Chapter 704 — Climbing onto a Giant's Shoulder
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She drew a strand from the divine radiance about her body and divided it into seven, refining seven bright, gleaming pearls. She gave them to the Woodcutter, the Imperial Preceptor Jingping, the First Ancestor, Yama, and Xu Shenghua, and also to Shen Mu and Yan Jingjing.
Yan Jingjing hastily declined. "I have done nothing. I dare not accept it."
Lady Tianyin laughed. "It is for that young sweetheart of yours. Keep it for him."
Yan Jingjing's face reddened slightly, and she put the divine pearl away.
They walked out of the Tianyin Realm and saw the sunlight of the outside world, and all of them felt ease in body and mind.
"Disciple, do you know now what a truly clever man looks like?" the Woodcutter Sage said with a smile.
Shen Mu laughed too. "Because you were standing on the shoulders of this giant. Without me creating the art that revives Lady Tianyin, you would have had no way at all to deduce the foundational runes of the Tianyin Realm."
"The shoulders of a giant?"
The Woodcutter Sage roared with laughter. Teleportation array patterns whirled about him, and with a whistle he was gone, vanishing without a trace.
"Human Emperor Shen, farewell." Yama's figure retreated backward, darkness surged up behind him, and he vanished.
The Imperial Preceptor Jingping said, "Hierarch, you and I shall meet again at Jingping." With that, he too teleported away.
Shen Mu looked toward the First Ancestor Human Emperor. The First Ancestor shook his head. "I cannot stay to keep you company. I have urgent business." With that he rose into the air and vanished as a streak of divine light.
"Truly a clever lot."
Shen Mu sighed and, without turning his head, said, "Brother Xu, I did not mean you."
Xu Shenghua burst out laughing and strode off into the empty air. His figure flickered in and out of sight, and one lotus blossom after another bloomed in the sky.