Chapter 982: Divine Powers Reach the Eighth Heaven

Countless messages surged into Qin Mu's mind. This was the vast and complex knowledge of the Creator race, an endless stream of information from their very beginning to the present that instantly filled his memory.

He perceived the Creators' joy when they first encountered the Primordial Divine Stone, their delight when they used divine consciousness to visualize objects, and their excitement when they pioneered rudimentary divine abilities.

He also sensed the immense joy of creation. He watched Creators bring forth all things in the world, fashion and transform nature, sculpt towering mountains and mighty rivers, walk through oceans, and traverse clouds. He could feel their state of mind as they accomplished these feats.

They possessed unique insights into nature and the universe, and a profound affinity for all creation.

He could also feel the mindset of Creators battling on the battlefield: war drums pounded, thunder rumbled, and blood boiled and burned. The Creators unleashed their destructive urges, arousing a primal urge to immediately engage in fierce combat.

He also felt the delicate, nurturing mindset of the Creators, like a spring breeze bringing rain. They could visualize and create suns, moons, and stars, and also conjure the most beautiful flowers, meticulously crafting even their finest veins and structures.

He felt the Creators' joy, but also their sorrow.

Wars between their own kind, the loss of kin, the fading of a life, or even the wilting of a flower, would bring them sadness, moving these rough, giant strongmen to tears.

Visualization and creation were daily routines for these giants, as were war, destruction, and slaughter.

He could also perceive their various insights: into divine consciousness and into creation.

Various messages flooded his mind, transforming into complex knowledge. Qin Mu felt as if, in an instant, he had experienced millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions or billions of years, witnessing the world's transformations and the rise and fall of civilizations.

He was still himself, yet he had witnessed and gained an immense amount of knowledge, insights, and divine consciousness abilities.

God King Lang Wo stood beside him, watching with a touch of envy as light from the Ancestral Spirit World continuously poured into Qin Mu's glabella.

After an unknown period, the stream of light flowing into Qin Mu gradually dimmed, signaling the end of this knowledge transmission.

The Ancestral Spirit World returned to calm.

The twenty-seven Ancestral Spirits remained motionless in the red light, their gazes fixed on Qin Mu.

The light in Qin Mu's glabella slowly dissipated, but he did not awaken.

Suddenly, the light from his third eye in his glabella gradually brightened, becoming increasingly brilliant as it transformed from divine consciousness. Furthermore, they sensed powerful vital qi fluctuations emanating from within Qin Mu's body, where vital qi and divine consciousness converged and merged.

Beneath Qin Mu's feet, the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure domain suddenly unfolded. A starry sky soared upwards, encompassing hundreds of miles of the Ancestral Spirit World, with stars revolving along their unique orbits, forming galaxies.

The galaxies flowed around God King Lang Wo and the twenty-seven Ancestral Spirits, converging to form a sky.

The figure of Qin Mu as the Celestial Venerable appeared in the sky.

The Verdant Wood rose majestically from the ground, reaching the Milky Way, while beneath the Taiji diagram of the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure was a realm of unfathomably deep darkness: Youdu.

The Taiji diagram slowly rotated, as Heavenly Palaces were scattered, floating above and below the ground, and some even atop the Taiji diagram.

God King Lang Wo and the twenty-seven Ancestral Spirits saw phantoms of ancient gods, each holding their positions and duties, collectively guarding Qin Mu's divine treasure.

God King Lang Wo showed surprise; Qin Mu's displayed divine treasure and Heavenly Palaces subverted her understanding of the divine treasure and Heavenly Palace cultivation system.

Qin Mu's divine treasure actually encompassed the Heavenly Palaces!

This was completely different from the gods of Carefree Village!

In Carefree Village, the gods' Heavenly Palaces were superior to their divine treasures.

Moreover, Qin Mu had only one divine treasure, while the people of Carefree Village had seven!

Another oddity was the number of Qin Mu's Heavenly Palaces. Most gods in Carefree Village had only one, but Qin Mu had as many as fourteen, though many were incomplete.

Just then, within Qin Mu's Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure, a fifteenth Heavenly Palace was rapidly forming!

"Opening a Heavenly Palace?"

God King Lang Wo's eyes flickered as she carefully studied how Qin Mu was opening this new Heavenly Palace. She thought to herself, "This might be very useful for my Creator race. Back then, countless Creators died trying to open the divine consciousness Heavenly Palace..."

When Emperor Kai founded Carefree Village, God King Lang Wo led her forces to attack it, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. God King Lang Wo immediately realized that if the Creator race couldn't adopt the divine treasure and Heavenly Palace cultivation system, they would surely be no match for Carefree Village, and the gap would only widen over time.

Thus, she resolutely made everyone adopt the divine treasure and Heavenly Palace cultivation system. However, they knew nothing about how to open divine treasures and Heavenly Palaces. Fortunately, as Creators, they captured many gods from Carefree Village.

Obtaining the memories of these gods was effortless for them.

However, knowing was one thing; opening was another.

In those years, countless Creators lost their lives in failed attempts to open the seven divine treasures and Heavenly Palaces—more, in fact, than those who died in the battles against Carefree Village!

After countless failures, they finally mastered the divine treasure and Heavenly Palace cultivation system.

The seven divine treasures and Heavenly Palaces they opened were still different from Carefree Village's system. Carefree Village followed a divine path system, while they pursued a divine consciousness divine treasure and divine consciousness Heavenly Palace system!

Now, Qin Mu was demonstrating another system to them. Though it originated from the divine treasure and Heavenly Palace cultivation system, it was more advanced, superior to their divine consciousness system!

"God King, what is he doing?" one Ancestral Spirit asked, their divine consciousness fluctuating.

