Chapter 1220 — Recasting the Secret Treasury
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The Yulin soldiers had been turned into bodies of energy; all within them was energy and no flesh, and this was the most convenient moment to remake his divine bridge and divine treasury. So Shen Mu set to work at once.
Yet it was likewise a thing of extreme peril, for to remake another's divine treasury was a labor Shen Mu had never once attempted.
Judging by his earlier experiments in converting the mass-energy of phoenix feathers and dragon scales, the odds of failure were exceedingly high!
In those earlier failures he had lost only phoenix feathers or dragon scales; a failure now would cost the Yulin soldier his life!
And yet Shen Mu believed he was utterly sure of success.
To remake a heavenly palace for another he had no confidence at all, for heavenly palaces carry differing attributes, and differing cultivation arts make heavenly palace attributes no less different.
But the Heavenly River divine treasury he was among the earliest to found. Perhaps he had not begun as early as Xu Shenghua, but he had tried and erred scores of times in order to open the Heavenly River divine treasury, and of the seventh divine treasury of the human body his understanding ran deeper than any man's!
Of remaking the Yulin soldier's seventh divine treasury, he was greatly confident. Wei Suifeng was frantic with worry, yet dared not disturb him, watching as he remade the Yulin soldier's fleshly body, his primordial spirit, even his soul, little by little. Before long, by the Way of the evolution of the two qi of yin and yang and with the power of the Taiji origin stone, Shen Mu had actually remade the man whole!
Shen Mu breathed out in relief; the others too were glad at heart and greatly heartened.
"Junior brother, the next Yulin soldier must on no account have his divine treasury remade! " Wei Suifeng said suddenly.
Shen Mu was astonished: "Senior brother, when the Yulin soldiers return to the future they certainly cannot go back to the Heavenly Court; they can only merge into Jingping. The cultivation arts they practice are too ancient, and to open a heavenly palace is extremely difficult besides.
Not everyone can open one.
" He laughed: "A divine-power user who can destroy his divine bridge and divine treasury and open the Heavenly River divine treasury is one in ten thousand!
If I seize this chance to remake their seventh divine treasury, their future achievements will know no bound! " Wei Suifeng shook his head: "Junior brother, these soldiers under my command are not merely one in ten thousand; one in a hundred million would be understating it. In the Longhan era, when the Nine Heavenly Venerables established the realms of divine treasury and heavenly palace, divine treasury and heavenly palace were opened by each one's own effort, and seldom inherited.
Especially the Ten Guards of the Heavenly Court: every one of them opened his divine treasury and heavenly palace by his own ability. To remake their seventh divine treasury is very perilous for you, but once they reach Jingping they can destroy their divine bridges and open the Heavenly River.
" Shen Mu's eyes blazed, fixed upon the fifty thousand Yulin soldiers. Over several hundred thousand years, the Longhan Heavenly Court had chosen out the Ten Guards of the Heavenly Court, each one the cream of the elite; every Yulin soldier's cultivation was of the highest, nearly all of them at the Jade Capital realm! And these fellows had opened their divine treasuries and heavenly palaces by their own ability; such talent, set down in Jingping, could likely not be matched by fifty thousand of its like! What manner of monsters, what manner of heaven-defying host was this? Of course, the Jingping reforms had run for too few years; true, geniuses of every kind were now springing up, but the time was short, the foundations thin, and nothing could yet be judged.
"Senior brother, can you guarantee that every Yulin soldier is loyal to you?