Chapter 974: Song of the Twin Serpents, 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." Thần Vương Lãng Uyển continued.
Tần Mục had been somewhat uneasy just moments ago, but upon hearing these words, he immediately perked up with renewed vigor.
"During these two days, you will remain here. I will instruct you in the combat arts of visualization."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển said: "Though two days is a short time, I believe that with the wisdom of the Holy Infant, you can basically master the visualization combat arts. Ideally, you should be able to combine visualization with your own vital energy."
Tần Mục was gaunt and skeletal, worried that his blood energy and divine consciousness might not keep up. He quickly took out the Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch (Primordial Chaos Essence Liquid), flicked a single drop into his Linh Thai Thần Tàng (Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury) to replenish his vital energy and divine consciousness.
Seeing this, Thần Vương Lãng Uyển frowned slightly and said: "Are you helping Thúc Quân Thần Vương restore his physical body?"
Tần Mục nodded.
"Thúc Quân Thần Vương is already old, outdated, and stubbornly self-opinionated. There is no need to save him."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển said: "If you cannot bear to do it, I can help you eliminate him. Refining him to death would be quite easy."
Inside the primordial stone, Thúc Quân flew into a rage, cursing Thần Vương Lãng Uyển for being ruthless and heartless, not considering their kinship as fellow clansmen.
Tần Mục shook his head and said: "I promised Thúc Quân that I would help him restore his mind, and I will definitely do it. Thần Vương, if I were a person who breaks his promises, would you still feel at ease trusting me?"
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển thought for a moment, then shook her head.
Tần Mục's complexion recovered somewhat, and he retained two or three-tenths of his divine consciousness to ensure he could activate his divine consciousness divine abilities.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển circulated her divine consciousness and slowly visualized. A rune gradually appeared before her, transitioning from void to substance, slowly becoming clear.
Tần Mục followed her step by step, learning bit by bit, also attempting to visualize runes with his divine consciousness.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển taught very carefully, and Tần Mục learned extremely quickly. What Thần Vương Lãng Uyển taught him were all basic runes — in this regard, Tần Mục was himself a great expert, so he could easily get the hang of it.
In fact, he could even point out Thần Vương Lãng Uyển's shortcomings and complete her runes.
The Creator race often used divine consciousness to instill their knowledge into their descendants. However, this method had a drawback: it was difficult to discover the errors of predecessors.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển discarded this approach and instead used the most clumsy method — teaching Tần Mục hand by hand, rather than directly instilling knowledge.
She also wanted Tần Mục to point out her deficiencies.
Regarding basic runes, although the Creators had done some research, they had been in the Other Shore World for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and had spent even longer in the Great Void, with very little exchange with the outside world. They could only secretly learn the runes of Vô Ưu Hương (Worry-Free Village). Therefore, their attainments in runes were not as good as Tần Mục's.
However, their attainments in divine consciousness divine abilities were far beyond what Tần Mục could reach.
Although Thần Vương Lãng Uyển was said to be teaching him, in reality, the two were learning from each other.
Time passed quickly. Before they knew it, a day had gone by, and Tần Mục could already skillfully visualize various basic runes. With a single thought, his divine consciousness would construct the runes.
Moreover, he discovered that runes formed by combining divine consciousness with vital energy were far more formidable — several times more powerful than runes formed by either vital energy or divine consciousness alone!
In the Thanh Vũ Điện (Green Feather Hall), Thần Vương Lãng Uyển moved with graceful elegance, visualizing a green serpent. She stood atop the serpent's head as the great snake lunged forward, battling Tần Mục.
Meanwhile, Tần Mục also stood atop a white serpent he had visualized, manifesting various divine abilities to resist her attacks, fusing all the Dao techniques and divine abilities he had learned before with visualization to strengthen their power.
