Chapter 1351 — The Healing Art

The swift boat would need several days to reach it, and Shen Mu continued earnestly to teach and impart to the Alchemist the other Imperial Throne arts; though the Alchemist could not learn them, he memorized the runes of these Imperial Throne arts and the dao patterns those runes composed, and used all manner of spirit medicines gathered from the Ancestral Court to construct the dao patterns within his pills, refining heavenly palaces by way of dao patterns.

He refined several more pills; by this time, the swift boat had come to the place beside the Gate of the Dao.

Shen Mu halted the boat, and the two leapt down from it; Shen Mu waved his hand and put the swift boat away into the continent of Shen.

The Alchemist slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and bowed toward the peach grove: "I, a carefree alchemist of Jingping, have come with Celestial Venerable Mu to pay my respects to the master of the peach grove! " His cultivation was now stronger than before by he knew not how much, and his voice carried far into the deepest reaches of the peach grove. After a long while, a girl in purple robes came out of the grove with small, quick steps, gave a light salute, and said softly, "Please follow me, honored guests.

" Shen Mu and the Alchemist followed the girl into the peach grove, and after only a few steps the grove passed through the changes of the four seasons: here peach blossoms in lavish bloom, there green unripe peaches, here a fragrance of peach filling the nose, there withered red leaves, and elsewhere snow hanging upon the branches — a sight to make one click one's tongue in wonder.

Yet Shen Mu knew that this grove was no true peach grove, but a strange place formed by the peach groves of who knew how many heavens pieced together.

A single step might seem to carry them no great distance, when in truth they might have passed from one heaven's world into another.

The peach grove stood for the supreme achievement in the Way of Space! And this grove was the work of Celestial Venerable Yue!

They came to the palace deep within the grove and entered it with the girl; inside the hall the girl withdrew, leaving only Shen Mu and the Alchemist. Shen Mu looked at the figure behind the screen and said in a deep voice, "Celestial Venerable Yue, I have brought the strongest alchemist of this age, the Medicine King who founded the Heavenly Palace of Medicine. Are you ready?

" The woman behind the screen trembled, and after a moment she said in a low voice, "I am ready. Come in, both of you.

" Shen Mu and the Alchemist stepped forward together toward the screen, and the Alchemist said in a low voice, "Little Shen, do you remember?

Three parts mine, seven parts yours!

Your eye must not fail!

" The vertical eye at Shen Mu's brow opened, and the blood in his veins ran hot!