Chapter 1397 — Cultivation Unstable, Foundation Unsettled
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
That tempering showed itself mostly in power. Shen Mu had passed through the Southern Heavenly Gate too, not one of them but almost all the Southern Heavenly Gates of all the Heavenly Palaces. Only the Buddha-Thief Heavenly Palace had yet to be forged, and the Zaiji Heavenly Palace, newly begun in its cultivation, he had not yet passed through.
And now, walking into the Southern Heavenly Gate formed by the heaven and earth of the Ancestral Court, he found himself scorched by the Dao fire, with signs that his realm was unstable.
Such instability of realm was a thing he had never once encountered. From childhood his realm's foundation had been incomparably firm; and after he came into contact with the Jingping Reform and remade the various divine treasuries, an unstable realm had been even further beyond his experience.
By the time he abolished his Heavenly Palace and abolished his divine treasuries, cultivating only the spirit fetus, the Heavenly Palace realms had become part of his spirit-fetus realm; the Venerable God and True God realms of the Heavenly Palace he had tempered to a firmness beyond imagining. If his realm was unstable, then every god under heaven had an unstable realm.
"This is an opportunity, my opportunity to claim the great consummation of the Southern Heavenly Gate realm!
" With all his heart he strove to sense the Dao fire around him, to listen to the Dao sound, to comprehend with his whole mind the mystery of the Southern Heavenly Gate. And at that moment, above the Southern Heavenly Gate, two enormous eyes suddenly surfaced in the cloud layer, hiding behind the clouds, fixed upon Shen Mu's primordial spirit as he comprehended within the gate.
Then their gaze shifted and fell upon Shen Mu's fleshly body. In the sky, a long dragon's whisker lowered without a sound, quietly coiled about Shen Mu's fleshly body, and slowly drew it up. Yet Shen Mu's primordial spirit within the Southern Heavenly Gate remained as though unaware of it all.
"I wait for you to come and beg me, to become my mount, heh heh.
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" A low laugh came from the sky, and the two eyes vanished as well.