Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 253 Three Deadly Moves, Hammering the Spirit Embryo

The Chiwu Dynasty, in the southeastern land.

Here stands a towering mountain, a million feet high, which is the node of many surrounding earth veins and is rooted in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The Ten Thousand Mountains, as the name suggests, is a super mountain range formed by the connection of countless majestic and precipitous mountain ranges.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the entire continent consisted of two separate continents.

It was because the two supreme true spirits fought to the death that the heavens and earth shook, and the two continents collided and merged, thus forming the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

At this moment, on the summit of this towering, million-foot-high sacred mountain, Shen Mu stood tall, with Chi Wu Li Yue and many other peak-level experts from the Chi Wu clan standing behind him.

"Your Excellency... do you mean to use this Tiandang Mountain as a weapon-refining furnace?"

Among the top experts of the Chiwu Clan, an old and withered figure bowed to Shen Mu and asked a question.

Shen Mu nodded slightly: "That's right. Tiandang Mountain is a ley line node, which can bear the power of heaven and earth that I gather. Ordinary weapon-refining furnaces are naturally not qualified to do so."

As he spoke, a dazzling crimson glow surged in Shen Mu's palm, revealing a pale golden array flag.

This array flag is also the foremost of the thirty-six God-King level array flags crafted by Shen Mu, and the core of the 1332 array eyes.

"Hey!"

A sound like a phoenix's cry echoed across the sky, and with the appearance of this array flag, the temperature within thousands of miles around began to soar at an extremely rapid pace.

The next instant, the array flag in Shen Mu's palm transformed into a dazzling stream of light and disappeared into the belly of Tiandang Mountain.

hum!

The entire mountain began to tremble slightly, and within a few breaths, it transformed into a series of terrifying roars.

The mountaintop suddenly collapsed, forming a huge crater, within which terrifying waves of heat were brewing.

"The Great Heaven and Earth Furnace is complete!"

With a wave of his hand, Shen Mu caused the dazzling 'divine sun' that had been floating in the sky to suddenly shrink, and then condense into a beam of radiant light that descended upon the volcano.

"My crafting of this precious artifact will likely take several hundred years, or even longer. Do not disturb me unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Chiwu Liyue and many elders of the Chiwu clan quickly agreed.

Then Shen Mu took a step forward and disappeared into the huge crater.

Boom!

Another tremendous roar shook the entire Tiandang Mountain, and the numerous peaks, large and small, surrounding it began to collapse.

The earth cracked open, and magma surged and flowed upstream, covering the entire majestic mountain.

Moments later, the massive mountain began to swell and rise, and from a distance, it actually formed the outline of a divine furnace.

The interwoven cracks in the lava on the mountain resembled countless secret patterns on a divine furnace.

With the formation of this Divine Furnace Mountain, the boundless power of heaven and earth that had gathered seemed to have found a point of inclination, and poured into this Divine Furnace Mountain all at once.

At this point, the supreme array that spanned the entire territory of the Chiwu clan finally quieted down, operating peacefully and orderly, gradually gathering the boundless power of heaven and earth from the surrounding void to nourish this divine furnace mountain.

"Using heaven and earth as a furnace... Your Excellency's methods give one the illusion of reading an ancient legend of our clan."

An elder of the Chiwu clan couldn't help but sigh.

Upon hearing this, a group of elders from the Chiwu clan echoed their sentiments. The more powerful and mysterious Shen Mu was, the more advantageous it was for the Chiwu clan.

"Princess Liyue, does His Majesty currently have any intention of continuing the bloodline?"

An elder of the Chiwu clan looked at Chiwu Liyue and asked her in a hushed tone.

Chiwu Liyue shook her head helplessly: "His Majesty said that my cultivation level is too low and that I should cultivate my bloodline after I reach the half-step God Realm."

The so-called half-step divine realm refers to the realm of beings like Chiwu Tiancheng and the elders present.

