Chapter 19 — The Mystic Body First Awakens, Shaking the Barren Village

Shen Mu's fortuitous chance could surely never be repeated by another: the divine voice, the demonic voice and the Buddha voice all contending, a freak coincidence -- and on top of that, Shen Mu's sheer audacity, daring to go and learn the demon tongue and the demonic voice of his own accord in order to contend with the divine voice! Such conduct was truly reckless beyond heaven, a man who did not know how the word death was written!

Even if another could have such a chance, he would likely fail to break through the primordial-fetus wall, and instead be killed by the power hidden within the demonic voice, the divine voice and the Buddha voice! Others did not know the peril in it; he knew it perfectly clearly. That was the power of gods and demons -- how could a mortal covet it?

For a mortal to covet the power of gods and demons, there is only one road: death! And yet Shen Mu had succeeded all the same, succeeded inexplicably, which left him somewhat suspicious.

What he did not know was that Shen Mu had also come near to death in the struggle between the divine voice and the demonic voice; only the jade pendant at his chest had guarded his life, and so he had not died. The Headman made a careful examination of Shen Mu's progress in cultivation, and again showed a look of astonishment, which he at once smoothed away, then encouraged him: "Shen-er, cultivate well. Do not disappoint our hopes.

Now that you have awakened your Overlord Body, you are a martial artist, and no longer a child. "

Shen Mu nodded heavily. By now the sky had darkened. Bonfires were lit in the village, and Grandpa Huo and the others roasted the monstrous beasts they had caught to celebrate for Shen Mu.

Granny Zhu came trotting over on her small bound feet and pulled Shen Mu back, saying, "Headman, Alchemist, come over as well, and eat and drink with us!

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"You go on ahead. The Alchemist and I will be there in a moment. "

The Headman watched Granny Zhu and Shen Mu go off into the distance, then said in a low voice: "Alchemist, Shen-er's primordial qi is so vigorous that at the spirit fetus realm he is nearly the deepest-cultivated martial artist I have ever seen. "

The Alchemist looked at the crowd reveling by the bonfire and asked quietly, "How deep?

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"My cultivation at the spirit fetus realm was about the same as his -- perhaps even a little less.

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The Headman said calmly, "I mean my cultivation at the peak of the spirit fetus realm. And he has only just entered the spirit fetus realm. He will keep growing.

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The Alchemist's body gave a great shudder.

He stared at him in disbelief and blurted, "On a par with you at the spirit fetus realm? What manner of being are you?

How could he possibly. .

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"But he did it all the same. "

In the ancient temple, why did the Buddha statue explode the moment it heard that phrase?

Because the Buddha's mother was named Mahamaya.

Maha means great; Mahamaya means the Heaven of Great Freedom.

In the demon tongue it is said that the demon god of ultimate wisdom used his mighty power to create the Heaven of Great Freedom -- that is to say, the demon god created the Buddha's mother, and only then was the Buddha born. This is an insult to the Buddha, which is why the statue went off at the least provocation. As for heaven, time, wrath, xi, majesty, spirit and rage in the divine tongue, they come from the Songs of Chu, from a rather bloody line: "Heaven's season is wrathful, the mighty spirits rage; the slaughter is complete, the bodies abandoned on the wild plain. " It means that heaven and earth grow dark, the august gods are enraged, every living thing is exterminated, and corpses heap up across the wilderness.