Chapter 1136: The Celestial Shepherd Attempts to Splinter the Ancient God Egg

In the dream world, Qin Mu repeatedly entered dreams and experienced countless failures, gradually deciphering Ling Tianzun's Material Unchanging divine art.

This divine art progressively became more complete.

Learning this divine art was already extremely difficult, making it clear how extraordinary Ling Tianzun's talent must have been to comprehend it in the first place! No wonder Yu Tianzun once said that in terms of aptitude and comprehension, Ling Tianzun was unsurpassed, and even he was inferior to her.

However, Qin Mu discovered a more severe truth: after completely activating the Material Unchanging divine art, he himself would transform into unchanging material!

This meant the divine art led to a terrifying outcome: the user would be assimilated by the divine art, becoming unchanging material and unable to escape this state!

He entered dreams repeatedly, trying again and again, but each time the result was the same: the Qin Mu in his dreams transformed into unchanging material, becoming a mass of mist!

The mist on the Surging River was Ling Tianzun herself. After activating this divine art, Ling Tianzun was assimilated into unchanging material, trapped within the Unchanging divine art, unable to escape. Of course, when she transformed into unchanging material, she also dragged in the reincarnation of the Grand Emperor at that time, the Eleventh Celestial Venerable Ming Fangyu.

Celestial Venerable Ming Fangyu was controlling the true body of the Celestial Emperor, which led to the Ten Celestial Venerables having to use the Creation Divine Artifact to recreate a Celestial Emperor to maintain their rule.

The most terrifying aspect wasn't how many people this divine art trapped, but that after using it, one couldn't free themselves from the unchanging material state. Even Ming Fangyu, coupled with the ancient god Celestial Emperor's physical body, couldn't break through the Unchanging divine art to escape the endless cycle of reincarnation!

The Qin Mu in his dreams was also like this; he activated the divine art repeatedly and was assimilated repeatedly. The small Qin Mu in the dream transformed into mist, lost forever within it.

He wanted to find a way out for Ling Tianzun, but each attempt yielded the same result, without exception! This meant that if Qin Mu were to fully activate the Material Unchanging divine art, he too would transform into unchanging material, suffering the same fate as Ling Tianzun!

However, he did make a discovery: using fragments of the Unchanging divine art would not lead to his assimilation. This was also why Ling Tianzun, before fully perfecting the Unchanging divine art, used the ghost ship to banish the Imperial Forest Army.

Finally, Qin Mu stopped entering dreams and instead took out the five runes he had comprehended from the Primordial Egg.

"The only way to rescue Senior Brother and Ling Tianzun is to use the Primordial Egg to decipher Ling Tianzun's divine art. Whether it can be deciphered also depends on verifying if these five runes are correct."

Qin Mu steadied himself. In his dreams, it felt as though he had experienced hundreds of thousands of years of change, an illusion brought about by the alteration of matter within the dreamscape. These five runes were the Grand Beginning Dao runes he had comprehended from the Primordial Egg. When Wei Suifeng split the Primordial Egg, it burst forth with infinite Dao light, briefly breaking open the ghost ship and temporarily freeing it from the unchanging material state. However, it soon fell back into the unchanging material state.

At that time, Qin Mu knew that the Path of Grand Beginning was definitely the bane of the Material Unchanging divine art.

Whether the five runes he had comprehended from the Primordial Egg were correct had to be verified by using Ling Tianzun's divine art.

He meticulously listed the runes required for Ling Tianzun's divine art. Around him, strange symbols formed from his vital qi flickered on and off, containing unfathomable power. Qin Mu was extremely careful. He could not combine these runes into the complete Material Unchanging divine art, otherwise he too would fall into it and transform into unchanging material.

He cautiously combined the runes of the Unchanging divine art, forming individual divine art fragments, which he then brought into contact with the five runes to test their reactions.

"This rune is wrong."

"This rune is also wrong!"

"This one isn't right either..."

After testing all five runes, he couldn't help but frown. These five Primordial runes were what he had painstakingly deduced from the Primordial Egg using all his wisdom, yet they were all incorrect!

