Chapter 709 — An Ageless Friendship with the Old Man of the Netherworld
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Tian Shu had sobered up more than half. He muttered to himself, "Set my heart at ease? I don't even know where my body is right now. If it's still alive, my heart must be about to leap out of my mouth.
. . " Long Qilin and Qi Jiuyi knew nothing of this.
The two fellows were still drinking. Long Qilin poured the wine straight down his throat, and a whole jar was soon drained.
Qi Jiuyi, however, had thrust his head into a jar. The mouth of the jar was rather wide, and his head fit in with room to spare.
Long Qilin chuckled without end. "Third Brother, drinking like that, you'll suffocate yourself. Third Brother, Third Brother. . . " His expression shifted slightly. He saw Qi Jiuyi's head stuck in the jar, his body motionless. Long Qilin was about to rescue him when suddenly Qi Jiuyi's head popped out of the jar.
He grinned. "Scared you, Second Brother? Your head's too big—you couldn't fit it in. Drinking with your head in a jar is especially satisfying.
I can even stick nine heads into nine jars.
Wait a moment. . . " He staggered to a door, opened it, and carried out nine wine jars.
He opened them, shook his body, and revealed nine heads—nine phoenix heads.
With a series of plops, the nine heads plunged into the nine jars and drank. Shen Mu watched and could not help shaking his head. Qi Jiuyi was an outstanding young man of the Outer Heaven Court. Named Jiuyi, he was naturally a man of exceptional intelligence. But the blow he had suffered was too great, and he had sunk to the level of calling that fat dragon his brother.
Sooner or later, this scene today would become a great stain on his life. "Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha's cultivation art has a flaw. The divine blade Dique he forged will have a weak point. There, I can open the Gate of Heaven's Mandate to connect to Youdu.
The key is where this flaw is.
. . " Shen Mu's eyes flickered.
Using his vital essence, he constructed the corporeal form and primordial spirit form of Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha. He transformed the Emperor Shakra Heaven King Sutra into a diagram of vital essence circulation and filled it into the structures of the corporeal body and primordial spirit, calculating carefully. "This flaw is in constant motion. " Shen Mu calculated for several months. His gaze fixed on a certain point in the vital essence circulation within Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha's body. That point was the weak spot in his cultivation art.
Shen Mu then used his own vital essence to construct the dual structure of the divine blade Dique. He imagined himself as Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha, forging this divine blade.
As the cultivation art was activated, the flaw in his own art would unconsciously merge into the divine blade Dique during the forging. Clang, clang, clang—the sound of forging echoed in his ears, stroke after stroke. Shen Mu's brain raced madly. Various symbols of divination and calculation leaped ceaselessly in his mind.
After an unknown length of time, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and laughed aloud. "I've calculated it! " He looked around. Long Qilin had drunk himself unconscious and lay on the ground. Qi Jiuyi, in his drunkenness, had reverted to his true form—a nine-headed phoenix lying in the corridor, one phoenix leg pinned under Long Qilin, nine heads thrust into nine rooms.
Tian Shu was faring better. He sat on one wine jar, holding another, drinking slowly and methodically.
"Wake up, all of you, wake up!
" Shen Mu kicked Long Qilin and Qi Jiuyi and laughed. "We can leave now.
" Qi Jiuyi sobered up and looked around in confusion. Long Qilin also yawned and woke.
Qi Jiuyi suddenly remembered that he had sworn brotherhood with this Long Qilin and the Left Junior Assistant of the Kaihuang Heaven Court. His face flushed red, and his heart was filled with unease. Tian Shu came over carrying a wine jar, his goat hooves clicking crisply on the ground.