Chapter 974: The Double Serpent Song, the Fragrance of Flowers
"Having passed the trials of the ancestors, you now possess the most profound knowledge and the right to lead the Creator race." Lang Wan the God King continued.
Qin Mu had been feeling a bit uneasy, but upon hearing these words, he immediately perked up.
"For these two days, you will remain here. I will instruct you in the combat method of visualization."
Lang Wan the God King said, "Although two days is a short time, I believe that with the Holy Infant's wisdom, it will be enough to grasp the basics of visualization combat. It would be best if you can combine visualization with your own primordial energy."
Qin Mu, gaunt and thin, worried that his blood energy and divine consciousness wouldn't keep up. He quickly took out some Hongmeng Primordial Fluid, flicking a drop into his Embryonic Divine Treasure to replenish his primordial energy and divine consciousness.
Seeing this, Lang Wan the God King frowned and asked, "Are you helping Shu Jun the God King restore his physical body?"
Qin Mu nodded.
"Shu Jun the God King is already old, outdated, and stubbornly self-opinionated. There's no need to save him."
Lang Wan the God King said, "If you can't bear to do it, I'll help you get rid of him. Refining him to death would be quite easy."
Inside the primal stone, Shu Jun flew into a rage, cursing Lang Wan the God King for being ruthless and heartless, showing no regard for their kinship.
Qin Mu shook his head and said, "I promised Shu Jun I would help him restore his mind, and I will definitely do it. God King, if I were a person who breaks faith, would you still trust me so easily?"
Lang Wan the God King thought for a moment, then shook her head.
Qin Mu's complexion recovered slightly, and he retained two or three-tenths of his divine consciousness, ensuring he could activate divine consciousness techniques.
Lang Wan the God King circulated her divine consciousness and slowly visualized. A rune gradually appeared before her, transitioning from nothingness to reality, slowly becoming clear.
Qin Mu followed her, learning bit by bit, also trying to visualize runes with his divine consciousness.
Lang Wan the God King taught very carefully, and Qin Mu learned extremely quickly. The runes she taught him were all basic ones, and since Qin Mu was already an expert in this area, he could easily grasp them.
He could even point out the shortcomings in Lang Wan the God King's runes and complete them.
The Creator race often used divine consciousness to instill their knowledge into the younger generation. However, this method had a drawback: it was difficult to discover the mistakes of predecessors.
Lang Wan the God King abandoned this approach, instead using the most basic method of teaching Qin Mu hand-in-hand, without directly instilling knowledge.
She also wanted Qin Mu to point out her shortcomings.
Regarding basic runes, although the Creators had some research, they had been in the Other Shore for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and even longer in the Great Void, with very little contact with the outside world. They could only secretly learn the runes of Carefree Realm, so their rune mastery was inferior to Qin Mu's.
However, their mastery of divine consciousness techniques was far beyond what Qin Mu could reach.
Although Lang Wan the God King said she was teaching him, in reality, they were learning from each other.
Time passed quickly. Unknowingly, a day had gone by, and Qin Mu could already skillfully visualize various basic runes. With a single thought, his divine consciousness would construct the runes.
He also discovered that runes formed by combining divine consciousness with primordial energy were far more powerful, several times stronger than runes formed by either primordial energy or divine consciousness alone!
In the Green Feather Palace, Lang Wan the God King moved with an ethereal grace, visualizing a green serpent. She stood on the serpent's head as the great snake lunged, fighting Qin Mu.
Qin Mu also stood on the head of a white serpent he had visualized, using various visualized techniques to block her attacks, integrating his previous knowledge and insights of Dao techniques with visualization to enhance their power.
The two unleashed various visualization techniques. With a wave of their hands, heavenly flowers rained down; with a sweep, starry skies burst forth. With a thought, heavenly fire descended, flames consuming the world; with another thought, meteors fell from the sky, shaking the earth and mountains.
They visualized one portal after another, each portal containing a world. The green and white serpents carried them through these portals, traveling between the visualized worlds, crossing high mountains, vast oceans, and traversing glaciers and great marshes, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.
Finally, the green and white serpents intertwined, their bodies coiling, raising the two figures higher and closer. Various visualization techniques danced around them, manifesting as different phenomena, constantly colliding and annihilating!
Qin Mu's visualization techniques were ever-changing, merging visualization with the Great Dao of the ancient gods and the acquired Great Dao. His vast array of methods left even Lang Wan the God King dazzled.
The entwined green and white serpents brought them closer and closer, and their technique clashes became increasingly fierce.
At last, they were within arm's reach. The coiling serpents made them resemble two stars revolving around each other. Their battle grew even more intense, with techniques emerging endlessly.
Suddenly, a flower bud was visualized in Qin Mu's hand. The flower slowly bloomed, vibrant and colorful, utterly captivating.
The petals were numerous, unfolding outward layer by layer, the stamens extending, releasing a fragrant aroma.
Lang Wan the God King spotted an opening and raised her hand, pointing a finger at Qin Mu's brow, her divine consciousness invading his body.
At that moment, the delicate flower was presented before her. Qin Mu smiled and said, "For you."
Lang Wan the God King was momentarily stunned. She withdrew her finger and retracted her divine consciousness, saying calmly, "This was a test. I wanted to assess your cultivation over these two days, but you were distracted. I am disappointed."
She took the delicate flower from Qin Mu's hand, turned around, and brought it to her lips, inhaling its fragrance. The sweet scent penetrated her heart and lungs.