Whether it's the physical body, bloodline, or soul, everything has transformed to the limit of the Chaos Realm, and there's only one final step away from fully comprehending the Perfect Realm.

After offering an explanation, Chiwu Liyue changed the subject.

"Your Majesty has given a prior decree that if anyone inquires about the refining of the treasure, you should say that it is our clan's guardian deity who is refining the treasure, and you should not reveal any details."

"Haha, Princess Liyue, please rest assured. Even if His Majesty hadn't instructed us, we would have said the same thing."

Few people know about the circumstances surrounding Chiwuyan's demise.

Aside from the elders of the Chiwu clan, only the Chiwu clan's Liyue clan and the current ruler knew about it; even the other princes and other nobles were completely unaware.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace Formation that Shen Mu set up this time was inherited from the Mountain Hermit.

Of course, this grand formation was not created by the Mountain-Sitting Guest. The Mountain-Sitting Guest was able to rise to power and establish a nation because he inherited the legacy of an ancient powerful being from the Origin Continent.

Therefore, this is an extremely high-level treasure-refining formation, which can certainly be used to intimidate the venerable ones of this realm.

After all, this realm does not value the great Dao of treasure refining, alchemy, and formations. You should know that on the Origin Continent, there are even those who have become invincible by refining their bodies using the Dao of formations.

……

Within Divine Furnace Mountain, heavenly fire and earthly energy merged, transforming into tens of thousands of surging fire dragons. Each fire dragon could easily annihilate a peak Chaos Realm being.

"Gather!"

Endless divine fire surged, and fire dragons, under Shen Mu's control, merged into this enormous divine furnace mountain, completely evolving into Shen Mu's treasure-refining furnace.

At this point, all the external conditions for refining the treasure have been met.

Next, we need to prepare the materials for refining the treasure.

Shen Mu was refining his own Dao-proving treasure, so naturally he wouldn't look for any god-king level materials, as all materials have limitations.

"The radiant light of wisdom, manifest!"

Dressed in white, Shen Mu was bathed in endless flames, appearing as an unparalleled being who controlled the divine fire of heaven and earth.

As Shen Mu's thoughts stirred, strands of formless and intangible spiritual energy emerged and surrounded him.

Ordinary people cannot see this formless and intangible essence of the soul. Only those who cultivate the soul can perceive the existence of these strands of spiritual thought.

Although Shen Mu's "The Art of Great Wisdom" has only recently begun to spread, in just a few short years, it has only reached a few surrounding countries and has not yet truly expanded.

But death is a perfectly normal thing. Even in the peaceful world of my previous life, people died naturally or accidentally every minute and every second.

Moreover, this world is a cultivation world filled with the aura of ancient barbarism, where fighting and killing are the mainstream, and death is a perfectly normal thing.

Therefore, in just a few years, Shen Mu has already collected the spiritual thoughts of thousands of beings in the Chaos Realm.

"Festival!"

Endless divine light surged between Shen Mu's fingers, merging with the boundless power of heaven and earth that evolved into divine fire, condensing into strands of almost transparent soul fire.

The soul fire is also an almost invisible existence, but it can burn space and time. Therefore, from a distance, the space and time around Shen Mu appears somewhat distorted, and it is distorted into wisps of flame.

Thousands of strands of spiritual thought were bathed in the fire of the soul, beginning the initial purification process.

This refining process is about transforming the false into the real and the illusory into the tangible, turning these formless and intangible thoughts and spiritualities into real energy and matter.

Fortunately, Shen Mu had a profound understanding of the Dao of the Soul, and he also cultivated the Dao of Illusion, and comprehended the great Dao of transforming the false into the real.

Although Shen Mu's mastery of the Illusionary Path is not yet profound, he can still handle the mental and spiritual states of the Chaotic Realm.

Pong!

The sound of flames rising was incessant, and countless secret patterns and symbols condensed in front of Shen Mu, merging into the soul flames and fusing with the thousands of strands of spiritual thought into one.

