Chapter 917 — Truth and Falsehood Reversed
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
" Imperial Teacher Jingping said woodenly, "It is the same with the Crimson Emperor's Three Primes Undying Spirit Consciousness. That method too is cultivated through the Spirit Bridge, and judged by the Jingping methods of today it holds an enormous flaw. " Emperor Yanfeng showed a trace of a simple, artless smile: "Imperial Teacher Jingping tampered with nothing when he taught you the Three Primes Undying Spirit Consciousness.
But the undying spirit consciousness he taught you is the Crimson Emperor's undying spirit consciousness, not the undying spirit consciousness of the Heavenly River spirit treasury. " "If the foundation is not firm, the earth shakes and the mountains totter! " "It is from the flaw in your cultivation method that I made my entry! " "If the method has a flaw, then the divine arts are riddled with flaws everywhere!
" "If you wish to break my divine art, you may: abolish the Spirit Bridge spirit treasury, open the Heavenly River spirit treasury, and cultivate all over again!
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. In the two cages, Imperial Teacher Jingping and Emperor Yanfeng, one taking up where the other left off, laid the whole matter out plainly.
Yan Shaoqing's spirit consciousness erupted, and he cried out sharply, "Make me destroy my own cultivation?
I am a being of the Lingxiao realm, half a step from the Emperor's Throne.
My cultivation and dharma power surpass yours by I know not how many times over; with cultivation alone I can crush every divine art you possess! However exquisite your divine art, it cannot trap me! " "Break—" Boom! A violent tremor came, and the world drained of color once more.
Yan Shaoqing was drenched in sweat, as though he had been fished out of water.
He was still standing before the cages; Imperial Teacher Jingping and Emperor Yanfeng were still within them; the Dragon Qilin slept; Shen Mu was talking with Emperor Yanfeng and Imperial Teacher Jingping.
It was as though time had flowed back to that very moment, and nothing had changed at all.
"Break! " Again and again Yan Shaoqing spurred his spirit-consciousness divine art, crying out sharply, "Let us see whose divine art is faster, yours or mine! " He drove his divine art madly. The world drained of color again and again; before a new world could take shape it was struck once more.
For a time space fell into chaos, and the paling world was hung with more and more cracks.
At last, in the span of a single instant, Yan Shaoqing spurred his divine art a thousand times over, exceeding the limits of that world, and the whole world shattered into fragments! Panting heavily, Yan Shaoqing looked around.
Shen Mu stood before the cages, his face aghast, staring at him in alarm; and in the great prison, who knew how many monsters and jailers had been struck senseless by the impact of Yan Shaoqing's spirit-consciousness divine art. The Dragon Qilin at Shen Mu's feet had been struck by the spirit consciousness as well and lay unconscious; only that plump blue sparrow remained awake. Yan Shaoqing reached out and seized Shen Mu, fury rising to the heavens, and shouted, "You are a Heavenly Venerable, so I will not kill you.
Leave at once! " His primal breath swept up the Dragon Qilin, and he rushed out; the blue sparrow flapped along after him, crying, "Put the young master down, or I shall get rough with you!
" Yan Shaoqing turned a deaf ear.
He escorted Shen Mu out of the great prison and out of White Bone Divine City; only then did he set Shen Mu down and say coldly, "Heavenly Venerable Mu, let us part here, and never meet again! " Shen Mu laughed, "You really cannot take even the smallest joke. You kept Heavenly King Tian Shu confined in the Imperial Gate Divine Saber for millions of years, and I was trapped inside it for several years as well.
Did you ever see me grow angry? " His face dark, Yan Shaoqing turned back to the great prison.