Chapter 1031 — The Void of the End
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"So it is you! " The jade bottle shook, and the Great Emperor's furious voice came from within: "I know you, the little woman who joined hands with Heavenly Venerable Yun to scheme against me! A Creator of the Great Void!
And you, Divine King Shujun! " Divine King Shujun laughed heartily: "Juyu, it has been a long time! In those days you beat this old man to a sorry state, and now you are in the bottle while I am outside it!
" The Great Emperor raged: "Shujun, you are a Divine King of the Creators, yet you bite the hand that feeds you and scheme against me alongside the human race! And you, woman, you are the leader of the Creators, yet you have plotted against me twice, scheming against the Great Emperor of the Creator race! " Divine King Langwan said calmly: "You destroyed the Creator race; you ceased to be our Great Emperor long ago.
Juyu, today we have merely collected a little interest. " Shujun's face turned anxious, and he said hurriedly: "No time for idle talk with him!
Watch the thirty-fifth void; beware an attack from his spiritual-consciousness Daluo Heaven!
" Shen Mu dispersed the Soul-Reeling Art and picked up the jade bottle, only to find it still leaping and bounding in his palm, as though it meant to break free of his hand and pierce through the air. Fortunately, with the seals of Divine King Langwan and Divine King Shujun in place, the power coming from the bottle was not great, and it remained within his control.
Shujun and Divine King Langwan each sat cross-legged in the lotus posture, and from between their brows layer upon layer of light, like layer upon layer of twisted foam, streamed forth without cease, sinking deep into the void.
They were evidently preparing to join forces to seal the thirty-fifth void and stop the Great Emperor's spiritual-consciousness Daluo Heaven. As for the doctrine of the voids, the wisdom the Creators of the Ancient Spirit Realm had passed to Shen Mu described it in concrete terms.
In the antiquity the Creators inhabited, the soul was of no account; what mattered was spiritual consciousness, and how to protect one's own spiritual consciousness mattered above all. To lodge one's spiritual consciousness in the void allowed one to join with heaven and earth and endure far longer.
The Creators fashioned things with spiritual consciousness. To them, any place where one could create and lodge one's spiritual consciousness was a void, and the actual universe was the first void. To break through the first void and bring one's consciousness to another, more illusory level was the second void.
One who could create within the second void might attempt a further breakthrough and reach the third void. The third void was more illusory still, ethereal and insubstantial.
And so on: layer after layer of void was opened up by the Creators, and the deeper the void, the longer one's spiritual consciousness could be preserved. Yet in the wisdom of the Ancient Spirit Realm there was only the thirty-fifth void; there was no record of the thirty-sixth void, the ultimate void.
In truth, upon reaching the thirty-fifth void, a Creator's spiritual consciousness already shared the lifespan of heaven and earth and would never be worn away, enjoying eternal quiet there; only the destruction of the universe would bring them death. Even so, in antiquity there had been Creators who could find the thirty-fifth void and refine away the spiritual consciousness others had lodged there, erasing their enemies, proof that lodging in the void was not truly so secure.
The thirty-sixth void, the ultimate void; Shen Mu had only ever heard Shujun mention that such a layer existed.
What its precise use was, he did not know. With his present cultivation of spiritual consciousness, entering ten layers of void would already be counted good. The only one who had ever entered the thirty-sixth void was the Great Emperor.