Chapter 1060 — The Immortal Court Above the Nine Heavens
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Ah—" He nearly leapt to his feet. Shen Mu's face was changing, and in a few short moments he had put on an altogether different appearance!
Shen Mu was now a youth who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen, his face still carrying a touch of unripe greenness.
"Brother Luo Xiao, do not be alarmed. " Shen Mu said kindly: "I have a great many enemies, so I must go about under a changed face.
A new face, and I am safe.
" Luo Xiao's heart pounded. He blurted out: "You wear such splendid robes and ride in such a magnificent jeweled carriage that I took you for some great man who could surely reach the Heavenly Court in safety, and so I begged you to carry me a way.
Since you have so many enemies, I had best get off first! " Shen Mu hastily caught hold of him and laughed: "But I have changed my face, have I not?
Then I have no enemies left.
Brother Luo, do not be forever crying out in alarm like a man who has never seen the world. Truth told, the Heavenly Court is heavily guarded; if you want to go there without some standing, you cannot get in.
You must keep company with me. . .
" Suddenly the voice of the Dragon Qilin came from outside: "Hierarch, look below, quickly! " Shen Mu stepped out of the jeweled carriage and looked down the Heavenly River, and could not help showing astonishment. On the plain beneath the Heavenly River, tens of thousands of human divine-ability wielders had gathered, busy at a great work, raising palace after palace; they quarried minerals, turned their own mana into blazing fire, and smelted divine gold. They had already built a city of no small size, and were now building a gate, in the very style of the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court.
"The human race is building a Heavenly Court?
" Shen Mu was stunned for a moment.
He had the Dragon Qilin halt the jeweled carriage, and said in surprise: "The Heavenly Court of the human race is the Xiaohan Heavenly Court. So this Heavenly Court is being built on the ground, and does not float in the sky? " This was nothing like the Xiaohan Heavenly Court he had pictured!
And at that moment many human gods who had already cultivated to the god realm came flying toward the Heavenly River; among them were Daoist priests and monks, and Shen Mu also saw the Celestial Venerable Ling and the Celestial Venerable Moon. And that monk and that Daoist were none other than the Dao Ancestor and Mahabrahma!
Besides them there were some young human masters, all of them at the god realm, their cultivation by no means weak.
Shen Mu's face took on a strange cast. These ancient pioneers had already reached high cultivation; celestial palaces floated behind them, and their primal spirits stood, some upon the Jade Pool, some upon the God-Slaying Platform. "By now many years must have passed since I left the Jade Pool gathering," Shen Mu thought.
He stood upon the jeweled carriage.
The Celestial Venerable Ling, the Celestial Venerable Moon and the rest flew near the Heavenly River, and he heard the voice of the Celestial Venerable Moon come over: "Old Daoist, the Heavenly River floats in the air. To use the waters of the Heavenly River to hold up our human Heavenly Court, to make the human Heavenly Court float in the heavens, you must make certain your calculations do not go wrong, and that the forces borne by every palace are reckoned exactly, or the celestial palace will come crashing down.
" "Rest easy, Celestial Venerable Moon.
" The Dao Ancestor held up a divination compass, calculation runes tumbling about him, and said: "My reckoning will never go wrong.
Back then, when the Celestial Venerable Mu gave me that one hint, I discovered the wonder of the arts of calculation, and I mean to enter the Dao through calculation. Celestial Venerable Moon, when my reckoning is done, I shall still need your art of space to fold the Heavenly River. Do you have such power?
" "Naturally.