Chapter 814 — The Secret Treasury of Unification
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
A dark, heavy pillar of light surged up from the ground, and a brilliantly bright pillar of light descended from the sky, colliding with a thunderous boom! The two great vortices spun madly, the light pillars growing more violent—the dark darker, the bright brighter!
At the center where the two light pillars clashed, Shen Mu gathered the power of heaven and earth into his body, channeling it into his brow.
His hands shifted through countless transformations, forming one hand seal after another, and then suddenly more arms sprouted from behind him, also frantically forming seals, opening the Heavenly River within his body. Suddenly, he paused, sensing a strange power from afar. This power seemed to be the power of the true Heavenly River—vast and profound, surging endlessly.
Shen Mu's heart stirred. This power came from the south, likely from the direction of the Yong River.
"Could the Yong River truly be the Heavenly River? " While forming seals, he carefully sensed the source of this power.
His consciousness flowed upstream, following the power onward. His consciousness was incomparably powerful precisely because he had received the Crimson Emperor's inheritance and cultivated the indestructible consciousness—incomparably tenacious, able to extend to extremely distant places.
When the Crimson Emperor died in the Chiming Suspended Realm, his mind did not perish; part of his consciousness even scattered throughout the cosmos, sensed by the Ming Emperor, who thereby found the Chiming Suspended Realm. This showed the formidable nature of the indestructible consciousness.
Soon, Shen Mu's consciousness leaped across countless thousands of miles, and from afar he saw a great river surging and roaring, rolling onward.
From the flow and geography, it was the Yong River. "The Yong River is the Heavenly River. Those who open the Heavenly River Divine Treasury after me will find it much easier.
" Shen Mu was overjoyed.
Although he believed the Heavenly River Divine Treasury was the best seventh divine treasury, simply mobilizing the power of heaven and earth to open a divine treasury would eliminate the vast majority of cultivators; those who could open the Heavenly River Divine Treasury were likely very few.
"Fortunately, the Yong River is the Heavenly River.
They can come directly to the Yong River and borrow the Heavenly River's power to shape the Heavenly River Divine Treasury, without the trouble I went through.
" Shen Mu was about to withdraw his consciousness when he suddenly paused. His indestructible consciousness "saw" mist surging in the river.
Shen Mu immediately halted his consciousness and "gazed" from afar, seeing a woman's figure swaying in the mist. The woman was simply dressed in an antique style—a leopard-skin skirt, a short jacket, straw sandals on her feet, and a peach-wood hairpin casually stuck in her hair.
"Heavenly Venerable Ling. .
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" Shen Mu was stunned, then urged his indestructible consciousness to chase after the woman on the river. His consciousness entered the mist, speeding through it, yet the woman in the mist on the river seemed still far away.
No matter how fast his consciousness flew, he could never close any distance!
Shen Mu "saw" the mountains on both banks of the Yong River rise and fall, the trees continually withering and flourishing, and suddenly he understood. The rising and falling of the mountains, the withering and flourishing of the trees—these were actually scenes from history. The Yong River had not changed, but all around it had undergone the transformations of time; mountains had sunk underground, and mountains had arched up from beneath the earth.
The trees went from old age to youth, then to saplings, then to seeds. His consciousness was not flying—it had never moved at all.
This wondrous divine ability reminded him of the power the Heavenly Venerable Ling had envisioned—the divine ability of matter that does not change or alter.