Chapter 973 — The Supreme Divine Consciousness
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The Tai Emperor's remaining divine consciousness withdrew, and in a moment it had vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a cold snort.
Shen Mu thought little of it; the Tai Emperor was, after all, the Tai Emperor, the foremost master of divine consciousness past or present, and to have captured even a fragment of his consciousness was already no small achievement. Divine consciousness was thought and awareness, bound up with memory, and his aim had been simply to wrest from the Tai Emperor's consciousness the supreme art of cultivating divine consciousness: the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness.
He had no power to refine the Tai Emperor whole; the consciousness he had taken was but the tip of an iceberg, a single drop of the vast ocean. Yet if he could refine this portion of the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness and obtain from it the method for cultivating the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness, that would be a stroke of immense fortune!
Drawing out the Tai Emperor's seal and the sacrificial altar to summon the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness had been a crisis for him.
But within a crisis there is both peril and opportunity; to pass through the peril and seize the opportunity, that is what a wise man should conceive of doing, and do. Many people, when faced with a crisis, see only the peril and do all they can to evade it, forgetting that a crisis has two faces, and that in dodging the peril they often let slip the opportunity as well.
Shen Mu, joining hands with the others, had driven the Tai Emperor back and captured a portion of his divine consciousness; he had advanced to meet the difficulty and seized the opportunity. When Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang saw the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness retreat, they too flew out of his divine treasury.
Shen Mu thanked them both, and Shu Jun likewise returned to the Primal Divine Stone, where Shen Mu, sending his divine consciousness down, gave him thanks as well. "This concerns your life and death, but it concerns mine as well.
There is no need for thanks.
" Within Shu Jun's great head, two eyes bounced and hopped about in their sockets as he laughed.
"If you feel you owe me, then supply me with more divine consciousness and vital essence and blood, and help me restore my ears and my mouth and nose!
" Shen Mu laughed heartily.
"Rest assured, King Jun, I will grant you your wish! " Shu Jun sneered.
"King Jun?
Though I am one of the Three Kings of High Antiquity, my people do not call me King Jun, but the Divine King Shu Jun! You ought to address me as Divine King! You may have captured a portion of the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness, but do you know how to refine his divine consciousness and extract the memories within it? If you do not, then offer me more vital essence and blood and divine consciousness, and help me restore my brain. This bargain is no loss to you, is it?
" Shen Mu frowned and proposed, "How about this: you teach me how to refine the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness, and I will teach you the knowledge contained within it. Do you not wish to obtain the Tai Emperor's Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness? Is not this bargain an even better one?
" Shu Jun was greatly moved. He pondered for a moment, then said, "That proposal is not bad. My Three Enclosures Supreme Consciousness is very strong, but compared with the Tai Emperor's Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness it is still a shade inferior. Yet the reason the Tai Emperor is the Tai Emperor is not the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness alone; there are also countless clansmen who visualize him and aid his cultivation.
. . " Shen Mu led him on, step by step.
"If the Tai Emperor's divine consciousness contains the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness, I will teach you every part of it, without reservation!
Once the Divine King Shu Jun is reborn, and possesses the Daluo Supreme Divine Consciousness besides, becoming another Tai Emperor will be only a matter of time!