Chapter 526 — I Can Do It Myself!
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys; gallbladder, stomach, bladder, triple burner, large intestine, small intestine—the functions of his five viscera and six bowels answered to the Five Luminaries and the Six Harmonies, perfectly joined to his divine treasuries.
His eyes were as sun and moon, and they in turn formed a perfect union with the Five Luminaries and Six Harmonies, becoming the Seven Stars.
His comprehension of realms had reached a height Shen Mu had never seen and never conceived.
His dantian was like that of the Silent Artisan—blazing like a great furnace, radiant like the sun, the wellspring that drove his body, keeping the strength of his flesh at its peak at every hour of the day. Such a physical state was like Xing An without a single flaw—nay, many times more formidable than Xing An! His primordial spirit, too, had reached an inconceivable degree. The primordial spirit is the spirit fetus, the soul, the god of one's vital essence; and Shen Mu's proudest possession was that his primordial spirit was mightier than any other's and his soul more firmly rooted than any other's—at the Six Harmonies realm he could already send his spirit out of his body to roam the Great Void.
He had cultivated body and spirit together, and had created the Primordial Spirit Guide, and after cultivating it for a time in the Six Harmonies realm, no peer could match the sheer magnitude of his spirit; even Xu Shenghua was a notch beneath him. Yet beside the First Ancestor Human Emperor, his spirit was the lesser.
The First Ancestor's primordial spirit and fleshly body were joined in perfect oneness: a stir of the heart became an attack of the body, a stir of the spirit became a divine power of vital essence, a stir of the will unified the two. And so the First Ancestor's attacks were incomparably swift; no one could withstand that tempest of blows. Body and divine power alike were perfectly unified—this was a perfect divine-power user. A true god in his youth!
And yet this man, so powerful, so seemingly invincible, had turned deserter when the calamity and the great war broke out at the end of the Kaihuang era. If even such a being fled the battlefield, unwilling to live and die alongside his comrades, then how strong must the enemy have been?
"Stop tearing them. .
. " Shen Mu gasped.
The First Ancestor went on tearing the books, shredding the Third Ancestor's lifeblood to scraps. "What use is there in keeping them? " he said mildly.
"The man who wrote these books was trash when he lived, and the books are trash as well. As trash, they only take up space; better to tear them. And so it is with you.
In time you will be trash like them—even if you cultivate to my level, you will still be trash. " A sneer came over his face.
He walked to the Second Ancestor's shelf, took down a book and tore it too, saying with a cold laugh, "They made Heaven Above their lifelong adversary.
Heh—is Heaven Above even worthy of it?
Heaven Above is a dog! And they could not even beat a dog, yet they spoke of counterattack? You are trash as well.
You cannot even beat me—what damned ambition, what damned ideals?
Go home early.
Find a woman, get a child. . .
" Shen Mu rushed at him with a roar of fury. The spirit fetus at his brow merged with his soul to become his primordial spirit; spirit and body became one. In the First Ancestor he saw the reason for the other's strength, and at once he made it his own.
"I told you to stop tearing them!
" His speed surged, and the power of his palms became vast and dreadful—but the next instant he was struck flying by the First Ancestor. "Great Luo Heaven-Star Palm Force!
" Shen Mu came at him again.
Boom—again he was hurled backward.
Bang.
Bang, bang.
Dull heavy blows rang through the Human Emperor Hall. After a long while they ceased, and the First Ancestor Human Emperor looked at Shen Mu, who was struggling to his feet, and shook his head.
"Still not giving up?