Chapter 976: Divine Ability Enters the Dao, Eighth Heaven (Third Update!)
Countless streams of information surged into Qin Mu's mind. It was the knowledge of the Creator race, vast and complex, from their very beginnings to the present day. An endless sea of knowledge filled his memory in an instant!
He perceived the joy of the Creators when they first touched the Primeval Divine Stones, their delight when they used their divine consciousness to visualize an object, and their excitement when they pioneered the crude divine abilities of consciousness.
He also perceived the great joy of creation. He watched as Creators crafted the myriad things of the world, created nature, transformed it, built towering mountains and great rivers, strolled through the seas, and walked among the clouds. He could feel their state of mind as they did these things.
They had their own unique insights into nature and the universe, a feeling of closeness to all things in heaven and earth.
He could also feel the state of mind of the Creators fighting on the battlefield. War drums thundered, lightning crashed, blood boiled and burned. The Creators on the battlefield freely vented their destructive desires, making one's blood race, eager to immediately engage in three hundred rounds of combat.
He also felt the delicate, spring-breeze-and-rain-like mentality of the Creators. They could visualize and create suns, moons, and stars, and also the most beautiful flowers. The finest, most intricate textures of the flowers were meticulously carved and depicted by them.
He felt the Creators' joy, and also their sorrow.
Wars between their own kind, the death of their people, the withering of a life, even the wilting of a flower—all these would make them sad, bringing tears to the eyes of these rough, giant men.
Visualization and creation were the daily routines of these giants. War, destruction, and slaughter were also their daily routines.
He could also feel their various comprehensions—comprehensions of divine consciousness, comprehensions of creation.
All kinds of information surged into his mind, transforming into vast, complex knowledge. Qin Mu felt as if he had experienced millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions or billions of years in an instant, witnessing the changes of the world, the rise and fall of civilizations.
He was still himself, but he had witnessed too many things, gained too much knowledge, too many insights, too many divine abilities of consciousness.
Lang Wan Divine King stood beside him, watching the light continuously surge from the First Spirit Realm into Qin Mu's brow, a hint of envy in her heart.
After an unknown amount of time, the stream of light flowing towards Qin Mu gradually dimmed. This transmission of knowledge was finally coming to an end.
The First Spirit Realm returned to calm.
The twenty-seven First Spirits still stood in the red light, motionless, but their gazes fell upon Qin Mu.
The light in Qin Mu's brow slowly dissipated, but he did not wake up.
Suddenly, the light of his third eye in his brow began to brighten. The light of his divine consciousness grew increasingly brilliant. Not only that, but they also felt waves of powerful energy fluctuations coming from within Qin Mu's body, as energy and divine consciousness merged and intertwined.
Beneath Qin Mu's feet, the Embryonic Divine Treasure Domain suddenly spread out. The starry sky rose up, covering thousands of miles of the First Spirit Realm. Stars moved along their unique orbits, forming a galaxy.
The galaxy flowed around Lang Wan Divine King and the twenty-seven First Spirits, converging into a sky.
The figure of Celestial Lord Qin Mu appeared in the sky.
The Primeval Tree stood lush and green, rising straight up to the Milky Way. Beneath the Taiji Diagram of the Embryonic Divine Treasure was a patch of darkness—that was Youdu, unfathomably deep.
The Taiji Diagram slowly rotated. Numerous celestial palaces were scattered, floating in the sky and underground, some even floating on the Taiji Diagram.
Lang Wan Divine King and the twenty-seven First Spirits saw the phantom images of ancient gods. These ancient gods were each in their own positions, performing their own duties, jointly guarding Qin Mu's divine treasure.
Lang Wan Divine King showed a surprised expression. The divine treasure and celestial palaces that Qin Mu displayed overturned her understanding of the divine treasure and celestial palace cultivation system.
Qin Mu's divine treasure actually encompassed the celestial palaces!
This was completely different from the divine beings of Carefree Village!
The celestial palaces of the divine beings in Carefree Village were built above the divine treasures.
