Chapter 358 — On True and False Tyrant Bodies
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He broke into a smile: "There are few in this world as outstanding as you and I. If we were all friends, that would disappoint me greatly."
Ling Yuxiu poked him with a finger and whispered, "Cowherd, be a little more modest..."
Shen Mu laughed. "I am only speaking the truth."
Behind Xu Shenghua, Yuliu said with a smile, "The Human Emperor truly is not modest. Heaven Above is not the lower realm, and Young Master Xu of Heaven Above is no mortal of your lower realm. How can you be mentioned in the same breath as Young Master Xu?"
Xu Shenghua shook his head. "The Human Emperor can be. The Human Emperor's Hall has fought Heaven Above for twenty thousand years — why should its heir not be mentioned in the same breath as I? To insult him is to insult me."
Yuliu's face reddened.
Xu Shenghua said, "I came down the mountain this time to eliminate the new Human Emperor. When I met Brother Shen, I took him for a Dao Son of the Dao Sect. Only later did I realize he was the very Human Emperor I sought. By then I had already let him slip past. I came to the lower realm and met many outstanding figures of the younger generation, and sought instruction from them, but none satisfied me. In the end, when I think on it, it is still Brother Shen who astonishes me most."
Shen Mu poured wine for him and smiled. "I promised you I would treat you to a drink. After this wine is done, whether I beat you to death or am beaten to death by you, it will be a joy and a blessing, with no regret left behind."
Xu Shenghua raised his cup in salute. The two clinked in empty air and each drained his cup.
Shen Mu said with feeling, "Though we are both Tyrant Bodies, there is true and false among them. That you could find me was no coincidence, but the connection between a Tyrant Body and a false Tyrant Body. You and I were fated to be enemies, never friends."
"Tyrant Body?" Xu Shenghua looked blank.
"So even Brother Xu does not know of the Tyrant Body."
Shen Mu pointed at himself and smiled. "I am a Tyrant Body, and you are a false Tyrant Body. Between you and me there is a connection in the unseen. It is not merely that you are a disciple of Heaven Above and I a disciple of the Human Emperor, and so we must fight to the death. It is because you and I are both Tyrant Bodies — you a false one, I the true one. You must kill me to seize my fortune and become a true Tyrant Body."
Xu Shenghua looked even more bewildered.
"It is no wonder Brother Xu does not know the ins and outs of this."
Shen Mu said earnestly, "The matter of the Tyrant Body is exceedingly secret; few know of it. Look — you and I are both the most outstanding figures in this world, yet you happened to become a disciple of Heaven Above, and I happened to become the Human Emperor. Is there coincidence in this? No!"
The youth clenched his fist and declared with ringing force, "This is the working of fortune between Tyrant Bodies!"
Xu Shenghua was struck dumb. After a long while, he said slowly, "I am a Tyrant Body? My master, Lord Yu, never spoke of this."
Shen Mu said gravely, "The Tyrant Body is the strongest constitution! In the past, was it not easy for you to learn anything? Did you not grasp everything at a single teaching, drawing inferences on your own? Before the other four great spirit bodies had even learned a thing, you had already mastered it."
Xu Shenghua nodded, astonished. "So this is the Tyrant Body."
"Just so!"
Shen Mu set down his cup and said with fervor, "Have you also felt that the cultivation of others is never as deep as yours, and that with the same divine ability, theirs is never as powerful as yours?"
Xu Shenghua nodded again. "By the time I was fourteen, I had no rival in Heaven Above. Even my master, with his divine storehouse sealed, was not my equal in dharma power."
Shen Mu's gaze was sincere. "This is the Tyrant Body!"