Chapter 910 — The Old Dynasty's Overlord Body, the Long Han Heavenly Venerable
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
Long Qilin and Yan'er waited until Shen Mu's state of mind had settled before stepping forward.
"Cult Master, are your wounds healed?"
Long Qilin studied Shen Mu. His vital essence was no longer draining away, and his complexion was much improved. He ventured, "Is the threat to your life gone now?"
"More or less. Only, my newborn soul is still very weak. I lost far too much vital essence before; this time I have merely resolved the threat to my life. My cultivation has not returned to its former peak."
Shen Mu examined himself and said, "My soul is like a newborn infant, which makes it very perilous, yet my spirit embryo is incomparably powerful. I imagine it will take some time of cultivation to restore the balance."
Yan'er let out a breath of relief and laughed. "Young Master's soul has only just been born, so how old are you now?"
Shen Mu thought it over carefully, then burst out laughing. "If we go by my fleshly body, I am now thirty-two years old. If we go by my soul, I have only just been born and have existed in this world for a single day. I am still an infant! Curious, truly curious!"
Long Qilin and Yan'er laughed.
Yan'er said with a smile, "Today is a great day. The Shepherd Heavenly Venerable has come into the world."
Shen Mu shook his head, strange feelings stirring in his heart. He had clearly lived thirty-two years, yet only today could be counted as his true birth. It was odd indeed.
His cultivation was still far from its peak. Though he had solved the problem of life and death, the earlier depletion had been too great; his vital essence and cultivation were now only a fifth of what they once were, a truly grievous loss. Moreover, he did not know where his cultivation realm now stood, for the seven great divine treasuries of the divine treasury cultivation system could no longer measure him as he was, and he could not compare himself to other divine arts practitioners. What gave him the worst headache was that he had only the spirit embryo divine treasury left, and none of his former techniques could be perfectly activated. Whether the Imperial Throne realm techniques he had learned or the Three Cinnabar Art of the Mystic Body he had created himself, all of them circulated sluggishly, and his vital essence ran in utter disorder.
Shen Mu had previously entered a dream, and in the dream world tested countless times. In the end he had entered the Dao within the dream, improving the Three Cinnabar Art of the Mystic Body so that he could survive. It was also by the improved Three Cinnabar Art of the Mystic Body that he had destroyed his heavenly palace and his various divine treasuries, ultimately achieving the opening of heaven and the cleaving of earth to endow soul and spirit, and thereby gaining rebirth. Yet even the improved Three Cinnabar Art of the Mystic Body could not be cultivated by him now! Because the improved Three Cinnabar Art of the Mystic Body was built upon the cultivation system of the seven great divine treasuries, and now he had only one divine treasury, the spirit embryo divine treasury, and this spirit embryo divine treasury was also different from the spirit embryo divine treasury of any divine arts practitioner or deity. The techniques of divine arts practitioners and deities were built upon the foundation of divine treasuries and the heavenly palace. With the foundation changed, the former techniques could no longer be used. The only one he could activate was the Sutra of Immeasurable Kalpas of the Buddha Great Brahma Heavenly King, because the old Buddha's technique was a kind of mind-learning; entering the Dao within a dream relied on the mind, and only cultivating within the dream to raise one's cultivation relied on the divine treasury cultivation system. He could use this technique to enter dreams, but he could not cultivate within the dream world either.