Chapter 1200 — The Heavenly God's Illusory Dream
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Shen Mu's Immeasurable Kalpa Sutra was no longer a simple Immeasurable Kalpa Sutra, but a new and wondrous divine ability born of its union with the Supreme Divine Consciousness. Di Yiyue had seen the Old Buddha employ the Immeasurable Kalpa Sutra, entering the Dao through dreams; but that was the Old Buddha transforming within his dreams into life after life, walking in countless different guises through the various heavens and the various worlds, tasting the affairs of the world and tempering himself in the dust of mortals.
When the dream of Great Brahma Heaven woke, the different lives, the different circumstances and experiences returned to his mind, making his wisdom the more penetrating, the more flawless and rounded as a pearl.
The Old Buddha needed no deduction, no calculation; what he sought was a great awakening of the mind. He could not do what Shen Mu did.
Shen Mu entered the Dao through dreams, and that demanded tremendous powers of calculation, of deduction, of trial and error. Were the Old Buddha to learn it, he would no longer be able to enter the Dao through dreams, no longer be able to undergo immeasurable kalpas.
This was the difference between him and Shen Mu.
This dream felt very long to Di Yiyue; who knew how many years passed before countless versions of her and Shen Mu, pooling their wisdom, at last unraveled the Way of Reincarnation hidden within the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital.
As the dream shattered, the various insights returned to each of their minds, and the two closed their eyes, savoring and sorting through them for a long while. When Di Yiyue opened her eyes, she found herself still standing beneath the Heavenly Gate of the Nether Capital, while Shen Mu had departed, she knew not when.
She saw the divine being Chi Xiu standing not far off and beckoned to him; Chi Xiu came over and said: "Heavenly King, the Heavenly Venerable Mu bade me stay behind to tell you that he has gone on ahead, and has been gone for half a day.
" Di Yiyue asked: "Did he leave any words? " Chi Xiu the divine being said: "He said that if you remain in Fengdu, sister, you will never be able to take revenge.
If you want revenge, you must walk out.
" Di Yiyue pondered for a moment, then her face broke into a smile: "I understand.
I will go and see the Heavenly King Shakra. That Other Shore Ark of the Yuan Realm, only he can repair it.
" Shen Mu left Fengdu and returned to the Heavenly Yin Realm.
Lady Tianyin had waited a long time for him; seeing him emerge, she was overjoyed beyond measure, and waved, laughing: "Come here, quickly.
I will show you my arts and divine abilities; you are certain to be delighted! " Shen Mu stepped forward, and saw that Lady Tianyin had at some point mixed Heavenly Yin Gold with mud and molded little dolls, male and female, each one standing upon the ground.
Lady Tianyin looked mysterious and secretive, and laughed: "I had originally meant to use flowers and grasses to enlighten them.
But this place of mine is the home of the black sand of souls; flowers and grasses are hard to keep alive here, so I could only mold clay figures. " She unleashed her divine ability, her eyes shining with excitement, and as the power descended, every one of the little clay dolls opened its mouth and yawned, and at once possessed three souls and seven spirits, becoming living beings!
Shen Mu was astonished beyond measure; such a skill he had never seen before! His own soul, it was true, had been created by himself, but the method he followed was that of the heaven-born ancient gods: by opening the heavens and splitting the earth within the Primal Embryo Divine Treasury, the ancient gods were derived, and thus he brought his own soul into being.
That was different from Lady Tianyin's means; Lady Tianyin directly bestowed soul upon soulless dead things, turning them into living beings! "Do not move!