Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 19 Resonating with Heaven and Earth, Harmony between Heaven and Man (4.5k)

Although Shen Gang couldn't accept it for a while, he wasn't unreasonable, after all, the transfer order had already been issued.

Ultimately, seeing that he could not change Shen Mu's mind, he returned to the Luanhe base that day to complete the handover, and would return to Shangchangshan City to take up his post within a week at the latest.

……

That evening, Shen Mu and his mother Chen Wen arrived in Jincheng, one of the fortified cities of Kyoto Base City, in a King-class fighter jet.

In a row of villas in the suburbs of Tianjin.

Shen Mu's visit to Tang Yongqing's home to formally acknowledge their relationship was a spur-of-the-moment decision. His mother, Chen Wen, had only spoken with Tang Yongqing's parents that morning, so the Tang family seemed quite rushed.

Even Tang Yongqing and her younger brother Tang Yongyuan had to take temporary leave to return to Tianjin.

The entire Tang family was present in the living room on the first floor of the villa.

Chen Wen, Shen Mu's mother, first introduced him to Luo Hongqin, the eldest ancestor: "Amu, this is your grandmother Luo Hongqin. Say hello to her."

"Hello, Grandma Luo," Shen Mu greeted politely.

"Alright, alright, good boy, no need to be so polite." The old lady's expression was very kind, and she did not show any different attitude just because Shen Mu was a councilor.

Besides the old lady, Tang Yongqing's parents, Tang Cheng and his wife, as well as her younger brother Tang Yongyuan, were all very uncomfortable and didn't know how to face Shen Mu.

Next, Chen Wen introduced Shen Mu to each of them, starting with Tang Cheng and his wife.

Tang Cheng is a teacher at Kyoto University, while his wife, Lin Yuying, is Chen Wen's high school classmate and also a native of Changshan.

After graduating from high school, Lin Yuying was admitted to the best university in the base city, while Chen Wen chose martial arts. Lin Yuying also married Tang Cheng after meeting him in university.

Seeing that the Tang family members were all very uncomfortable, even somewhat reserved, Chen Wen said, "Amu, this is the first time you and Xiao Qing have met. Why don't you go for a walk together?"

"Okay, Mom." Shen Mu naturally had no objection to this.

Tang Yongqing also couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere, so she went out with Shen Mu.

The streetlights in the neighborhood were dim, making the two figures appear somewhat blurry.

Shen Mu glanced at Tang Yongqing beside him, who was walking very carefully.

"Sister Yongqing, don't you have anything you want to ask?"

Shen Mu turned around and looked at Tang Yongqing beside him.

In terms of appearance, Tang Yongqing is also outstanding, with a perfectly proportioned slender figure and an 8 or 9 out of 10 looks, coupled with a scholarly air, giving her a special charm.

That's why Tang Yongqing was targeted by that playboy from the Wang family, who even gave her a perfect score and used various means to try and force her.

"I...I don't know what to say, I just...suddenly I feel like we're from different worlds."

A look of confusion appeared in Tang Yongqing's eyes.

When Wang Xing'an first started targeting and harassing her, Tang Yongqing's parents began to use their connections to see if they could resolve the problem. As a result, Lin Yuying sought help from Chen Wen.

Chen Wen saw that Tang Yongqing was good-looking, had entered university at the age of 15, and had become a formal researcher at an institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 20. She was also very capable, so she had some designs on her.

Then Chen Wen explained that Shen Mu was a student at the War God Training Camp. Since it's called the War God Training Camp, it's because all students who successfully graduate here can become War God-level powerhouses.

Then Chen Wen suggested that Lin Yuying spread the news that Shen Mu and Tang Yongqing were betrothed as children.

Although the Wang family is powerful, they would not risk offending a future war god because of the spoiled behavior of a junior, as it would be a losing proposition.

Lin Yuying knew that the students in the War God Training Camp could become War Gods after graduation, and she thought it would be nice to have a War God son-in-law in the future. Moreover, the two families knew each other well, so the two best friends hit it off immediately.

