Chapter 1059 — Completing the Divine Power, the Ghost Ship Crosses the Realms
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" Shen Mu shook his head: "I have only temporarily helped you out of your invisible state, but I still cannot break Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power and free you from your symbiotic state with the ghost ship. " Suddenly a phoenix cry rang out, and a fire phoenix rose on beating wings from behind the ghost ship, bearing a huge stone coffin on its back.
It flew to the deck and, landing, transformed into a woman who set down the stone coffin.
It was Feng Qiuyun, handmaiden of the Earth Mother, chieftain of the Phoenix Clan of the Primal Realm. She had come to the ghost ship on the Earth Mother's orders, bearing the corpse of Shanghuang within the stone coffin, and afterward had been trapped here; neither she, a great expert of the Lingxiao realm, nor the Shanghuang corpse-demon within the coffin, had escaped assimilation by the ghost ship.
"Celestial Venerable Mu!
" Feng Qiuyun looked at Shen Mu, then at the Heavenly Dragon Chariot, and asked hurriedly: "How many years have passed outside? Where is the Earth Mother?
" "The Earth Mother is dead.
" Shen Mu said: "The Primal Realm has fallen into the hands of Celestial Venerable Xiao. " Feng Qiuyun was as one bereaved of her parents, her spirit utterly crushed.
Wei Suifeng sighed: "Have you visited all those maps I left you? Since you cannot now undo Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power—among the maps I left you, one is the former dwelling of Celestial Venerable Ling, where some of her notes on her research into the Unchanging Divine Power are hidden.
I stole them from the Heavenly Court. If you can find that place, perhaps with her notes you can break her Unchanging Divine Power. " Shen Mu's heart stirred slightly; he took out several charts and said: "Which map is it?
" Wei Suifeng stepped forward, picked out one of the charts, and said: "This one. But there is no use speaking of it now—you too will be trapped here, unable to leave the ghost ship. You will be assimilated by the ghost ship…
" Shen Mu smiled: "Though I cannot break Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power, I have comprehended a portion of the Unchanging Divine Power, and I can also command a portion of unchanging matter.
" Wei Suifeng frowned: "What do you mean?
" Shen Mu put away the map and said: "I want to join hands with you, to stir this ship together, to summon Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power, and by means of this ship return to ancient times!
" Wei Suifeng's frown deepened: "Though I too understand a portion of the Unchanging Divine Power, what I command are only fragments; what I have comprehended is no more than yours.
" "Are we not still left with this ghost ship?
" Shen Mu's gaze was bright as snow: "The ghost ship is also Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power, though it is not a complete Unchanging Divine Power—only the prototype of her divine power. If you and I can make good the flaw in this divine power, we can turn this ship into unchanging matter, able to travel through every era, no longer confined to reincarnation. " Wei Suifeng's eyes lit up, and he paced back and forth: "Such a possibility does indeed exist. This ship travels through thirty-six rounds of reincarnation, thirty-six eras in all, and each great reincarnation is a reset of matter. If we make good the missing portion of Celestial Venerable Ling's divine power, it is indeed possible to make it a complete divine power.
" He raised his head, his gaze flickering: "Then, Junior Brother, what exactly is the purpose of your coming this time?
" Shen Mu said: "I want to return to the past. " Wei Suifeng laughed: "How simple it is for you to return to the past! Celestial Venerable Ling has already turned into unchanging matter at the source of the Yong River; she will become mist and send you back.
If you return to the source of the Yong River, so long as the mist appears, perhaps you can go back to the past. " He could not help but sigh with feeling: "Celestial Venerable Ling is the mist upon the river.