Chapter 1075 — First Step into the Ancestral Land
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
He had dispelled Gu Xiao's killing intent toward Luo Xiao, and yet he had stirred up Da Hong's killing intent toward himself!
"It may be that I performed too well."
Shen Mu blinked, thinking to himself, "When I said I could modify the Creator race's divine-consciousness summoning and establish a reverse summoning, I reckon he had never thought of it before. I came across as cleverer than he, which made him wary, and so he wants to kill me. I should act a little more foolish..."
Luo Xiao's divine consciousness rippled, transmitting the divine-consciousness method for summoning Void Beasts into Shen Mu's mind, and said, "Younger brother Mu, you have a try."
Shen Mu glanced at Da Hong. Da Hong smiled faintly and encouraged him, "Brother Mu, by all means have a try."
Shen Mu then looked at Gu Xiao and said tentatively, "If I attempt a reverse summoning, there may be unpredictable and grave peril. Elder brother Gu Xiao, you must see to my safety."
Gu Xiao glanced at Da Hong and said with an enigmatic smile, "I, too, would like to witness the attainments in divine arts of Mu the Heavenly Venerable, renowned far and wide for establishing his Dao through divine powers. Rest assured — you and I are both of the human race, and brothers besides; I will not let you come to harm."
Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
Da Hong laughed heartily, both hands tucked into his sleeves.
Gu Xiao laughed as well, and producing a nail file from nowhere, idly filed his fingernails.
Luo Xiao felt that the atmosphere was somehow amiss, yet where exactly the problem lay, he could not tell clearly.
Shen Mu studied the method for summoning Void Beasts several times over and soon got to the bottom of its principle. After all, he had obtained the wisdom accumulated by the Creators of the Other Shore Void; comprehending the Creators' divine-consciousness techniques was no trouble for him.
He deconstructed the method for summoning Void Beasts with the Great Dao runes of a later age; only after a long while did he complete this summoning method. After that, he used numerology to deconstruct the summoning method as it had evolved from the Great Dao runes, and then he established the summoning method in reverse.
When he had finally done all this, he stretched his back lazily, then went up to the altar that Luo Xiao had produced and studied the altar's construction in fine detail.
Shen Mu pondered for a moment, then set about modifying the altar. Gu Xiao, Da Hong, and Luo Xiao watched him busily inscribing formation runes on the altar. They had a mind to examine them, yet found that they could not fully understand the formation runes Shen Mu used.
Some of these formation runes were later-age Dao arts used by Shen Mu to deconstruct divine consciousness; others were divine consciousness used by Shen Mu to deconstruct later-age Dao arts, giving rise to runes that spanned the ages; and what was more, most of them were runes of the Acquired Great Dao, leaving the three of them utterly in the dark.
Shen Mu then set up a smelting table and forged divine weapons before it, crafting one component after another. He had the Dragon Qilin come forward and take these components to modify the altar.
Without any need for his direction, the Dragon Qilin embedded the divine-weapon components into the altar.
"Mu the Heavenly Venerable, who established his Dao through divine powers, indeed has great substance to him!"
Da Hong and Gu Xiao could not refrain from praising inwardly, "Even his mount is versed in Dao arts and divine powers — a skill by no means to be underestimated!"
Shen Mu forged even more divine-weapon components, fitted the remaining components together to make a smaller altar, and placed it beside the other altar.
The two altars, one large and one small, were of opposing construction.