The two unleashed their visualization divine abilities — a wave of the hand brought heavenly flowers raining down, a single stroke caused starfields to erupt. With a thought of divine consciousness, heavenly fire descended, flames burning the world. Another thought, and meteors fell from the sky, mountains shaking and earth quaking.
They visualized one gate after another, each gate containing a world. The green and white great serpents carried them through the gates, shuttling between the visualized worlds, climbing high mountains, crossing vast oceans, traversing glaciers and great marshes, appearing and disappearing mysteriously.
In the end, the green and white serpents intertwined their tails, their bodies coiling, causing their figures to rise higher and higher, drawing closer and closer. Various visualization divine abilities danced around them, transforming into countless phenomena, constantly colliding and annihilating!
Tần Mục's visualization divine abilities changed in a thousand ways, merging visualization with the great Dao of the ancient gods and with the acquired great Dao. His methods were so numerous that even Thần Vương Lãng Uyển found her eyes dazzled.
The entangled green and white serpents brought their figures ever closer, and their divine ability collisions grew ever more intense.
Finally, they were within arm's reach. The two coiling great serpents made them seem like two stars revolving around each other. Their exchanges became even more ferocious, divine abilities emerging without end.
Suddenly, a flower bud was visualized in Tần Mục's hand. That flower slowly bloomed, resplendent in purple and red, utterly enchanting.
The petals were numerous, unfolding outward layer by layer. The stamen extended, its fragrance wafting through the air.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển spotted an opening and raised her hand, pointing at the center of Tần Mục's brow, her divine consciousness invading his body.
But at that moment, the delicate, gorgeous flower was presented before her. Tần Mục smiled and said: "A gift for you."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển was momentarily stunned. She withdrew her finger and retracted her divine consciousness, saying calmly: "This is a sparring match. I wanted to test your cultivation over these two days, yet you were distracted. You disappoint me."
She took the gorgeous flower from Tần Mục's hand, turned around, and brought it to her lips to sniff. The sweet fragrance penetrated deep into her heart.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển revealed a faint smile, stepping barefoot down from the green serpent's head. Her voice drifted over: "Don't do that again in the future... Why aren't you following? It's almost time for the Grand Sacrifice."
Tần Mục quickly leaped down from the white serpent's head and followed her footsteps.
Behind them, the green and white serpents remained intertwined in tender embrace. After a moment, they separated, their necks entwined as they swam into the forest of the Thanh Vũ Điện.
Tần Mục arrived before the pool of Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch and took out several jade bottles, intending to fill some of the liquid. Seeing this, Thần Vương Lãng Uyển shook her head and said: "Your bottles are too small. How much can they hold? I sense the aura of the Hồ Thiên Bình (Gourd Sky Bottle) of the Tàng Sơn clan on you. Use the Hồ Thiên Bình to fill some."
Tần Mục took out the Hồ Thiên Bình that the chieftain of the Tàng Sơn clan had gifted him. Inside this bottle was a complete universe, its internal space vast and boundless — not to mention holding a pool of water, even a starfield would be no problem!
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển waved her hand, and the pool decreased by one-tenth. That one-tenth of Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch flew into the Hồ Thiên Bình.
"That much?"
Tần Mục's heart pounded wildly. He had originally only planned to take a few bottles of Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch, but he never expected Thần Vương Lãng Uyển to gift him one-tenth of the pool.
"You leave the hall first."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển glanced at him and said: "I will come shortly to preside over the Grand Sacrifice."
Tần Mục acknowledged and walked toward the exit of the hall.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển watched him walk far away, then gracefully approached the pool's edge. She tossed the flower in her hand 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 by the mind wither easily, but planted here, constantly nourished, they will bloom forever."
Tần Mục arrived outside the Thanh Vũ Điện and saw that the various Creator clans had already prepared altar after altar. Hundreds of Creators surrounded each altar, light blazing from the centers of their brows, gathering everyone's sacrificial power into a shimmering liquid light at the depression in the center of the altar.
