Chapter 508 — Passing the Torch
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The Village Chief stood before the stele as though struck by lightning, dumbstruck.
The legend of the Overlord Body?
And from forty thousand years ago?
The Overlord Body—was it not something he had fabricated to fool Shen Mu and the villagers? Could it be that an Overlord Body truly existed in this world?
"No, no! There must be some misunderstanding! Perhaps the Overlord Body of forty thousand years ago and the Overlord Body I spoke of are not the same thing at all! " His heart was in turmoil, thoughts surging up all at once, but a Village Chief was a Village Chief after all; he quickly sorted out his thoughts and said to himself: "Perhaps an Overlord Body did exist in this world. The Overlord Body must be a kind of spirit body, only called Overlord Body because it was too powerful.
This kind of Overlord Body and the Overlord Body I fabricated are not the same thing at all!
" He steadied himself and looked at the stone stele. The inscription was written in the script of the dragon race. After looking at it for a moment, the Village Chief had no choice but to ask the First Ancestor for help: "What does it say?
The dragon script is profound and difficult; I have never learned it. " The First Ancestor was easy to talk to: "It says here that before the fall of the Supreme Emperor, the Bai family of the dragon race happened upon a youth who claimed to be an Overlord Body—versatile and talented, capable of what others could not do, undefeated in battle against his peers. His bearing was radiant, his brilliance unmatched; in both swordsmanship and divine powers, he surpassed the age of the Supreme Emperor by no small measure. So they asked him what an Overlord Body was. The youth said: an Overlord Body is unmatched; the spirit fetus does not open. At first it appears to be a mortal body, but later it opens the primal embryo divine treasury and attains supreme mysteries, thus standing above all his generation, possessed of peerless gifts. " The Village Chief's eye twitched.
Shen Mu was different from other spirit bodies—he was not a spirit body at all. A spirit body's primal embryo divine treasury was open from the start, whereas Shen Mu's primal embryo divine treasury was closed! Ordinary people's primal embryo divine treasury was also closed, and thus they could not cultivate.
Yet Shen Mu, under the Village Chief's bewitchment and with the villagers' support, had in one breath opened the primal embryo divine treasury that could not be opened, and from then on advanced with astonishing speed, a thousand li in a day!
This situation was remarkably similar to what the stele described! "It must be a coincidence! " The Village Chief steadied his mind, and heard the First Ancestor continue: ".
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The Overlord Body's cultivation surpasses that of spirit bodies by far, and its comprehension is outstanding—a single hint suffices, one thing understood leads to many, one example yields three. The Overlord Body is unmatched, yet in this world it has its enemy: the so-called False Overlord Body. " The Village Chief shook his head and said hoarsely: "What?
" "It says here that although the Overlord Body is unmatched under heaven, there is a False Overlord Body that is its enemy.
" The First Ancestor explained patiently: "It also says here that the Overlord Body and the False Overlord Body contend for fortune.
Between them there is a wondrous resonance; the False Overlord Body vies with the Overlord Body and seizes its fortune, thereby making itself a true Overlord Body. How strange—how could such a wondrous constitution exist? To my shame, I once heard of the Overlord Body before, but took it for a legend. I never expected the legend to be true. " The Village Chief's mind reeled. After a long while he came back to himself and stammered: "F-First Ancestor, you have heard the legend of the Overlord Body?