Chapter 885 — Attaining the Dao Amid Mortal Dust
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Shen Mu's face turned blacker still; he strictly forbade Yan'er to go on feeding Yu Tianzun and the water qilin, and on the road he forced Yu Tianzun to cultivate like a madman, striving to burn the fat off his body. As for the water qilin, Shen Mu handed it to the dragon-qilin to train.
For shedding the fat from a body, the dragon-qilin had its own methods.
With no chance to feed anyone, Yan'er had no choice but to look after Shen Mu instead; Shen Mu bought her some sunflower seeds and had the girl shell them one by one for him to eat.
"Young Master, will you eat a demon god?
" Yan'er caught up a demon god mighty as a mountain and tempted him.
Shen Mu shook his head.
Yan'er was much cast down; she ate that demon god, then flew out and caught herself a deity, and tempted him: "Young Master, will you eat a deity? " Shen Mu shook his head.
When Yan'er had eaten her fill she gave a great belch. They came to the Yujing Academy.
Wang Muran's Yujing Academy was a little inferior to the other academies; the most renowned holy ground of Jingping in its day had fallen behind for being too aloof, having failed to reform at the first opportunity and turn Little Yujing's accumulated depths into an attraction for scholars.
Yet it was here that Shen Mu encountered the First Ancestor Human Sovereign; and besides the First Ancestor, the Human Sovereigns of every past generation had come here too, becoming instructors of the Imperial College and teaching the scholars.
Little Yujing had from the first been a fragment of the Kaihuang Heavenly Court of old; the First Ancestor held deep feeling for this place, and in the years when his will lay sunk in despair, it was here that he had turned to stone. The Second Ancestor, the Third Ancestor, the Qikang Human Sovereign and the rest were all the most outstanding talents of the twenty thousand years since Kaihuang's fall; revived and returned to the world, they were naturally greater than ever they had been. These Human Sovereigns had each reopened the Heavenly River divine treasury, and their strength was extreme.
And they had carried on the manner they had kept as the tyrants of Fengdu, making the Yujing Academy a loud and clamorous place. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign likewise moved the texts of Yuming Palace to Little Yujing, which raised the Yujing Academy immensely.
Shen Mu brought Yu Tianzun here to study.
More than ten days passed, and he had learned all the fruits of the reforms, but Yu Tianzun had not, so he had no choice but to wait.
"Human Sovereign Shen, you are very concerned for this little fatty. " The Qikang Human Sovereign carelessly rubbed the little fatty's chubby cheeks, squashing Yu Tianzun's mouth into a flower, and said with a laugh, "Could it be you mean to raise him as the next generation's Human Sovereign?
" Shen Mu's eyes brightened; he had never thought of how to arrange Yu Tianzun's future.
He wished only not to fail the old Yin courier's hopes, to raise Yu Tianzun into an existence no less than in his former life, once more a Tianzun to shake the world.
But he could not carry Yu Tianzun with him forever; perhaps he might raise him into the next generation's Human Sovereign. "We Human Sovereigns grow stronger with each generation," the Qikang Human Sovereign said, all smiles.
"Do you think that in the future he will be able to beat you?
" Shen Mu said modestly, "The Human Sovereign Hall does indeed have that tradition, and Brother Yu is truly extraordinary, far surpassing me; only, after all, I have an Overlord Body.
. . " The Qikang Human Sovereign sneered.
"Leave the little fatty here. We old fellows will teach him together, and I guarantee you he will beat your Overlord Body till you cry for your father and mother!