Chapter 994 — Twin Serpents Chant, Flower Fragrance Assails
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"Having passed the trial of the ancestral spirits, you now possess the most profound knowledge, and with it the authority to lead the Creator race." Langwan the God King continued.
Shen Mu had been somewhat uneasy a moment before, but at these words his spirits instantly soared.
"In these two days you will remain here, and I will instruct you in the visualization combat art."
"Two days is a short span," said Langwan the God King, "but I believe that with the Holy Infant's wisdom, you will be able to grasp the visualization combat art in its essentials, and best of all, to fuse visualization with your own vital essence."
Shen Mu was thin and gaunt, and fearing that his blood and divine consciousness would not hold out, he hastily took out the Hongmeng Primordial Liquid and flicked a single drop into the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury to replenish his vital essence and divine consciousness.
Seeing this, Langwan the God King could not help but frown. "You are helping Shujun the God King restore his body?"
Shen Mu nodded.
"Shujun the God King is old, outdated, and obstinate in his own conceit. There is no need to save him."
"If you cannot bring yourself to do it," said Langwan the God King, "I will rid you of him. Refining him to death would be easy enough."
Within the primordial stone, Shujun stamped and raged, cursing Langwan the God King for her cruelty and ruthlessness, for giving no thought to the bond between their kind.
Shen Mu shook his head. "I promised Shujun that I would help him restore his mind, and I will do it. God King, if I were a man who broke faith and betrayed his word, would you still trust me so?"
Langwan the God King thought for a moment, then shook her head.
Shen Mu's complexion recovered somewhat, and he kept two or three parts of his divine consciousness in reserve, ensuring that he could still wield his divine-consciousness divine powers.
Langwan the God King circulated her divine consciousness and visualized step by step, and a rune gradually appeared before her, from void to substance, growing ever more distinct.
Shen Mu followed her, learning bit by bit, and tried as well to visualize runes with his divine consciousness.
Langwan the God King taught with great care, yet Shen Mu learned with astonishing speed. What she passed on to him were all fundamental runes, and in this Shen Mu was himself a master, so he took to it with ease.
He could even point out flaws in Langwan the God King's work and complete her runes for her.
The Creator race usually instilled their knowledge into their juniors through divine consciousness, but this method had a drawback: it made the errors of one's forebears hard to discover.
Langwan the God King rejected that approach and instead adopted the clumsiest method, teaching Shen Mu hand over hand rather than pouring knowledge directly into him.
She wanted Shen Mu to correct her shortcomings as well.
As for fundamental runes, the Creators had studied them, but after all they had dwelt in the Other Shore World for hundreds of thousands, even a million years, and in the Great Void for longer still, with almost no contact with the outside; they could only steal scraps of the runes of the Carefree Land, and so their attainments in runes fell short even of Shen Mu's.
In divine-consciousness divine powers, however, their attainments were far beyond anything Shen Mu could reach.
Though Langwan the God King was nominally teaching him, in truth the two were learning from each other.
Time passed swiftly; before they knew it a whole day had gone by, and Shen Mu could already visualize the various fundamental runes with skill. At a single stir of thought, his divine consciousness would construct the rune.
He also discovered that runes formed from divine consciousness fused with vital essence were far more terrifying in power, several times mightier than runes formed from vital essence or divine consciousness alone!