Beams of pure light shot straight up from the altar centers, piercing into the sky.
The number of altars was enormous — as many as three to five thousand. Three to five thousand beams of light surged into the void, causing the void to constantly churn, and even a crimson hue appeared in the sky.
Judging by this scene, they had probably left only a few Creators behind to guard against a counterattack from Vô Ưu Hương. Everyone else had gathered here to hold this Grand Sacrifice!
Tần Mục had not expected that opening the Ancestral Spirit Realm would involve such a magnificent spectacle!
He looked back and saw that behind the Thanh Vũ Điện, a giant diamond-shaped vertical eye was slowly rising. That was the Ancestral Spirit Realm, summoned from the void by this Grand Sacrifice, growing larger and rising higher.
This world was formed from the combination of Thái Sơ Nguyên Thạch (Primordial Beginning Origin Stone) and the divine consciousness of the Creators who had died here. In the past, it hid within the void, impossible to find. Only when a Creator died would their divine consciousness sense the call of the Ancestral Spirit Realm, summoning them there to become surging divine consciousness within it, preserved forever, silently guarding the Other Shore World.
Tần Mục steadied himself and searched for the Tử Lê clan chieftain, Tằm Nữ. He finally found that female Creator — she too was leading the Tử Lê clansmen in sacrifice, pulling the Ancestral Spirit Realm out of the void.
Tần Mục's heart leaped with joy. He immediately flew over and floated before this majestic female Creator, smiling: "Chieftain, I got the Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch!"
Tằm Nữ's divine consciousness rippled, seeming quite strained. She said irritably: "Why have you come? This Grand Sacrifice is about to succeed. Go back quickly and prepare to enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm!"
Tần Mục smiled: "I promised to get you some Hỗn Nguyên Nguyên Dịch. Where is your clan's sacred object, the Thất Hồn Thảo (Seven Soul Grass)?"
Tằm Nữ said hurriedly: "I cannot be distracted right now. Holy Infant, summoning the Ancestral Spirit Realm is a momentous matter. Go back quickly, or the Thần Vương will scold me again!"
Tần Mục was about to say more when suddenly a surge of divine consciousness swept over him, rolling him up. The next moment, Tần Mục was back before the Thanh Vũ Điện, with Thần Vương Lãng Uyển beside him.
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển had now resumed her true form as a Creator — extremely majestic — and was looking up at the sky. The Ancestral Spirit Realm had risen very high, and the diamond-shaped eye in the sky was growing larger and larger, gradually revealing the scene within.
Inside the Ancestral Spirit Realm, it seemed as if countless brain-like waves of light were constantly flowing, extremely peculiar.
Finally, a rumbling tremor came from the heavens. The Ancestral Spirit Realm came to a halt, and that giant diamond-shaped eye stopped expanding.
"Good."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển looked at Tần Mục and said: "Now you may enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm. However, Thúc Quân cannot go in. He is not the Holy Infant and does not have this qualification. Thúc Quân Thần Vương, will you not come out?"
Tần Mục's vertical eye on his brow opened wide, and Thúc Quân's big head with its messy, disheveled hair flew out from between Tần Mục's brows in a huff, angrily saying: "Those who are not Creators can enter the Ancestral Spirit Realm, yet I, a Thần Vương of the Creators, cannot? What kind of reasoning is this?"
Tần Mục comforted him: "Thần Vương, rest assured. If I obtain the inheritance of the Creator race, I will also pass it on to you."
Thần Vương Lãng Uyển shook her head: "He does not have this qualification. A Thần Vương of ancient times is no longer a Thần Vương, especially since the defeat of the Creator race had much to do with him... Let's go!"
She held Tần Mục in her hand, flying higher and higher, toward the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
In the sky, that giant diamond-shaped eye suddenly rolled once, as if watching them. Then a beam of light shone down, and Tần Mục and Thần Vương Lãng Uyển vanished from the Other Shore World!
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