Chapter 780 — The Magnetic Earth Mother
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Shen Mu sighed, "Only you know me, Brother Xu. Just so. After I met the Seven Heavenly Dukes, I began pondering this question. The people of Jingping are all remnants of Kaihuang, and their divine bridges were severed; the people of the Douniu World have no divine bridges at all. Neither the methods of the Martial Combat Heavenly Master nor the Magpie Bridge Formula and the Mystic Guidance Formula are the true solution. Only by reopening the divine bridge and the divine treasury can the matter be settled once and for all."
Xu Shenghua said, "The Cloud Heavenly Duke opened up the divine bridge and the divine treasury, and so you wish to find the means of opening the divine bridge and the divine treasury, and spread it abroad, to root out this defect entirely."
Shen Mu nodded. "Every man's divine treasury is inherited from his forebears. Since the divine bridge is broken and the divine treasury is lost, we need only open them anew. Not everyone will be able to open them, but the number of divine ability users who can will be far greater than the number who succeed in cultivating the Magpie Bridge Formula!"
Xu Shenghua said, "Then have you asked the Cloud Heavenly Duke how the divine bridge and the divine treasury are to be opened?"
Shen Mu shook his head. "When I returned to the early years of Dragon Han, I never got to speak with him, and afterward he fell in battle during the Dragon Han era. But if he could open the divine bridge and the divine treasury, then so can we."
Xu Shenghua hesitated a moment, then said, "If you can open the divine bridge and the divine treasury, then you will be another Cloud Heavenly Duke! But your divine bridge and divine treasury are intact—how will you open them?"
Shen Mu smiled. "I am now at the Heaven-Man realm, not far from the Life-Death realm. I intend, once I reach the Life-Death realm, to ruin my own divine bridge and divine treasury, and then try to open my own divine bridge and divine treasury anew. But there is one thing you said wrong: I am not another Cloud Heavenly Duke. A million years ago, I was already Heavenly Duke Mu!"
Xu Shenghua mused, "Your divine bridge and divine treasury are intact, while mine are severed. Perhaps it should be I who becomes another Cloud Heavenly Duke."
Shen Mu arched an eyebrow and smiled. "Then let us make a contest of it. Let us see which of us can first open the Life-Death divine treasury, ruin the divine bridge and divine treasury, and then reopen the divine bridge!"
Xu Shenghua smiled mildly. "Agreed. And when that day comes, I want you to admit with your own lips that you are the female one."
Shen Mu laughed heartily. "Are you not still studying elemental magnetic divine arts and the Taiwei Calculation Classic? Will you even have time to study the divine bridge and divine treasury? You are bound to lose!"
Xu Shenghua said calmly, "You seem busier than I am. Have you the time?"
The two stared at each other, eyes wide, each giving a huff.
Xu Shenghua said, "Grandmother Zhu has taken the scholars of the Tiansheng Academy to Taihuang Heaven to study elemental magnetic divine arts, and has already achieved no little. I go there often as well, to help her establish the foundational runes of elemental magnetism. By now Grandmother Zhu has catalogued as many as one thousand three hundred kinds of elemental magnetic runes, but by my reckoning more than six hundred kinds remain undiscovered. Once Lan Yutian has mastered the supreme arts of our Shangcang Academy, he may as well make the trip to Taihuang Heaven."
After more than half a month, the Heavenly Duke had grasped the foundational runes of the Shangcang Academy. Xu Shenghua packed his bags, and set out with Shen Mu for Taihuang Heaven.
Shen Mu had always been a hands-off manager. Having worked out a few elemental magnetic derivation equations, he tossed them to Grandmother Zhu and Xu Shenghua and went running about everywhere himself.