As time passed, a ray of divine light, shimmering with hazy, colorful clouds, condensed and emerged.

This ray of divine light was not dazzling, and had a hazy, ethereal quality. The colorful rays flowing over it were also unusually peculiar, as if they contained all the colors of the world.

The wisdom and thought of life are a miracle in themselves.

The so-called myriad laws of heaven and earth are all manifestations of a single thought of a person. Even an ordinary person can use their wisdom to imagine all sorts of supreme scenes.

However, everyone's wisdom is different, and the scenarios they can understand and imagine are also different.

"Since it uses thought and spirituality as its raw material... let's call it the Mysterious Light of Wisdom."

As the first ray of wisdom appeared, soon afterward... ray after ray of equally hazy and peculiar light also began to gather.

Under Shen Mu's control, countless rays of light began to spread and extend... intertwining and eventually weaving into the outline of a phantom treasure furnace.

Above the treasure furnace, there are cosmic stars and all things in heaven and earth... All the patterns and symbols are changing, giving a sense of both haziness and clarity at a glance.

"It has become... the embryo of a true soul treasure."

As a successor of the Void Extreme Sect, Shen Mu naturally possessed primordial embryos capable of soul attacks within the sect's treasure trove.

However, it is only a prototype for soul attack. Even if it is forged, it will only be a treasure for soul defense or soul attack.

It is not a true treasure of the soul; the two are fundamentally different.

This illusory treasure furnace is now the true embryo of the soul's Dao, forged by Shen Mu using his own understanding of the soul's Dao and drawing upon the wisdom of all living beings.

"In the beginning was God, and spirits emerged from God!"

With a thought, Shen Mu's soul radiance surged from his body, forming a phantom image around him that resembled a swirling galaxy.

A murmured chanting sound arose, and Shen Mu began to manifest the ultimate soul Dao technique he had comprehended, the "Origin Heart Sutra".

The current Origin Heart Sutra, setting aside the general principles of the Soul Path, only contains three major killing moves.

The first killing move is a kind of illusion killing move that evolved from the Supreme Heart Tribulation, and it is called "Heart Tribulation".

The second killing move is based on the Soul Annihilation branch of the Soul Path, and incorporates the mysteries of the Mind Path and the secrets of willpower. It is called "Mind Fire".

The third killing move was Shen Mu's fusion of the secrets of the Illusion Dao's branch of turning illusion into reality, using illusion to interfere with reality, and was called "Delusion".

"melt!"

The radiant light of the soul began to surge, transforming into celestial rivers that cascaded down like mercury, engulfing this hazy treasure furnace.

Pong!

The boundless fire of the soul suddenly surged up, instantly becoming countless times more intense, and began a long process of refinement and perfection.

The transformation from a primordial embryo into a supreme treasure requires Shen Mu to pour out all his understanding. This process may be endless, because Shen Mu's insights will not stop.

However, Shen Mu believed that one day, his divine furnace would transform from a primordial embryo into a true treasure. The Great Dao of Chaos, encompassing all souls, illusions, and minds, would dominate the boundless Chaos World.

……

As time goes by, the stars shift and the sun and moon take turns.

As the years passed by, nearly a thousand years went by in the blink of an eye.

Outside, at the foot of the magnificent Divine Furnace Mountain, elders of the Chiwu clan sat in their respective positions.

Although Shen Mu is strong enough that he doesn't need their protection.

If Shen Mu cannot resolve the issue, their protection will be meaningless.

However, for some things, whether or not you need them is one thing, and whether or not you do them is another.

On this day, a team of top-tier experts from afar escorted the current ruler of the Chiwu Kingdom to the foot of the sacred mountain.

Throughout these thousand years, the ruler of Chiwu Kingdom would come to Shenlu Mountain every so often to check on the situation.

"Esteemed elders, has His Majesty made any moves during this time?"

