Chapter 671 — This Is Not My Fat Dragon

Shen Mu, helpless, examined the injuries to his physical body and found that the broken bones had already been expelled from his body, and new bone was growing—though at a slow rate. He could not help but be overjoyed: "At last, Grandfather Village Head can grow back his limbs!"

The Primordial Ancestor raged: "You smashed my bones to pieces just so you could use me as a test subject to heal your Village Head grandfather? Don't forget—your surname is Shen, and that Village Head grandfather of yours is surnamed Su. We are the real family here! Your elbow turns outward—"

Shen Mu hastily said: "It really wasn't me who smashed them—it was my brother!"

The Primordial Ancestor asked: "On the family register, your name is Shen Fengqing, is it not?"

Shen Mu nodded.

The Primordial Ancestor asked again: "And your brother? Is he also called Shen Fengqing?"

Shen Mu hesitated. The Primordial Ancestor read his expression and raged: "And you still say it wasn't you? It was you who struck me!"

Shen Mu, mixing a medicinal formula, said listlessly: "If you say so, then so be it."

"Princess Xiu, did you hear that? He admitted it! He admitted it!"

The Primordial Ancestor grew agitated and poured out his grievances to Ling Yuxiu: "In all of Jingping, I have only this one kin, and he beats me—he smashed my bones to pieces to use me as a test subject for his differently-surnamed grandfather..."

Shen Mu finished preparing the medicine and poured it down his throat, then had the Primordial Ancestor cultivate the Flawless Creation Mystic Sutra—attacking on two fronts for faster recovery. The Primordial Ancestor drank the medicine, his spirits revived, and he continued to pour out his grievances to Ling Yuxiu. Suddenly someone cried out loudly: "We've arrived at the Dark Capital!"

"The Dark Capital?"

Shen Mu quickly looked up and saw omnipresent radiance shining down, bathing every corner in the light of the Dark Capital—there was no shadow anywhere.

"The Dark Capital is the Heaven Lord's domain. The Heaven Lord's clone said that this time he would add another seal upon me, lest my brother escape and wreak havoc. I wonder if the Heaven Lord's true body knows about this?"

The massive fleet of tower ships sailed into the Dark Capital's radiance, then suddenly split apart, each proceeding along a different path. The advantage of dispersing was the ability to evade pursuit from the Heavenly Court. Though it was unknown how severe the Great Sun Star Lord's injuries were, if the Great Sun Star Lord should lie in wait to intercept and kill them en route, the people of the Suspended Void Realm would likely suffer grievous casualties.

One by one the tower ships deviated from their courses, each vanishing into the dazzling light. The tower ship carrying Shen Mu and the others continued silently on its way. More than ten days later, they once again saw the Heaven Lord's eyes. After several more days, they could no longer see the Heaven Lord's eyes—only light so dense it seemed almost to condense into substance. Shen Mu had been waiting all along for the Heaven Lord to impose a seal upon him, yet the tower ship traveled through the Dark Capital for nearly a month without any anomaly. At last, the tower ship sailed out of the Dark Capital's bounds and continued navigating through the dark starry sky, heading straight for Luofu Heaven.

"How strange—why did the Heaven Lord not add a seal upon me? Why did he not reclaim his clone?"

Perplexed and suspicious, he went to examine the Primordial Ancestor's physical injuries. After a month of recuperation and cultivation, the shattered bones in the Primordial Ancestor's body had been completely expelled, and new bone had grown. The new bone was somewhat fragile and could not yet bear the weight of his body. After all, he was a deity of the God-Slaying Platform—the weight of his physical body was terrifying. Ordinary Revered Gods' bones likely could not withstand his flesh. Shen Mu again sent the two great eyeball monsters into the Primordial Ancestor's Heavenly Palace to deliver medicine, and through the eyeball monsters observed his Heavenly Palace and primal spirit.

"There is no longer any serious problem. With diligent cultivation for a while longer, the strength of your bones will match what they once were. Moreover, having cultivated the Flawless Creation Mystic Sutra, your physical body will only grow stronger than before!"

The Primordial Ancestor struggled to sit up and suddenly said: "Shen-er, what is the matter with your brow?"

Shen Mu was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

"The golden willow leaf at your brow has changed."

Shen Mu hastily took out a mirror and examined himself. The golden willow leaf at his brow had changed color. This willow leaf had originally been forged by Silent Artisan, with the people of Hidden Remnant Village jointly applying sealing marks upon it. Later, before the Great Brahma Heaven King Buddha handed the willow leaf to him, he had tampered with it further, adding his own sealing restrictions compatible with the Earth Lord's jade pendant seal. Now the willow leaf was no longer golden—it shifted ceaselessly through various radiances, as though composed of light itself. Most wondrous.

Shen Mu was astonished. He was about to pluck the golden willow leaf off to examine it when the Primordial Ancestor cried out in alarm: "Don't remove it! How much more trouble do you want to stir up? What if your brother escapes again? This ship cannot withstand your antics! Must you be so curious?"

Shen Mu said suspiciously: "Primordial Ancestor, did you not disbelieve that I have a brother?"

The Primordial Ancestor's face reddened slightly.

"Could it be that while we were in the Dark Capital, the Heaven Lord quietly planted a seal upon me? When did he plant it? How did I not notice anything at all?"

Shen Mu wanted to remove it and examine it closely, but he also feared that removing it might release his brother. He could only forcibly suppress his curiosity.

Several months later, the Primordial Ancestor had fully recovered, his cultivation and strength surpassing what they had been before. And they had arrived at Luofu Heaven. What perplexed Shen Mu was that along the entire journey, they had encountered no pursuit or attack whatsoever—not even a shadow of a Heavenly Court deity.

"The Heavenly Court is probably waiting for a chance to catch them all in one net."

The Primordial Ancestor said: "To wipe out Jingping and the Crimson Brightness remnant forces in one net!"

Shen Mu felt a chill in his heart.

Crimson Stream Divine General steered the tower ship toward the foreign star and said: "Libationer Shen, please return to Jingping ahead of us. We await the arrival of the other clansmen and will reach Jingping in a few months."

Shen Mu nodded. He, the Primordial Ancestor, and Ling Yuxiu flew from the foreign star into Luofu Heaven. His feet touched solid ground, and looking up, he saw the orbit of the foreign star gradually shifting—clearly Crimson Stream and the other deities were employing their divine power or formation arrays to eventually transport the foreign star to Jingping. If the transport succeeded, a true star would appear in the skies of Jingping!

"This time the merit is complete. Let us go—first to see the Woodcutter Sage."