677: Fortunes

Fortunes

The shed skin of the goddess giggled and said, "I'll just go there and get them out, easy enough?"

Zhong Yue was awestruck by her suggestion, Did the shed skin of the goddess say she would go there personally and get them out?

Can she actually go wherever she wished? Like a real living being that travels everywhere and become part of the world? That was so strange. But what did she mean when she said she was the goddess's past body?

At that very second Zhong Yue thought of this, the blood ocean started to shrink as the blood surged into the body of the goddess' shed skin; the size of the shed skin was huge but as compared to the blood ocean, she was extremely tiny. However, she managed to contain every single drop of the blood ocean into her body and that was extremely amazing.

At the same time, a skeleton was revealed as the blood was sucked away. This skeleton was a Dao skeleton, a skeleton imprinted with the Dao of heaven and earth, grand and holy, a skeleton that would make people bow willingly upon it.

The Dao skeleton then slowly merged with the shed skin while one after another detached Dao totem carvings attached together again and flew right into the shed skin.

Ding ding—-

From the sea came accessories like headwears, wristbands, anklets, and others and they slowly flew and positioned themselves on the body of the shed skin.

When the blood ocean disappeared, the shed skin body shrunk to a size similar to Zhong Yue's and heartbeat could be heard coming from her chest.

"Let's go." said the shed skin as her transformation completed.

Zhong Yue was shocked entirely and all he could do was stare into her with an empty mind while Xin Huo voiced out his question, "You said you are the previous body of the goddess, what do you mean by that? Are you alive or dead?"

"Of course I'm alive." giggled the shed skin, "I may be the discarded body of the goddess but innate gods are immortal. The innate gods' spirits are their souls, their bodies. Thus, while I am Goddess Hou Tu, had her memories but Goddess Hou Tu is not me. Ever since she acquired and mastered the Six Paths Wheel, she benefited greatly, shed me away and reforged a new Dao body and became a Dao God, resulting me to become her previous body."

Though what she said was difficult to be comprehended, Zhong Yue and Xin Huo still managed to understand what she said.

The Dao body was the current body and the shed skin was the previous body, both were Goddess Hou Tu, but after Goddess Hou Tu discarded her previous body, the previous body did not die away because Goddess Hou Tu was an innate god. Thus, the previous body was still alive and so was the current body.

"Then, how are we supposed to address you?" asked a confused Xin Huo, "Both of you are Goddess Hou Tu, it would be a trouble to differentiate the both of you in the future."

With a giggle, the shed skin said cheerfully, "You can call me Goddess Shen Hou."

"Shen Hou, nice name." praised Xin Huo before he immediately asked again, "Goddess Shen Hou, what about the Dao blood you promised us just now? And the [Earth Mother Art of Empress]."

"What a cunning boy, how could I forget about it?"

Goddess Shen Hou extracted a pool of Dao blood that came in the form of a ball. The ball of blood spun around in her palm and instead of appearing to be actual blood, the ball of blood looked like a purified red ruby without impurities and Goddess Shen Hou said, "I've prepared it for you long ago. Be careful, I may be able to seal away a portion of the Dao blood's power but you still have to be very cautious when refining your inheritor's bloodline since he is still too weak. Be very aware that if not careful enough, the blood will turn you into a Huaxu Celestial Race."

Zhong Yue thanked her seriously, took back the control of his body and accepted the ball of Dao blood from her.

Within the ball of Dao blood was terrific innate Dao, the purest bloodline of the Huaxu Celestial Race and when it was in his hands, he felt that the ball of Dao ball was scorching hot and he felt a resonance between him and the blood, causing his original body to keep on reappearing from seconds to seconds.

Without a thought, Zhong Yue placed the Dao blood into his psyche ocean somewhere on top of the thunder pool with lightning speed and he figured out that this was not the best time for him to extract the blood.

The Dao blood was after all from an innate god and it must be used cautiously or he would be crushed by the blood.

Goddess Shen Hou then proceeded to teach him the [Earth Mother Art of Empress], which Zhong Yue went through it details by details and he felt that the [Earth Mother Art of Empress] was even more complex than the [Time Light Spatial Crystal Mystic Scripture] taught to him by Xin Huo. But the [Earth Mother Art of Empress] was obviously a technique made for women, which was completely not suitable for him or he would turn into a woman.

But he could still take the [Earth Mother Art of Empress] as a reference to improve himself.

Hmmm… I think it's better this technique is taught to Senior Martial Sister Jun and Jin'er and let them cultivate this. But the effect would be different depending on the person who taught them this technique. Goddess Shen Hou would be able to maximize the effect if she's the one who taught them, I wonder if I could get her to teach them?

Goddess Shen Hou then looked at him from top to toe and asked curiously, "Is this your real body? Do you need my help?"

Zhong Yue thanked her again but this time, he rejected, "No, thank you. I'd like to recover myself."

Goddess Shen Hou laughed and said, "Alright. It will be slower for you to do it yourself but it is still a better choice because you will gain a deeper understanding on the Six Path Wheel if you did it yourself. Orders from Goddess Hou Tu only allowed me to leave this place after the lucky winners come forth. Whatever bestowed upon you is too little so I suppose I should teach you another song."

Her psyche waved and the song was directly imprinted to his psyche ocean but Zhong Yue did not even know what was the song singing about.