He became anxious, pacing back and forth. Suddenly, an idea struck him. He took out the Primordial Egg and placed it among the Unchanging runes.

"These five runes were deduced from the Dao sound. The Path of Grand Beginning contained within the Dao sound might not be complete. When Senior Brother forcefully split the Primordial Egg, breaking three of his fingers, the Primordial Egg retaliated not only with Dao sound but also with patterns formed by Dao light!"

Qin Mu's eyes flickered. He once again activated fragments of the Unchanging divine art and sent them towards the Primordial Egg! He proactively attacked the Primordial Egg, intending to provoke it into retaliating again, thereby revealing the dazzling Dao patterns he had seen on the ghost ship. From these Dao patterns, he hoped to comprehend the principles missing from the five runes!

As the Unchanging divine art activated and landed on the Primordial Egg, the perfectly spherical, flawless Primordial Egg burst forth with dazzling light. Dao sounds erupted, as if the prayers and chants of billions of sentient beings and ancient gods were simultaneously echoing! Qin Mu's ears buzzed. His third divine eye on his forehead opened, staring intently at the Dao patterns emanating from the Primordial Egg!

Outside, Yan'er carried a basket and quickly walked towards the farmland. Dragon Qilin was plowing the fields, having already tilled a hundred mu of land, planning to plant some vegetables and spirit herbs. Yan'er took out a towel and carefully wiped the sweat from Dragon Qilin's forehead. She then opened the basket and smiled, "Pi Lang, look! I've heated up a plate of spirit pills for you."

The young man with a qilin head, who was Dragon Qilin in human form, sat on the field ridge, eating the steaming spirit pills. Yan'er then fed him water, gently saying, "Eat slowly, don't choke..."

Outside, the mountains and forests shook, and trees fell in swathes. Little Earth Count walked out from the woods, dragging a winged fragrant elephant. This fragrant elephant was a demigod from the Southern Heavens; it had been flying in the sky when he struck it down and dragged it here to eat. Little Earth Count dragged the fragrant elephant to the edge of the field and was about to walk into the fields when Dragon Qilin hastily shooed him away, saying, "Don't ruin the newly planted medicinal herbs!"

Little Earth Count put the fragrant elephant aside and looked pleadingly at Yan'er, letting out a "Moo!"

Yan'er was about to help him roast the fragrant elephant when she suddenly turned her head to look at the cluster of houses Qin Mu had conjured through visualization. The houses suddenly brightened, and the next moment, an incredibly terrifying light tore them apart!

Whoosh—

Violent winds and waves pulverized the houses. Resounding Dao sounds vibrated, light erupted, the earth cracked, and the ground shook violently!

Yan'er quickly unfurled her wings, swiftly enveloping Dragon Qilin and Little Earth Count to protect them from the terrifying fluctuations! In her haste, she only managed to see Qin Mu flailing his limbs, being propelled by the terrifying fluctuations and whistling away into the distance. Yan'er hurriedly looked up, only to see a distant mountain erupting with white smoke. Then, another burst of white smoke appeared behind that mountain. This white smoke was pulverized rock from the shattered mountain, caused by the impact. Another mountaintop in the distance emitted white smoke. Looking even further, one mountain after another had been pierced through by Qin Mu, and it was unknown when he would finally stop.

Yan'er folded her wings. Dragon Qilin's face changed drastically, and he stamped his foot, exclaiming, "Our herb field is ruined!"

Yan'er said uneasily, "Pi Lang, you should worry about Young Master instead!"

Dragon Qilin quickly looked towards the former location of the houses. All that remained was a large pit, at the bottom of which lay the perfectly round Primordial Egg, its surface Dao patterns slowly fading.

"You stay here and guard this egg. I'll go find Young Master!" Yan'er flapped her wings and flew off.

Dragon Qilin acknowledged her and called Little Earth Count to guard the Primordial Egg together. Little Earth Count lay on the Primordial Egg and listened for a moment, then turned back and tentatively asked, "Moo?"

Dragon Qilin patted his small head. "You can't eat this. It won't roast."

"Aww..." Little Earth Count was very sad.