Chapter 819 — The Star River Ghost Ship
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Human Emperors are all outstanding men, mighty ones who had each led the age for several hundred years. If they could not sense the power of the Star River, then other divine arts practitioners would certainly find it even harder.
Fortunately, the Human Emperor Qikang and the Human Emperor Yishan soon sensed the power of the Star River, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"If the Patriarch and the Grand Patriarch can sense the power of the Star River, it is only a matter of time before they open up the Star River Divine Treasury. But for other divine arts practitioners to cultivate to their stage is still rather difficult. Those who can open the Star River Divine Treasury should be few in number."
Shen Mu reckoned that, judging by Jingping's present standard of education, those divine arts practitioners with a sufficiently solid foundation and sufficiently high aptitude and comprehension ought to number some tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands is already a great many; yet set against the whole population of Jingping, it is still far too few.
For the Star River Divine Treasury to wholly replace the Divine Bridge Divine Treasury would, he feared, take hundreds or even thousands of years!
That would require the descendants of the mighty ones who opened the Star River Divine Treasury to multiply, and require yet more divine arts practitioners in the future to open the Star River Divine Treasury.
Moreover, Jingping's cultivation methods would all need reform and improvement. The old methods were every one of them cultivated in accordance with the Divine Bridge Divine Treasury; the path to be walked hereafter must be cultivated instead through the Star River Divine Treasury.
"Revising the methods is an enterprise of inconceivable magnitude."
Shen Mu sighed inwardly. Jingping's methods are simply too many, and revising them demands men of surpassing talent and wisdom.
The Star River Divine Treasury links the Heavenly Palace cultivation system with the Divine Treasury cultivation system, joining them into one whole. Divine arts practitioners know little of the Heavenly Palace, whereas the gods have experience cultivating within the Heavenly Palace; therefore the revision of the methods also requires the gods' help.
"In the years, the decades, the centuries to come, great masters who shake the ages will surely be born one after another."
The sky was growing late. Shen Mu's gaze flickered in the darkness as he watched the surging river. His eyes seemed somewhat profound: "Only, how many years can Jingping hold out? Time waits for no man..."
Suddenly a light shone up from beneath the water, brighter and brighter, making the riverbed as bright as day.
Lord Huanlong, like a bird startled by the bow, flew up at once, transforming into a divine being with a dragon's head and a man's body, hovering over the river surface and staring in panic at the light below.
Shen Mu summoned him and asked, "What is that thing in the river?"
"A ghost ship!"
Lord Huanlong's scales bristled, every dragon scale keen-edged, and he spat froth as he said, "It is a ghost ship! Those ships have appeared again!"
Shen Mu was taken aback. "A ghost ship?"
The crowd flew swiftly to the riverbank and looked down. Beneath the river surface an ancient and enormous warship was slowly rising from the depths, wrapped all around in thick black vapor like so many chains.
This ship was of tremendous size, comparable to such behemoths as the Dawn Boat and the Soul Boat. It moved slowly through the water, and what gave off light were the lanterns, one after another, upon the ship.
The whole ancient warship was steeped in water, yet the lanterns had not gone out—a thing to make men click their tongues in wonder.