Chapter 990 — Old Friends Reunited
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
When Shen Mu thought that the Great Emperor's Daluo Supreme Consciousness, modified into the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace cultivation system, was of no use to him, Shu Jun keenly perceived that the cultivation methods of the Creator race must likewise be modified in that way — that even his own methods were being modified in that direction. When he saw the Creators of the Other Shore reforming and changing their laws, casting off the traditions of the primeval era, he was not enraged that the Creators of the Other Shore had altered their cultivation system.
What angered him was his sense that the Creators of the Other Shore had abandoned a tradition of simplicity and turned to the gaudy and the hollow, that ornate art was of little use to a Creator. He possessed the qualities of a leader.
"Why do you visualize such complicated things?
" Shu Jun saw a young Creator some two zhang six or seven in height visualizing the runic patterns on a stone wall — patterns that were the flame runes of the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace cultivation system — and could not help asking, "Why not visualize flame directly?
The stronger the consciousness, the stronger the flame. Would that not be simpler?
" The young Creator shook his head. "Visualizing these complicated patterns can raise the strength, toughness, sensitivity and reaction speed of one's consciousness, and make one's consciousness change more subtly. " Shu Jun wanted to frown, but he had no eyebrows.
Shen Mu supplied him with some blood, qi and consciousness, and only then did Shu Jun grow two thick black eyebrows. He frowned and said, "Then in battle, are not the simpler consciousness arts the better?
" The young Creator shook his head again. "Using runes to construct the form of flame does indeed produce a flame of greater power than one visualized directly.
So we all try to construct them as finely as we can.
" Shu Jun's eyes popped out of their sockets, and he raged, "Then your consciousness will react more slowly!
In the consciousness arts, the crucial thing is speed! Strike your enemy with the swiftness of a thunderclap before he can cover his ears, overcome him with incomparably rapid transformations, and let him die stiff before he can react! What you are doing is casting off the traditions of our people! " Shen Mu kindly supplied him with more blood, qi and consciousness, so that he grew eyelids, lest his eyeballs pop out again.
The young Creator was puzzled, and laughed. "As we visualize ceaselessly, the runes are already branded into our consciousness.
And the runes are the foundation; there are not many of them — there are only some two hundred kinds of flame runes.
We visualize them constantly in daily life and brand those two hundred-odd flame runes into our consciousness. Different combinations of runes can become different divine abilities; in battle, different combinations of runes can execute different divine abilities, and the speed is no slower than before.
" Shu Jun's face went blank. After a long while he sighed.
"That Langwan is Divine King — I am convinced, heart and mouth alike. Brat, when will you restore my brain for me? It truly will not do to have no brain! " Shen Mu was about to speak when Shu Jun sighed.
"I will not follow you any longer.
The Primordial Stone is yours too; I will not take it from you. I mean to stay here and study earnestly for a time, and cultivate from the beginning again. In the primeval era I could become a Divine King and be revered by all the people; now I can surely do it again, and become a Divine King once more! " Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and laughed. "With such ambition in the Divine King, I must of course help you fulfill it. " Suddenly his expression shifted slightly, and his gaze fell on a "young Creator" in the distance.
That Creator must have been only a year or two old, and wore a red bellyband.
"Shu Jun, wait for me a moment. " Thunder roared in Shen Mu's mind.