God King Lang Wo carefully observed the Heavenly Palace Qin Mu was opening. "He is comprehending an Emperor's Throne-level divine consciousness cultivation method," she said, "It should be Grand Emperor's Great Luo Peerless Divine Consciousness!"

She couldn't help but be surprised.

Qin Mu was actually modifying Grand Emperor's Great Luo Peerless Divine Consciousness!

How utterly audacious!

Unbeknownst to her, the Great Luo Peerless Divine Consciousness Qin Mu obtained was merely an incomplete fragment. It lacked cultivation methods for several divine treasures and many for the Heavenly Palace realm, which was why Qin Mu had been unable to form a divine consciousness Heavenly Palace.

But now, having gained the accumulated knowledge of the Creator race, his profound knowledge base in divine consciousness was unparalleled—no one else could compare!

Even Grand Emperor, while perhaps more refined in divine consciousness, certainly didn't possess as much knowledge.

With this wealth of knowledge, it was only natural for Qin Mu to complete the missing parts of the Great Luo Peerless Divine Consciousness!

After all, Grand Emperor was the originator of this cultivation method; Qin Mu was merely filling in the gaps, which was not difficult.

This divine consciousness Great Luo Heavenly Palace became increasingly grand and weighty, showing a tendency to overshadow other Heavenly Palaces. However, Qin Mu's main Heavenly Palace was even more magnificent, consistently suppressing the Great Luo Heavenly Palace and not allowing it to usurp its position.

As the Great Luo Heavenly Palace formed, Qin Mu's aura grew even more profound.

However, the changes continued.

God King Lang Wo and the twenty-seven Ancestral Spirits immediately sensed a wondrous aura emanating from him; they seemed to hear a marvelous rhythm, the subtle hum of the Great Dao.

Qin Mu smiled, as if he had entered a wondrous, ineffable state.

He was casting a divine ability. The rhythm of the Great Dao transformed into pulsating notes between his fingers and palms. The fusion of vital qi and divine consciousness, the accumulated knowledge of the Creator race, and his own insights into Daoist magic and divine abilities, all converged into a Dao Realm at this moment.

Divine abilities entering the Dao!

Divine consciousness abilities and vital qi Daoist magic abilities perfectly combined at this moment, transforming under his hands into the first heaven of divine consciousness entering the Dao.

He lifted one palm, and his vital qi and divine consciousness transformed into the 49 Heavenly Daos, suspended high like the sky. He covered the ground with the other, and his vital qi and divine consciousness transformed into the 36 Youdu Great Daos. Though the Heavenly Dao and Youdu Great Dao belonged to different systems, representing the round heaven and square earth, they perfectly combined through the convergence of divine consciousness and vital qi.

The different Great Daos of heaven and earth merged, forming four smooth arcs where they converged. On these four sides, four distinct divine and demonic faces appeared: angry, joyful, sorrowful, or content.

This was his first heaven of divine ability, the Four Heavenly and Earthly Venerables Seal!

As this grand divine ability entering the Dao formed, Qin Mu felt that he still hadn't fully expressed his insights; another divine ability was eager to emerge.

He was still in a state of Dao comprehension, and the second heaven of divine ability entering the Dao quickly formed!

A portal formed behind him, connecting heaven and earth. It merged the 64 Youdu Great Daos and 49 Heavenly Daos, transforming into a unique divine ability.

This portal was different from the Gate of Heaven's Mandate. The Gate of Heaven's Mandate was Youdu's manifestation of heaven's mandate, not truly connecting Xuandu, whereas his portal was a divine ability formed by blending the 49 Heavenly Daos of Xuandu with the 64 Great Daos of Youdu.

The second heaven of divine ability: the Heaven and Earth Mystic Gate.

As this divine ability was unleashed, he still felt he hadn't fully expressed the insights within him.

The third heaven of divine ability entering the Dao formed: Heavenly River Surveying Four Poles.

The third heaven of divine ability still couldn't fully express his profound knowledge base. Immediately, Qin Mu comprehended the fourth heaven of divine ability: Great Luo Heavens' Perfect Convergence!

He fell into the mysterious realm of Dao comprehension, unconsciously comprehending the fifth, sixth, seventh... heavens of divine ability entering the Dao.

God King Lang Wo and the twenty-seven Ancestral Spirits stared blankly at this scene, filled with both awe and shock.

They knew that the knowledge base of the Ancestral Spirit World was not enough for Qin Mu to comprehend so many divine abilities entering the Dao. At most, it could allow him to perceive divine consciousness abilities and let his divine consciousness enter the Dao; how many heavens of divine consciousness entering the Dao he could comprehend depended entirely on Qin Mu's own understanding.

However, they hadn't anticipated that Qin Mu already carried within him the ancient god Dao runes accumulated by the Heavenly Court's Dao Sect over millions of years. Although he hadn't thoroughly comprehended all the ancient god Dao runes nor used the Taiwei Calculus Scripture to complete them all in recent years, his knowledge accumulation in this area was not much less than the divine consciousness knowledge accumulated in the Ancestral Spirit World.

He had always been on the verge of divine abilities entering the Dao, like a great volcano with boundless heat and fury hidden beneath, just waiting for an opportunity to erupt.

However, the influx of knowledge from the Ancestral Spirit World into his mind was akin to injecting more heat and fury into this about-to-erupt volcano. Naturally, it resulted in a sudden breaking of the clouds, startling the vast heaven and earth!

He merged divine consciousness and vital qi, integrating the two forms of knowledge into one. It was truly like a mighty river flowing from the heavens, rushing forth unrestrained.

Finally, after creating the eighth heaven of divine ability entering the Dao, Qin Mu awoke from his Dao comprehension.

His accumulated knowledge was not exhausted, but the combination of divine consciousness and Dao runes had encountered a bottleneck.