Chapter 587 — The Demon Race's Tempered Body
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Many divine ability users of Taihuang Heaven had already gathered at the Wuwang City watchtower, and among them were some from Jingping, including scholars of the Tiansheng Academy. Seeing Shen Mu, Grandmother Zhu, and the others come to the watchtower, they could not help but be both startled and delighted, and came forward one after another to greet them: "Libationer! Teacher Si, Teacher Blind! " There were also scholars of the Lanjiang Academy, who saluted Grand Libationer Bashan, and the place grew very noisy.
Bashan laughed with a heh-heh.
"You little brats run fast, all right - you got here before I did.
" He was the Grand Libationer of the Lanjiang Academy, and this time he had come not chiefly to look for Zai Fu, but intending to seek in Taihuang Heaven a way to break through; passing by the Tiansheng Academy, he had seen Zai Fu preparing to set out, and so had hurried after him. The affairs of the Lanjiang Academy he had handed over to the Grand Champion General Ma Dingshan, himself a great master whose strength was not far from his own. After the wars that pacified the realm, Emperor Yanfeng had kept the office of Grand Champion General and further appointed him Libationer of the Lanjiang Academy, to assist Bashan.
Here too were disciples of the Jiangling Academy and the Yongjiang Academy. The Grand Libationer of the Jiangling Academy was the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, while the Grand Libationer of the Yongjiang Academy was the High Minister Su Yunzhi, aided by Yuyuan Chuyun and Yuyuan Chuyu. Su Yunzhi had once sent Yuyuan Chuyu to find Shen Mu, to borrow the Yongjiang Dragon Emperor's Lord Dragonkeeper and the Hundred-Year Mountain God Baixi to give lectures at the Yongjiang Academy.
Shen Mu had not been at the Tiansheng Academy at the time; it was Snow Fox and Si Yunxiang who received Yuyuan Chuyu, and who secured a lecture fee for Lord Dragonkeeper and the god Baixi, so that the scholars of the Yongjiang Academy might regularly go to the Yongjiang River and Hundred-Year Mountain to offer sacrifice. The god Baixi wept tears of gratitude. After the crowd had made its noise, Shen Mu asked Zai Fu, "Grandpa Tu, what did you mean just now by the Throne's cultivation art?
Do the divine abilities of the gods have ranks as well? " Zai Fu said, "I crossed the divine bridge and climbed to the Heavenly Palace, but I could only stand outside the Southern Heavenly Gate.
Yet through the Southern Heavenly Gate I could look far into the Heavenly Palace, and dimly make out several holy places, vast and majestic, sacred beyond compare. So I guessed that the gods are divided into several realms, and that these must be marked by those holy places. And the highest, the most sacred of them all is the Throne in the Lingxiao Hall of the Heavenly Palace!
" The crowd pressed in around him, and Zai Fu's head began to ache. "I don't understand the realms of the gods at all!
How exactly the realms are divided, I've no idea. Silent Craftsman, Silent Craftsman, come here - they're all gawking at me like a herd of dumb deer! You know more, you tell them! " Silent Craftsman set down his box, drew out his tobacco pipe, took two puffs, and said slowly, "Ah, ah, ah-ba. .
. " The scholars of the Imperial Academy clearly knew the rules, and at once looked to the Deaf Elder. The Deaf Elder stared at Silent Craftsman, and saw him breathe out a mouthful of smoke, which turned into a gateway. The Deaf Elder said, "The first realm of the gods is outside the Southern Heavenly Gate.
It is called the Venerable God - one has only just flown across the divine bridge, and has not yet entered the hall.
Walking in through the Southern Heavenly Gate is the second realm, the True God. But only when every aspect of the body has been cultivated to the divine realm can one withstand the crushing weight of the Southern Heavenly Gate and walk in through it.