Chapter 559 — The Peak of This Life
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The instant his voice ceased, the bones toppled down once more. "Too uncanny. This ill-omened place is too uncanny. .
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" Steadying his mind, Shen Mu resolved to leave this ill-omened place as soon as he could.
"Perhaps once I am out of here, the Youdu tongue in my head will vanish, and I will no longer know the writing in the book.
Eh?
My cultivation seems to have risen somewhat.
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" Examining himself, he could not help but be amazed: in this brief span his cultivation had actually climbed a great deal!
He had opened a passage between his divine treasury and his Seven Stars Divine Treasury, and his cultivation had grown immensely deep and powerful—not much weaker than an ordinary expert of the Celestial Being realm—though such depth also made his progress in training seem somewhat slow. Yet in this brief moment he could feel his cultivation rising by a great measure—progress that could only be called terrifying!
"Something is wrong, something is wrong.
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There is something off in all this.
There must be some trick hidden in this ancient book.
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" Examining himself carefully, Shen Mu at last discovered where the wrongness lay. Within his body he found a closed gate! A gate set opposite his Primal Embryo Divine Treasury! Another Primal Embryo Divine Treasury!
"This seems a little off. Was it not said that a person has only one Primal Embryo Divine Treasury?
How could there be a second? I am not two people. .
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Then again, no one ever told me a person cannot have two. Hmm, this must be the work of the Tyrant Body. . .
" Pinning the second Primal Embryo Divine Treasury on the Tyrant Body, Shen Mu found it perfectly reasonable and did not dwell on it further. He surged his cultivation against the gate; it opened a crack, and stream after stream of pure demonic qi poured out, merging with his vital qi, while strange demonic sounds rang out from within the gate, forcing his cultivation back. He stopped at once.
"This Primal Embryo Divine Treasury is a treasury of the demonic path, not of the divine path!
When I opened my own Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, I heard arcane words of the gods; now demonic words sound out, driving my cultivation back, refusing to let me open the demonic Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. .
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I had better ask the village head.
He understands the Tyrant Body best; he is sure to resolve my doubts! " Setting the matter aside for now, Shen Mu raised his head and surveyed his surroundings. That military governor called Wei Liao had pointed out the way to him; he need only head east to walk out of this ill-omened land.
It was only that the breadth of the great marsh exceeded his expectations. He fixed his direction and pressed on.
After a long while he had walked a thousand li and still had not left the great marsh. Along the way he saw many lakes within it, great and small, numbering in the hundreds, all filled with water—scars left by battles of antiquity. Shen Mu came to the edge of one lake and felt terrifying pulses of dread welling up from within. "These lakes are the traces left by divine powers when gods and demons fought. " Shen Mu proceeded with great caution and did not approach.
The might of the ancient gods' and demons' abilities lingered still, hidden at the lake bottoms; such powers must be terribly unstable, and to step rashly into a lake might bring something dreadful to pass.
Just then he beheld a strange sight: rosy light rose steaming from the lake, and from within that glow came a tinkling ring, like the delicate chime of treasures striking one another, very pleasing to the ear.
Shen Mu halted to watch. The rosy light grew ever denser, and within it he could dimly make out lotus petals spinning one by one. A great lotus dais rose slowly from the water—though the dais seemed to have been smashed, its petals fallen away.