Chapter 738 — The Innate Divine Tree Long Bridge

"I originally created a cultivation art that fused the Seven Stars Realm and the Six Directions Realm, called the Seven Stars Six Directions Primordial Spirit Art, and once passed it on to Brother Shen. Brother Shen then spread this art abroad, but few who learned it succeeded."

Xu Shenghua's steps did not pause; he suddenly appeared within the Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury in Hu Bugui's physical body, holding a willow branch in his hand. That willow branch was surely a divine tree, able to freely change in length, and upon it were various markings.

He tossed the willow branch up to measure Hu Bugui's Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury, while Jing Yan assisted at his side, recording various data. The husband and wife worked in close coordination.

"Because few succeeded in mastering it — only those of outstanding talent like Zhan Kong, Wang Muran, Lin Xuan, and Xue Hu'er — I felt the Seven Stars Six Directions Primordial Spirit Art was not yet mature. So on the foundation of this art, I created a new method of merging divine treasuries, called the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge."

After measuring the Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury, Xu Shenghua went with Jing Yan to the Five Luminaries Divine Treasury, measuring the Five Luminaries stars and the height of heaven and thickness of earth. He continued: "However, the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge is an extremely troublesome art. Every person's divine treasury is different, and the data required by the art differs accordingly. Therefore each cultivator of this art must meticulously map out their own divine treasury model, then adjust the art according to different data, so as to determine how to build a Jianmu Divine Bridge starting directly from the Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury!"

Shen Mu was greatly shaken and blurted out: "Brother Xu, if you complete this Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge, I fear it will be a tremendous revolution in cultivation arts! A single divine treasury reaching straight to the Heavenly Palace — the transformation it brings to Dao arts and divine abilities is immeasurable! The Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge is even more important than the Primordial Spirit Guidance that Yu Xiu and I created!"

Xu Shenghua smiled: "If I want to surpass you and make you admit you are a false Overlord Body, how could I not have some ideas of my own? But I cannot do it alone. The divination arts required by this Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge Profound Art are so profound, and the calculations so vast, that they exceed my vision, knowledge, and foundation. So I need people to help."

"You went and invited Dao Master Lin Xuan to help?" Shen Mu asked curiously.

Xu Shenghua was mapping the Five Elements Mountain Range and had no time to answer.

Jing Yan smiled: "Not only Dao Master Lin Xuan. My husband also went to find Princess Xiu, Holy Maiden Xiang, Wang Muran, and others of the Heaven Alliance. Besides them, there were Imperial Preceptor Jingping, the Black Tiger God, and other masters of divination arts. My husband has a good relationship with the Great Venerable, and invited him as well, to calculate the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge together."

Shen Mu's eyes widened. Some of these people were his enemies, yet Xu Shenghua had actually persuaded them to come. Was Xu Shenghua's network truly so broad?

Jing Yan smiled: "Wang Muran has a grudge against Imperial Preceptor Jingping, and the Great Venerable has grudges against everyone else. But when they heard my husband was going to forge the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge and could take Sect Master Shen down a peg, they were all delighted, happy to see Sect Master Shen eat dirt, and so they gladly came."

"Gladly came?" Shen Mu snorted.

Jing Yan continued: "The Emperor was also delighted. Though he could not come in person, he ordered the great academies to summon the scholars with the highest attainments in divination arts to go and help. The Emperor also told the Woodcutter Sage of this matter, and the Sage went to help as well."

"The Emperor was delighted too? My teacher went as well?"

Shen Mu gave a muffled snort, inwardly furious: "The Woodcutter teacher went too, also to take me down a peg? I should have let him rot in the gutter! No, wait — the reason the Woodcutter teacher went scurrying to find the Martial Combat Heavenly Master was probably because Xu Shenghua and the others had completed the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge together, and so he had the confidence to seek out the Martial Combat Heavenly Master. But he did not expect the Martial Combat Heavenly Master would not listen to him at all, and directly beat him crippled and threw him into the gutter. Serves him right!"

He glanced at Long Qilin and said amiably: "Fatty Long, you didn't go too, did you?"

Long Qilin shook his head frantically: "Brother Tiger did invite me, but I didn't go!"

"But you never told me about this either." Shen Mu's expression was unfriendly.

Long Qilin said timidly: "At that time the Sect Master was refining sword pills, and after refining the sword pills was busy with explosive treasure refining..."

Jing Yan said: "Later the First Ancestor encountered Xing An and told him of this matter. Xing An greatly respected the First Ancestor, and moreover, upon hearing he could make Sect Master Shen eat dirt, he came running over as well and helped a great deal. Our calculations succeeded, and my husband, based on the results, deduced the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge — but not a single person could cultivate it."

She sighed and said: "In the end my husband made further calculations and said the demands on the physical body were too high. If the body was not strong enough, it would be hard to withstand the terrifying pressure brought by the merging of divine treasuries. Everyone lacked such a powerful physical body, so they had no choice but to give up."

"And Xing An too..."

Shen Mu's forehead veins bulged: "Is my character really inferior even to Xing An and the Great Venerable?"

"But Brother Hu Bugui's physical body has already reached that step!"

Xu Shenghua finished measuring the Five Luminaries Divine Treasury and came to Hu Bugui's Six Realms Divine Treasury, saying: "Brother Hu is the most powerful physical body among all the people I have encountered. Others who cultivate the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge will die, but Brother Hu will not die."

He was full of confidence.

After the husband and wife finished measuring the Six Realms Divine Treasury, they went to the Seven Stars Divine Treasury, and afterward mapped the two great divine treasuries of Heaven-Man and Life-Death, finally completing a perfect mapping of Hu Bugui's divine treasuries.

The husband and wife flew out of Hu Bugui's divine treasuries, and Xu Shenghua immediately began adjusting the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge according to the measured data.

He had already established the divination model of the Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge; he only needed to convert Hu Bugui's divine treasury data to adjust the art to a degree suitable for Hu Bugui's physical body.

Shen Mu praised inwardly: "Xu Shenghua and that great crowd of masters really went to great lengths to defeat me, but this Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge is indeed extremely exquisite, worthy of being called the heaven-created beauty of divination arts!"

He himself was a master of divination arts. The old farmer, Old Ox, and Hu Bugui were all dizzy and confused, but Shen Mu could appreciate the beauty of this Jianmu Innate Divine Bridge.

This Jianmu Divine Bridge was a divine tree built through divination arts, rooted in the Lingtai Six Directions Continent. The divine tree's roots extended deep into Youdu, its great roots connected to the Five Elements Mountain Range, around its canopy circled the sun and moon, among its branches were the Five Luminaries stars, and the multitude of stars were hidden within leaf after leaf.

And the top of the divine tree's canopy was level with the Divine Bridge.