Chapter 1427 — The Chance to Grasp the Dao
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 5
And why is there such a big fleshy egg here as well? " The Void Beast egg was a fleshy egg, its shell a layer of flesh, unlike the eggs of ordinary birds; he had never seen such a thing, so naturally he did not know.
In Langxuan's fleet the tower ships grew fewer and fewer; one after another they came down to land, and the places they chose were all lands of plenty.
Aboard the flagship, the God-Emperor Langxuan humbly sought instruction from Shen Mu, laying out one by one the difficulties his reincarnation body had met with while studying in Jingping. Shen Mu answered everything he knew, but he too came upon many things he could not grasp, and whenever that happened, Langxuan began to suspect that Shen Mu was deliberately holding back. Yet he wronged Shen Mu there.
Though Shen Mu often returned to Jingping to study the fruits of the Reforms, Jingping changed with each passing day; all manner of divine abilities and Dao arts were being developed, and from them many new Dao arts and divine abilities had branched out, opening up different lines of growth, a veritable hundred schools contending and a hundred flowers blooming.
After returning to Jingping, the time Shen Mu could spend on study was far too short; he generally picked out only those fruits that would benefit him, and other results, however fine, he had to cast aside.
In the Jingping Reforms the most advanced fruits were concentrated in the Palace of Learning and the academies, while the very foremost were gathered in the Institute of Hearing the Dao; merely studying the fruits of these few places already took a very long time, to say nothing of the new results that emerged at every moment.
The God-Emperor Langxuan said, "Emperor Yanxiu has gathered the gods of the world who are masters of the Dao of the Primordial Spirit and the Dao of Creation to study the art of creating the Heavenly Palace, intending that once the Heavenly Palace is damaged it may swiftly be restored.
Emperor Yanxiu and the gods of Jingping created three doctrines in twelve scrolls, called the Treatise on the Creation of the Heavenly Palace. There is a passage in it, the chapter on the Creation of the Heavenly Gate, that leaves me somewhat perplexed. " Shen Mu had never heard of the Treatise on the Creation of the Heavenly Palace either.
"Show me the Treatise," he said. The God-Emperor Langxuan hesitated a moment, the two horns on his forehead flushing faintly red, and brought out the Treatise on the Creation of the Heavenly Palace, three doctrines in twelve scrolls, of terrifying thickness.
The Ten Heavenly Venerables nominally suppressed the Jingping Reforms, yet they had long since slipped silently into Jingping to steal the fruits of the Reforms; they had even copied down the new cultivation arts and peerless techniques Jingping had created. Thick-skinned as Langxuan was, to bring out Jingping's cultivation arts in the presence of Shen Mu, one of the three heroes of the Reforms, still left him somewhat ashamed. After all, he too had been one of the Heavenly Venerables who suppressed the Reforms; during the Jingping Calamity his forces had invaded Jingping and caused enormous casualties.
Shen Mu pored over the Heavenly Gate chapter in detail, brooding long and hard, and Langxuan could not help but grow suspicious; the shame in his heart was flung away clean, and the horns on his forehead returned to their normal color. "Is this fellow truly unable, or only feigning? The way he looks, it is not as though I am seeking instruction from him, but rather as though he were stealing the Jingping Reforms from me. .
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" When he was ashamed his face did not redden, but his two horns would flush. Shen Mu tried his hand at an answer, and the God-Emperor Langxuan swiftly found several flaws in it; the two stared wide-eyed at each other, and Shen Mu looked rather embarrassed.