The song however, wouldn't fade away from his mind and each time it was played, he felt that his understanding on the Six Path Reincarnation deepened. It was truly amusing.

"Good, let's go now."

Zhong Yue hesitated for a moment; he wanted to behave like Xin Huo but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. However, in the end, he still asked with a thick skin, "Goddess Shen Hou, would you still gift me the things needed to open the Bloodline Wheel?"

"Of course, if you want to give it to someone, I'd just help you."

Zhong Yue's heart felt relieved and suddenly, the scene in his vision changed drastically and they were back at the door again where Bai Canghai and Ma Sansou were still looking around, trying to find Zhong Yue. While they were confused and shocked, the reappearance of Zhong Yue and an extremely beautiful girl had scared them greatly.

"Brother Zhong, would you stop disappearing and reappearing constantly?" complaint Bai Canghai, "You are a skeleton now and each time after you disappeared, you'd reappear somewhere terribly close to us. Do you know how scary is this? And this lady?"

Zhong Yue laughed and replied, "This is Goddess Shen Hou."

He did not mention the origin of Goddess Shen Hou and he only said out her name for the origin of the Goddess Shen Hou was far too scary. Besides, it might not be a wise decision to spread information of this goddess too; if the enemies of Goddess Hou Tu came looking for Goddess Shen Hou after knowing her origin, it might not be that serious to Goddess Shen Hou but it would be a catastrophic encounter for Zhong Yue and the others.

Thus, he preferred not saying anything to avoid unnecessary troubles.

"Goddess Shen Hou was here earlier than us and obtained some treasures about the Six Paths, which she said she could give us some." said Zhong Yue again, "Goddess, this is Bai Canghai from Bai Zhe Celestial Race and may I ask you to give him some?"

With a nod and a flick, a divine ray flew out from the fingers of Goddess Shen Hou, which entered straight into the body of Bai Canghai. In an instant, Bai Canghai felt that an invisible barrier between his body and Yuan Shen evaporated; the power of the two merged and the hidden bloodline in him was unleashed, forming a secret realm!

The sixth secret realm, the Bloodline Secret Realm was achieved just like that!

He felt that everything was like a dream; he never thought that someone so unlucky like him would become so lucky in one day and without him realizing, the sixth wheel was achieved!

Suddenly, the young man from Bai Zhe Clan cried and said, "For so many years I have entered this place. With the Curse Innate Body, wherever I go bad luck comes with me, people looked at me with disgust and I've always ended up gaining nothing. Every time, I carefully avoided people in fear of bringing bad luck to them but there always will be someone that lose their lives even so! Eight years! Time slowly passed and people avoided me immediately upon seeing me. It really is difficult! This is my first time gaining something in these years!"

"Brother Zhong! Do you think bad luck has left me?" asked Bai Canghai with tears and hope in his eyes as he grabbed onto Zhong Yue's hand.

Zhong Yue immediately shrug him off and said, "I'm afraid that there is still a long way to go until your luck is turned around."

Hearing his reply, Bai Canghai rolled his eyes back.

Zhong Yue burst out laughing and he headed towards the bottom of the mountain straight along with Goddess Shen Hou after that.

Bai Canghai and Ma Sansou followed behind them and suddenly, Man Sansou had a huge shock when he turned around only to see the palace on the mountain vanished without a sign.

When they got down the mountain, he looked again and realized that the jade mountain disappeared too, which made him shiver as he thought, Eerie, really eerie! So many strange things are happening.

First, the skeleton Zhong Yue vanished and reappeared from time to time, then the blood ocean and its disappearance and the gorgeous lady that followed Zhong Yue around; each and every single incidents felt extremely weird.

And now, the disappearance of the palace and the mountain greatly scared him.

But of course, Zhong Yue failed to notice this since he experienced everything first hand but as another person who witnessessed everything from another perspective, Ma Sanshou felt a cold shivering down his spine.

And at the same time, Fa Bisheng and Jun Wudao had their jaws on the ground as they looked at the vanishing of the mountain and palace with an empty mind.

With two hundred top tiered followers each, these two Qi Practitioners went through countless challenges and difficulties; they lost most of their comrades and when they got to this place, about every of their followers lost their lives, leaving only a dozen of them and they were all extremely cautious and worried now.

Just as they thought they could get a rest after reaching their destination, the mountain and palace vanished with their hope and joy!

And this was a fatal blow to their mentality that almost broke their strong will.

"The key! The fortune of this place must be in their hands!"

Beside Fa Bisheng, a lady shrieked as she lost their mind, "Master, have them hand over the fortunes!"

Being shocked and disturbed by the disappearance of the mountain and palace, Fa Bisheng lost his cool and when his gaze shifted from the mountain and Zhong Yue, his expression was very dark.

Zhong Yue frowned slightly upon this and he immediately warned Bai Canghai and Ma Sansou, "Keep an eye out at them, don't let your guards down."0

The duo nodded immediately and they prepared themselves for a tough battle.

Zhong Yue then looked at Jun Wudao, saw the few ladies behind Jun Wudao were conversing something secretly among themselves and Zhong Yue could tell whatever they discussed were ill but Jun Wudao did not say anything but instead, she stared at Goddess Shen Hou.

"There were only three of them when they hiked the mountain but now, there is another lady with them now." whispered Jun Wudao.

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