Chapter 988 — Three Bouts
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
" Shen Mu handed him the Pearl he had visualized. "The ancient gods you visualize lack some runes, and so cannot project a second heaven. I have filled them in.
So long as one's consciousness is strong enough, the second heaven projected from the Pearl can also be made real.
My consciousness is not strong, so I could only project to the sixth heaven. The Xiu clan is remarkable.
The power hidden in this Pearl is terrifying beyond measure!
" He could not help praising it.
"Had I not no shallow attainment in painting, forging, art, and mathematics, I might truly have failed to visualize it!
The Xiu clan is indeed extraordinary!
" Xiu Zhong carefully pinched the Pearl he had visualized, his heart utterly at a loss. "The Jade Capital Pearl our clan visualizes does not have this function.
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" He hastily asked, "With the gods' runes completed, can it project onward without end? " Shen Mu shook his head. "Just now when I visualized, pressed for time, I only calculated to the eighteenth decimal place, the void digit. That is to say, the Pearl can project eighteen heavens. After eighteen heavens, insufficiency in mathematics will make the error of the projection grow ever greater, and heavens projected thereafter will carry no power for being too far in error.
" Xiu Zhong gaped. "Mathematics?
" Shen Mu nodded. "Mathematics.
When Creators visualize simple things, a mirror for instance, no mathematics is needed, but for complex things, runic structures and the like, mathematics is required.
If I used mathematics alone, I could not forge a perfectly round sphere, but visualization joined with mathematics can raise the precision of a forged object by several orders of magnitude. If the precision is high enough and the consciousness strong enough, then projection can continue without limit! " Xiu Zhong remained somewhat perplexed. Shen Mu shook his head helplessly and forlornly. These Creators did not understand mathematics.
Creators had almost no need of mathematics, for they could visualize the most perfect mirror and every kind of pattern, and so had never developed it.
Yet visualization was not omnipotent, and in fine construction it needed mathematics to supplement it. Divine King Langwan smiled. "Since you have passed the first trial, let the second begin, the trial of the flesh. This one is simple, only combat of the body, employing no consciousness at all, flesh alone. " Nine more Creators stepped forth, their bodies towering as mountains.
Shen Mu's heart quailed.
He glanced at Xiu Zhong and murmured, "No danger?
" Xiu Zhong was full of confidence. "For the Holy Infant, no danger!
" Shen Mu glanced at Shu Jun, who crowed triumphantly, "Use the consciousness body-forging art I taught you, and you will beat them till they piss themselves!
" Shen Mu was furious. What the fellow had taught him was the Three Enclosures Upper Consciousness, never any body-forging art!
Every scrap of consciousness art he had pried from Shu Jun had required an exchange, so the arts he cultivated were all incomplete.
The body-forging art he had comprehended came from the consciousness of Tai Di, the Da Luo Unsurpassed Consciousness, wherein one takes the self as the universe, hiding two thousand ancient gods within the body.
The Da Luo Unsurpassed Consciousness was indeed formidable, yet he had cultivated this body-forging art only a short time, and did not know whether he could stand against grown Creators.
Shen Mu steadied his spirit, calmed his breath, and stirred his consciousness. At once it surged from his mind into his third holy eye, and passing through the Tai Chu Origin Stone, became Da Luo Heaven!
His consciousness erupted within the Origin Stone, his head as the Heavenly Court, his cinnabar field as Yuan Capital, his sea of qi as Guixu, his Yongquan points as Youdu, his four limbs as the Four Poles and Four Signs, his spine as the Thirty-Three Heavens.