Chapter 750 — Storm Clouds over the Immortal Pool
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" Shen Mu nodded lightly, looking at him with a complex expression, and said silently in his heart, "In truth, you have always been the one I study.
I want to be like you, and yet not entirely like you. " "Let us go in. " Kai Huang said, "Ling Tianzun is waiting for us. " Shen Mu gathered his thoughts and went into the tower with him.
Ling Tianzun was elated beyond measure.
She laughed.
"At last I am free of those vexing affairs and can settle down to my research. What I hate most is this sort of socializing. If Yu Tianzun had not invited me, I would not have bothered to come! Let us begin quickly!
" Shen Mu smiled. "Sister Ling, this time you will lead, and we two can only assist. Where you do not understand, where you cannot deduce, we will solve it.
Of other things I dare not boast, but in the divine art of Creation and in miscellaneous learning the two of us are strong, at the very least stronger than anyone in this world!
" Kai Huang hesitated, then at last made up his mind.
"Mu Qing's tone is a little large, but it is as he says: in the universe, through the hundred thousand years before and after, even longer, there are no men more learned than the two of us.
Ling Tianzun, you sort out the thinking, and we will help you perfect it. " Ling Tianzun was overjoyed. The three of them set to work at once.
What Ling Tianzun wished to open was a divine art that would fix matter in eternal stillness; she had already found the direction and taken her first step into it, but the learning involved was far too much and too various, and the divine art of Creation was only one part of it. Fortunately, Shen Mu and Kai Huang were both widely and variously learned, and their mastery of the arts of number was rare in the world. One problem after another of Ling Tianzun's was solved by them. In this research they were unaware of the turning of sun and moon; imperceptibly half a month passed.
Old Niu was of a patient nature and could sit still. He sat before the tower, drinking tea and smoking his water pipe, only now and then feeling a little stifled, and thinking, "This Empress's detached palace is truly shabby. Why are there not a few rice fields about? Some days without plowing and my old bones grow slack.
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. " More and more wielders of divine powers came to the assembly. In the last two days, many were sitting on the ground even near Fenghua Tower, and when tired they slept soundly under the trees. Old Niu blew a few smoke rings and watched at his leisure those who were debating dao arts and divine powers, and to the Jade Pool came many demigods too, some still flying in the sky, not descending to earth.
Just then a great clamor arose. Countless people ran about spreading the word, crying, "The Seven Tianzuns are about to begin their lecture!
" "I hear Yu Tianzun will speak this time on the method of becoming a god! Hurry to the main hall of the detached palace! " "Go early and seize a good seat! Go late, and you will be drinking the northwest wind outside the hall! " An uproar spread all around, and a sea of people surged toward the front hall.
Old Niu rose hastily, thinking, "This grand occasion, I must go tell Kai Huang and Shen Mu. They have been looking forward to it a long while.
. . " Scarcely had the thought formed when suddenly another clamor came, like mountains collapsing and earth splitting, and numberless people screamed with all their heart and lungs.
The noise was too great; Old Niu could not make out what they were shouting. "These fellows are far too noisy.
The people of ancient times are all ignorant folk as well.
" Old Niu shook his head and walked on into the tower, and only then did the shouting grow clear.
Outside, someone was wailing bitterly. "Yu Tianzun is dead! "