Chapter 620 — The Sagely Way Handed Down Twenty Thousand Years
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
" The Woodcutter Sage's face was blank. He shook his head. "You cannot. " Shen Mu's hot blood was doused cold. He clenched his fists and said angrily, "Why can't I? Senior Brother's comprehension and understanding are a little poor, and he took 'establishing teaching' to mean founding the Heavenly Sage Sect — I am not that stupid! " The Woodcutter Sage shook his head. "Your Senior Brother is a little dull, a little foolish, but you are not much better.
Your blood runs hot too easily, and you plunge ahead by brute force.
You can be cunning at times, but you have no focus.
Your nature is flighty; everything seems fresh to you and you want to study it all. You have depths, but not deep enough.
You have conviction, but not steady enough — your Dao heart has not yet grown firm to the point where mountains and rivers may change and the heart does not.
You are not the stuff of which sages are made.
At the very least, the you of now is not enough.
" Shen Mu cried out, "I can change, I can learn! " "I cannot wait. " The Woodcutter showed a warm smile, and his voice softened. "Good disciple, I truly cannot wait that long.
" Shen Mu was struck dumb.
The Woodcutter Sage finished refining that pillar and walked on. Shen Mu followed him in silence, watching him finish teleportation pillar after teleportation pillar. After a long while, the Woodcutter Sage completed his arrangements at last.
He glanced at the somewhat dejected Shen Mu and said with a smile, "No need to wear that funeral face.
If I did not know you through and through, I would truly think, like that fellow Black Tiger, that your Dao heart is as poor as this. Come, let us go up the mountain. " The dejection vanished from Shen Mu's face, and he followed him back up to the summit of the God-Slaying Platform.
The Woodcutter Sage activated the teleportation formation.
Pillar after pillar blazed with light, the runes branded in the stone shone, casting their rune imprints into midair, where they became strange and gorgeous characters, patterns, and symbols. These symbols linked together in midair, shrieking as they spun, turning faster and faster!
Even for a being like the Woodcutter, to shift this God-Slaying Platform he must first turn his teleportation divine power into a formation and borrow the formation's might before he could teleport the Platform! In a roar of bursting light, the God-Slaying Platform howled up and flew spinning along the light!
Shen Mu stood on the divine mountain and looked back. That alien star receded farther and farther, and soon vanished from his sight.
All around was the vast, boundless dark starry sky, desolate and barren, with now and then a tiny star to be seen. Shen Mu suddenly said, "Sage Master, I think there is one person whose aptitude and understanding are better than mine, and who meets your conditions.
I would like to recommend him to you.
" The Woodcutter Sage was briefly startled, then his face lit up. "Good.
But you need not call me Sage Master any longer. Call me teacher. " "Teacher.
" A torrent of light blazed down from the sky of Luofu Heaven, shining upon the ground before an altar in Luofu Heaven. Beneath the light the ground at once revealed countless intricate rune imprints, ever shifting, and then the light vanished and the vast, magnificent God-Slaying Platform abruptly appeared!
The Woodcutter stepped down from the Platform; the great axe on his back flew up and split open a doorway leading straight to Taihuang Heaven.
"Bring him to see me.
" Shen Mu bowed. "Yes, teacher. " Taihuang Heaven, Licheng.
The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping and a crowd of scholars from the various academies and halls of learning of Jingping were designing primal soldiers for siege warfare and large-scale battle.