Chapter 51 — The Sect Master's Bedmate
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"How did I come to be here?
" Granny Zhu came out of the thatched hut, her voice choked with tears: "I raised you with such bitter hardship, brought you up to this size, and you slipped off without a word after a vixen, leaving your granny all alone. And you ask me how I come to be here? Your wings have grown stiff; with a vixen in hand, you want your granny no more! Little vixen, how would you like to die?
" Shen Mu hastened to smile. "Granny, you have misunderstood. I came upon Snow Fox by chance, and hearing her speak of the Xiongjiang Dragon Palace, I went to take a look.
Because in the dragon palace I was comprehending the true dragon and forgot myself for a time, I stayed there two days longer.
" "Not two days, four!
Wait, you say you were comprehending the true dragon?
" Granny Zhu said in astonishment, "That little vixen did not plunder you and draw off your vital energy?
" Snow Fox, bashful and a little frightened, hid behind Shen Mu. Shen Mu stirred his vital energy and laughed. "Granny, look!
" A low dragon cry came forth; Shen Mu's vital energy surged out and became a great dragon coiled about his body, its two claws fused with his arms.
Shen Mu shifted his stance, struck out with a punch, and with a thunderous crack the thunder sound burst forth.
He punched again and again, and the sonorous thunder sound rolled back and forth through the valley, boom upon boom, quivering without cease! "Azure Dragon vital energy! " Granny Zhu was deeply shaken.
She knew Lord Huo had never taught Shen Mu the Thunder Cry Mahayana Sutra; lacking a cultivation method suited to the Eight Thunder Cry Arts, no matter how mighty Shen Mu's vital energy might be, his attainment in the Eight Thunder Cry Arts could never be high.
Yet now Shen Mu had struck out the thunder sound, his fists like rushing thunder, only short of a true thunderbolt!
In the Spirit Embryo realm, without the corresponding heart formula, to achieve such a thing was all but impossible!
And the crucial matter was not even this, but the Azure Dragon vital energy!
That Shen Mu had just now been encircled by an Azure Dragon was precisely the Azure Dragon vital energy unique to the Azure Dragon spirit body among the four great spirit bodies!
This was already the third attribute that the vital energy of his Overlord Body possessed! Shen Mu had contemplated water and contemplated fire, and his Overlord Body vital energy had gained the water and fire attributes, answering to the Black Tortoise vital energy and the Vermilion Bird vital energy; and now he possessed the lightning attribute of the Azure Dragon vital energy as well!
"Can it be that Shen'er has plundered the little vixen and greatly advanced his cultivation? No, I never taught him the demonic plunder arts.
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He said just now that he saw a true dragon; what is the meaning of that?
" Granny Zhu was full of doubt. Shen Mu reined in his stance, and the Azure Dragon formed of his vital energy slipped into his body with a zip, from dragon head to dragon tail lively and vivid, as though it were a true god-dragon.
His own heart was both startled and delighted; he had never expected to be able to strike out the thunder sound! When the little monk Chenghuai employed the Eight Thunder Cry Arts and struck out the thunder sound, Shen Mu had envied him without end.
If Shen Mu used the Demon God's Divine Power Seal, he too could strike out the thunder sound, but the Demon God's Divine Power Seal consumed a great deal.