Chapter 647 — Utterly Convinced
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Shen Mu gave himself over wholly to copying down the runes upon the Creation God Wheel — the dullest ink outlasts the best memory — and as he transcribed them, insights came crowding into his mind; some runes yielded their meaning of their own accord after a single copying, and along the way he grasped several divine abilities for the creation of the flesh. Yet far more of the runic imprints would need deduction and calculation before their mysteries could be known. "I really ought to have brought along several hundred, several thousand Jingping scholars to study and copy these together — the speed would be unimaginable.
In multitude there is wisdom; with so many scholars copying at once, all manner of ingenious notions would surely come bursting forth!
" Such was the use of an imperial dynasty: talents of every description could be gathered by the batch and set to research on a grand scale, with astonishing speed, surpassing any lone endeavor by who knew how many times. "A pity Chi Xi is the sort who never softens until he is beaten; only a sound thrashing will make him docile and willing to cooperate with us.
" Shen Mu tried lighting the runes of the Creation God Wheel with his own vital energy, spurring them through their changes as he went on copying, thinking: "The First Ancestor's ability is not bad; I only wonder whether he can subdue him. " Within the Chiming Heaven-Suppressing Tower, the First Ancestor Human Emperor fought with peerless valor, battling his way upward from the three hundredth floor.
This tower was a mighty treasure for suppressing the heavenly palace, of extraordinary power; the divine weapons enshrined on every floor were the most famed divine weapons of the Chiming Era, and those weapons formed a single set, six in all. When the god Chi Xi drove them with his own magic power, their might erupted and his strength leapt up a whole great tier; moreover, outside every floor hung a thousand treasures woven into an array, and the might of that thousand-treasure array was immense, attacking the First Ancestor Human Emperor alongside him.
The thousand divine weapons quivered, wave upon wave of divine majesty bombarding the First Ancestor within the tower, while the six mighty treasures in Chi Xi's hands whirled up and down, their divine majesty surging to the heavens — and then the First Ancestor Human Emperor beat them down outright, shattering the thousand-treasure array outside the tower, blasting Chi Xi away and forcing him to fall back to the next floor down. The higher he climbed, the greater the might of the treasures enshrined and the stronger the arrays of divine weapons hanging without; by the time the First Ancestor Human Emperor had fought his way to the eight hundredth floor, he too felt the strain beyond measure.
In truth, past the three hundredth floor it was scarcely Chi Xi controlling these mighty treasures anymore — it was the treasures wielding Chi Xi; his own cultivation had become negligible beside the power of the treasures and the might of the arrays!
The First Ancestor Human Emperor was contending with the treasures and arrays of the Chiming Heaven-Suppressing Tower itself, forcing his way upward against them all, fighting his way bodily to the eight hundredth floor! "If this goes on, I fear even I will be wounded.
" The First Ancestor Human Emperor's eyes flickered. "It seems Chi Xi cannot hold out much longer either," he thought. "His Leakless Battle God Art cannot achieve true leaklessness and flawlessness; he merely draws on the blood and vital energy within others to keep himself at his peak.