Chapter 577 — The Ancestral Dragon's Grand Mystery Art
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Cultivating it, one could form the Ancestral Dragon's primordial spirit; one's comprehension of the dragon race's divine abilities could be raised to the Dao Realm, and one's comprehension of the flesh could reach that level as well. It was an art that defied heaven itself!
"It even surpasses my Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art!
" Shen Mu could not help but sigh.
After taking leave of Zhe Huali in Taihuang Heaven, he had fallen into the state of entering the Dao through his art, and had reordered every art and divine ability within the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, bringing it to its most perfect state; unfortunately a crowd of demon experts had interrupted his fusion with the Sacred Pupil. Even so, he had taken his first step into entering the Dao through his art.
Yet entering the Dao through one's art was not the same as a Dao Realm art: his entering the Dao through his art could bring his flesh, his primordial spirit, and his divine abilities all to the state of a youthful true god. A Dao Realm art was a notch higher still: it could bring divine abilities to the Dao Realm, the flesh to the Dao Realm, the primordial spirit to the Dao Realm, and it held arts for what came after entering the realm of the gods.
"This art is fine, but it suits the dragon race better. If I were to cultivate the Ancestral Dragon's Grand Mystery Art, my achievements would surely be less than Jiang Miao's.
For me, only what suits me best is the best art.
" Shen Mu's heart eased. Fine as the Ancestral Dragon's Grand Mystery Art was, he still chose the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art. Yet the Ancestral Dragon's Grand Mystery Art was still of great benefit to him: he could borrow its methods of tempering to temper his flesh, his primordial spirit, and his divine abilities, and so perfect his own Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art.
These tempering methods were called the Ancestral Dragon's Eight Tones, an exceedingly overbearing set of methods, divided into the Adhesive Tone, the Slaying Tone, the Snatching Tone, the Captivating Tone, the Pulling Tone, the Spinning Tone, the Hammering Tone, and the Tempering Tone.
Shen Mu set about trying them at once. His vital essence moved, vibrating to a strange rhythm; the Adhesive Tone burst forth, and at once his vital essence turned unspeakably sluggish, quivering at an extreme frequency. In a single instant Shen Mu felt a wondrous change come over his flesh: his blood grew thick and sticky, and as it ran it gave off a terrifying roar, like an avalanche upon a high mountain!
Yet as his qi and blood coursed, they grew more majestic still, a mountain ten thousand fathoms high, an avalanche that shook heaven and earth.
When his qi and blood reached his palm, the palm swelled to the size of a palm-leaf fan, and the vital essence moving at its center gave out a peal like thunder. He tempered his blood vessels with the Adhesive Tone, ran one full circuit, then dispersed the tone, and at once felt clear in spirit and refreshed in body.
Then Shen Mu roused the Slaying Tone. The Slaying Tone shook his spirit, tempering it to utter purity.
He roused the Snatching Tone, and his three souls were nearly shaken apart. The Snatching Tone tempers the souls, the Captivating Tone tempers the earthly spirit, the Pulling Tone tempers the heart, the Spinning Tone tempers the spirit, the Hammering Tone tempers sinew and bone, and the Tempering Tone tempers the heart of the Dao.
Shen Mu tried each of them in turn, and came to understand the Ancestral Dragon's Eight Tones.
Then, in high spirits, he waved his vital essence about and used it to build the pathways along which his Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art ran, trying to blend the Ancestral Dragon's Eight Tones into it. Before him the various tracks of vital essence took the shape of a human body, yet look closely and one could see a far more intricate structure within.