Chapter 1514 — Transmitting the Dao in the Tree's Shade
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
The Ancestral Court within his domain was now spread beneath the roots and stems of the World Tree sapling.
Heavenly palace after heavenly palace encircled the sapling, and one primordial spirit after another sat within those heavenly palaces, standing upon the Nine Hells Platform, urging on their Dao arts and divine abilities, attempting to imprint themselves upon the World Tree sapling. Xu Shenghua was stunned for a moment, then stammered, "What is he doing? " "Probably trying to refine the World Tree and make it his own treasure.
" Lan Yutian was not entirely certain either. "The World Tree is still a sapling now, the time most suited to refining it.
If it grows any taller, his domain will no longer be able to contain it.
So refining it now takes the least effort and is most likely to succeed.
" Xu Shenghua looked and saw that although Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury domain had been spread to its greatest extent, the World Tree's crown still reached the very dome of his domain's heavens.
One more growth, surely, and it would burst through the dome of his domain!
Even so, Shen Mu stubbornly kept trying to refine the sapling.
Besides trying to imprint his own great Dao upon the World Tree, he was also attempting to sacrifice his spirit embryo into the tree's body.
Even though he failed again and again, repelled each time by the World Tree, he never lost heart.
Xu Shenghua was left gaping, tongue-tied.
Just then the woman carrying a small water bucket passed by. That woman, Taiyi, was most caustic.
She shook her head and sneered, "Silly fawn, a mayfly shaking a tree—overestimating yourself. " With that, she shook her head and went on her way. Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian watched her go far off, then each withdrew their gaze.
Xu Shenghua asked, "Do you think the Cult Master can succeed?
" Lan Yutian shook her head.
"How would I know? But the World Tree has probably never been cut down by anyone before, has it? Perhaps in its sapling stage it really can be refined.
Still, refining this tree may indeed be, as Taiyi said, a bit like a mayfly hugging a tree root and shaking it. . .
" The two shook their heads together, neither very optimistic.
Xu Shenghua asked, "Has the Cult Master returned that Dao tree leaf he borrowed from Taiyi? " Lan Yutian shook her head.
"He has not.
My brother has never mentioned it, as if he had forgotten, and Taiyi has not mentioned it either, as if she had forgotten too. " Xu Shenghua thought for a moment and said, "That shows Taiyi still hopes the Cult Master can refine the World Tree.
He just will not say so, and must add a mocking word or two.
" "The way Heavenly Lord Mu stubbornly persists, he really is like a silly roe deer.
" Emperor Ming's voice came. Emperor Ming now looked somewhat different from before. Formerly he had been a soul; now he had a physical body, though this body was rather strange, bearing wooden veins upon it.
This was because Shen Mu had gone to great pains, asking Taiyi to cut a small piece of bark from a branch of the World Tree, and with that bark had remade a body for him, using the dew upon the leaves as his blood.
Now this body moved with difficulty, and Emperor Ming constantly worried whether he might take root and sprout, for he always felt signs of sprouting.
Shen Mu had made two bodies in all, one for him to use, and he had not said much about the purpose of the other. He had already sent people to the place where Emperor Ming had fallen to seek Emperor Ming's flesh and blood.
Once it was found, the powerful creative power of Emperor Ming's flesh and blood could be used to turn this wooden body into a body of flesh and blood. Fully revived, Emperor Ming's physical body would surely be even stronger than before!
Emperor Ming moved his feet with difficulty, walked to the two of them, and bowed in salute.
"Heavenly Lord Yu, you said earlier that you sensed a realm at the Heavenly Sea. Have you established this Heavenly Sea realm?