Chapter 795 — The Earth's Essence Fruit
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
Only a million years later had Shen Mu restored him to life — and even then his memories were utterly gone, and he was muddle-headed. It was plain, then, that blessings could not truly guarantee safety. "This halo I gained from the blessing seems more like surveillance.
Even if I flee this place, the Earth Mother Venerable God can sense my position through this halo. I wonder whether I can rid myself of it.
" His spirits flagging, he yawned.
Gongsun Yan rose at once. "Brother Shen, rest for now. " She left the room and closed the door. Shen Mu immediately rose to his feet, glowing with vigor, all trace of his earlier exhaustion gone.
He circulated the Creation Mystic Art and transformed into a three-headed, six-armed form.
Now with three heads, the halo could not wrap around to the back of his skull.
He examined it carefully. Within the halo flowed all manner of exceedingly fine runes; the halo was composed of these runes, and the runes were the smallest particles of light.
After studying it a while, Shen Mu frowned. Apart from the origin-magnetic runes, there were all manner of other runes besides — far more complex than he had imagined.
The origin-magnetic runes were easy enough to account for — Granny Zhu had already deduced more than nineteen hundred of them. If the runes in the halo formed an origin-magnetic divine power, he might still find a way to unravel it. The other runes in the halo, however, gave Shen Mu no end of trouble.
Some of them took the form of rivers and lakes in their lineaments, others the shapes of grass, trees, and flowers, and still others were profound and mysterious patterns whose purpose could not be made out.
Clearly the Great Dao possessed by the Earth Mother Venerable God herself was exceedingly complex. The halo was but the form of a divine power built from these runes.
How to unravel the halo and escape the Earth Mother Venerable God's tracking and sensing — of this Shen Mu could make neither head nor tail. "That's right — Celestial Master Zixi! " His eyes lit up.
As the scholar among the Four Celestial Masters, her learning might not match the Woodcutter Sage's erudition, but her cultivation far surpassed his by no small measure. Perhaps she would have means to unravel the halo. With that thought, Shen Mu reached into the halo toward the Earth Origin Dao Fruit floating there and grasped it. But when he tried to draw the fruit out of the halo, he ran into difficulty.
As he tried to take it out, countless rays of light surged up around the halo, like fine threads connecting to the fruit.
He could move it only a little before meeting resistance beyond imagining. "Others force a sale, but the Earth Mother Venerable God forces a blessing — shoving the Earth Origin Dao Fruit on me whether I want it or not! " Shen Mu seethed with resentment.
The fruit and the halo seemed embedded behind him, impossible to shake off.
To others, the Earth Mother's blessing and the Earth Origin Dao Fruit were treasures they yearned for day and night and could never obtain; to Shen Mu they were a burden and a danger, and he wished he could fling them far away. Stream after stream of energy poured from the Earth Origin Dao Fruit into his divine treasury, absorbed by his primal spirit, then filling the treasury again, strengthening the Six Harmonies Continent upon it and making the continent ever deeper and broader. "The benefits of the Earth Origin Dao Fruit are indeed terrifying — but alas, there is surely a trace of the Earth Mother Venerable God's divine consciousness within it as well, letting her sense my whereabouts. " Seeing that he could not remove the fruit, Shen Mu had no choice but to give up.