Chapter 749 — You Tianzun Smiles Through Sorrow
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"Brother Shen, Brother Mu!"
Yin Tianzi appeared behind that young man and laughed. "And Senior Niu Ben! You have stirred up a catastrophe of monstrous proportions! This Jade Pool is the Empress's domain. You have smashed it to ruins—the Empress will surely find some way to make you pay. Yu Tianzun, these three are the very Brother Shen Kai and Brother Mu Qing I spoke to you of, and Senior Niu Ben."
Only now did Ling Tianzun learn Shen Mu's and the others' "names"—and false names at that.
She threw her whole heart into her studies and was dull to all else; feeling that Shen Mu and Kai Huang must be kindred spirits, she had forgotten to ask their names.
Shen Mu looked at the young man and thought, "So he is Yu Tianzun? The first to open the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury?"
Yu Tianzun was the man who had fixed the divine treasury cultivation system, and perhaps the one who would open the Heavenly Palace cultivation system as well. To open the Spirit Embryo, even to have one's Primordial Spirit ascend to the Heavenly Palace—for later ages these things were commonplace; though ascending to the Heavenly Palace remained difficult, countless deities through the ages had achieved it.
Yet for the people of that ancient age, who did not even know what cultivation was, this was nothing short of a feat to split heaven from earth!
To conjure the divine treasury cultivation system out of thin air—Yu Tianzun was surely worthy of the title Tianzun.
Shen Mu studied Yu Tianzun: a man like jade, warm and mild, untroubled, standing there like a tree of jade blossoms, his eyes like dew-drops, exquisite, his heart filled with bright apertures.
Shen Mu saluted him and smiled. "I have long heard of Yu Tianzun's great name; only today do I meet you. Truly the reputation is well deserved."
Yu Tianzun said, "Brother Mu and Brother Shen, your dao arts and divine powers are magnificent and grand. Your clash just now shook the Jade Pool, and made us all understand that beyond a man there is always another, and beyond heaven, another heaven. Senior Niu Ben, too, astonished the Heavenly Court with his peerless skill, to everyone's envy. Pardon my poor eyes and dull ears—I have never before heard the illustrious names of you three. May I ask, where do you come from?"
Shen Mu and Kai Huang exchanged a glance, and Kai Huang said politely, "We are men from a small place. Yu Tianzun's fame resounds through the world, and this time you have held the Jade Pool Grand Gathering, so hearing the news we came. Only, we two are of poor temper, and at a word out of place we fell to fighting—somewhat rash, and we beg Yu Tianzun's pardon."
Yu Tianzun laughed. "That is no matter. This place has been ruined; I have already sent men to repair it. This is no place for talk. May I ask you three to move on to the Jade Pool Lodge? That is the Empress's secondary palace, much sturdier than this place."
Ling Tianzun was somewhat unwilling, and was about to speak, when Yu Tianzun smiled gently. "Ling Tianzun, your palace was destroyed too, and you have nowhere to rest now. Come along to the Empress's palace."
Ling Tianzun thought it over and had to nod.
Yu Tianzun led the way, his eyes flickering. "Brother Shen, Brother Mu, I observe that your dao arts and divine powers transcend the mundane, your divine arts entered the realm of the sages, surpassing the common run of beings beyond all counting. Your attainments are so high that even I cannot fathom them. May I ask from what lineage and origins you come?"
"Just muddling through blindly," Shen Mu said sullenly.
Kai Huang laughed. "We two have bad tempers—the moment we meet, we fight. And as we fought, our dao arts and divine powers improved. Yu Tianzun is the true genius, who founded the divine treasures and blessed later ages—most admirable."