Chapter 1588 — The Art of Proving the Dao
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Whether the Great Emperor's death would drag Yun Tianzun down with him—even Shen Mu could not be certain. To die in the Ultimate Void—even Shen Mu could not revive them, for both body and soul would be completely voided, impossible to recall.
Moreover, how to extract Taichu's companion supreme treasure was also a colossal problem.
This sword was hidden within the Dao Tree. Never mind cutting open the Dao Tree to retrieve the Imperial Sword—Kaihuang, Xiao Tianzun, and the others could not even scratch the bark of the Dao Tree!
He could not help but feel a great headache. The current Great Emperor, with his Dao Tree rooted in the Imperial Sword and himself borrowing the Heavenly Emperor's physical body, could be said to have no flaw at all!
The only flaw, perhaps, was the Primordial Rune that Shen Mu had hidden within the Heavenly Emperor's physical body!
"Yun, teach me the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness that you have comprehended!
" Shen Mu's eyes glittered with sharp light as he lowered his voice. "If there is a change, you must obtain that holy sword.
It absolutely must not fall into Xiao Tianzun's hands!
" Yun Tianzun nodded silently. His divine consciousness rippled, transmitting to Shen Mu the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness he had comprehended and completed. Instantly, an incomparably complex and wondrous cultivation method appeared in Shen Mu's mind.
He had studied the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness before, relying on refining the Great Emperor's divine consciousness and stripping from it the memories pertaining to the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness, thereby obtaining fragments of the method. Afterward, Shen Mu had used his own intellect to complete it, and further fused it with the later Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace systems, combining it with his own Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury, and only then had he cultivated it successfully.
But the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness he had patched together was itself based on fragments, inferior to the Great Emperor's, and moreover his divine consciousness cultivation was far below the Great Emperor's. Thus every time he encountered Qiang Tianfei or the Great Emperor's physical body, he could not use his divine consciousness to contend with them. The Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness Yun Tianzun transmitted to him, however, was the method the Great Emperor had developed after combining it with the later Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace systems, and it contained Yun Tianzun's own insights, filling in the method's deficiencies, making it even more complete than what the Great Emperor had learned and comprehended!
He had further combined the flawless Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness he had comprehended with his own Zixiao Biluo Art, merging it into the Zixiao Biluo Art, walking out a unique path of his own. "This is a Dao-attaining method! " Shen Mu could not help but admire Yun Tianzun even more, thinking to himself: "Suppressed for hundreds of thousands of years, yet still able to turn circumstances to his advantage, transforming disadvantage into advantage, borrowing the Great Emperor's path to Dao-attainment to comprehend his own path to Dao-attainment—his natural talent is truly no less than mine!
" Yun Tianzun and the Great Emperor had fought each other for hundreds of thousands of years. First, Yun Tianzun had schemed, using the chaotic divine consciousness formed by the deaths of a million Creators and Ling Tianzun's incomplete Unchanging Divine Art to slay the Great Emperor's physical body, trapping it within the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain of the Void of Grand Emptiness.