Chapter 981 — One Boat, Three Venerables
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The Ark of the Other Shore sailed onward along the Void Bridge. This vessel was branded with hundreds of millions of runic seals, and whenever the great ship encountered a place where the void had ruptured, those runes would burst into radiance, holding back the might of the void.
The Ark of the Other Shore was the crystallization of the wisdom of the Kaihuang era. Moreover, because Kaihuang possessed the Geographic Map of the Great Void bestowed upon him by Heaven Venerable Yun, he alone had been able to cross the Void Bridge that even Heaven Venerable Xu could not cross.
Yet Shen Mu felt a measure of unease. After all, this ship had been visualized into being by his own mind, not forged by countless gods and demons. Whether in the sturdiness of its hull or in the power of its runes, it was far inferior to the true Ark of the Other Shore.
"If only we can cross the Void Bridge safely," he thought silently.
The Void Bridge was broken and intermittent. Whenever they reached a break, the void annihilated, the void erupted, and one small universe after another was born and destroyed, destroyed and born, eroding the runes upon the ship's surface so that countless runes perished without cease.
Shen Mu's expression shifted slightly. He looked back and saw that their ship had only reached one-tenth of the Void Bridge; the end was still very far away.
Luo Wushuang's expression changed as well. The peril of the Void Bridge far exceeded his expectations. The power unleashed by the annihilated void of this bridge was such that even a great expert of his Lingxiao Realm would likely be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
That the Ark of the Other Shore visualized by Shen Mu had held out this long was already beyond his expectations.
And now, the Ark of the Other Shore had begun to show damage, which meant this ship absolutely could not last across the Void Bridge—perhaps not even half its length.
"Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury Domain, open!"
Shen Mu gave a low shout. The Divine Treasury Domain opened, and he stood alone within it, stars glittering above his head, illuminating his face as it transformed into the Heavenly Lord, while the Taiji Diagram reflected his face and transformed into Tubo.
Behind him the Primordial Tree flourished verdantly. Above the tree, the stars of the heavens emerged, and one ancient god after another surfaced from among the constellations, while the Four Emperors of the four directions stood at the four poles of the Taiji Diagram.
These gods and demons all bore Shen Mu's face.
Though Shen Mu was aware that the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury Domain had great shortcomings, his own domain was not yet fully refined, so he could only use the Primordial Embryo Divine Treasury Domain as an emergency measure.
Shen Mu stood at the center of the Divine Treasury Domain and activated the Mystic Body Three Cores Art. Within the domain, vital essence and divine consciousness darted swiftly between heaven and earth like dragons and serpents, transforming into streams of light that connected more than two thousand ancient gods.
He had comprehended the Great Emperor's Supreme Divine Consciousness of the Great Luo. Though it was only a fragmentary text, that fragment encompassed the forms of more than two thousand ancient gods—grander and more monumental than the present celestial system of ancient gods.
Vital essence and divine consciousness connected all the ancient gods between heaven and earth, forming a massive system of ancient gods within his Divine Treasury Domain.
These two thousand-plus ancient gods—all Shen Mu—visualized together to repair the damage to the Ark of the Other Shore, allowing the great ship to break through layer after layer of void and sail toward the end of the Void Bridge.
The Ark of the Other Shore shook violently, and within Shen Mu's Divine Treasury Domain, the ancient gods one by one lost their footing, making Luo Wushuang's heart leap with fright.