Chapter 169 — The Holy Sovereign's Penchant
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Without a fine mastery of calculation, one can hardly learn them. The Holy Cult Master is still young; he should have little attainment in the arts of calculation.
" "Let him ponder it for a few days.
One who does not know difficulty does not know progress. To advance knowing the difficulty — that is the heart of one who seeks the Dao, who seeks learning. " Heavenly King Shi, the most steady and grave of them, said, "The Holy Cult Master has met too few setbacks. He rose to the seat of Holy Cult Master with fair winds the whole way; without trials he cannot grow.
This too is the Patriarch's intention. " The other two Cult-Guarding Heavenly Kings nodded again and again and said, "Shall we manufacture a setback or two for him ourselves?
" "No need.
This time, his pondering of the teleportation method will be setback enough to teach him what setback means. The Patriarch's meaning is this: when he finds he cannot leave this place, then we shall give him a teleportation banner. " Heavenly King Shi smiled faintly.
"Every gesture of the Patriarch carries deep meaning. How hard a divine art the Teleportation Divine Art is to learn, you two know as well as I.
For what did the Patriarch leave him here to study the Teleportation Divine Art? " Heavenly King Lu and Heavenly King Yu's eyes lit up, and together they clapped their hands and cried out at the brilliance of it. Of those who could master the teleportation method and refine it into a treasure, there were not many in the whole Youmo Cult.
Even the Holy Maiden of the previous generation, Si Youyou, had never learned it; her attainments in the arts of calculation were not high. The Patriarch's thought was this: let Shen Mu go to the Floating Light Hall to study the Teleportation Divine Art, and by the time Shen Mu discovered that the Teleportation Divine Art required the very highest attainments in the arts of calculation, ten-odd days would likely have passed. Then ten-odd days more, and Shen Mu would discover that he could not refine this divine art at all, and could refine only a teleportation treasure.
Ten-odd days more, and Shen Mu would discover that he could not refine even a treasure.
In this way the unruly temper of this young Holy Cult Master would be worn down a little; he would learn the height of heaven and the depth of the earth, and would no longer be so lawless and reckless, so ignorant of the height of heaven and the depth of the earth. By then, Shen Mu would settle his heart and first comprehend the Great Unification cultivation method of the Heavenly Holy Cult. Then the three Heavenly Kings would appear in the guise of elders and give this young cult master a teleportation banner; the Holy Cult Master would leave Shenglin Mountain smoothly, and all would be rejoicing.
This was the deep meaning of the Patriarch's keeping Shen Mu on Shenglin Mountain to ponder the Teleportation Divine Art. Heavenly King Yu said gravely, "What in the end has happened to Heavenly King Qian?
Have you two received any word? " Heavenly King Shi and Heavenly King Lu shook their heads.
Heavenly King Shi said, "I fear Brother Qian has already met with misfortune. He was the warmest-hearted of us all, and this time, of all times, he did not come.
Most likely the enemy struck at him, seeking to learn the location of our cult's headquarters, to learn who our cult master is. With his temper, he would never have spoken. .
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" Heavenly King Lu's heart skipped.
"Brother Qian's cultivation was so high. . . " "However high one's cultivation, there is always someone higher.
" Heavenly King Shi said in a low voice, "The first-rank great officials of the imperial court are all existences on the level of cult masters; nor do the Dao Sect and the Great Thunderclap Temple lack such peak experts.
Other sects, other great houses, have hidden experts as well.