荒墟牧神 - 第1111章 造化之寶 - 錦書坊

The Pot-Heaven World was exceedingly complete, a treasure of the Creator race, the Zangshan clan, and among the great heavens it ranked as a high-order heaven. Not only that: the Pot-Heaven Bottle was itself a divine weapon forged by a Creator, and should war come, it could be wielded to slay enemies. That, of course, demanded a formidable attainment in spirit-consciousness. And now Shen Mu had passed on the Creator race's methods of cultivating spirit-consciousness to Jingping; the divine-power wielders and gods of Jingping had fused such arts as the Three Enclosures Higher Consciousness with the present systems of cultivation, and from that union had grown a great many new spirit-consciousness arts. Demon King Dutian need only learn the methods of spirit-consciousness from Jingping, then lead his clansmen in refining the Pot-Heaven Bottle day and night; before long he would be able to refine it wholly, and it would become the mighty treasure that guarded them all! Demon King Dutian was stirred beyond measure, and straightaway entered the Pot-Heaven heavens to tell his clansmen the good news. How many years had it been? The Dutian World had been destroyed, countless clansmen slain; they had wandered homeless, crying to heaven and getting no answer, begging the earth and finding no help, blocked at every turn, cut down, captured, made into slaves — and now at last they had a place to settle! His heart was ablaze, scalding hot; yet he knew too that the merit he had won in conquering the Tianyu World was not enough to earn him a heaven like the Pot-Heaven World. The Pot-Heaven World was even vaster than the Tianyu World; it was out of regard for their friendship that Shen Mu had given him the Pot-Heaven Bottle. Shen Mu questioned Yu Zhaoqing in detail, and Yu Zhaoqing recounted how Demon King Dutian had led the Tianyu clansmen to attack the Tianyu World: the Tianyu World had been occupied by the demon race, and the demon race's arts happened to counter those of the Tianyu clan. More than that, the demon race's demon gods possessed a divine power that could control the Tianyu clan; even Yu Zhaoqing could be enslaved by it. Demon King Dutian had not attacked at once. Instead, relying on his own identity as a demon, he had slipped into the Tianyu World and learned the demon race's arts; after two years he had grasped their abilities thoroughly, comprehended the way to counter them, and taught it to Yu Zhaoqing and the others. Yu Zhaoqing spread it among the clan, and they prepared for another two years before they attacked. Then, within a single year, they took the Tianyu World — truly a long hoarding of strength, a thunderbolt strike, sweeping away the demon race there as easily as rotting wood! Shen Mu listened spellbound, and praised: "Know yourself and know your enemy, and a hundred battles bring a hundred victories. Demon King Dutian has the bearing of a great general." Yu Zhaoqing laughed: "Only at the very beginning, Dutian did not get along with those three dragon clan brothers, and was hung up and beaten. Later, when their relations improved, they even saved one another's lives." Shen Mu laughed heartily, and summoned those three heavenly dragons and six others, saying: "Will you stay in Jingping, or come with me to the Heavenly Court? If you return to the Heavenly Court, I will wash away these past years of memory and implant new ones. If you stay in Jingping, then you must change your faces and identities, and share Jingping's fate, for weal or woe." The nine heavenly dragons took human form, put their heads together in discussion, and said: "We followed the Heavenly Venerable and know many secrets. If we return to the Heavenly Court, I fear our days would be numbered. Even if the Heavenly Venerable washes away our memories, we would die of it. So we choose to stay in Jingping, and in the future make a place for ourselves." Shen Mu took out the Book of Life and Death, saying: "Since that is so, I will help you this once,