Chapter 729 — Proving the Dao with a Fist
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
This time he came running to ask me out of my mountain retreat.
Asking me out of retreat is nothing, come, let us have a bout.
Yet before I had put forth any strength, he was lying in a stinking ditch. " Shen Mu smiled, cold sweat starting on his forehead. He could well imagine how wretched the Woodcutter Sage had looked then.
When a scholar meets a soldier, no amount of reason avails. The divine-ability wielders of the continental heavens drew near, and Shen Mu blinked.
These people must be divine-ability wielders from the kingdoms of the continental heavens, yet oddly, not one of them was truly human.
Bird head on human body, beast head on human body; some bore turtle shells on their backs, some were covered in beast fur, some had three heads and six arms, some had many heads and many eyes.
"The god race of the Kaihuang era!
" Shen Mu narrowed his eyes.
He also caught sight of several divine-ability wielders of the White Bat god race!
In this Douniu Heavenly Palace, everyone was in fact a descendant of the god race of the Kaihuang era!
"Sect Master, there are women among the White Bat god race! " the Dragon Qilin whispered, lowering his voice. "Fu Yuqiu and Fu Yuchun of Nether Valley will be overjoyed. " Shen Mu recalled those two white bats of Nether Valley and could not help smiling, and then the smile turned to a look of worry.
The old farmer, leading the old ox, walked along the spirit bridge toward the South Heaven Gate, unhurried.
"Do not celebrate yet.
If you want to go by the rules of the jianghu, then do as they do: first let them test whether you are worthy. Come, you will go with them through the South Heaven Gate, and fight your way all the way to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. " Shen Mu said hurriedly, "Heavenly Master, I am still of the Heavenly Human realm; I cannot enter the South Heaven Gate!
Why not a fair duel? " "A fair duel?
" The old farmer turned his head, and his deeply wrinkled face showed mockery. "When the Heavenly Court Beyond the Domain and the Kaihuang Heavenly Court went to war, was that ever fair?
Fight your way to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and I will let you carry the woodcutter out!
" On the spirit bridge, the god race of the continental heavens fell in behind the old ox, one after another, their manner reverent; the old ox unhurriedly followed the old farmer toward the South Heaven Gate.
Shen Mu too was in the crowd. Quietly he lifted the willow leaf and looked at these god-race folk, and could not help blinking: every one of them was in the Life and Death realm! All of them were exceedingly robust, their cultivation exceedingly high, yet not one had cultivated a spirit bridge!
Everyone's spirit bridge was severed, severed even more utterly than the spirit bridges of the divine-ability wielders of Jingping!
The divine-ability wielders of Jingping still had spirit bridges, broken though they were; so long as they cultivated the three formulas Shen Mu had passed down, the Magpie Bridge Formula, the Mystic Guidance Formula, and the Divine Crossing Formula, they could mend their spirit bridges and fly across the South Heaven Gate. But the god race dwelling in the heavens of Douniu Heavenly Palace had their spirit bridges utterly severed, and the realm of the spirit bridge no longer existed for them.
With the realm of the spirit bridge gone, the three formulas could not mend their bridges either, and so they could never cultivate to godhood. In other words, every one of the god race who multiplied and lived upon this continent would, for the whole of their lives, be trapped at the realm of the Life-and-Death Sacred Treasury.
"What is going on here?
" Shen Mu wondered.
"Why are their spirit bridges severed so utterly? " His heart was full of doubt, and the god race were just as curious about him; seeing that he had an eye growing from his forehead, they could not resist staring again and again.