"I told you a long time ago that your fiancé is very capable and will graduate from training camp early, but you always took it as a joke."

As Shen Mu spoke, he reached out and took Tang Yongqing's small hand.

Tang Yongqing symbolically pulled her hand away, looking somewhat aggrieved, and muttered softly, "How could I have imagined you were so amazing? My mind went completely blank when I saw the announcement from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy."

In fact, Tang Yongqing's initial thought process was very simple. Her dream was to become the greatest female scientist in China, and she didn't have any requirements for relationships.

As long as it doesn't affect her research in the future, she'd be perfectly happy with a simple, ordinary married life, even if her future partner is just an ordinary person.

Therefore, she did not resist her mother Lin Yuying's introduction, since it was definitely more reliable if her own mother had vetted it.

During their first video call, she was initially attracted to Shen Mu because of his good looks. After several more conversations, she felt his support for her pursuit of her ideals, and they naturally began a romantic relationship.

After all, it's not easy to find a boyfriend who is good-looking, capable, and supports her ideals.

"Sister Yongqing, have you ever flown?" Shen Mu suddenly changed the subject. Upon closer examination, he realized he was in the wrong, since he had never seriously told Tang Yongqing the truth about his situation, and was afraid of scaring her.

Tang Yongqing was taken aback by Shen Mu's question and said blankly, "Is it the kind of flying I understand?"

"It means 'fly' literally!"

Shen Mu grabbed Tang Yongqing's hand, and then a flat landscape stone on the green belt next to them floated up and instantly appeared in front of them.

Then Shen Mu stepped onto the landscape stone and reached out to Tang Yongqing, saying, "Come on up."

"Okay, coming right away."

Tang Yongqing pulled Shen Mu's hand and stepped onto the landscape stone. In the next instant, the landscape stone's speed increased dramatically, shooting straight into the sky.

The fear of heights and the sensation of rapid movement caused Tang Yongqing to turn pale. Gazing at the blurry scenery on the ground, she gripped Shen Mu's hand tightly, her full chest heaving violently.

"Slow down, slow down!"

"Okay!"

Shen Mu took the opportunity to pull Tang Yongqing into his arms, and instead of slowing down, he actually sped up.

Moments later, the piercing alarm sounded throughout the Tianjin Air Defense Command Center.

A bald, middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the information and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"So it was Councilor Shen looking for excitement with his girlfriend. Then it's all right. All clear."

……

While Shen Mu was carrying a beautiful girl and flying through the sky, his Azure Dragon clone was cultivating diligently in the distant ocean.

hold head high!

A long and deep dragon's roar echoed beneath the sea, causing countless monsters in the sea to tremble in fear at this terrifying aura.

A dark blue dragon churned in the deep sea, its body surrounded by streams of light formed by bone cones that moved along a specific trajectory.

Boom!

The sea was turbulent with undercurrents, and under the control of the twelve bone cones, they collided with each other, producing a series of muffled roars.

"The first step to achieving harmony between humanity and nature is to try to integrate with the universe."

The Azure Dragon clone is originally a life form from the sea, and when it reaches the realm of harmony between heaven and man, it has an advantage that humans cannot match.

hold head high!

Another resounding dragon roar echoed. After his movement and spear techniques reached the pinnacle of the Intent level, Shen Mu had been trying to resonate with heaven and earth for about a month, but he couldn't find a clue.

Shen Mu could sense that merely mastering the level of spear techniques and movement skills was insufficient to convey his understanding of the ocean's waters, but he couldn't find a way to advance further.

"Since we can't find a solution, let's break through with pressure!"

Azure Dragon opened its eyes, and a vast and boundless spiritual power surged around it, echoing the fluctuations of the ocean currents.

There are no fewer than a hundred king-level monsters in the western Pacific Ocean, of which only two have reached the second-tier planetary level. Their territory is also close to the waters of China, so they are extremely famous in human society.

