Chapter 1204 — The Divine Physician and the Heavenly Gate
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 3
He could not help but shed tears. Shen Mu, however, was wild with joy. He looked up at the sky and murmured, "My Dao... is also about to be completed..."
The Alchemist kicked him flying and snarled, "All you know is sponging off your elders day after day! If you put in more effort yourself, you would have succeeded long ago!"
Shen Mu rubbed his backside and said with perfect righteousness, "I am busy with more things every day—running back and forth, and I still have to comprehend all kinds of divine abilities and Dao arts. Where would I find time to cultivate the medical Dao? Of course I sponge off my elders!"
Seeing that he still dared to talk back, the Alchemist wished he could stuff a handful of poison down his throat.
Shen Mu hurriedly fled, and saw the Dragon Qilin and Yan'er settling the newcomers from Jingping. Once they had settled them in, Shen Mu summoned them and questioned them in detail about that elder with no fixed face and no fixed gender.
After a long while, Shen Mu's gaze flickered and he said, "He seems to know everything? He even knows about the Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness Great Luo Unsurpassed Divine Consciousness that I imparted to you, and he knows about the birth of the Mother of Void Beasts... Before this, the Ancestral Court was sealed the entire time, only unsealed when we arrived—and even then not fully unsealed. So this mysterious elder can only be a divinity born from that enigmatic, unfathomable Chaos Ore Vein."
Yan'er said, "These days he has been carrying a water bucket, repairing the divine mountains that were shattered by the quakes. Those divine mountains are truly terrifying!"
"This is the Dao of material transposition."
Shen Mu said calmly, "The total matter and total energy of the universe are eternally unchanging. The process of the universe's destruction is the process of converting matter into energy; the process of the universe's birth is the process of converting energy into matter. Though those dreadful creatures come from a past universe that has already been destroyed, they too must abide by this principle. With this black wood, there is now a connecting channel between past and future."
He paced back and forth, musing, "They use void beasts to steal a portion of matter from our universe and fill it into the past universe. Then, with less matter here and more matter there, they can take the opportunity to transpose themselves over and come into our world."
"In other words, in the previous universe—right beside the roots of this great black wood—they held a reverse summoning, stealing matter from us. That is why you saw the void beasts' corpses piled like mountains quickly lose their blood, their flesh, and even their bones vanish within a few days."
Shen Mu looked up into the distance and clenched his fist heavily. "That ancient god handled it very poorly. He sealed off the mountains around this great black wood, but our universe is still missing a portion of matter, and that past universe still has a surplus. They will come again sooner or later!"
"Sealing Great Black Mountain only treats the symptom, not the root!"
"Well said!"
The moment Shen Mu's words fell, a voice came from behind, praising, "The Mu Heavenly Venerate speaks truly well. Worthy of the Mu Heavenly Venerate indeed."
Shen Mu turned toward the voice and saw a man dressed like a scholar, who had appeared behind them at some unknown time, holding a folding fan, elegant in bearing, handsome in features, though somewhat effeminate.
Shen Mu looked at the Dragon Qilin and Yan'er. The two hurriedly shook their heads and whispered, "Every time he comes, his gender is uncertain, his face is uncertain, his race is uncertain. We do not know if it is even him."
Shen Mu offered a salute and said, "May I ask how to address you, Brother Dao?"