Chapter 1661 — The Strange Beast's Congratulatory Gift
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Shen Mu was taken aback, then shook his head and smiled: "You did not do wrong. This Xing'an is incomparably heterodox and evil, but he has one principle—he never targets the weak, and rarely takes lives. If you let him loose in the martial world, he would be an evil god. But if you employ him and provide what he wants, he will do no evil at all, only devote himself to research."
Ling Yuxiu breathed a sigh of relief: "Then shall we send Mr. Xing to the Heavenly Court?"
"If he wishes to go, then let him."
Shen Mu did not even raise his head, continuing his study, and said, "He will not stay in the Heavenly Court for long. Since he has already entered Jingping, he is a man of Jingping. The Heavenly Court is a place of decay—there is nothing there worth his lingering... Wait!"
As he spoke, he suddenly entered a dream. Layer upon layer of dreamscapes unfolded, and countless tiny Shen Mus busied themselves around the human skin of the Heavenly Emperor Hao's reincarnation.
Ling Yuxiu was caught between laughter and tears, and could only wait for him to wake.
Shen Mu slept for a day and a night, the dreamscapes growing deeper and deeper. Within the dreams, several hundred years had passed. Suddenly, layer upon layer of dreamscapes dispersed, and Shen Mu awoke. He took up a brush and wrote several dao patterns on the human skin, saying, "Madam, have someone deliver the human skin to Xing'an. The several dao patterns he could not deduce—I have filled them in for him."
Ling Yuxiu laughed with a titter: "Mu Tianzun will not be outdone by anyone—must you compete?"
Shen Mu clasped his hands behind his back and said leisurely, "Naturally!"
Ling Yuxiu put away the human skin and immediately had someone send it to Zhaixing Peak of the Wendao Academy.
Shen Mu closed his eyes and pondered the Heavenly Emperor Hao's cultivation method in detail, committing it thoroughly to memory. The Heavenly Emperor Hao's mastery of the Primordial One Qi surpassed his own, and he also had considerable attainment in the Dao of Guixu—especially the Dao of Taisu, some of which even Shen Mu did not understand.
Shen Mu absorbed his strengths and supplemented his own deficiencies, improving his Xuanti Three Elixir Method. After a long while, he slowly circulated the Xuanti Three Elixir Method. His vital essence revolved, his divine treasury domain emerged, and within his body a universe unto itself took form.
At that very moment, he heard a faint crack from within his divine treasury's Guixu.
In the chaotic sea at the very bottom of the Guixu, a Guixu lotus seed had sprouted.