One of them is Shen Mu's Azure Dragon clone from the East Sea, while the other is the Venomous Jellyfish Queen!

"You are the one!"

In the next instant, the enormous figure of the Azure Scaled Dragon seemed to transform into a phantom stream of light, rapidly traversing the ocean at a speed exceeding one thousand meters per second.

If flying in the air, Shen Mu's Azure Dragon clone, despite its size advantage, would only reach a speed of around 700 meters per second at most.

However, in the ocean, swimming is faster than flying in a vacuum, as the water that fills the entire space becomes its power source.

Before becoming Shen Mu's clone, the Azure Dragon of the East Sea was at odds with the Venomous Jellyfish Queen, and their territories in the ocean were even adjacent.

About fifteen minutes later, Shen Mu crossed thousands of kilometers and entered the territory of the highly venomous jellyfish king.

"hold head high!"

A dragon's roar, tinged with provocation, accompanied by mental energy, rapidly spread in all directions.

A moment later, a strange blue light suddenly burst forth from the distant sea.

In that eerie blue water, a nearly transparent figure could be vaguely seen. The umbrella-shaped phantom was over thirty meters in diameter, surrounded by countless fine, semi-transparent tendrils that danced and released terrifying toxins.

Countless long tentacles danced, and vibrations that were difficult for humans to perceive spread out, which could be interpreted as the call of a jellyfish.

boom!

At this moment, the two dominant monsters of the Western Pacific were locked in a head-on battle.

A vast and boundless spiritual power surged forth, but the equally venomous Jellyfish King was also frantically releasing its own toxins, thereby greatly weakening Shen Mu's spiritual power.

"hold head high!"

I'm not the same person I used to be. If you don't fight for your life, you'll die!

A powerful surge of mental energy swept outwards, controlling the endless flow of water and creating a profound and tranquil atmosphere.

Instantly, the giant jellyfish seemed to sense that the entire ocean was rejecting it.

"Waaah—"

From a sound wave frequency inaudible to humans, came the somewhat shocked cry of the Jellyfish Queen.

His nemesis, the Azure Dragon, had suddenly acquired a special ability that only human powerhouses possess.

Boom!

An explosion seemed to echo from the depths of the sea, and the Jellyfish Queen knew that if she didn't fight desperately, it would truly be the end.

The giant, transparent jellyfish suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, and endless primal force surged within it. Two slightly green planets could be seen rotating within that boundless primal force.

The endless tentacles, carrying terrifying wood-attribute primal force and toxins, lashed out at Shen Mu. Each of those countless tentacles possessed immense power at the limit of the second-tier planetary level.

The countless tentacles are like countless hands. Although there is basically no skill involved in exerting force, just like a psychic controlling objects, the power of all the tentacles is drawn in one direction, and the impact is also superimposed.

But the source of all this power ultimately comes from those two miniature Force Stars. Such a desperate, all-out burst of power can only last for a minute or two at most before exhausting all the Force.

hold head high!

The Azure Dragon clone let out an excited roar, precisely to create that oppressive feeling.

Faced with the Jellyfish Queen's desperate efforts, the Azure Dragon clone was suppressed.

At this moment, it seemed as if a hurricane had been born out of nowhere on the sea, stirring up terrifying waves and huge billows that crashed in all directions.

Beneath the surface of the sea, two powerful king-level monsters fought to the death.

The jellyfish queen, who fought desperately, will eventually weaken over time.

Under this pressure, Shen Mu's vast mental power and the fluctuations of endless ocean currents merged, searching for that mysterious resonance.

"Ugh!"

In just one minute, the Venomous Jellyfish King felt its power was about to be exhausted. In the face of life and death, it let out a wail. The Force within its body overloaded and exploded, and it was damaged by the violent Force.

The power of each tentacle increased once more, just enough to break through Shen Mu's mental power and defense, and pierce into the gaps in the scales.

The terrifying toxin spread, bringing with it a burning pain.

