Chapter 1054 — The Young Sect Master
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Dragon Qilin rose as well, shook out his mane and scales, and stood at his side. "At the time, you took me for one of the stone lions before the gate. Your eyes were brimming with vigor and wisdom — you were in the full flush of your spirit. I had seen many men before the Grand Academy gate, but never a youth like you. I was faint with hunger then, yet in you I saw another Patriarch, another Jiang Baigui, and another Emperor Yanfeng."
"This is not the Rearing-Humans Sutra — these are words from the very bottom of my heart!" He laughed. "It was not entirely because you could refine spirit pills that I followed you, shamelessly pestering you for pills to eat. This world has plenty of elixir masters who can refine spirit pills, but there is only one young Sect Master of the Celestial Saint Sect! In you I saw a spirit that could charge through anything, a fearlessness that defied heaven and earth."
"Other men say heaven is number one and they are number two; you say you are number one and heaven is number two. Your confidence was so overwhelming that everyone looked at you with awe. You are the Overlord Body!"
Dragon Qilin said, "You will forever be that high-spirited, fearless young Sect Master, the one who can never be knocked down or crushed!"
The melancholy on Shen Mu's face was swept clean away. He murmured, "That is right — I am the Overlord Body. I will not be crushed, my heart will not grow old, and I am still that young Sect Master..."
The Celestial Dragon Palanquin gave a gentle jolt, and from outside came Yan'er's cheerful voice: "Young Master! Dragon Fatty! We have reached the Southern Extreme Heaven!"
Shen Mu's spirits revived at once, and he stepped out of the palanquin. Dragon Qilin smiled and hurried after him.