Chapter 1003 — The Inside Story of the Worry-Free Realm

That is strange. " Shen Mu said, "Logically, I should also be able to activate the runes branded within the Worry-Free Sword, yet I have seldom drawn out its power. This personal sword of the Heavenly Emperor seems empty.

" Shujun finally understood. He cried out, "You mean that back then Kaihuang hid the thirty-three heavens of the Worry-Free Land inside the Worry-Free Sword, and when he came to the Other Shore World, he thrust out one sword, and the Worry-Free Land flew out from within the sword, forming the thirty-three heavens? " Shen Mu nodded.

"Kaihuang had many capable people under his command. My master, Wentian Ge, was his Woodcutter Heavenly Master and was revered as a Sage. Heavenly Master Zixi was a master of formations. Emperor Shitian Li Youran was the foremost heavenly artisan.

With their wisdom and abilities, folding up the Worry-Free Land and hiding it in the Worry-Free Sword should have been possible. After all, they had already conducted one experiment. " He thought of the Imperial Palace Divine Saber of Tian Shu, Heavenly King of the Nether Capital. The Imperial Palace Divine Saber contained various folded spaces within it. "Bastard! " Shujun said furiously.

Shen Mu was enraged. He knocked Shujun hard on his big head and shouted angrily, "That is my ancestor.

Only I may curse him.

You may not! " Shujun clutched his head, furious.

"I cannot even say it?

" The two walked into the city. Shen Mu asked the people of the Worry-Free Land about the academy. Shujun could not help asking in doubt, "Since you have realized that the thirty-three heavens of the Worry-Free Land are Kaihuang's swordsmanship, the thirty-three heavens sword path, why bother seeking study in the academy? " Shen Mu entered the academy of Taihuang Heaven.

The third eye on his brow opened. Whether divine beings or divine ability users in the academy, all turned a blind eye to them and let them intrude. That was an illusion created by his divine consciousness, covering the entire academy.

Now Shen Mu's divine consciousness was stronger than before.

Not to mention true gods of the Yaotai realm, even gods and demons of the Zhanshentai and Yujing realms would find it hard to see through his divine consciousness illusion. Of course, this was only when he bore no hostility. If he revealed hostility, he would still be noticed.

"Examining Kaihuang's sword arts and divine abilities is only one of my goals. My other goal is to see how much the Dao arts and divine abilities of the Worry-Free Land have progressed over these years.

" Shen Mu said calmly, "Twenty thousand years ago, in the Kaihuang era, Dao arts and divine abilities exploded. New divine abilities and new Dao arts emerged endlessly.

I want to see whether, after they hid in the Worry-Free Land, this reform and transformation came to a halt. " He arrived at the place in the academy where scriptures were stored and walked in right before the deity guarding the scripture tower. He said, "The Woodcutter Sage said that his greatest regret was not persuading Kaihuang against entering the Worry-Free Land.

I want to see whether his judgment was correct. " The scripture tower was bustling with people. There were many divine ability users. Shen Mu stood before a row of bookshelves and directly entered a dream, falling into deep sleep.

Countless tiny Shen Mus immediately flew out from his dream, running all over the ground, flipping through various texts, chattering and jabbering, maha maha, very noisy. Yet everyone in the scripture tower seemed unable to see this scene and went about their own business. Shujun was also flipping through the books, but his method differed from Shen Mu's. He directly swept them with his divine consciousness, and his speed was also extremely fast.

However, Shen Mu's dream-entry Dao not only allowed him to quickly read through the texts in the scripture tower, but also allowed the tiny Shen Mus in the dream to practice and test the divine abilities recorded in the texts.

This was something Shujun could not match. In only half a day, Shen Mu finished reading through the texts here.

Shujun had not yet finished. Shen Mu walked out of the scripture tower and wandered around, observing the scholars in the academy cultivating divine abilities and Dao arts. He saw many scholars visualizing, fusing divine consciousness with vital essence.

Many of the Dao arts and divine abilities he had just seen also followed the path of fusing divine consciousness with vital essence.

Clearly, after the people of the Kaihuang era came here, just as the Creators accepted the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system, they too accepted the divine consciousness cultivation system. This counted as reform.

Yet the kind of reform Shen Mu expected, like Jingping's reform, he did not see. In Jingping's reform, judging from the fundamental runes, there were dozens or even hundreds more rune systems than in the Kaihuang era, such as Tianyin runes and Yuanci runes. These were all early runes of Jingping's reform.

Besides these, there was also the Ancient God Great Dao rune system that Shen Mu had brought from the heavenly court. Jingping recalculated using the Taiwei Calculation Classic, and the Ancient God Great Dao rune systems calculated were countless, numbering in the hundreds!

None of these did the Worry-Free Land possess.

In the study of fundamental runes, Kaihuang's heavenly court seemed to have come to an abrupt halt after relocating to the Worry-Free Land.

"This phenomenon is worth studying. . .

" Shen Mu blinked and looked at the Worry-Free Land disciples studying in the academy.

These disciples were all divine ability users. He observed their essence, energy, and spirit, followed them to see what they did daily, and even invaded their thoughts with his divine consciousness to observe what these divine ability users were thinking.

He was greatly puzzled.

When reform in the Kaihuang era had been at its most vigorous, why had the course of reform suddenly been interrupted after the migration to the Worry-Free Land? Just as he was observing these divine ability users, Shen Mu suddenly noticed that a middle-aged Daoist in the Taihuang Heaven academy was observing him curiously, staring at him all along.

Shen Mu was slightly startled.

The entire academy was under the cover of his divine consciousness. Everyone should have turned a blind eye to him, yet this middle-aged Daoist kept looking at him, as if he could see him! Shen Mu smiled at the Daoist, and the Daoist smiled back. "How should I address you, fellow Daoist?

" Shen Mu stepped forward, saluted the Daoist, and asked. The Daoist hurriedly returned the salute. "Su Maiqing, a cast-off disciple of the Dao Sect, pays his respects to Heavenly Venerable Mu.

" "A cast-off disciple of the Dao Sect? " Shen Mu probed, "Su Maiqing, what is your relationship with the Dao Sect of the Yuan World? " The Daoist waved his horsetail whisk and grinned.

"It was founded by this poor Daoist. "