Chapter 1001 — The Twentieth Sword
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
" Shen Mu was startled. Shujun shook his head. "A divinity visualized into being cannot wield divine-consciousness arts, nor can it open a divine treasury or a heavenly palace as you do. Her divine-consciousness arts are stronger than mine, and she has both a divine treasury and a heavenly palace.
How could she possibly be a divinity visualized into being? " Shen Mu's mind rang like a struck bell, and he blurted out, "You mean there really is such a beautiful, such a perfect woman in this world?
" He found it hard to believe.
And yet Shujun's words had indeed woken him. God King Langwan was too beautiful, too perfect, and so he had taken it for granted, decided in advance that she must be a divinity visualized by the Creators, and overlooked a great many details. A divinity visualized into being is much like an ancient god.
Bound by the divine consciousness and thought with which the Creators visualized and constructed them, fire is fire and water is water; they cannot change their own nature, but can only cultivate along that nature, ever raising themselves higher. Consider the ancient gods: an ancient god cannot open a divine treasury or a heavenly palace, and no ancient god takes divine consciousness as a weapon of battle, much less visualizes other living beings into existence. And yet God King Langwan was the exception!
She could visualize, and she had opened a divine treasury and a heavenly palace. From the arts of the Dao and divine power of Wuyou Township she had comprehended divine-consciousness arts, and reformed the divine arts and Daoist methods of the whole Creator race. Seen this way, she truly was not a divinity visualized by the Creators; she was a living, breathing being!
Shen Mu broke into a smile.
He rubbed his hands together and said, "And here I thought she was visualized into being. .
. " Shujun had no time to guess at his thoughts.
He urged him on.
"How do we get into Wuyou Township?
" Shen Mu said in surprise, "You are coming too?
" Shujun said with a cold laugh, "Naturally! Once I am reborn I must cultivate a divine treasury and a heavenly palace, and the best way is obviously to follow you into Wuyou Township and see how they cultivate! " Shen Mu said awkwardly, "In your present appearance.
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" "One moment! " Shujun took out a Primeval Divine Stone and visualized for a moment. His great head shrank, a scrawny body grew out beneath it, and before long he had become a frail youth topped by an oversized head. "This will do, will it not? This body is useless; it is only for walking about in, to look like a human.
Later, when my divine consciousness has recovered somewhat, I will forge my flesh anew. " Shen Mu looked at the stubble covering his face and nodded with great reluctance.
"It is only that you look a bit old, and you are pretending to be young, so you end up looking rather odd.
" Shujun's face went black, which made him uglier still. Shen Mu said hastily, "The Creators will shift away the belt of dead stars that encircles Wuyou Township, and the gods and demons of Wuyou Township will help them. It will be chaotic then. While they are moving the stars aside, we slip into Wuyou Township.
First, let me change my clothes; this scarlet robe and red bellyband are far too conspicuous. " Sure enough, as he had expected, not long after God King Langwan and Kai Huang announced the peace pact between the two races, the Creators began to shift away the belt of dead stars surrounding Wuyou Township.
The gods and demons within Wuyou Township flew out as well. Some drove great tower ships and mighty vessels, and some simply used their magic power to push the stars, driving them away from Wuyou Township.
Shen Mu and Shujun seized the chance to slip in among the lowest of Wuyou Township's Thirty-Three Heavens, Taihuang Heaven.