Chapter 447 — Natural Rivals
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Before, how could I ever have lifted this sword? It's a pity that many of the dragon words remain unsolved. " These days he had tried to merge the new Nine Dragons Sovereign Art with the Three Elixirs of the Mystic Body, and his physical body progressed at miraculous speed. Previously he had only cultivated the body-refining methods in the Great Nurturing Dark Demon Scripture, but now the power bursting from his pure physical strength was even more formidable than the divine arts of many divine-ability users.
If he unleashed the Eight Peals of Thunder, the Butcher's Saber Art, and other combat techniques, the power would simply double!
The strength of the physical body was no small matter for the elevation of combat techniques!
The Western Lands merchants around them went into their tents to sleep one after another. Shen Mu sat by the lake, while Dragon Qilin shrank its body and begged the Dragon-Rearing Classic from Shen Mu, lying by his side reading by the firelight of the desert. "This Dragon Fatty is as diligent as Ling'er!
" Shen Mu was much gratified.
Dragon Qilin licked its claws, opened the Dragon-Rearing Classic, and read it carefully, thinking to itself, "Lord Dragon-Rearing wrote the Dragon-Rearing Classic. I too shall write a Human-Rearing Classic.
. . " Not long after, Shen Mu leaned back against Dragon Qilin and fell into deep sleep, and Dragon Qilin too lowered its head and slept. Though the desert night was full of fire everywhere, the temperature was very low, and the lake's surface froze.
But Dragon Qilin's body was very warm, its nostrils puffing out flames from time to time. In the latter half of the night, amid the flames outside the oasis, Ban Gongcuo spiraled up from underground. He looked at the sleeping Shen Mu, hesitated a moment, somewhat undecided, unable to determine whether to now quietly approach and assassinate this fellow.
Shen Mu's breathing was steady, showing no awareness at all.
Ban Gongcuo hesitated again and again, and was about to make up his mind to strike the killing blow, when he suddenly saw that as Shen Mu breathed, strands of dragon qi kept flying out of the Taotie Bag, like small swimming dragons drilling into his nostrils. Ban Gongcuo saw that Shen Mu's hand was also placed in the Taotie Bag, and was startled. He suddenly changed his mind, his body spiraling and silently sinking into the ground.
"Did he notice me? " Shen Mu opened one eye, his eyeball rolling around, then closed it again.
He drew his hand out of the Taotie Bag and continued to draw the dragon qi from the True Dragon's Lair while snoring in deep sleep—this time he was truly asleep.
Strands of true dragon qi were absorbed into his body, transforming into his vital essence and elevating his cultivation. In his cultivation over the past few months, he had relied entirely on the True Dragon's Lair and the Jade Tablet of the Heavenly Emperor, which was why his cultivation could rise so fast. Even Ban Gongcuo, an existence who had been reborn more than ten times, had not been able to leave him far behind.
Of course, more crucial was that he frequently engaged in dual cultivation of the primordial spirit with Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang, his primordial spirit growing ever stronger, with enormous benefits—which was why he had not been left behind in cultivation by Ban Gongcuo, who had entered the Seven Stars realm.
At daybreak, Xiong Qi'er woke, clamoring with hunger. Shen Mu cooked her a lean meat porridge with minced lean meat and green vegetable leaves, made some snacks, then refined several kinds of improved spirit pills and had Dragon Qilin taste how the flavor was. "My Human-Rearing Classic is certain to reach great perfection!