Chapter 1301: Twenty-Four Levels of the Dao Realm
In the thirtieth layer of the void, Qin Mu strode through the emptiness at leisure, freely expressing himself, transforming the insights and realizations he had accumulated over the years into divine abilities.
"Unchanging heaven and earth's intent, from the Guixu comes a single breath of life! Self and other both forgotten, the Great Dao arises from the Ancestral Court!"
The forgetting of self and other transformed in his hands into the thirteenth level of divine abilities, and then the Dao arising from the Ancestral Court became the fourteenth level!
"Creation and transformation, the age of ignorance opens!"
He unified the Dao of creation and transformation into a single great divine ability. His creation ability was like a great bell—one ring of the bell, and creation's spirit shone forth, accompanied by the lingering resonance of the Dao arising from the Ancestral Court, causing all things to flourish.
"The Dao of divine consciousness leads the way!"
His fifteenth level of divine abilities used divine consciousness as the Dao. In the ancient Ancestral Court, the primordial people were still ignorant. Although heaven and earth had already been created, they had not yet comprehended the laws and divine abilities.
At this time, divine consciousness led the way. The Creator race's ancestors used divine consciousness to create things. His move of divine consciousness leading the way carried the vast and boundless feeling of the ancient era.
"Longhan, however, contended!"
Qin Mu unleashed one divine ability after another, as if he had crossed from the wild and savage ancient era into the Longhan era. Longhan's contention, where Dao laws and divine abilities bloomed like a hundred flowers, each vying for beauty—though magnificent and grand, it was also filled with bloody struggle!
"Chiming's divine body perfected, Shanghuang's human Dao accomplished!"
As these two great divine abilities were unleashed, Qin Mu's primordial spirit and physical body expanded, striding across the thirtieth void with three heads and six arms, like a giant who split heaven and earth apart.
And Shanghuang's human Dao accomplished was inherited from the Shanghuang era's philosophy that human life is greater than heaven. The heroes of humanity bore suffering, blazing trails through hardship, advancing with difficulty, struggling against heaven and earth, struggling against injustice, refusing to admit defeat, refusing to yield, never giving up—all of that spirit and resolve was contained within this single move.
"Kaihuang opened the path of the post-heaven, Yankang came to contend!"
His heart surged with passion. The Kaihuang era's path of attaining the Dao through the post-heaven method, the tribulations and struggles of Yankang—all transformed into the divine abilities in his hands.
He stood in the thirtieth void, as if standing at the highest point of the world. Here, unleashing divine abilities that encompassed the great spirit of the ages, everything flowed naturally and smoothly.
As this great divine ability was unleashed, Qin Mu's bold and heroic divine abilities, aura, and momentum suddenly converged and became restrained.
His divine abilities became obscure, his palm movements slowed, and the Dao runes became fragmented. Having continuously created so many great divine abilities, his divine abilities had reached the twenty-first level of entering the Dao, which had basically exhausted the accumulation of these years.
But he still had feelings to express, insights to organize.
The speed of his divine ability execution grew slower and slower. Gradually, divine abilities containing the Dao of Taisu were unleashed, and then he attempted to create divine abilities of the Dao of Taiji and the Dao of Taishi.
"Taisu suddenly opens the chaos bud, Taiji evolves yin and yang!"
"Taishi's form and substance question the azure void!"
As Qin Mu unleashed his final move, he suddenly felt his mind go completely empty, his divine abilities and Dao laws unable to continue. He immediately woke from the state of entering the Dao.
He was in the thirtieth void. Now that he was awake, the powerful force of the void immediately crushed down upon him. Qin Mu's physical body began to rapidly dematerialize, his flesh cracking and disintegrating.
He made a decisive decision and immediately fled from the thirtieth void!
This was the first time he had gone so deep into the void, and he felt somewhat puzzled and confused: "Strange, how did I end up here? The thirtieth void is not a place I should be able to reach..."
He rapidly retreated to the twenty-ninth void, but the power of the void was still incomparably strong, making it impossible for his physical body to withstand.
If he still had the Taichu Primal Stone from before, his divine consciousness could barely reach this place, but he couldn't stay long. Now, without the Taichu Primal Stone, his divine consciousness was far weaker than before—there was no way he should have been able to reach such a dangerous place!
If he had been awake, he would never have taken such a risk, using his own life to charge into such a high layer of the void. But when he was in a state of enlightenment, he had no such concerns.
