Chapter 1213 — A Moment of Tenderness
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The instant Taisu left, Shen Mu departed from the Palace Heavenly Venerable's domain. Smiling at the woman emperor who had seen him off with such earnest courtesy, he said, "Sihua, please stay.
" The woman emperor, a disciple of the Palace Heavenly Venerable, was named Nian Sihua. She replied, "Mu Heavenly Venerable, my master has ordered me to treat you with due respect. Even if you led the Human Sovereigns of Human Sovereign Hall to block my gates, I would still greet you with every courtesy and see you off with every courtesy. " Shen Mu laughed heartily.
"Thank you for your hospitality.
No need to see me further. " With that, he drifted away. Nian Sihua watched him go, frowned slightly, and murmured, "I truly don't know what my master is thinking, giving him a tenth of the divine stones we dug up with so much hardship. This Mu Heavenly Venerable has a silver tongue and no real substance. Anyone can see he is a frivolous sort, cut from the same cloth as the Netherworld Son of Heaven.
I hope Master won't be taken in by him and cheated of her property and her person. . .
" Shen Mu had obtained eight Taisu divine stones from Nian Sihua and felt thoroughly satisfied. "Refining these eight divine stones should refine away that mouthful of egg fluid I drank.
At most a little will remain, and that's nothing to worry about. " He took out one Taisu divine stone and closed his palm gently around it. The stone vanished and appeared in his abdomen, where it reacted with the stubborn, unrefined egg fluid and transformed. Feeling the Dao resonance of the Taisu Way, Shen Mu sensed his cultivation rising and came to understand one Taisu great-Dao rune after another. His heart was greatly pleased. "I studied the Taishi Egg for so long before I worked out the Taishi runes, but deeper runic Dao must still exist within those runes. Merely refining the egg fluid lets me understand so many Taisu great-Dao runes. If I could crack open the Taishi Egg, take out the Taishi divine stone, and refine the Taishi egg fluid, then my cultivation would surely get twice the result with half the effort!
" The thought stirred him, but he shook his head.
The Taishi Egg was incomparably hard; even a pinnacle existence of the Great Emperor Throne like Wei Suifeng had been unable to split it and had instead shattered three fingers on it. Naturally, Shen Mu was no exception.
As for the Taisu Egg, it had only shattered the Taishi Egg by borrowing the dreadful might of the previous universe's annihilation—a horror Shen Mu absolutely did not wish to experience again.
He took up the Moon Heavenly Venerable's lantern, walked to the rift above the ancestral court, and passed through the seal he had left behind. Shen Mu examined the spiritual-energy transfer bridge he had left outside the ancestral court, observing it closely, and sneered, "This bridge has been destroyed eight times. Hong Heavenly Venerable, Xiao Heavenly Venerable, and Palace Heavenly Venerable most likely wouldn't destroy my bridge.
So it must have been another of the Heavenly Venerables. And the eighth time should be that wench Yun Chuxiu!
" The thought of Yun Chuxiu inevitably brought to mind Shi Qiluo, the palace master of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace, that burly man with a face full of beard. Shen Mu shook his head and stepped onto the spiritual-energy transfer bridge. The bridge connected to Jingping. By the time he stepped off it, he was already near the capital of Jingping. Shen Mu sighed in relief, walked into Shangjing, met Ling Yuxiu, and spoke of what he had experienced in the ancestral court.
Ling Yuxiu said, "Stay in the palace for a few days. There's no hurry to leave until you've refined that strange egg fluid.
" Shen Mu agreed and lodged in the palace for a while.