荒墟牧神 - 第24章 一念斬破心中神 - 雲海書庫

ing. The ring slowly dimmed and gradually vanished. Shen Mu closed his eyes, urged his primordial qi, and carefully constructed the Shenxiao Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern within his pupils. Opening his eyes again, he saw that another ring had appeared in his eyes in the mirror. This ring was the projection of the Shenxiao Heaven. "If I master the Nine Heavens Far-Seeing Art, then my eyes should contain nine rings nested one within another, like ten pupils layered together," Shen Mu thought. The Blind Elder continued to instruct him on how to cultivate the complete Shenxiao Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern, and after a long while Shen Mu finally mastered the complete Dipper Array Pattern. "Mu'er, are you rested?" The Butcher "leaped down" from the stone mill, seized his two pig-slaughtering knives, and shouted: "If you're rested, then it's time to practice the blade!" Shen Mu answered and, taking up his pig-slaughtering knife, charged at the Butcher. Before long, Grandpa Ma and the Lame Elder returned from hunting and at once relieved the Butcher, continuing Shen Mu's training. Only when Shen Mu was too exhausted to move did they let him go. In the afternoon, Shen Mu went to the mute blacksmith to work the forge. The mute gestured with his hands, saying "ah ah" for a while, and Shen Mu nodded, lost in thought. What the mute spoke of were the techniques of cultivation. He said that cultivation was like forging iron: one must pay attention to the gentle fire and the fierce fire, and besides these there was quenching, which required water. This was one civil and one martial, one hard and one soft, one dragon and one tiger. Shen Mu pondered it carefully, and the more he savored it the more sense it made. He could not help but admire the mute deeply; the mute's words had saved him many detours. While forging, the mute also taught him to observe the fire, watching the flames in the furnace and gesturing for a while. Shen Mu's eyes lit up. Following what the mute had taught, he observed the fire while mobilizing his primordial qi, activating the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art. His primordial qi circulated like a small furnace hidden in his chest, then was transported throughout his body. He felt as though his primordial qi had caught fire — a most wondrous sensation. Meanwhile, in his spirit soul divine mansion, the spirit embryo drew energy from the sea of light, breathing in and out primordial qi. His spirit embryo was actually changing as well; the primordial qi it exhaled was ignited, and firelight coiled around the spirit embryo, bathing it as though in a furnace. Shen Mu was astonished. His spirit embryo was actually tempering its body too. Watching the furnace fire had produced this wondrous change in his spirit embryo, entirely beyond his expectations! The mute was astonished as well, studying Shen Mu curiously. After a while, Shen Mu felt that his spirit embryo had reached the limit of fire it could endure, and he hastily stopped watching the furnace fire. "Ah ah!" The mute gestured twice, then placed the red-hot iron bar into the water. With a sizzle, a wisp of white smoke rose, and he gestured twice more. Shen Mu's eyes lit up. He watched the water vat, lost in thought. From his chest came the sound of flowing water, murmuring softly. Then the murmuring primordial qi flowed into his spirit soul divine mansion and became a trickling stream. When it touched the spirit embryo, something wondrous happened: his primordial qi was actually tempering the spirit embryo! His spirit embryo, tempered by water and fire, was in bliss! Early the next morning, Shen Mu rose feeling full of vigor, his whole body brimming with abundant energy. Cultivating by the method the mute had taught him truly yielded twice the result with half the effort! "Time to go fight that Nether Ape again!" He was in high spirits. He took a Qi Condensation Pill, and the powerful medicinal force surged through him so violently that he had to rush out of the village to