In just a thousand years, this once vigorous and powerful ruler of the Chiwu Kingdom has prematurely grown gray hair.

A cycle is equivalent to ten thousand years, and the ruler of Chiwu Kingdom is only a little over four thousand years old, still at his peak. Obviously, it is incredible that such a situation has occurred.

"Your Majesty, please do not be anxious. I and others have already inquired with Princess Liyue. Her Majesty will surely emerge from seclusion before the Conference of the Gods."

Faced with the elder's explanation, the King of Chiwu smiled helplessly.

"I dare not urge Your Majesty, but over the past thousand years, the surrounding dynasties have been trying to find out about the situation of Shenlu Mountain."

"Mount Shenlu is sacred and extraordinary, and it is protected by many elders, so these villains naturally dare not approach it."

"But the capital is already rife with undercurrents... In the end, with His Majesty in seclusion, my Chiwu clan is powerless to deter those villains."

The ruler of Chiwu Kingdom complained for a long time, while the elders beside him just listened to him with smiles.

Suddenly, a streak of azure light flashed and landed in front of the Chiwu Kingdom's ruler, revealing the figure of Chiwu Liyue.

"Your Majesty, before setting up the formation, His Majesty gave you a Grand Formation Token, which can be used to mobilize the power of the Grand Formation to suppress any expert below the Venerable level."

Chiwu Liyue frowned slightly and looked at the Chiwu King: "Logically speaking, the Emperor shouldn't have any problems, right?"

The Heaven and Earth Furnace Array set up by Shen Mu can be used for refining treasures, and it can also serve as a national protection array for the Chiwu Clan.

To be precise, this is a mechanical flow tactic.

1332 array flags, divided into thirty-six array formations.

Each formation is led by a top expert who sits at the main flag position, while 36 ordinary ninth-level Transcendent Realm cultivators hold auxiliary flags. Together, they form a grand formation that can activate a battle state.

At least within the territory of the Chiwu clan, suppressing ordinary beings who have just entered the God King realm is not a problem. Even ordinary Venerables can only protect themselves when facing a great formation at its peak.

The ruler of Chiwu Kingdom naturally understood this principle, but he still offered a helpless explanation.

"That may be true, but His Majesty is currently refining a supreme treasure. If I were to interfere with the grand formation and cause His Majesty to fail in his endeavors, then I, as the ruler of this kingdom, would be guilty beyond redemption, even if I were to die a hundred times!"

As they were speaking, the entire Divine Furnace Mountain trembled slightly.

A hazy, soft, colorful divine light erupted from the crater at the mountain's summit, illuminating the entire sky in a magnificent, dreamlike array of colorful clouds.

"Such an unusual phenomenon? Is His Majesty about to emerge from seclusion?"

The ruler of Chiwu was overjoyed and looked at Chiwu Liyue and the other elders beside him.

Chiwu Liyue shook her head slightly and explained, "That's not the case. Every once in a while, these dreamlike colorful clouds will appear."

The elder standing nearby nodded and said, "That's right, but this time the colorful clouds are indeed much larger in area than before."

"Moreover, His Excellency said before going into seclusion that this treasure refining process would only take a few hundred to a thousand years, and perhaps the day he emerges from seclusion is not far off."

Another elder also spoke up, saying, "Your Majesty should go back first. Every time colorful clouds appear, they attract beasts from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, including many ferocious beasts. With your strength, staying here will only cause more trouble."

"In that case... I shall take my leave."

Knowing he was being disliked, the King of Chiwu was not embarrassed. He bowed to the elders and then left half of his guards behind, hurrying back to the capital.

"Princess Liyue, please return to the mountain peak. The strange phenomena caused by the Venerable's treasure refining are quite significant, and they may attract more than one peak-level ferocious beast."

Upon hearing this, Chiwu Liyue nodded slightly, naturally not wanting to be a burden here.

(End of this chapter)