Chapter 1034 — The Young Heavenly Sovereign Relies on His Elders

The higher her cultivation, the fewer her emotions—which only makes the emotions she has left more precious. Having cultivated to so profound a realm, she can no longer help herself; she has no choice but to cast off emotion and preserve godhood. Therefore what is precious, she will naturally treasure.

" Unbidden, she thought of her own experiences, and her heart dimmed. "Only what is lost feels truly precious.

" Shen Mu and the others took up lodging in the Heavenly Sage Academy, while Shu Jun and Lang Wan the Divine King busied themselves reading through the academy's collected texts, surveying the whole of the Jingping Reform's achievements, studying every sort of cultivation method and divine ability. Lang Wan the Divine King had already opened her divine treasury and Heavenly Palace; to switch to cultivating the Heavenly River Divine Treasury, she would have to destroy her own divine bridge and divine treasury. But her cultivation was now so profound that she could almost stand alongside a Heavenly Sovereign, and to destroy her divine bridge, she would have to bear enormous peril—so she hesitated. Shu Jun had no such worry, and simply opened the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. Yet he soon discovered that, having borrowed the Great Emperor's divine consciousness to raise his body, elevating his flesh to the level of a Lingxiao-realm deity, he could not open a divine treasury within his body at all!

His vital essence and soul were both too weak, his divine consciousness not especially strong either; he could not open a spirit embryo within this body of his! The so-called seven great divine treasuries were all opened within the fleshly body, and his fleshly body had already grown so powerful that it could not be opened!

"The mortals of Jingping are divided into those who can cultivate and those who cannot, and this is determined by the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. " The Alchemist, thoroughly versed in pharmacology, prepared a great medicinal tub, brewed a tub of rank, foul-smelling medicinal water, and told Shu Jun to jump in.

"In the past, the divine ability users of Jingping had only four spirit bodies—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise. Just those four. A mortal without a spirit body could at most become a martial artist, never open the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury and become a divine ability user. Later, Shen'er destroyed his divine bridge and opened the Heavenly River Divine Treasury.

He did not delve deeply into the matter of mortals being unable to cultivate, but I did.

" The Alchemist smiled. "The reason the Four Spirit Bodies can cultivate is that their Primal Embryo Divine Treasury is inherited from their ancestors—they are born with a Primal Embryo Divine Treasury!

They need only open it to cultivate!

" "Those mortals who cannot cultivate have no divine ability users among their ancestors, and so have no Primal Embryo Divine Treasury within their bodies. But that does not mean they truly cannot cultivate!

They need only master the method for opening a Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, open one for themselves, and they can cultivate, can become divine ability users! " The Alchemist was elated.

To Shu Jun, soaking in the great wooden tub steeped with medicinal ingredients, he said, "This is what I have been researching all these years—determining the precise location of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury according to each person's bodily structure. Then using spirit medicines to nurture vital essence, so that even an ordinary person can gather the vital essence needed to open a Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, and thereby become a divine ability user. But your body is too powerful; it must first be softened with the power of medicine. " Shu Jun watched him pour a whole host of virulently toxic things into the tub, and his heart quailed. "These things are poisonous, aren't they? " "Rest easy, rest easy!

" The Alchemist said with a smiling face, "I have noticed that your soul is too weak—weaker even than an ordinary person's. So I will use a little treasure of mine to nourish your soul. Shen'er went through the same thing back then.

It will be fine, it will be fine. . . " As those toxic things entered the tub, Shu Jun immediately felt a piercing agony come from his soul, and cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

The Alchemist checked the toxicity in the tub. "Over the years, I have helped quite a few ordinary people become divine ability users, and you too will become one with my assistance. . . Your body seems too powerful; I need to add a bit more of my little treasure.

. .

" After a long while, the Alchemist produced a silver needle and thrust it at Shu Jun's skin; the needle punctured through.

"Now that your body has softened, you can try to open the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. " The Alchemist let out a breath and glanced at Shu Jun in the tub, only to see this Creator foaming at the mouth, already without breath. He hurriedly ran outside, crying loudly, "Shen'er, Shen'er!

Come quickly!

That big-headed youth you brought—I poisoned him dead without watching closely enough! His soul has left his body! " Shen Mu rushed over at top speed, and without a word drove the Soul-Summoning Art, drawing Shu Jun's soul back and striking it into Shu Jun's body.

"Grandpa Alchemist, did you put in too much poison again? " The Alchemist's face reddened slightly.

"His body's strength was too high, so I added a bit more medicine.

Who knew his cultivation would be so poor. . . " In the medicinal tub, Shu Jun rolled his eyes back once more, his soul leaving his body.

Shen Mu hurriedly summoned his soul again and struck it back into his body, then used the Dark Demon Metamorphosis Art to seal Shu Jun's soul within him, saying rapidly, "First detoxify him! " The two of them worked frantically for quite a while, and at last cleared part of the poison from Shu Jun's body, and only then did they set their minds at ease.

Shu Jun came slowly back to his senses. Though with the Alchemist's help he had opened his first divine treasury, the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, he feared the man in the bronze mask like a tiger, not daring to go near him.

When the Alchemist called him over for tea, Shu Jun sat ill at ease, glancing this way and that, cold sweat constantly springing up on his forehead; only with Shen Mu at his side did he dare drink the tea the Alchemist had brewed.

At long last, Shen Mu mastered the Blind Elder's cultivation method. To the Alchemist he said, with deep earnestness, "Grandpa Alchemist, Grandpa Deaf has already walked out his own path.

I have learned his cultivation method and established the Painting Dao Heavenly Palace.

Now only the Medicine Heavenly Palace remains. As the saying goes, if the elders do not strive, the young will sorrow in vain.

If Grandpa Alchemist does not strive in his cultivation, I will be bullied out there too. You see.

. . "