In just a few seconds, under the final attack of the Jellyfish King, countless tiny wounds appeared all over the Azure Dragon clone's body, and endless toxins spread throughout Shen Mu's entire body in an instant.

Intense pain, weakness, and other negative states surged from the Azure Dragon of the East Sea, as if its offense and defense had shifted in the blink of an eye.

"Aww!"

Amidst the terrifying pain and crisis, a peculiar impulse surged from within his genes.

This is the ferocity that had been dormant within the Azure Dragon bloodline of the East Sea since becoming Shen Mu's clone, and it has now resurfaced once again.

At this moment, Shen Mu's consciousness and the instincts of this clone finally merged, and the previously discordant and unnatural feelings completely disappeared, with no longer any separation between the soul and the body.

At this moment, Shen Mu's mental power resonated with the cosmic energy that was floating between heaven and earth, through the surging waves of the tide.

hum!

An invisible wave swept out from the body of the Azure Dragon of the East Sea, expelling all the toxins that had seeped into its body through the wounds. Although the injuries caused by the toxins were still there, they would not continue to worsen.

At this moment, Shen Mu suddenly felt a special sensation. It was not a telepathic sensation, but a vague and indescribable one.

Whoosh!

The endless ocean currents surged once more, and as Shen Mu's mental power spread, the cosmic energy contained within them resonated with Shen Mu's mental power.

boom!

Under the control of telekinesis, the endless waters were compressed wildly, firmly suppressing the transparent jellyfish in place.

shhhhhh!

The bone cones transformed into streams of light, converging into one under Shen Mu's control before suddenly shooting out.

Boom!

The endless torrent of water roared once more, and twelve bone spikes instantly shot into the body of the venomous jellyfish king. They then spread and churned wildly, annihilating this once invincible nemesis in the blink of an eye.

……

Above the endless wilderness on the outskirts of Kyoto base city.

Shen Mu, who was holding Tang Yongqing and flying on the rock, suddenly stopped, and the flat landscape stone also hovered in mid-air.

In the next instant, endless spiritual power spread out, and this time, relying on his vague perception, he sensed the cosmic energy floating in the void.

Furthermore, by simulating the fluctuations of cosmic energy through mental power, one can resonate with cosmic energy and enhance the power of one's mental power.

"Amu... what happened?"

Tang Yongqing hugged Shen Mu tightly, looking down at the desolate area below, with the roars of beasts echoing in her ears, her face turning pale.

"Don't worry, it's a good thing. Being with you makes my mind clear, and a bottleneck in my martial arts has suddenly loosened, resulting in some improvement in my strength."

Shen Mu snapped out of his daze and looked at Tang Yongqing with a smile.

"You're such a chatterbox!" Tang Yongqing wasn't shy like a little girl, but her eyes crinkled, clearly pleased to hear Shen Mu's words.

"Let's go home."

"good!"

On his journey back, Shen Mu continued to sense the cosmic energy between heaven and earth.

Normally, even a planetary-level martial artist cannot detect the existence of cosmic energy in a normal state unless they calmly and attentively sense it.

But once you enter the state of oneness with heaven and earth, that vague perception is like entering a state of spiritual practice where you can vaguely sense the existence of cosmic energy.

Shen Mu finally understood the mystery of the unity of man and nature.

The so-called unity of man and nature means breaking free from the limitations of physical techniques and combat skills, directly controlling the primal force and mental power, expressing one's own understanding of heaven and earth, and resonating with the energy of the universe.

However, it only resonates with cosmic energy and guides cosmic energy to attack; it cannot freely mobilize cosmic energy as it does with its own Force or telekinesis.

As for the next level of domain, Shen Mu speculates that it should not be just about resonating with cosmic energy, but about directly manipulating cosmic energy to form a domain that suppresses everything.

This chapter fleshed out Tang Yongqing's character a bit, and there won't be many more scenes after that. It's a long chapter of nearly 5,000 words, definitely full of sincerity. Brothers, please throw your recommendation votes and monthly tickets at the author!

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