Furthermore, Qin Mu only had one divine treasure, while the people of Carefree Village had seven!
Another peculiarity was that the number of Qin Mu's celestial palaces was also wrong. Most divine beings in Carefree Village only had one celestial palace, while Qin Mu had as many as fourteen, though many of them were incomplete.
Just then, within Qin Mu's Embryonic Divine Treasure, a fifteenth celestial palace was rapidly forming!
"Opening a celestial palace?"
Lang Wan Divine King's eyes flickered as she carefully studied how Qin Mu was opening this new celestial palace. She thought to herself, "This might be very useful for our Creator race. Back then, countless Creators died trying to open the Divine Consciousness Celestial Palace..."
At that time, when the Opening Emperor established Carefree Village, Lang Wan Divine King led an attack on it. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Lang Wan Divine King keenly realized that if the Creator race could not accept the divine treasure and celestial palace cultivation system, they would surely be no match for Carefree Village, and the gap would only widen over time.
So she decisively ordered everyone to accept the divine treasure and celestial palace cultivation system. However, they knew nothing about how to open divine treasures and celestial palaces. Fortunately, they were Creators and had captured many divine beings from Carefree Village.
Obtaining the memories of these divine beings was easy for them.
But knowing was one thing; opening them was another.
Back then, countless Creators lost their lives in the failed attempts to open the seven divine treasures and celestial palaces. The number of Creators who died in these failures was even greater than those who died in the Battle of Carefree Village!
After countless failures, they finally mastered the divine treasure and celestial palace cultivation system.
The seven divine treasures and celestial palaces they opened were still different from the system of Carefree Village. Carefree Village followed the Divine Dao system, while they followed the Divine Consciousness Divine Treasure and Divine Consciousness Celestial Palace system!
Now, Qin Mu was showing them another system. Although it was derived from the divine treasure and celestial palace cultivation system, it was more advanced, even more advanced than their divine consciousness system!
"Divine King, what is he doing?" a First Spirit's divine consciousness fluctuated, asking.
Lang Wan Divine King carefully observed the celestial palace Qin Mu was opening. "He is comprehending a divine consciousness technique at the Emperor Throne level... It should be the Supreme Divine Consciousness of the Grand Supreme Emperor!"
She couldn't help but be surprised.
Qin Mu was actually modifying the Grand Supreme Emperor's Supreme Divine Consciousness!
What audacity!
What she didn't know was that the Supreme Divine Consciousness Qin Mu had obtained was only a fragment, missing the techniques for several divine treasures, and many techniques for the celestial palace realm were also missing. Therefore, Qin Mu had never been able to form a Divine Consciousness Celestial Palace.
But now, having obtained the knowledge base of the Creator race, his own knowledge base in divine consciousness was unparalleled in the world! No second person could match it!
Even the Grand Supreme Emperor might have more refined knowledge in divine consciousness, but he certainly didn't have as much!
With this knowledge base, completing the missing parts of the Supreme Divine Consciousness was a natural progression for Qin Mu!
After all, the Grand Supreme Emperor was the creator of this technique; Qin Mu was just filling in the gaps, which wasn't too difficult.
This Divine Consciousness Grand Supreme Celestial Palace grew increasingly thick and majestic, showing a tendency to overshadow the other celestial palaces. However, Qin Mu's main celestial palace was even more magnificent, always firmly suppressing the Grand Supreme Celestial Palace, not allowing it to usurp the leading role.
As the Grand Supreme Celestial Palace formed, Qin Mu's aura grew even stronger.
But the changes continued.
Lang Wan Divine King and the twenty-seven First Spirits immediately sensed a wondrous aura emanating from him. They seemed to hear a marvelous rhythm—the low hum of the Dao.
Qin Mu wore a faint smile, as if he had entered an indescribable, ineffable wondrous state.
He was executing divine abilities. The rhythm of the Dao turned into dancing notes between his fingers and palms. The combination of energy and divine consciousness, the foundation and knowledge of the Creator race, and his own insights into Dao techniques and divine abilities—all of this coalesced into a Dao realm at this moment.
