eye of his was unlike any other—a Sacred Pupil that had only recently come into being. Though Shen Mu had not yet explored much of this Sacred Pupil's uses, this eye had grown by absorbing all his blood, qi, vitality, and consciousness, and had furthermore absorbed Earth Uncle's Horn and the Primordial Stone as part of its structure—one could well imagine that this Sacred Pupil of his must possess something extraordinary. With Shen Mu's Sacred Pupil opened, he immediately saw the source of Yun Jianli's black qi. The black qi at Yun Jianli's brow was born from his consciousness, filling every part of his body—his primordial spirit, his divine treasuries, his vital qi—but this was only the surface.

Gazing closely with his third Sacred Pupil, Shen Mu saw a still more terrifying sight.

Countless strands of black qi writhed within Yun Jianli's bloodline, and reflected in Shen Mu's third eye, they let him trace the history of this bloodline. What Shen Mu's third eye saw was the memory of the bloodline.

Bloodline memory was unlike any other; it passed down generation after generation through one's own flesh and blood, yet seeing the memories hidden within a bloodline was by no means easy.

This was the first time Shen Mu had discovered that his third eye had such a use.

At once he saw the figure of another man within the black qi, presumably Yun Jianli's father, and then within the black qi shrouding Yun Jianli's father he saw his grandfather.

Tracing the bloodline's history backward, the figures of young men emerged one after another—the ancestors of the Yun family, from Heavenly Venerate Yun down to the present. Countless ancestors, every one of them shrouded in black qi, dying young, their bodies perishing and their Dao dissipating, their souls scattered and gone!

From Heavenly Venerate Yun to the present, one million years, who knew how many generations—and never a single one had lived to the moment of becoming a god!

Tracing the black qi in the bloodline back to its source, Shen Mu at last saw the scene before Heavenly Venerate Yun fell. He saw a figure shrouded in black mist—this must be the source of why the Yun family passed down a single heir each generation and never lived to become gods!

Suddenly, from deep within his mind came the voice of the Creator Shu Jun: "This youth has been cursed. The curse has sunk deep into his bloodline; any who share that bloodline will be born with the same curse. It is a curse laid upon him by a Creator.

Such a curse grows as his cultivation grows, and once his consciousness becomes strong enough, it will claim his life.

" Shen Mu's consciousness rippled: "How can it be broken?

" "Give me more blood, qi, and consciousness, and I will teach you how to use the Primordial Stone to break this bloodline curse! " came Shu Jun's voice.

Shen Mu sneered: "Shu Jun, whether Yun Jianli lives or dies is no concern of mine. I do not yet know his purpose or his stance in coming here, and I will not act to save him merely because he is a descendant of Heavenly Venerate Yun. " Shu Jun was silent for a moment, then said: "The Creator who laid the curse is very likely one of the so-called Ten Heavenly Venerates. " Shen Mu said calmly: "What concern is that of mine?

" Shu Jun fell silent again, and only after a long while said: "Help me find this Creator, and I will teach you how to use the Primordial Stone to cultivate your consciousness.

" Shen Mu calculated for a moment, then said: "First teach me the method for cultivating consciousness, then teach me how to use the Primordial Divine Stone to break the Yun family's bloodline curse, and then I will help you find that person! " "You!

" Shu Jun was angered, then suddenly chuckled: "Done! "