Chapter 507 — The Legend of the Tempered Body
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
He drove his vital essence, moved his feet through two circuits, crossed his hands, and his vital essence erupted. He shouted, "Seal!"
The instant the sound came out, his vital essence spread like spilled ink beneath his feet and formed a huge Seal character. Shen Mu's vision went black at once; he could hear nothing at all. All five senses were sealed shut—he could not even sense his own vital essence!
A moment later, that sensation of sealed senses vanished.
"What a divine ability!"
Shen Mu was beside himself with excitement and questioned Human Emperor Kongxian in detail. After a while, he immediately began to try it himself, likewise performing the Seal Character Formula. He shouted, "Seal!"
In the river water beneath his feet, a huge Seal character surfaced at once!
Human Emperor Kongxian was stunned. "He learned it that fast? A lifetime's supreme art, and he learned it after a single demonstration? Could an Overlord Body truly exist in this world? Is the Overlord Body really not something that Su boy made up?"
He could hardly believe it. After Li Zheng entered Fengdu, he had regarded deceiving Shen Mu into thinking he was an Overlord Body as the greatest achievement of his life, and he was very proud of it; he had not concealed it from the Human Emperors of every age.
It could be said that all the Human Emperors, save Shen Mu himself, knew the Overlord Body was a lie—only Shen Mu was kept in the dark.
Yet now Human Emperor Kongxian felt that Shen Mu might truly be an Overlord Body.
"I will teach you the Strength Character Formula as well."
His eyes flickering, Human Emperor Kongxian taught Shen Mu the Strength Character Formula, and Shen Mu mastered it in a similarly short time. When he activated it, the character "Strength," formed of a rune array, appeared behind him, accompanied by the melody of the Strength character, which roused the power of the rune array and multiplied the strength of his physical body several times over!
Human Emperor Kongxian was astonished beyond measure. Mastering Words Become Law in so short a time was simply impossible. When he had created the divine ability Words Become Law, he had been in middle age. He had cultivated under Human Emperor Qingning and had a terrifying mastery of music, but he wanted to break free of Human Emperor Qingning's path, so he had studied and researched bitterly, and had also attained extremely high achievements in calligraphy and painting, runes, arrays, movement arts, footwork, and boxing.
He had spent decades of his life fusing all he had learned into one, and only then created the supreme art Words Become Law, succeeded to the position of Human Emperor, and taken charge of the Human Emperor Seal. Every sect and school in the jianghu held him in awe.
Shen Mu had mastered Words Become Law in a brief moment—did that not mean his attainments in calligraphy, painting, runes, arrays, movement arts, footwork, and boxing were also extremely high?
Even if Shen Mu had extremely high attainments in all these fields, mastering in so short a time a supreme art that had taken him decades to fuse together was far too terrifying!
Shen Mu also learned the Immobilize Character Formula from him. The Immobilize Character Formula was a single palm strike that produced a zhang-wide Immobilize character before him, and he mastered it just as easily.
Human Emperor Kongxian grew more and more shocked.
Suddenly, the Third Ancestral Master's voice came. "Little Shen, come learn this move of mine!"
Human Emperor Kongxian started from his shock and looked around, only then realizing that many of the Human Emperors had at some point come down from the bridge and gathered around them. Even Lan Po, Yishan, Qi Kang, and the others who had drifted downstream were now gathered here, all staring at Shen Mu with somewhat strange looks.
Puzzled, Human Emperor Kongxian stepped aside.