Chapter 1346 — Same Day of Life and Death
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Shen Mu paced to and fro, forcibly pressing down the curiosity in his heart, resolving to give no more thought to the matter of the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court. The Grand Emperor smiled; he knew that the more one suppressed it, the heavier it grew, and that sooner or later Shen Mu would be unable to hold back, would surely go scurrying off to the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court to meet his death!
Through all history, those who achieved great things had shared one trait in common: a fierce curiosity, a boundless wonder at the unknown, and by the same token a blindness to whatever perils the unknown might hold for them. Those who lived won fame and fortune; those who died of it were beyond counting! The Grand Emperor chuckled: "Mu Heavenly Venerable, I have told you the geography of the holy city of Jade Capital.
You may go now to my domain and pass the trial of the God-Slaying Platform! " Shen Mu shook his head. "My cultivation is not yet sufficient. I cannot yet ascend the God-Slaying Platform.
" The Grand Emperor was dumbstruck.
"And what realm are you in now? " Shen Mu said, somewhat guiltily: "Spirit Embryo. .
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" "Bah!
" A mouthful of spiritual consciousness sprayed from the Grand Emperor's head at the center of the seal, and he raged: "Spirit Embryo realm?
Why not say you are a mere martial artist?
Speak plainly! " Shen Mu hesitated, then answered honestly: "The Heavenly Palace realm within the Spirit Embryo realm.
The Heavenly Palace is one small realm within my Spirit Embryo realm, and within the Heavenly Palace are seven smaller realms still: Honored God, True God, Jade Terrace, God-Slaying Platform, Jade Capital, Lingxiao, and Emperor's Throne. At present I stand at the peak of True God, and am about to step into the Jade Terrace realm. . . " The Grand Emperor was silent a while, as though digesting the information contained in his words, and after a long time shook his head and probed: "By the reckoning of the Dao realm, which heaven of the Dao realm are you?
" "The twenty-fourth heaven of the Dao realm," said Shen Mu. "But my Dao realm seems somewhat different from other people's; my Dao realm seems a little stronger. .
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" The Grand Emperor's eye twitched. The twenty-fourth heaven of the Dao realm should correspond in strength to the Jade Capital realm of the Heavenly Palace.
Yet in this struggle against him, though he had no primordial spirit, his realm had reached the Emperor's Throne realm! Even without a primordial spirit, his true fighting strength was not much inferior to that of an existence at the Emperor's Throne realm, and yet in their battle Shen Mu had beaten him until he flung away his armor, had even shattered his mightiest divine ability! Understand: from the ancient era down to the present, no one had ever broken his Great Luotian of Spiritual Consciousness divine ability!
That ability was one that contained the fruits and flowers of the Dao, and Shen Mu was the first to break it! Even Hao Heavenly Venerable had never broken it! "Your realm is a little strange, strange. .
. " The Grand Emperor thought it over carefully and still could not understand wherein Shen Mu's strength lay, so he could only attribute it to Shen Mu's cultivating the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Court and the Dao realm all at once.
"Since you and I have come to terms, then, Mu Heavenly Venerable, you may now undo the seal and let me out. " The Grand Emperor smiled.
"Rest assured, as an emperor of the ancient era I would not break faith over so small a matter.
" Shen Mu hesitated.
The Grand Emperor grew suspicious and sneered: "Do you mean to break faith? Do not forget, Mu Heavenly Venerable, that I have another identity, that of Qiang Heavenly Consort! And I can also summon the imprint of the Great Luotian of spiritual consciousness in the Ultimate Void to blast you to death!
Do not force me into a fight to the death. " Shen Mu said hastily with a smile: "Brother Dao, you worry overmuch!