Chapter 931 — At the Road's End, an Immortal Bridge Is Raised
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Yun Jianli and Yun Chuxiu were quietly taking Shen Mu's measure; Shen Mu, for his part, had long been studying Yun Jianli with the third eye at the center of his brow, yet had made no move all the while.
Yan'er and the Dragon Qilin were puzzled as well. Shen Mu had gone a long stretch without a word, without any other movement, as though he had turned to stone.
Little did they know that Shen Mu was comprehending the method Shu Jun had imparted to him, attempting to cultivate his own divine consciousness with the aid of the Primeval Stone.
In the language of the present day, this wondrous secret for tempering divine consciousness handed down by the Creators ought to be called the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception. It uses the Primeval Stone to visualize the Supreme Palace Enclosure.
Shen Mu had assumed the arts of the Creators must be simple and crude. Yet to his surprise, the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception proved exceedingly intricate.
This art of divine consciousness is cultivated by visualizing the forms of the ancient stellar gods. Within the Primeval Stone, the divine consciousness condenses twenty stellar mansions and seventy-eight Ancient God Star Lords, which together constitute the Supreme Palace Enclosure and kindle the space of the Primeval Stone.
So long as one cultivates in this way, one's divine consciousness grows ever mightier.
Yet as Shen Mu savored it in fine detail, he felt the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception could illuminate only a portion of the Primeval Stone. It must be but the fragment of a single art, not a complete one.
Clearly Shu Jun had still held something back, and had not passed on to him the complete method for cultivating divine consciousness.
"The methods by which we cultivate divine consciousness may not suit you; after all, our races are different," said Shu Jun. "Besides, your divine consciousness is still weak. For the moment you cannot undo the great bloodline curse on this youth. You will need to cultivate for a time."
Brimming with confidence, Shen Mu at once roused the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception. "I have an Overlord Body. I will surely be able to cultivate it!"
Shu Jun was astonished. "An Overlord Body? What manner of race is the Overlord Body?"
Shen Mu did not answer. On the altar of the Primeval Stone, that great ball of flesh rolled once, its two flaps of meat parting to either side, to reveal a single enormous eyeball that looked all around.
In the space of the Primeval Stone, suffused with red light, stars abruptly kindled one after another, adorning that space, and in no time twenty stellar mansions took shape.
"This boy's comprehension is not bad. But lighting the twenty mansions of the Supreme Palace Enclosure is easy; visualizing the seventy-eight true gods within those twenty mansions is the hard part. I never gave him the visualization charts..."
No sooner had the great eyeball thought this than its eyelid gave a violent twitch. The starlight grew brighter and brighter, and countless motes of vital essence came swarming in, mingling with Shen Mu's divine consciousness!
"This is not the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception I taught him! The wretch has altered the method I passed on to him..."
Scarcely had the thought formed when Shen Mu's vital essence joined with his divine consciousness to shape runes of the Great Way of every kind!
The great eyeball flew into a rage and nearly leapt up. It sneered, "Little brat, you dare tamper with the arts of my clan—when something goes wrong, you will die without even knowing how!"
Just then, in the space of the Primeval Stone, the phantom of an ancient stellar god surfaced. It was Lord Silu, the Ancient God of Emoluments, of the Three Excellencies constellation!
The great eyeball was startled, and in that instant it understood: Shen Mu was using the knowledge of his own age to fill the gaps in the Supreme Palace Enclosure Perception.