Chapter 976 — The Domain of the Divine Embryo Treasury

What truly shocked him was that after entering the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, Shen Mu had taken what he learned there and applied it livingly to his own divine treasury.

While others could not, like him, turn their own divine treasury into a domain.

The most crucial reason was that Shen Mu had fused the seven great divine treasuries into one divine treasury, standing alone in the world in divine treasury attainment, even a Celestial Venerable, judging by divine treasury alone, could not surpass him in cultivation. Moreover he had opened heaven and earth, turning the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury into a small universe within his body, from the small universe a soul was born, soul and spirit embryo joined to become the primordial spirit, and the primordial spirit was naturally the master of this small universe, so forming his own unique domain was only natural.

"To break his shameless way of fighting, I must destroy his Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury!

" Thinking this, Luo Wushuang's saber light burst forth anew, not cutting toward Shen Mu, but cutting toward this heaven and earth instead, saber light tearing the sky and splitting the earth!

Shen Mu's domain at once grew unstable, its aura waning, and just then, heaven and earth suddenly overturned, the black-and-white desert of a hundred li turned upside down, and the rules of the great Dao of heaven and earth abruptly changed.

Luo Wushuang saw in horror his own flesh and blood slough swiftly away, leaving a skeleton standing there, unable to sense his own flesh!

This place was Youdu. It was a Youdu world formed by Shen Mu's own power!

Without his flesh, Luo Wushuang's magic power fell sharply, Shen Mu's sword light flew to, Luo Wushuang raised his saber to block, yet without flesh, in both magic power and strength he had fallen straight down a whole realm. Hiss-- Sword light pierced his fourteen heavens of the saber Dao and came to his brow, suddenly halting.

Luo Wushuang scattered the saber in his hand, the saber light leaping in his eye sockets gradually dimmed, his breath wilted, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Forty thousand years, I waited a full forty thousand years, always dreaming of a battle with you, yet I still lost.

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. " Shen Mu scattered his sword light, the domain formed by the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury vanished, the golden sand desert reappeared, still with blazing sun rolling and heat waves beating in the face.

"You did not lose beneath my sword art, so do not grieve so.

" Shen Mu walked forward and smiled, "You only lost beneath my divine art, in sword art, my sword art may not surpass your saber art.

In saber art, I too have much to ask of you.

" Luo Wushuang sighed, his manner bleak, "Back then your sword art defeated me, and I cultivated my saber art bitterly for forty thousand years, hoping one day to make your sword lose beneath my saber. Now though your sword art has not surpassed my saber art, your divine art has defeated me, how many years must I cultivate and comprehend bitterly to defeat your divine art?

" Having lost this time, though cast down, he suddenly felt a lightness, as if laying down a heavy burden.

"A hundred and twenty thousand years.

" Shen Mu walked forward and said, "You owe me three lives, each life forty thousand years, you have a hundred and twenty thousand years to comprehend, and strive after a hundred and twenty thousand years to defeat me openly and fairly. " He turned back and smiled, "Luo the Divine Saber, will you not follow?

" Luo Wushuang started, quickly followed him and said, "Your spirit embryo domain has great flaws.

So long as your Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury is broken open, killing you would not be hard.

You comprehended this use from the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, but it is not truly complete. " Shen Mu humbly sought instruction and said, "Just now when your saber art split heaven and earth, I realized this, then in Luo the Divine Saber's view, how should I amend and perfect it?

" Luo Wushuang hesitated and said, "Shen Ba Ti need not keep calling me Luo the Divine Saber, I am forty thousand years your elder, if you do not disdain it, call me Brother Luo. " Shen Mu laughed aloud, "I call Zhe Huali brother, how can I call you Brother Luo? " Luo Wushuang said gravely, "Zhe Huali and I have severed grace and righteousness, he is no disciple of mine.

You are a Celestial Venerable, for you to call me Brother Luo, it is I who take advantage.

" He paused, revealing a trace of a smile, and said, "In the Celestial Court I am not good at conducting myself, I have few friends, the disciples under my gate are all children of powerless and uninfluential houses, bitter at being unable to step out of my shadow, they often cut off an arm of their own, they are all poor folk.

Zhe Huali is the only child to walk out of my shadow and my saber Dao, I admire him greatly. " Thinking of Zhe Huali, a warmth rose unbidden in his heart.

Zhe Huali had walked out of his shadow only after coming into contact with Shen Mu, thus his feelings toward Shen Mu were also contradictory, and this was one reason he had come down to the Jingping world yet never struck at Shen Mu.

"Of domains, I do not understand, I cannot speak of guiding you. But I think, the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain is built of divine consciousness, and neither the Creator nor the Tai Emperor used their divine treasury or heavenly palace.

" Luo Wushuang pondered a moment and said, "For you to turn the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury into a domain is to hand your weakness to the enemy of your own accord.

If you could form a domain directly without using the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury, then you would have no weakness. Only in wondrous application it might fall somewhat short, without the unfathomable changes of the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury domain.

" Shen Mu suddenly understood, "Brother Luo, what you say holds great reason.

Only, I can form a domain only by using the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury, if I do not use the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury, my cultivation cannot keep up, nor would there be so many changes.

" Luo Wushuang sank into thought and said, "Then could you in ordinary days use your own magic power and great Dao runes to temper a domain unceasingly, and release it at the time of battle? " Shen Mu's eyes lit up and he praised, "A fine idea! And one could brand divine arts within the domain, tempering it a thousand times and a hundred refinings, enough to make the domain ever stronger, no weaker than the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury domain! By the way, Brother Luo, you too can achieve a Saber Dao Firmament domain!

" Luo Wushuang halted, his gaze dazed, after a moment, sudden wild joy showed, and he could not help laughing aloud, his voice rolling across the golden sand desert.

"A Saber Dao Firmament domain! Good, truly good!

" "Brother Luo, this is reform! You have already stepped into the ranks of reform!

" "This is reform? " "This is reform! I have one more unfeeling request.

You cannot stay in the Celestial Court, while in the lower realm I have some property. Have you heard of the Heavenly Saint Sect?

I am unworthy, yet hold the post of Sect Master, and now is just the time for employing men, I need talent like Brother Luo. To speak frankly, Yan Shaoqing, the foremost divine consciousness in the Celestial Court, has now entered the game, add to that the foremost divine saber of the Celestial Court.

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" They walked farther and farther, not long after, at the place where Shen Mu and Luo Wushuang had fought, space split open, revealing a deep abyss, Lian Huahun walked out of the abyss, looked about, and followed the footprints of Shen Mu and Luo Wushuang.

"Venerable Mu, you vanished for half a year, this palace thought you already dead, yet I sensed your divine art.

Today, this palace will use Hao Tianzun's Eighteen Arts to Slay Mu to send you on your way.