Chapter 1647 — The Lotus of the Dao Blooms on the Golden Boat
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Shen Mu ambled up to them, then said abruptly, "Brother, do you know the techniques of the Nether Heavenly Venerable? " Shen Fengqing was puzzled.
"The art of the Nether Heavenly Venerable's countless avatars.
" Shen Mu said, "Your attainment in the Dao of the Nether Capital should already match his. What he can do, you can most likely do as well. " Shen Fengqing's eyes lit up. He suddenly shook his body, and another Shen Fengqing walked out of him.
The two Shen Fengqings looked at each other; their cultivation was split exactly in half. Then each shook his own body and split off another Shen Fengqing.
Shen Fengqing kept dividing, and soon he numbered in the tens of thousands! This was the technique of the Nether Heavenly Venerable.
The Nether Heavenly Venerable's mightiest primordial spirit had been cultivated exactly this way — dividing into countless avatars, each avatar bearing a primordial spirit, so that the spirit was naturally mighty.
But this method had a weakness: the physical body was frail.
Because the Dao of the Nether Capital repelled the living body, this manner of cultivation made it very hard to refine the physical form to the utmost, and so the Nether Heavenly Venerable's achievement in the flesh was not great.
Countless Shen Fengqings ran in every direction, charging into palace after palace, yet still more palaces materialized from nothing.
And those Shen Fengqings, running as they went, kept shaking their bodies and splitting off yet more selves. Shen Mu's eyes glittered; the palaces he visualized grew ever more numerous, and the pattern among them gradually became clear.
Taishi watched, dumbfounded, and suddenly blurted out, "Has Shen Fengqing studied the Nether Heavenly Venerable's techniques?
" Shen Mu shook his head. "He has never studied them.
The Nether Heavenly Venerable is too reclusive; few people can get along with him in conversation, and the great Dao of the Nether Capital is extremely abstruse — he cannot be bothered to teach it to anyone else.
" Taishi stammered, "Then how did Shen Fengqing come to learn it?
" "After all, my brother is the Earth Lord. And besides, my brother and I are, after all, the same person.
" Shen Mu said coolly, "He looks like a simpleton, but he is in fact every bit as clever as I am.
" Taishi thought for a moment, then said, "Then why have you not learned it? " .
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At last, Shen Fengqing finished searching the final palace, and no new palaces appeared.
He called back his avatars one by one, a look of disappointment on his face, and shook his head: "We did not find the Grandsire.
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. Fatty, why are the rims of your eyes swollen?
" Taishi hemmed and hawed, unable to say a word.
Shen Mu let out a turbid breath.
Looking at the palaces he had visualized, analyzing the mathematical pattern among them, he shook his head: "There is still one great hall on the boat that has not revealed itself.
But I can determine where it is!
" He walked forward to an open stretch of ground, raised his hand, and lightly touched the center of his brow.
The vertical eye at his brow opened. A radiance as gorgeous as countless crystal prisms shot out from that sacred pupil between his brows and refracted in every direction — he was driving the Moon Heavenly Venerable's Scripture of the Utmost Void to its very limit. The crystal light shooting from his eyes refracted countless planes of space, and within those strange and outlandish spaces stood palace after palace — precisely the inner spaces of the World-Ferrying Golden Boat!
Suddenly, Shen Mu's gaze gathered and fell upon one palace.
The crystal prism in his vision revolved slowly from front to back, and a strange thing happened: when it had turned to its reverse face, there behind the prism, a jeweled hall materialized out of thin air before them! The vanished golden hall of the World-Ferrying Golden Boat had appeared at last! "Once the mathematical pattern is penetrated, no mystery will remain a secret.