Chapter 1204 — The Divine Physician and the Heavenly Gate
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Shujun was likewise dumbstruck, frozen like a wooden chicken.
Throughout the history of the Creators, void beasts had always been the mount that every warrior among the Creators dreamed of possessing. To own a void beast was to see one's status within the tribe rise in a straight line.
Of course, Shujun had no void beast—not because his strength was insufficient. On the contrary, in his past life he had been the mightiest Creator of that era, revered as a Divine King!
Though void beasts were formidable, the Mother of Void Beasts was held in the hands of the Great Emperor. Thus Shujun had not subdued a void beast, but rather another exceedingly powerful colossal beast called the Taipu.
The Taipu's combat power was even greater, nearly on par with the Mother of Void Beasts—only it lacked the void beast's uncanny ability to vanish into the void, appearing and disappearing like a ghost.
Later, when the Ancestral Court underwent its cataclysmic upheaval, the ancient giant beasts here went extinct, and Shujun's Taipu perished alongside him in battle in the Blood Rust Zone.
"With the Mother of Void Beasts, we can command void beasts to harass the territories of the other Heavenly Venerates. If they covet our lands, we strike where they must defend!"
Shen Mu laughed heartily. "Pi, you have done excellently!"
The Dragon Qilin was quite pleased with himself.
Shen Mu's mind began to race, and he calculated aloud, "We can also strike first. First Ancestor, Second Ancestor, I will take you to blockade the gates of every Heavenly Venerate's territory!"
The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, laughed. "Shen'er, you are grown now, and you are the Mu Heavenly Venerate. There is no need for us to accompany you on something like gate-blockading."
Shen Mu shook his head. "It is I who will take you to blockade the gates. Blockading a gate requires a powerhouse to hold the position. I will bring you along to blockade the mining districts of every Heavenly Venerate and see for ourselves the divine abilities of the Heaven Court's powerhouses."
The successive Human Sovereigns clenched their fists tightly, their expressions dark.
The Yishan Human Sovereign sneered. "If I could beat you, I would beat you so badly that even Sumuzhe would not recognize you!"
The other Human Sovereigns nodded one after another, and the First Ancestor nodded as well.
Shen Mu roared with laughter. "Then it is settled. I will first deal with matters here, then take you to pay them a visit."
He brought the Alchemist to the lush, densely vegetated area of Great Black Peak and probed, "Grandpa Alchemist, are the plants here spirit medicines?"
The Alchemist bent down and carefully examined a stalk of flowers and grass. His expression grew stranger and stranger. After a long while, he straightened up, took out a silver needle, and cautiously pricked a tender green branch.
With a sudden swish, the plant vanished into the ground and fled.
The Alchemist frowned and thought for a moment, then took out a spirit pill and carefully placed it before the small hole left by the fleeing divine herb. After a moment, the divine herb cautiously extended a leaf, tested the air, and finding no danger, grew back out. It curled its roots around the spirit pill and dragged it underground.
"The spirit medicines here are all rare species. I have never seen their like outside."
The Alchemist looked around and said in a low voice, "As for their medicinal power and efficacy, I still need to examine them in detail... Hm? How strange..."
He came to another spirit medicine. This one was so potent it had nearly condensed into something substantial—its medicinal power had transformed into the patterns of the Dao, forming visions of various runes.
The Alchemist was deeply shaken. He examined every segment of the medicinal power's structure in detail. After a long while, he exhaled a breath of turbid air and murmured, "My Dao... is about to be completed..."