Chapter 746 — Rivaling the Gods
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Red patterns interwove all about his body, wrapping his frame and forming garments that were like fire and yet not fire. Behind his head appeared a strange manifestation: a vertical halo, an oval ring seemingly made of flame — whether it was true flame or not, they could not tell. "No wonder he is called Huo Tianzun.
" Shen Mu studied him with curiosity. "So this is the one who opened the Heaven-and-Man Treasury? Ling Tianzun's talent is dazzling enough already; this Huo Tianzun must be no ordinary man either!
" He had now met two of the Seven Tianzuns. Both should be at the Spirit Bridge realm — compared with those ancient gods of the Heavenly Court whose divine arts were vast, their cultivation and strength were not high.
Even set beside demigods, the Seven Tianzuns' strength was of no rank at all.
And yet it was youths and girls such as these who were called Tianzun. They were called Tianzun not for their cultivation, but for their achievements. Seeing Shen Mu, Kaihuang, and Old Ox, Huo Tianzun was slightly startled, but did not take them to heart.
He said: "You have wasted your cleverness and talent on useless things for far too long. Ever since you opened the Six Heavens Treasury, you have accomplished nothing more — all because you threw yourself wholly into proving that time does not exist!
With your wisdom and ability, had you not squandered your vigor, but devoted yourself to how the seven great Treasuries might be broken through, then the first to break through might well have been you!
" Ling Tianzun shook her head: "Yu Tianzun is cleverer than I am, and far better at maneuvering.
He was the first to open a Treasury; the reason he has done nothing these several hundred years since is that his gaze is already fixed on a higher and more distant plane.
He is the one destined to be the first to surpass the Treasuries — not I. " Huo Tianzun, angered by her refusal to strive, said: "Yu Tianzun told me himself that you are the cleverest of the seven of us. Had you bent your mind to another realm, there would have been no place for him. He said it with his own mouth! And now he has broken through and achieved a feat that stands between heaven and earth: he has made it so that divine ability users do not die, so that they may stand alongside the ancient gods. That achievement ought to have been yours!
" The peach-wood pin in Ling Tianzun's hair was shaken loose by the force of his breath, and her hair tumbled down. The girl took out a silk ribbon and tied her hair into a horsetail. She shook her head: "That is no more than a single realm. If not dying were enough to make one a god, I could have made divine ability users undying long ago.
Just now this senior brother told me that the divine art I created is called the Creation Art, and that so long as one cultivates my art, an undying body is easily won. " Huo Tianzun frowned slightly; the ring of fire behind him swayed gently. He looked at Shen Mu and shook his head: "The words of a charlatan of the rivers and lakes — and you believe them? " Shen Mu smiled faintly and made his salute: "A late-born student of little learning greets Huo Tianzun. Huo Tianzun, I have paper and brush here — would you sign your name upon the paper? I come from a small place and have never seen the world; if I could have Huo Tianzun's signature, it would bring glory to my ancestors!