Faced with everyone's amazement and congratulations, Shen Mo felt little stir in his heart, but he still smiled and responded to them one by one.
"Village Chief Wang, Brother Guo... I would like to borrow your god-bestowed weapons for inspection. Would that be possible?"
Village Chief Wang Tie's long spear, Guo Yun's bow, and the weapons of the other disciples were all engraved with a great many divine patterns. When activated with divine power, they could produce different effects, making them highly valuable for Shen Mo's research.
The disciples beneath the false gods observed a rather strict hierarchy, fundamentally determined by the amount of divine power they possessed and the strength of their abilities. Thus, although Shen Mo had yet to formally receive the status of an elder, Wang Tie and the others did not dare refuse his request. Before long, they delivered their respective god-bestowed weapons to Shen Mo's room.
Shen Mo put on [Dharma Eye Candle Micro] and began studying the divine patterns on these weapons. These patterns shared the same origin as the spirit patterns used to open divine domains, yet they belonged to an entirely different system from the talisman patterns of the immortal path.
Yet whether divine patterns or immortal talisman patterns, both were patterns of the Great Dao. Shen Mo possessed considerable attainments in alchemy, talismans, artifact crafting, and formations, and with the aid of his special Destiny, studying these divine patterns was not overly difficult. Before long, he had deciphered seventy-nine different types of basic divine patterns from these god-bestowed weapons.
Just as the most basic strokes of writing could give rise to thousands upon thousands of characters, these basic divine patterns could likewise be arranged and overlaid in countless ways to form more powerful and profound divine patterns. However, divine patterns were