Chapter 750 — Storm Clouds over the Immortal Pool
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
He pushed his way through the crowd and said, "Hao Tianzun is half human and half god, possessing a human body and divine blood. That it was an experiment is chiefly this: in those years, after I opened the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, the Great Dao of heaven and earth was changed, and the people of the world became able to cultivate. Even then I had sensed that other divine treasuries existed.
Some of the ancient gods believed that demigods could not cultivate, and that in time the demigods would be crushed beneath us who wield divine powers.
So they set about seeking a way to solve the demigods' inability to cultivate, and thus came Hao Tianzun. " Shen Mu and Kai Huang followed him, and hearing these words their hearts were shaken. The appearance of Hao Tianzun might well have been a contest between the living beings born of heaven and the demigods. Shen Mu asked, "If a demigod transforms into a human, can he not cultivate then? " "You know of this too, Brother Mu? " Yu Tianzun was greatly startled. He looked at Shen Mu with a look of astonishment and uncertainty, and after a moment said, "If a demigod transforms into a human, he gains a human's divine treasury and can indeed cultivate. But demigods are a higher race; they disdain to change into human form. And in those years they had not discovered this path, nor was there any art that could make a demigod transform into a human.
It was not until recently that Hao Tianzun solved this problem.
He created a cultivation art that allows demigods to cultivate a human body.
This matter has not yet been announced to the world, and you, Brother Mu, know of it.
Truly your powers are vast!
" Shen Mu's heart went cold, and he inwardly cursed himself for having let his tongue slip again. In later ages, arts that let alien races cultivate into human form were common enough, and that was why he had voiced the doubt, forgetting that in this age no such method yet existed. Yu Tianzun did not press him, and went on: "The ancient gods saw far. The demigods grow, and when they grow to adulthood their strength is scarcely inferior to the ancient gods; but their lifespan is not long, and they cannot escape birth, age, sickness and death. At that time I did not bend my mind to opening other divine treasuries, but to how the wielders of divine powers might live as long and deathless as the gods. To be long-lived alone is not the way of immortality; the long life I have was granted me by Tubo, and I felt I must seek out a road to immortality for all living beings. Some decades passed, and Hao Tianzun opened the Five Luminaries Divine Treasury. Only then did I wake; but before I could study the Five Luminaries treasury to the bottom, Ling Tianzun had opened the Six Directions Divine Treasury. " He looked at Ling Tianzun and smiled.
"Ling Tianzun studied the Five Luminaries treasury at the same time as I, yet she opened the Six Directions treasury before me; her intelligence and talent, then, stand above mine.
" Ling Tianzun urged them, "Hurry and find us a place to settle. There are far too many people here, and I still want to study divine arts with Brother Mu and Brother Shen!