Chapter 411 — Ranging Across Ten Thousand Li of Vast Sky

" Emperor Yanfeng was silent a moment, then nodded. "Does Mother need Us to help eliminate your rivals? " "I climbed to my present station through a thousand trials and a hundred refinements in the inner palace. Do I need your help? You underestimate me too much.

" .

. . By the lake at the mountain villa, Shen Mu took out a stick of incense and planted it on the shore, then lit it. Ling Yuxiu sniffed the strange fragrance and asked curiously, "What is this incense for? " "This is Soul-Guiding Incense. " Shen Mu smiled.

"I refined the rune-mark of the Soul-Pulling Charm into this incense, and added a hundred and more kinds of spices.

It does not have the Soul-Pulling Charm's divine power, but it can guide the way. If our primordial spirits lose their way, then when this incense burns down, the power of the rune will burst forth, and our bodies, smelling this fragrance, can draw our primordial spirits back into them.

That way we need no one to guard us.

" Ling Yuxiu took his hand. Shen Mu raised his other hand.

The two of them joined all four hands, four eyes meeting, and smiled at each other.

In an instant their primordial spirits left their bodies. Both Shen Mu and Ling Yuxiu had had the experience of their primordial spirits leaving their bodies to roam the void, and afterward each had tried separately to cultivate the primordial spirit, though with little success. This time the two of them were attempting to make the Six Harmonies Primordial Spirit they had comprehended into something inevitable rather than accidental, which was, of course, extremely difficult. At the time, Shen Mu had encountered the Void-Born Flower by chance, and he had believed the Void-Born Flower to be another Overlord Body; his heart and spirit had been shaken, and so by chance he and Ling Yuxiu had together experienced their primordial spirits leaving their bodies to roam the void. After the primordial spirits returned to their apertures, the two of them suddenly discovered that they had actually cultivated the primordial spirit. Such a stroke of fortune was a coincidence.

How to turn coincidence into inevitability, that was of the utmost importance. Now the youth and the maiden once more sent their primordial spirits out of their bodies, roaming together, trying to find the pattern within it.

They felt only that their two primordial spirits were entwined, their souls resonating, and yet it was different from that unintentional dual cultivation of the primordial spirit last time. The primordial spirit is composed of the spirit-fetus and the soul.

This time, when their primordial spirits left their bodies, their souls resonated, and their primordial spirits too were in a state of resonance. There was a kind of method by which the soul's tremor and numbness spread to every corner of the primordial spirit.

This sensation was both enduring and unforgettable. They floated and roamed through the void, and saw flowers as large as mats, though they knew not what flowers; grass like sharp swords, though they knew not what grass; and in the air there were swimming fish and jellyfish. The scenery was magnificent, utterly unlike Jingping.

They wandered amid it all, seeming very small. "Is this truly what we see, or is it our illusion?

" Both of them lingered, reluctant to leave.

Just then, they suddenly smelled a thick, strange fragrance, and at once felt themselves drawn by an invisible force. Ling Yuxiu hurriedly reached out and caught a small fish, saying, "Whether it is real or illusion, we will know when we return to our bodies and wake! " Whoosh, the endless scenery before their eyes shifted and changed.

Suddenly the strange visions vanished, and each of them returned to their own body, palms still joined, four eyes still meeting. Ling Yuxiu released Shen Mu's hand, and saw that in her own palm there was a small fish flopping about with all its might. "It is real.

How marvelous.

" She bent down, cupped the little fish in both hands, and set it into the water. The fish swam, struggled, and after a moment turned up its belly, nearly drowning. Ling Yuxiu hurriedly splashed the water twice and scooped the little fish back out, and saw it cough hard, spitting out the water in its belly, then flap its disproportionately small fins and fly up into the air.

Ling Yuxiu was astonished.

The little fish flew over and suddenly squirted water from its mouth, spraying her full in the face.

Ling Yuxiu was furious. She reached out to catch it, but the little fish flapped its fins and flew away. "Stinky fish! " Ling Yuxiu washed her face, then turned back and asked curiously, "Cowherd, where did we go?

" Shen Mu pondered.

"It should be the Eastern Sea of the Wasteland Ruins. That place was originally a great sea, and later became a basin.

The seawater vanished, but the creatures of the sea survived. Many fish can fly, and the flowers can fly too.

" "The Eastern Sea of the Wasteland Ruins?

How far is it from here? " "More than seventy thousand li.

" Ling Yuxiu was startled and blurted out, "We just went seventy thousand li away in the time it takes one stick of incense to burn, and traveled about there, and came back? " Shen Mu nodded, staring blankly into the distance. "To roam the void seventy thousand li in the time of one stick of incense, truly inconceivable.

Why can the body not be so fast?

If only the body could have the speed of the primordial spirit.

" Ling Yuxiu giggled.

"You are too greedy.

The primordial spirit has no weight, so of course it runs fast. The body has weight, so of course it must be slower. Do you have more Soul-Guiding Incense?

This time we only thought of playing; we did not remember to seek out the technique for cultivating the primordial spirit.

We must try again.

" Shen Mu savored the wonder of the primordial resonance, somewhat hooked on the taste, and hurriedly nodded. "We must try again!

This time we cannot just play. The real business is what matters! " After the time of one stick of incense, the two primordial spirits returned to their apertures.

Shen Mu scratched his head and ventured, "How about, one more time? " Ling Yuxiu nodded emphatically. "This time we definitely will not play! "