Chapter 934 — The Heavenly Palace Casts Off the Old and Brings In the New
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Heavenly Venerable, forgive me for being a coward and a shirker; I shall go on ahead! " Shen Mu said with concern, "You do not wish to know how to open the Heavenly River treasury? " "I do! " The man's smile was like weeping.
"But I dare not listen!
I fear that if I hear the Heavenly Venerable's Heavenly River treasury, I shall inexplicably drop dead! " He turned and hurried away.
Several others rose and left as well.
The rest wanted to go too, but the Heavenly River treasury was too tempting, and they hesitated.
Qi Jiuyi's eyes shifted; he rose and said, "I will see them out. " Shen Mu smiled faintly and continued explaining how to open the Heavenly River treasury.
"The Heavenly River treasury accords with the great Dao of heaven and earth.
But the number of treasuries within the human body is still best kept at seven, and so the Immortal Bridge must be abolished.
I have created several methods for sensing the power of the Heavenly River; once the Immortal Bridge is abolished, one may come to the river's edge and set my methods in motion, and so sense the power of the Heavenly River.
" Shen Mu set out the several methods of sensing the Heavenly River one by one. Many of the young people in the Manhui Corridor Pavilion were doubtful; though they committed the methods to memory, they dared not attempt them. Yun Jianli smiled. "Then let me, a dying man, be the one to try whether the Heavenly River treasury can be opened. " Que Jingxue's face showed disbelief; lowering her voice, she said, "Young Master Yun, are you willing to cast aside the Immortal Bridge treasury your ancestor Heavenly Venerable Yun opened?
Would that not make you a traitor to Heavenly Venerable Yun? " Yun Jianli shook his head.
"My ancestor would never be so mired in the old. I think that if he had seen Heavenly Venerable Mu's Heavenly River treasury, he would have leapt for joy and abolished his own Immortal Bridge treasury of his own accord.
" Que Jingxue said in a low voice, "This is reform! Think carefully; reform is rebellion! " Yun Jianli smiled.
"What has a dying man to fear? " A branch of the Heavenly River flowed into the Jade Pool, and here the river's power was thick indeed. At once he tried setting in motion the method of sensing that Shen Mu had taught.
His talent was exceedingly high, higher even than the Human Emperors of past ages; in no time he had grasped the knack and drawn the power of the Heavenly River to him.
A Heavenly River gradually took shape about him, growing wider and longer by the moment.
Yun Jianli gathered his strength, awaiting the moment of breakthrough. Time slipped by.
The crowd in the pavilion watched him in anxious alarm. If Yun Jianli could open the Heavenly River treasury, then the road Shen Mu pointed to was proven walkable.
Who knows how long it was before the Heavenly River encircling Yun Jianli suddenly poured into his body; with a muffled sound, Yun Jianli's frame convulsed, and a wondrous rhythm issued from within him. It was a Dao-sound, its cadence like the vast rise and fall of the Heavenly River, passing through one world after another, from the Heavenly Palace of the Heavenly Court down to the mortal world, and on to Guixu and Youdu.
The music was so beguiling that one could not help but sink into it.
Yun Jianli too was astonished and delighted, gazing entranced at his own treasury; the waters of the Heavenly River rushed down from the Heavenly Palace, threading through all his treasuries, flowing into Youdu, and forming one great cycle.
"Are we to cultivate the Heavenly River treasury as well? " Que Jingxue murmured.
The others were eager to try, and yet a deep anxiety lay in their hearts, and they dared not. Shen Mu said, with much meaning in it, "You may choose not to cultivate the Heavenly River treasury; then, when the Heavenly Court goes to war with the lower world, you will die at the hands of the people of the lower world.