Chapter 560 — Breaking Through the Clouds to See the Blue Sky
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" He manifested the Zhen Star Lord form once more; the Heaven-Bearing Gate appeared again, and that ancient scroll took shape once more. He opened the scroll, yet did not read it aloud; page by page he recited it in silence, committing the Youdu tongue within the book to memory. Half an hour later he had the Youdu tongue in the book entirely by heart, and only then did he disperse the Zhen Star Lord form; the Heaven-Bearing Gate behind him vanished of itself.
"I have seen the Heaven-Bearing Gate only upon the statue at the bottom of the Nether Valley that appears to be an Overlord Body, yet that statue bore no scroll in its hands. Among all the divine beings and divine ability users I have met, it seems I alone gain an ancient volume in my hand when I manifest the Zhen Star Lord form. " Shen Mu pondered hard, and after a while he worked it out: "That Overlord Body statue at the bottom of the Nether Valley is in truth a false Overlord Body, just like Xu Shenghua.
Only a true Overlord Body would have such an ancient volume appear in its hand! I will have to ask the Village Head when I get back; he knows more than I do!
" Having grasped this key point, he was at last at ease, and put the matter from his mind.
The Youdu tongue came from his lips once more as he recited the contents of the book and ran eastward. Surge after surge of demonic qi came rushing in and drilled into the space between his brows, raising his demonic cultivation higher and higher. This time there was no anomaly of the dead returning to life; that revival of the dead must have been the work of the ancient scroll.
Shen Mu set his mind at rest: so long as he did not bring out that scroll, the Youdu tongue within it was simply a marvelous mode of cultivation, and he need not fear disturbing Youdu and being hunted down by the underworld's ghost officers. He raced on; wherever he passed, demonic qi was drawn after him in a straight line like beacon smoke stretched taut, so that he looked not like a divine ability user but like a great demon lord howling as he ran.
Suddenly he stopped reciting the demonic tongue of Youdu; from his mouth came instead a profound and obscure divine tongue, as his demonic essence battered the gateway of the demonic-path Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. At once a demonic tongue sounded in his mind, as though rising from the Nine Springs far down in the darkness, uncanny and unfathomable, disturbing his demonic essence and blocking him from breaking open that gateway. The divine tongue on his lips likewise held a strange power, contending with that suddenly arisen demonic tongue.
In years past, when Shen Mu had opened his Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, a divine tongue had likewise seemed to come from above the Nine Heavens, disturbing his spirit embryo as it broke through the wall; he had borrowed the demonic tongue and the Buddhist tongue to force the wall open, and only thus had he been able to cultivate his spirit embryo.
That time could only be counted a stroke of luck. Now he did the same; his mastery of the divine tongue was by then immeasurably greater than it had been, and using it to contend with the demonic tongue from the Nine Springs came as easily as his own hand, letting his demonic essence flow unimpeded and hammer the embryo wall!
Boom, a thunderous roar came from within his body; another Primal Embryo Divine Treasury was burst open in one rush, his demonic cultivation soaring at once and drawing in ever more demonic qi, while the demonic tongue from the Nine Springs broke off abruptly.
"In this Primal Embryo Divine Treasury there is no demonic-path spirit embryo! " Shen Mu was astonished: this demonic-path Primal Embryo Divine Treasury of his was utterly empty, holding only a spirit altar, and upon the altar were branded all manner of bizarre demonic-path glyphs.
"The Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art!