Chapter 1610 — The Price of Curiosity
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"Though we have fought all our lives, each wanting to kill the other, we have never once thought of dragging each other down together. Besides, if I cultivate her Mirror of Guixu, then my sister and I — the little slut — will have to submit to this so-called Goddess of Guixu, a life worse than death.
Naturally we cannot cultivate it!
" The Empress said, "By comparison, Heavenly Venerable Mu's dao of reincarnation is at least fair.
Teach us the dao of reincarnation, and we shall each rely on our own abilities; whether I refine her to death or she refines me to death, it is our own fate. " Shen Mu smiled faintly. "Since the two of you do not intend to use the method of the Mirror of Guixu, why not pass it to me, and I will teach you the dao of reincarnation. " The Empress and Yuanmu pondered for a moment, and each transmitted to him the method of the Mirror of Guixu she had obtained. "These two methods are quite different from each other.
" Shen Mu sorted through them, astonished, and mused, "Strange! By rights, the one she gave Yuanmu and the one she gave the Empress should be the same method.
For though you appear to be two people, in truth you are two different minds of the Goddess of Guixu.
So one method should serve you both.
Yet she divided it into two — that is unreasonable. .
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" He examined the Mirror of Guixu closely.
By now his comprehension and understanding of the dao of Guixu was no less than the Empress's or Yuanmu's, and in certain respects surpassed them both.
Thus he grasped the Second Young Master's Mirror of Guixu extremely quickly, and could penetrate every subtlety of it.
The more he pondered, the tighter his brows knit; the more he felt that some hidden malice lurked within the Mirror of Guixu.
Though Shen Mu and the Empress and Yuanmu were enemies, it was plain that these two were far less dangerous than the Second Young Master of Miluo Palace. And in the present circumstances, he needed to join hands with them. "This divine art of the Mirror of Guixu — I fear there is a ghost in it!
" Shen Mu said suddenly. "You two, guard me.
I will test this Mirror of Guixu! " He entered the dream straightaway, and in the dream tiny Shen Mus emerged one after another, chattering maha maha in a hubbub. The Empress and Yuanmu hastened to resist the might of the great abyss of Guixu and protect him, watching him with anxious faces. They and Shen Mu were enemies unto death, yet now they had not the slightest thought of harming him, and Shen Mu held not the least guard against them, entering the dream before their very eyes and asking them to protect him!
Had they wished to kill Shen Mu now, it would have taken no effort at all, yet at such a fine chance they could not bring themselves to strike; instead they had no choice but to protect him.
In the dream, the many Shen Mus all cultivated the dao of Guixu. Their cultivation fell roughly into three kinds: one cultivated the dao of destruction of Guixu, like Lady Yuanmu; one cultivated the dao of creation of Guixu, like the Empress; and the last cultivated the dao of reincarnation that Shen Mu had comprehended.
After a long while, when the Empress and Lady Yuanmu could scarcely endure the power of the great abyss of Guixu, a sudden change arose.
In the dream, those tiny Shen Mus merged together, fusing two by two into Shen Mus with two faces, monstrous of form, much like the Empress's present state.
The Empress and Yuanmu exclaimed in wonder. The remaining tiny Shen Mus then wielded the dao of reincarnation, guarding those who had become one.
And lo, these tiny Shen Mus exercised the method of the Mirror of Guixu, and mirrors shaped like great abysses floated before each little figure.
These were the Mirrors of Guixu refined according to the method of the Mirror of Guixu!
In the dream, these tiny Shen Mus gazed into the mirrors, and once their eyes fell upon them, they could not look away.