Chapter 973 — The Supreme Divine Consciousness

In these memory currents, memories concerning the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness were exceedingly few, though there were many fragments of divine-consciousness divine abilities; fragments only, however, not complete arts.

Yet his divine consciousness was rising at astonishing speed, growing stronger and stronger, even many times faster than when he cultivated the Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness himself!

By the time the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness in the Heavenly Vase had been refined away entirely, Shen Mu had obtained only a brief passage of the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness method.

Unwilling to give up, he refined what remained of the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness, and his divine consciousness cultivation grew stronger still.

This time, memories concerning the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness finally grew more numerous. Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief, then set about sorting the jumbled knowledge, trying to piece together the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness method. The greatest difference between the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness and the Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness lay in the visualization: the Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness visualized seventy-eight star mansions and three hundred and twenty-eight orthodox star deities, whereas the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness visualized as many as three hundred and sixty-five star mansions, and nearly two thousand orthodox star deities besides!

Such numbers even surpassed Shen Mu's understanding of orthodox star deities!

At present the Heavenly Court had only three hundred and sixty orthodox star deities, yet the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness contained as many as two thousand. What did that mean?

"Are there so many ancient gods in the world?

Where have the ancient gods recorded in the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness gone? " Shen Mu pondered for a moment.

The number of ancient gods at present was far fewer than the ancient gods recorded in the Supreme Divine Consciousness.

Could it be that in some era, two thousand ancient gods had truly existed in the world? "Most of these ancient gods are surely dead.

" Shen Mu set the matter aside and went on sorting through the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness. Beyond the number of orthodox star deities, its visualization techniques too surpassed those of the Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness.

The Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness arrayed the Supreme Palace Enclosure, the Purple Forbidden Enclosure, and the Heavenly Market Enclosure within the Primal Divine Stone or raw stone, whereas the visualization of the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness spread across every part of the physical body, so that the whole person was like a cosmos of stars!

In cultivating such an art, a deity dwelled in every corner of the body! At the brow dwelled the deities of the Purple Forbidden and the Heaven Emperor; in the sea of qi dwelled the two gods of the Returning Abyss; the dantian was the Earth Mother, the Bubbling Spring was the Earth Lord, and the spine was the host of stars of the Thirty-Three Heavens!

"No wonder Shu Jun praised the Tai Emperor, calling him the strongest body in history. By such a method, it would be hard for the body not to be strong.

I only wonder: between the Ancient God Heaven Emperor and the Tai Emperor, whose body is the stronger? " Once the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness within the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury had been completely refined, Shen Mu frowned, for only then did he realize that the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness was not quite the Creator art he had imagined.

The Tai Emperor's Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness turned out to be an art of the divine treasury cultivation system and the Heavenly Palace cultivation system!

The Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness he had obtained was incomplete, lacking the methods for the Seven Stars Divine Treasury and the Heaven-Man Divine Treasury, and beyond the Heavenly Palace realm it lacked the methods for the realms after the Jade Capital! "The Tai Emperor modified the art!

" Shen Mu's mind reeled, and he felt as though he had put all his strength into a punch and struck empty air.

Had it been the original Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness, he could have taken the original art, fused it with his own Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, and modified and perfected it until the art suited him.

But once the Tai Emperor fused the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness with the divine treasury and Heavenly Palace cultivation systems, its use to him was no longer so great. For he had only one divine treasury, the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury; he did not even have a Heavenly Palace!

The art's usefulness to him was thus negligible.

He taught the fragmentary Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness to Shu Jun, and Shu Jun too was stunned for a moment, yet he still studied it earnestly.

Puzzled, Shen Mu asked, "Divine King Shu Jun, you are one of the Three Kings of High Antiquity, so why must you still learn the divine treasury and Heavenly Palace cultivation systems?

The modified Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness is of little use to me, and of even less use to you!

" "Little devil, do you think that after my rebirth I will still walk the path of divine-consciousness visualization? " Shu Jun wagged his head, and his two eyeballs flew from their sockets and bounced about.

One eye said, "If I still walk the path of divine-consciousness visualization, I will be one man contending against the knowledge and achievements of a million years of all living beings, and I will be eliminated by the times like the other Creators, until at last the Creators go extinct.

" The other eye laughed. "After my rebirth, I will learn your cultivation systems and fuse them with the Creators' methods of divine-consciousness visualization. That way, even without the complete Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness, my achievements will not be much inferior to the Tai Emperor's.

" Shen Mu was stunned. Shu Jun's two eyes drove his divine consciousness, which ceaselessly evolved and deduced the mysteries of the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness. He continued, "I entered your divine treasury and found that your divine treasury does not match the Tai Emperor's art; it lacks many divine treasuries.

You have likely walked out a path of your own, yet you are trapped upon your own path.

There is no road ahead, and you do not know how to go on. " Shen Mu nodded. Shu Jun had spoken his sore spot. He had opened the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury and used it to evolve the primordial universe, yet the development of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury must one day reach its end.

Earlier he had already exhausted the potential of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, and only later, after obtaining the Primal Chaos Essence from the Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, had he roused a little of its potential once more.

Even so, the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury truly had no more potential left to tap.

Especially of late, he had felt his mana rise to its limit, reaching the utmost the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury could attain; his vital essence cultivation was now equivalent to that of a True God, yet that too was the end of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury. That was why he had labored so bitterly over divine consciousness, hoping that a stone from another mountain might polish this jade, seeking to break free of his present predicament. How the road ahead should be walked, he had never clearly thought through.

He wished to open a new path upon the foundation of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, yet where that path lay and where it led, he had never had a definite notion.

Still, dimly and vaguely, he felt that at the end of that path there might be a wondrous realm, a realm that flowed as one with the Dao, ineffable, beyond words. Shu Jun said, "If I were you, I would open a Heavenly Palace.