Chapter 1209 — All Remedies Fail
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
His very flesh began to go numb and lose all feeling! At the same time, his Dao runes began to collapse; in the Prime Embryo divine treasury the host of stars dimmed, their stellar power growing fainter and fainter!
All the phantom images of ancient gods in his divine treasury had lost their former divine power—that power had been dissolved away by the virulent poison. The halos behind the gods' heads were mottled with rust, shorn of their radiance, and one by one they ceased to turn.
The bodies of the ancient gods rotted and crumbled, reeking of decay!
Shen Mu was startled, and at once meant to take out the Taiji Divine Stone to activate the yin-yang Taiji diagram in his divine treasury; but his body would not obey him at all—he had utterly lost command of his own flesh.
Shen Mu felt like a heap of rotten mud, ready at any moment to dissolve entirely into a puddle of pus. What had not been dissolved was his spirit embryo and primordial spirit, and the Taiji diagram; nor had his already-completed heavenly palace been dissolved away.
"Eh? " The Pill Master came forward and examined him closely, and gave a soft cry of surprise. "Little Shen, you are indeed remarkable.
This pill of mine did not dissolve away your cultivation entirely—it even left you your primordial spirit.
I had thought it would dissolve all your heavenly palaces, and then I would use your cultivation to reshape them, to display the wondrous creative power of the Medicine Dao Heavenly Palace. . .
" He frowned.
His aim had been to make the Medicine Dao Heavenly Palace outshine the other heavenly palaces, and to make Shen Mu "forsake darkness for light" and follow him in cultivating the Dao of medicine. He had not expected Shen Mu's attainments to be so formidable that even the great poison pill he had refined could not dissolve Shen Mu's heavenly palaces completely.
"I should have refined it fiercer—but if it were too fierce, Little Shen would have been poisoned to death.
. . " The Pill Master stepped up and helped Shen Mu sit down, smiling. "Little Shen, rest easy. I know my limits; I will not act rashly.
This poison of mine has turned the vital essence and spirit sense in your body into pure true essence; with the slightest application of method, I can turn that true essence into the Medicine Dao Heavenly Palace. .
. Oh no!
" The Pill Master's face changed greatly.
Shen Mu's two eyes had already gone beyond his control; only the vertical eye at his brow rolled up white, and he thought, "From childhood to now you have used me to test your pills—when was it ever not 'oh no'? "