Chapter 589 — The Divine Eye Between the Brows First Wakes
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Stranger still, Shen Mu had unified these exquisitely detailed arts, using the fusion of primordial spirit and body to bind them into one, discarding the dross and keeping the essence, so that cultivation systems once so complex as to be all but impossible to merge were made into a single whole. This was Shen Mu's greatest innovation of all! "Shen'er's Mystic Body Three-Core Art is truly peerless!
" Granny Zhu, the Lame Elder, and the others praised it again and again, each with the feeling of clouds parting to reveal the sun; in former days they had all cultivated some single aspect with bitter devotion, tempering that one aspect to the divine realm, and beyond that there was no road—they had not known how they might cultivate the other parts of the body as well. "The difficulty of Shen'er's art lies in this: that in practice it is still too complex. By an ordinary art, it would take dozens of different arts to accomplish what he does, and yet he has simplified them into one.
" Zaifu said in heartfelt admiration: "The crucial point is that he has joined his primordial spirit and his body into one—the Five Luminaries correspond to the five viscera and six bowels, the twin stars of sun and moon to the two eyes, the Six Harmonies Continent formed of the Spirit Terrace to the dantian.
Thus the arts can be unified.
" Granny Zhu nodded. "That is the most exquisite point of the Mystic Body Three-Core Art. Without this method of fusing primordial spirit and body into one, he could not have unified them.
Shen'er, did you learn this from the gods and demons of Taihuang Heaven? " Shen Mu's face fell, and he shook his head. "This method—I comprehended it from the First Ancestor, the Human Emperor. " "The First Ancestor, the Human Emperor?
" The people of Yincan Village were at once roused, praising him one after another. "That senior was indeed mighty beyond measure! This method of cultivation has solved the greatest problem that has plagued us for years!
" Shen Mu's heart sank all the more.
Zaifu and Granny Zhu and the others had not spoken amiss: the reason his Mystic Body Three-Core Art could reach great completion lay, at the root, in the fusion of primordial spirit and body into an inseparable whole.
And this was precisely what he had learned from the First Ancestor, the Human Emperor. He had taken the defeat of the First Ancestor, the Human Emperor, as his goal, and it was for this that he had entered Taihuang Heaven, cultivating with bitter diligence, comprehending with all his heart, learning what was strong in the gods and demons of Taihuang Heaven. Yet it had never once occurred to him that what would truly bring him his vast breakthrough was still the First Ancestor, the Human Emperor.
He wished to defeat the First Ancestor, the Human Emperor; and now it seemed that even at the same realm, it would be very, very hard indeed. Still, he had one more means!
"Granny, Grandpa Tu—this is only half the pathways of my Mystic Body Three-Core Art," Shen Mu said suddenly. Granny Zhu, Zaifu, and the others were studying that body of vital essence in fine detail, learning from it whatever might be of use to them; at these words they were slightly startled, and cried out, "This is only half of the Mystic Body Three-Core Art? " Shen Mu nodded, and the body of vital essence before him changed at once: one demon-path divine treasury after another appeared, the pathways of the art split in two, revealing the demon-path art. The hearts of all present were greatly shaken; they could not speak.
Demon-path divine treasuries. These were not treasuries that the human race could cultivate! Within Shen Mu's body there were in fact two kinds of divine treasury, and he had unified them; the two kinds corresponded to one another, their vital essence mirrored each other, coursing along the same paths!