A faint smile appeared on Lang Wan the God King's face. She stepped down from the green serpent's head with bare feet, her voice drifting back: "Don't do that again... Aren't you coming? The time for the grand sacrifice is near."
Qin Mu quickly jumped down from the white serpent's head and followed her footsteps.
Behind them, the green and white serpents continued to intertwine and entwine, then separated, their necks crossing as they slithered into the forest of the Green Feather Palace.
Qin Mu arrived before the pool of Hongmeng Primordial Fluid and took out several jade bottles, intending to fill some. Seeing this, Lang Wan the God King shook her head and said, "Your bottles are too small. How much can they hold? I sense the aura of the Cangshan Clan's Gourd Heaven Bottle on you. Use that to fill some."
Qin Mu took out the Gourd Heaven Bottle gifted to him by the Cangshan Clan chief. Inside the bottle was a complete universe, its internal space vast and boundless, capable of holding not just a pool of water but even an entire starry sky!
Lang Wan the God King waved her hand, and the pool's water decreased by one-tenth. That one-tenth of Hongmeng Primordial Fluid flew into the Gourd Heaven Bottle.
"So much?"
Qin Mu's heart pounded wildly. He had only planned to take a few bottles of Hongmeng Primordial Fluid, but he hadn't expected Lang Wan the God King to gift him one-tenth of the pool.
"Leave the hall first."
Lang Wan the God King glanced at him and said, "I will come shortly to preside over the grand sacrifice."
Qin Mu acknowledged and walked toward the hall's exit.
Lang Wan the God King watched him until he was far away, then gracefully approached the pool. She tossed the flower into the air, watching it drift into the pool, where it took root and sprouted. Only then did she reveal a warm smile.
"Flowers visualized are easy to wither, but planted here, constantly nourished, they will bloom forever."
Qin Mu arrived outside the Green Feather Palace and saw that the various Creator clans had already prepared numerous altars. Hundreds of Creators surrounded each altar, their brows radiating brilliant light, gathering the collective power of their worship into a shimmering liquid light at the center of the altars.
Straight beams of light shot up from the center of each altar, piercing the sky.
The number of altars was immense, as many as three to five thousand. Three to five thousand beams of light surged into the void, causing constant turbulence, and even a crimson hue appeared in the sky.
It seemed they had left only a few Creators to guard against a counterattack from Carefree Realm, while everyone else had gathered here to conduct this grand sacrifice!
Qin Mu hadn't expected that opening the Ancestral Spirit Realm would require such a magnificent spectacle!
He turned to look back and saw a giant rhomboid vertical eye slowly rising behind the Green Feather Palace. That was the Ancestral Spirit Realm, being summoned from the void by this grand sacrifice, growing larger and rising higher.
This world was formed by the combination of the Primal Chaos Primal Stone and the divine consciousness of the Creators who had died here. It usually hid within the void, impossible to find. Only when a Creator died would their divine consciousness sense the call of the Ancestral Spirit Realm, drawing them there to become surging consciousness, preserved forever, silently guarding the Other Shore.
Qin Mu steadied himself and searched for the Purple Li Clan chief, Silkworm Woman. He finally found the female Creator, who was also leading her clan in the ritual, pulling the Ancestral Spirit Realm out of the void.
Qin Mu was delighted and immediately flew over, floating before this majestic female Creator. He smiled and said, "Clan Chief, I've obtained the Hongmeng Primordial Fluid!"
Silkworm Woman's divine consciousness fluctuated, showing signs of strain. She said angrily, "Why are you here? This grand sacrifice is about to succeed! Go back quickly and prepare to enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm!"
Qin Mu smiled and said, "I promised to get some Hongmeng Primordial Fluid for you. Where is your clan's sacred artifact, the Seven Souls Herb?"
Silkworm Woman hurriedly said, "I can't be distracted right now. Holy Infant, summoning the Ancestral Spirit Realm is a major event. Go back quickly, or the God King will scold me again!"
Qin Mu was about to say more when suddenly a surge of divine consciousness swept him up. The next moment, he was back in front of the Green Feather Palace, with Lang Wan the God King beside him.
Lang Wan the God King had now reverted to her true Creator form, extremely majestic. She was looking up at the sky, where the Ancestral Spirit Realm had risen very high. The rhomboid eye in the sky was growing larger, and the scene inside was gradually becoming visible.
Inside the Ancestral Spirit Realm, it seemed as if countless brains formed light waves that constantly flowed, an extremely peculiar sight.
Finally, a rumbling tremor came from the heavens. The Ancestral Spirit Realm came to a halt, and the giant rhomboid eye stopped expanding.
"Alright."
Lang Wan the God King looked at Qin Mu and said, "Now you can enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm. However, Shu Jun cannot enter. He is not the Holy Infant and does not have this qualification. Shu Jun the God King, won't you come out?"
Qin Mu's vertical brow eye opened, and Shu Jun's large head, covered in messy hair, flew out angrily from Qin Mu's brow. He fumed, "What kind of logic is this? A non-Creator can enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm, but a God King who is a Creator cannot?"
Qin Mu comforted him, "God King, rest assured. If I obtain the inheritance of the Creator race, I will also pass it on to you."
Lang Wan the God King shook her head and said, "He does not have this qualification. The prehistoric God King is no longer a God King. Moreover, the Creator race's defeat is greatly related to him... Let's go!"
She held Qin Mu in her hand and flew higher and higher, heading toward the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
In the sky, the giant rhomboid eye suddenly rolled, as if watching them. Then a beam of light shone down, and Qin Mu and Lang Wan the God King instantly vanished from the Other Shore!
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