Chapter 810 — The Supreme One Comprehends the Great Dao
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"Borrowing the power of any one of the ancient gods seems to be no good thing."
Shen Mu pondered and found no answer — then all at once it came to him. He went to find Heavenly Venerable Yu, and found him sitting there blankly, lost in a daze.
Shen Mu was about to step forward, then abruptly halted. The little fat boy was propping up his plump chin, eyes vague and distant; yet within and around his body primal qi was circulating, opening a divine treasury. Shen Mu gazed with his sage pupils and saw that inside that treasury Lan Yutian's spirit embryo was slowly taking shape.
Shen Mu's whole body shook. He made no sound to disturb him.
Heavenly Venerable Yu had died a miserable death. At the great upheaval at the Jade Pool a million years ago, every divine treasury he had already opened had been shattered inside his body, and even his heavenly palace had been destroyed.
When Shen Mu remade his body for him, there had been no divine treasury and no heavenly palace within him at all.
And now this Heavenly Venerable Yu, fattened up by relentless eating, had taught himself with no master at all and opened a Primal Embryo Divine Treasury all over again!
The reason Shen Mu had taught him no divine arts or techniques and had let him comprehend things for himself was precisely that he knew Heavenly Venerable Yu's talent to be extraordinarily high — perhaps even above his own. Unwilling as he was to admit it aloud, in his heart he admired Heavenly Venerable Yu beyond measure.
He looked forward greatly to the reborn Lan Yutian growing into another Heavenly Venerable Yu!
Just now Heavenly Venerable Yu had fallen into a wondrous state of comprehending the Dao, so Shen Mu did not interrupt him.
Such a state of enlightenment was rare. It was a chance for Heavenly Venerable Yu — and a chance for Shen Mu as well, for through it he could observe the means by which Heavenly Venerable Yu had opened the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury.
Heavenly Venerable Yu remained deep in enlightenment while Shen Mu observed intently and sought to grasp it, and gradually he sensed where the power came from with which Heavenly Venerable Yu shaped the spirit embryo and the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury.
It was the power of heaven and earth, and it was also power from within himself. In his enlightenment, Heavenly Venerable Yu was summoning both the power of heaven and earth and his own to shape the spirit embryo.
To Shen Mu it felt as though he had become one with heaven and earth.
This was not the peculiar insight of the Western Lands, where all things have spirit and all things have gods; this was a true and literal merging.
"Such talent truly is unmatched."
Shen Mu sighed inwardly. "If he and I had been born in the same age, I would only dare call myself a false Overlord Body, while he would be the true one. Still, I am not so bad myself."
He was rather pleased with himself.
Having single-handedly devised twenty-six kinds of seventh divine treasury, Shen Mu had every right to be.
At last Heavenly Venerable Yu woke. He looked around him in confusion, and only then noticed Shen Mu. Flustered, he said, "Brother, when did you get here?"
"Not long ago."
Shen Mu waved a hand, telling him to stay seated, and sat down beside him. "Just now you suddenly opened a divine treasury. Can you tell me what you were thinking?"
"I'm too fat."
Heavenly Venerable Yu blushed and scratched his head. "When I look down I can't see my own toes anymore, so I wanted to refine this fat away, and then I started wondering how to cultivate. I could feel all sorts of wondrous powers between heaven and earth, and all sorts of wondrous powers inside my own body too, so I thought I would open a place inside my body to gather and store those powers. After that my thinking kept growing clearer and clearer, as though I had done this sort of thing before, and it came to me very easily."