Chapter 996 — Dharma Power Attains the Dao, the Eighth Layer (Third Update!)
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
The starry void rose in a whirling surge, mantling the Ancestral Spirit Realm for a thousand li, and star upon star revolved along its own unique orbit, weaving a river of stars.
The river of stars flowed past Langwan the God King and the twenty-seven ancestral spirits, gathering into a heaven.
In that heaven appeared the figure of Shen Mu the Heavenly Duke. A primal tree, lush and verdant, broke from the earth and soared straight up to the Milky Way, while beneath the Taiji Diagram of the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury lay a tract of darkness — the Nether Capital, fathomless and unplumbed.
The Taiji Diagram revolved slowly, and heavenly palaces rose and floated in graceful disarray, some drifting in the heights of heaven, some near the earth, and some upon the very surface of the Taiji Diagram itself. Langwan the God King and the twenty-seven ancestral spirits saw phantom forms of ancient gods, each at his own position, each at his own office, together guarding this divine treasury of Shen Mu's.
Langwan the God King wore a look of astonishment.
The divine treasury and heavenly palaces Shen Mu had displayed overturned her understanding of the divine-treasury and heavenly-palace cultivation system.
Shen Mu's divine treasury actually encompassed heavenly palaces! This was utterly unlike those divine beings of the Carefree Village!
For the divine beings of the Carefree Village, the heavenly palaces towered above the divine treasury.
What was more, Shen Mu had only one divine treasury, whereas the people of the Carefree Village had seven! And there was yet another oddity: the number of Shen Mu's heavenly palaces was wrong as well.
Most of the divine beings of the Carefree Village had but a single heavenly palace, yet Shen Mu had as many as fourteen — though many of them were incomplete and defective.
And at this very moment, within Shen Mu's Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, a fifteenth heavenly palace was swiftly taking shape!
"Opening a heavenly palace?
" Langwan the God King's gaze flickered as she studied with great care how Shen Mu was opening this new heavenly palace, and thought to herself: "Perhaps it will prove of great use to us, the Creator race.
In those days, for the sake of opening a divine-consciousness heavenly palace, who knows how many Creators died.
. .
" At that time, when Kaihuang established the Carefree Village, Langwan the God King had led her host to attack it, and in the end both sides had suffered grievous losses.
She had then keenly realized that if the Creator race could not accept the divine-treasury and heavenly-palace cultivation system, the Creators would certainly be no match for the Carefree Village — and the gap would only widen as time went on.
And so she had resolutely made everyone accept the divine-treasury and heavenly-palace cultivation system. Yet of how to open divine treasuries and heavenly palaces they knew nothing whatsoever.
Fortunately, they were Creators, and they had captured no small number of divine beings from the Carefree Village. To obtain the memories of those divine beings was an easy matter for them. But knowing was one thing; opening was quite another.
In those years, in order to open the seven divine treasuries and heavenly palaces, who knows how many Creators had died in failure. The Creators who perished in this manner were even more numerous than those who had died in the campaign against the Carefree Village!
Only after countless failures had they at last mastered the divine-treasury and heavenly-palace cultivation system.
Yet the seven divine treasuries and heavenly palaces they opened were still different from the Carefree Village's system.
The Carefree Village followed the divine-path system, while they themselves followed the system of divine-consciousness divine treasuries and divine-consciousness heavenly palaces! And now, what Shen Mu had shown them was yet another system.