Chapter 946 — Gazing Into That Abyss
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The Dao Ancestor laughed. "When Heavenly Venerable Shen opened it, this old Dao was at his side. It was a geographical map, of a place called the Great Void. This old Dao did not look closely."
"The Great Void?"
Shen Mu's heart stirred faintly. "I have just now visited Heavenly Venerable Huo and Heavenly Venerable Xu, and heard that there has been strange movement in the Great Void; they took their disciples roaming there. What sort of place is the Great Void?"
The Dao Ancestor shook his head. "I do not know. Only the Ten Heavenly Venerables know what the Great Void truly is. I have merely heard that such a place exists; I do not know what is there, nor where it lies. But back then, after Heavenly Venerable Shen obtained the map of the Great Void, the Kaihuang Tribulation broke out, and Heavenly Venerable Shen went to the Land of No Sorrow. There are rumors that the Land of No Sorrow is in the Great Void. The reason the Ten Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court care so much about the Great Void is most likely that they wish to find where Heavenly Venerable Shen has gone."
Shen Mu pondered a moment. The Great Void, the Land of No Sorrow, and that world the Creators had envisioned and made, was there some bond among the three?
On the reliefs of the Blood Rust Zone he had seen the prehistoric Creators gather their incomparably powerful divine consciousness to create another world within the void, hoping thereby to withdraw from this chaotic world and escape the slaughter of the ancient gods.
Then was that world the Creators made the Great Void?
Was the Land of No Sorrow within the Great Void?
And Qin Hanzhen and Princess Zhen had both said that the Land of No Sorrow held deadly peril. What did that mean?
He could not puzzle it out.
Shen Mu opened Heavenly Venerable Yun's box, and could not help but start. Within lay a tiny altar.
The altar was small indeed, only one *cun* and three *fen* long and some two fingers high; set within the box it seemed utterly miniature.
Shen Mu reached out to take the little altar out, yet as his hand entered the box he saw his own hand dwindle smaller and smaller, and still he could not reach the bottom.
"The space within this box is vast, and the altar is not so small as it appears."
Shen Mu examined the box and the altar closely, and suddenly discovered that there was something upon the altar after all, only that thing was truly infinitesimal.
He urged his magic power, and his vital essence transformed into a hand that reached into the space within the box and took that thing from the altar.
Shen Mu drew back his vital essence, and in his hand was a square, upright treasure seal, a little larger than his palm, so that his fingers could close around it.
"This treasure seal is..."
He could not help but feel doubt. The seal was not large, semi-transparent, forged from some unknown substance, and through it one could faintly see the lines of his palm.
But since it was a seal, there were usually words carved beneath, yet this treasure seal was blank; only at its top was there a complex carving of mountains.
He turned it about a while, then handed the seal to the Dao Ancestor: "Dao Ancestor, can you make out what secret this seal holds?"
The Dao Ancestor studied it closely. Suddenly a third eye grew from the center of his brows, blooming with boundless starlight: the divine power of the Heaven Eye.
After a moment, the Heaven Eye on his forehead closed, and another eye grew, bearing the raging demonic fire of Youdu: the Eye of Tubo.
He dispersed the Eye of Tubo as well, and brought forth the holy pupil divine powers of one ancient god after another, yet never could he find the mystery of this treasure seal.
"I cannot see the mystery of this treasure seal."
The Dao Ancestor shook his head and returned the seal to him. "Since Heavenly Venerable Yun was so solemn about it, insisting that the seal be given to you, there must be a deeper meaning."