Chapter 672 — The Youth Bestows the Art
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
" He expounded the Three Primal Gods' Indestructible Divine Consciousness. As the crowd listened, the astonishment on their faces deepened. When Shen Mu had earlier expounded the Creation Mystic Sutra, there had been many obscure and hard passages — plainly places where Shen Mu himself had not digested it fully. But in expounding the Three Primal Gods' Indestructible Divine Consciousness he seemed to have become the art's founder himself; his comprehension of it was far beyond mere thoroughness.
He was as the Crimson Emperor reborn, personally preaching the Way and teaching the art to them!
And in truth, though it was Shen Mu who expounded the art, what Shen Mu spoke was the Crimson Emperor's own understanding — for the Crimson Emperor had handed over to him, in full, all his thought and consciousness concerning the Three Primal Gods' Indestructible Divine Consciousness! For the Crimson Emperor himself to preach the Way was no small thing! Indeed, as Shen Mu had said, the two arts complemented and interpenetrated each other; many points the Headman and the others had not grasped before were opened at a single touch when they heard Shen Mu expound them, and the crowd nodded again and again.
"To think that after teaching Shen'er all these years, in the end we should become his students.
" The Pill Master was filled with emotion, and he laughed. As Shen Mu lectured on, his own comprehension of the Flawless Creation Mystic Sutra grew deeper and deeper; method after method became clear without his comprehending them, and divine ability after divine ability grew refined without his cultivating them. His heart was like a bright mirror; he grasped every exquisite point of the Creation Mystic Sutra.
When he had finished expounding the Three Primal Gods' Indestructible Divine Consciousness, his body suddenly shook violently, and he cried out, "I know why the Bright Emperor was defeated, and why the Crimson Brightness era perished! Without the Indestructible Divine Consciousness, the Creation Mystic Sutra carries an enormous flaw!
" The Headman's aptitude and comprehension were exceedingly high, and he grasped it at once. In a heavy voice he said, "The Bright Emperor's primal spirit could not refine the other two heads of the three-headed, six-armed form, nor the other four arms.
Whoever killed him must have cut off his two heads and sheared away his four arms!
This Bright Emperor must have died most miserably! "