Chapter 113 — The Hand That Restores Spring
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In Fu Qingyun's experience, a normal wall-breaking took more than a single attempt; some people needed a thousand tries, a hundred tries, before the barrier finally shattered and the breakthrough was counted a success. Computing the star position was one thing; breaking the wall was another.
Breaking the wall of the Five Luminaries required the yuanqi to strike again and again, forcing a crack in the barrier, widening it by degrees, until the barrier split fully open and could no longer heal shut — only that counted as a successful breakthrough.
A case like Shen Mu's, where she had barely turned her back and he broke through behind her, was exceedingly rare. "Unless. .
.
" Fu Qingyun's heart jumped.
Unless Shen Mu's yuanqi cultivation was abnormally deep and mighty, and only that could break a wall in a single attempt. "Young Master, let us touch palms with nothing but yuanqi.
" Seeing him somewhat puzzled, Fu Qingyun hurriedly smiled.
"I will shut my other divine treasuries and keep only the Spirit Embryo and the Five Luminaries; I merely wish to test how deep the Young Master's cultivation truly runs. " Shen Mu nodded. Their palms met, and each unleashed their yuanqi.
Fu Qingyun gave a muffled grunt; a howling wind filled her ears, the scene before her eyes shifted without pause, and she was hurled backwards, crashing bang, bang, bang through several buildings and several high walls before her momentum stopped and she was left embedded in a wall. She clawed her way out of the wall, covered in dust and grime, and looked up to find herself some forty zhang from Shen Mu, the several buildings and walls between them each punched through with a person-shaped hole, so that she could see Shen Mu from where she stood; a lingering fear seized her. She had used the Five Luminaries realm and only collided yuanqi with him, yet the gap was this vast — it left her somewhat dispirited. A blow, truly a tremendous blow!
Yet she soon recovered her calm and thought, "He is the young Cult Leader of our Holy Cult after all; such cultivation is only to be expected. And at the contest in Hidden Remnant Village he already dealt me a savage blow. " Shen Mu hurried forward. Fu Qingyun laughed.
"I am fine. The Young Master's cultivation is indeed abnormally deep; the Patriarch and the Lady did not misjudge him.
There is still a day and a half before the Grand Academy opens its gates; the Young Master had best steady his realm.
" Shen Mu assented. The Five Luminaries wall had been broken successfully, the divine treasury opened, and new changes were taking place within his body that he had not yet had time to examine. Fu Qingyun glanced around and smiled bitterly to herself.
Ever since Shen Mu came to her, the Rain-Listening Pavilion had suffered disaster — pavilions smashed to pieces, or several buildings bored full of holes. "A young Cult Leader, after all — wherever he goes, he demolishes. Luckily, in two days he will not be here demolishing, but at the Grand Academy.
Mm, the Patriarch will have the headache; I can take my ease. .
. " Shen Mu had no notion she entertained the thought of watching him tear the Grand Academy apart. Back in his room, the youth sat quietly, his consciousness entering the Five Luminaries divine treasury — and within it was a whole starry sky, five great stars blazing, and beyond them a profound darkness.
"The Five Luminaries treasury is utterly different from the Prime Embryo treasury. " Shen Mu was astonished. His Mystic Body Three-Cinnabar Art held no cultivation method for the Five Luminaries treasury, which gave him a headache.