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Chapter 1377 - 603: Ancestor’s Divine Palace

Chapter 1377: Chapter 603: Ancestor’s Divine Palace

This type of teaching is essentially transferring the instructional scene from the Divine Arts stone to reality. Without the time constraints, as long as the instructor doesn’t mind the trouble, one can keep on comprehending until they have learned it completely.

Mu You only understood one ten-thousandth of the Godly technique after one round of teaching, and that was with a successful comprehension attempt. Since each comprehension attempt could fail, one would need at least tens of thousands of attempts in reality, which shows the extreme difficulty of learning this thieving skill.

In the extremely limited time provided by a Divine Arts stone, full comprehension is very unlikely.

However, Mu You had the Pocket Watch as a foundation, so he had no such worries. With infinite reversals, in theory, no matter how difficult, he could learn any Divine Arts in one go.

Of course, he wouldn’t actually do such a thing. Mastering a skill through a single round of teaching would be too shocking and even for a genius, there should be some limits. Acting so recklessly could very likely arouse suspicion.

Thus, Mu You only reversed a few hundred times, slightly boosting his comprehension level to just over 1% before immediately stopping.

["How is it?" You look like you’ve fully comprehended. The Bandit Leader looks at you and asks.]

["I did it, about 1% comprehension." You reply truthfully.]

[Hearing this, the Bandit Leader looks at you with a touch of shock, scrutinizing your expression closely. After confirming that you are not lying, he exclaims, "I really did not misjudge you, your talent is the strongest I’ve seen among the Crow Tribe!"]

["At this rate, you might only need a few days to master all of my thieving skills..." The Bandit Leader murmurs to himself with a shifting gaze and a fluctuating expression, as if pondering some secretive matters.]

["Good, very good! Let’s continue, we’ll aim to get it done in three days..." The Bandit Leader snaps back to reality, suddenly enthusiastic to carry on teaching.]

The bandit was more eager to impart his skills than Mu You himself, and for Mu You not to suspect an ulterior motive would be impossible.

But Mu You wasn’t afraid. After all, a man with nothing to lose has no fear of one with everything to lose; after learning everything he could just leave, what could they possibly do to him?

In the following two days, aside from a few hours of rest each day, Mu You was constantly learning skills from the bandit leader.

To avoid detection and interruption during teaching, the bandit leader would typically only steal from a person once, and even then only one or two slivers of Divinity, before quickly changing targets.

It turned out that most people didn’t notice a mere loss of one or two slivers of Divinity. Even those who did, wouldn’t cause a commotion over such a trivial loss, and so for two days, almost no one troubled them.

While learning, Mu You also took the opportunity to tag along with the bandit leader as they explored the entire Crow Tribe, getting to know the topography and merchant distribution of each mountain.

There are a total of 24 peaks in these mountain ranges, with villages built on 23 of them, each with a population ranging from 2,000 to 5,000, bringing the total population of the tribe to nearly 80,000!

Half of those are of the Crow Tribe, and within the Crow Tribe, about one third are merchants. However, many of the Crow merchants do not reside on the peaks permanently, as they often travel for business. Thus, the number of Crow merchants who actually stay on the peaks is not as high as one would imagine, with just over two thousand in total.

During this time, Mu You also passed by Village #1 again, the village he had previously caused quite a commotion in.

Now, the village had returned to peace, with the major merchants resuming their normal businesses. Mu You didn’t know what the bandit leader had done, but he indeed fulfilled his promise, quietly resolving the impact of his previous rampant thefts in the area.

In short, after two days, Mu You had nearly covered all 23 inhabited peaks of the tribe.

However, there was one place he hadn’t set foot in—the last peak, which was the highest among all, reaching into the clouds, with its summit unseen.

["Why does no one live on that mountain ahead?" Standing on the edge of peak #21, you look at the towering peak across the chain bridge and ask the Bandit Leader.]

The solitary peak in front may not show its summit, but there’s actually plenty of protruding flat land halfway up where houses can be constructed.

All twenty-three other peaks are densely packed with buildings, well over capacity, except for this empty one, which is clearly abnormal.

["That mountain..." The Bandit Leader follows your gaze to the distant peak, scoffing: "It’s not that the Crow People don’t want to live there, but that they can’t live there."]

["Why?" You ask.]

["Do you know why this tribe, as well as the nearby mountain ranges and forests, are called ’Divine Palace Mountains’?" The Bandit Leader asks in return.]

Mu You is taken aback, recalling that upon his initial arrival at the Crow Tribe, he did indeed see the name ’Crow Tribe of the Divine Palace Mountains’ on the village’s welcome sign.

["It’s because of this peak!" The Bandit Leader points toward the solitary peak: "This peak is called ’Ancestor’s Divine Palace Peak’ because it is said that at its summit, there’s a floating Divine Palace."]

["Supposedly?" You express doubt over the other party’s description.]

A mountain plainly in sight, connected by iron chains, seems like anyone could make their way over. Is there a need for ’supposedly’ when speaking of a Divine Palace on top? Unless, no one has ever reached the summit...

["Yes, because the surroundings of this peak, as well as the areas above the clouds on the peak, are all surrounded by terrifying cold. The higher you go, the more intense the cold becomes. Any creature that falls into such cold will instantly lose consciousness and be unable to move, eventually being completely frozen into an ice sculpture while still in the cold air, either falling off the mountain or remaining there forever."]