Divine Ability Enters the Dao!
The divine abilities of consciousness and the Dao techniques of energy perfectly merged at this moment. Under his hands, it transformed into the First Heaven of Divine Consciousness Entering the Dao.
He raised one palm, and his energy and divine consciousness formed the Forty-Nine Heavenly Dao, hanging high like the sky. He pressed down with one palm, and his energy and divine consciousness formed the Thirty-Six Primordial Capital Dao. Heaven was round, earth was square. The Heavenly Dao and the Primordial Capital Dao belonged to different systems, but under the connection of divine consciousness and energy, they perfectly combined.
Where the different Daos of heaven and earth merged, four smooth arcs formed. On those four surfaces, four different divine and demonic faces appeared—one angry, one joyful, one sorrowful, one happy.
This was the First Heaven of his divine ability, the Heaven-Earth Four Venerables Seal!
After forming this great divine ability of entering the Dao, Qin Mu felt that he still hadn't fully expressed his feelings. Another divine ability was about to burst forth.
He was still in a state of enlightenment. The Second Heaven of Divine Ability Entering the Dao quickly formed!
A gate took shape behind him, connecting heaven and earth. The Sixty-Four Youdu Daos and the Forty-Nine Heavenly Daos combined into a unique divine ability.
This gate was different from the Gate of Bearing Heaven. The Gate of Bearing Heaven was Youdu Bearing Heaven, not truly connected to Xuandu. His gate was a divine ability formed by blending the Forty-Nine Heavenly Daos of Xuandu and the Sixty-Four Daos of Youdu.
The Second Heaven of the divine ability, the Heaven-Earth Mysterious Gate.
After executing this divine ability, he still felt he hadn't fully expressed his feelings or poured out the insights in his heart.
The Third Heaven of Divine Ability Entering the Dao formed, the River of Heaven Surveying the Four Poles.
The Third Heaven still couldn't fully and freely unfold his knowledge base. So Qin Mu comprehended the Fourth Heaven of the divine ability, Gathering Perfection on the Grand Supreme Heaven!
He was immersed in the wondrous realm of enlightenment. Unknowingly, he comprehended the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Heavens of Divine Ability Entering the Dao...
Lang Wan Divine King and the twenty-seven First Spirits stared blankly at this scene, their hearts filled with both horror and shock.
They knew that the knowledge base of the First Spirit Realm was not enough for Qin Mu to comprehend so many divine abilities of entering the Dao. At most, it could allow him to comprehend divine abilities of consciousness and let his consciousness enter the Dao. How many heavens of divine consciousness entering the Dao he could comprehend would depend on his own enlightenment.
But they hadn't expected that Qin Mu already harbored the ancient god Dao runes accumulated over a million years by the Heavenly Court's Dao Sect. Although he hadn't fully comprehended all the ancient god Dao runes in these years, nor used the Taiwei Calculation Classic to complete all the Dao runes, his knowledge accumulation in this area was not much less than the divine consciousness knowledge accumulated by the First Spirit Realm!
He had always been on the verge of Divine Ability Entering the Dao, like a great volcano with endless heat and fury hidden beneath, just waiting for an opportunity to erupt.
The influx of the First Spirit Realm's knowledge into his mind was like injecting more heat and fury into this volcano about to erupt. Naturally, it was a case of a single day breaking through the storm, shaking heaven and earth with its majesty!
He merged divine consciousness and energy, fusing the two types of knowledge into one, into a single furnace. It was truly like the surging river descending from the sky, flowing all the way, freely and unrestrainedly.
Finally, after creating the Eighth Heaven of Divine Ability Entering the Dao, Qin Mu woke from his enlightenment.
His knowledge base wasn't exhausted, but the combination of divine consciousness and Dao runes had encountered a bottleneck.
————Third update arrives! The big-headed monster infant Qin Fengqing, putting down the Creator he was about to eat, said excitedly: "Finally, it's my turn to appear... Beg for monthly votes!"