The moment he retreated from the thirtieth void to the twenty-ninth void, he looked up, trying to see deeper into the void, but he couldn't see anything. He felt a sense of regret.
"I wonder what's actually in the Ultimate Void..."
He retreated from the twenty-ninth void to the twenty-eighth void, which felt somewhat better, but the twenty-eighth void was the limit of his divine consciousness, and his physical body wasn't that strong either.
Without the Taichu Primal Stone, the weakening of both his divine consciousness and physical body was indeed significant.
Qin Mu retreated down through layer after layer of the void. When he reached the twenty-third void, the damage to his physical body finally dropped to freezing point.
He wiped cold sweat from his forehead. Coming to the thirtieth void in a daze had been far too dangerous.
Now that the danger was resolved, he immediately began to savor what he had gained from entering the Dao.
Since the last time he was inspired by Xu Shenghua to enter the Dao and comprehend the ninth level of divine abilities—the Void Form Guest Taiji—his accumulation had grown increasingly profound. His understanding of the Dao of Taiji, the Dao of Taisu, the Dao of Taishi, and the Dao of Taichu had become more and more exquisite.
His knowledge of the ancient, Longhan, Chiming, Shanghuang, and Kaihuang eras had also grown. In the end, both history and his understanding of the Dao transformed into his unique divine abilities during this entry into the Dao.
"From the ninth level of divine abilities, leaping all the way to the twenty-fourth level—I can say my cultivation in the Dao realm has directly reached the level of the twenty-fourth layer."
Qin Mu sighed with emotion. This time, entering the Dao, the benefits brought to him by the Taishi Primal Stone were truly too great.
However, the last three levels were not complete.
Taisu suddenly opens the chaos bud!
Taiji evolves yin and yang!
Taishi's form and substance question the azure void!
His accumulation for these three levels was still insufficient, not enough to reach the level of complete levels. All three great divine abilities were incomplete.
In truth, when he had created these three great divine abilities, he had already felt immense difficulty, with no knowledge base to draw upon. But at that time, he was in a state of enlightenment, like an arrow already nocked on the string—he had to release it.
These three levels of divine abilities each grew more powerful than the last. He still needed to continue perfecting and refining them, otherwise it would greatly affect whether he could cross into the thirty-sixth level in the future.
He strolled leisurely through the void, walking toward the direction of the Great Dark Wood, casually waving his hands, unleashing his divine abilities one by one, admiring the levels of divine abilities he had created.
"I wonder—does the twenty-fourth level of the Dao realm correspond to which level in the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system?"
He was very curious. Compared to the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system, the Dao realm had many ambiguous areas in terms of cultivation levels, making it difficult to distinguish combat power.
"Strangely enough, gods and demons who cultivate the Heavenly Palace system can also cultivate the Dao realm. That's equivalent to adding two cultivation systems together. For example, Kaihuang—his cultivation level was the Heavenly Palace level, but his Dao realm reached the thirty-fourth level, making him someone who could contend with the Heavenly Venerables."
The Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system focused on magical power and strength, while the Dao realm system focused on comprehension of the Dao. The two complemented each other perfectly.
This was Kaihuang's reform and development of the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace system, and his contribution was so great that it was not even inferior to Yu Tianzun!
"Unfortunately, both are outdated."
Qin Mu shrugged his shoulders. In the future, what would truly be powerful was the Great Ancestral Court Dao Law system created by Lan Yutian. The Heavenly Palace system and the Dao realm system would both be just parts of it!
"And now is the most glorious era of the Divine Treasury Heavenly Palace and Dao realm systems—and also their final swan song! When Lan Yutian achieves greatness, a magnificent revolution will sweep through all of this like a great flood, overturning everything!"
Qin Mu looked down, and the magnificent landscape of the Ancestral Court came into view: "So, how should Lan Yutian and Yu Tianzun be handled? Should Lan Yutian's remnant soul be recovered, turning him into Yu Tianzun..."
At this moment, he saw ten thousand beasts stampeding in the Ancestral Court, extremely lively. Zu Shenwang was beating up Heavenly Duke, Earth Mother, and Earth Mother Yuanjun.
"Why are they fighting?"
Qin Mu was puzzled but decided not to get involved. His gaze fell on the seventeenth void, where Dragon Qilin and the Void Mother Beast were trembling in fear.