Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 255 Turning Reality into Illusion, Enslaving the God King

In the instant that the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord lost his focus.

A colossal, gourd-shaped super-celestial body emerged.

The instant this immense talent emerged, the gravitational pull created by the massive warping of spacetime caused the earth to show signs of collapse.

To be precise, this was a giant gourd, its terrifying suction power enveloping the Celestial Venerable realm life form that had revealed its true form, and then directly sealing it inside the giant gourd.

This is the supreme treasure of the ancient Celestial Venerable, named the Eternal Time Gourd.

The methods of refining treasures in this realm are crude, so all kinds of treasures can only be made using materials of a higher level, which is like pearls being covered in dust.

However, this also brings a special effect: even a powerful being at the ultimate level of the God King realm would find it extremely difficult to break this Eternal Time Gourd.

"I never expected that Fellow Daoist Shen's soul impact would be so strong that even the Heavenly Venerable would be momentarily stunned. I was negligent."

At this moment, when Gu Tianzun looked at Shen Mu, he already addressed Shen Mu as "fellow Daoist".

Shen Mu, naturally not one to presume, smiled and said, "These are merely trivial skills; my understanding of the Heavenly Dao is far from sufficient, and I am unworthy of being called a fellow Daoist of the Heavenly Venerable."

The use of will in this realm is very crude; it is subordinate to soul attacks and has not been separated at all.

Therefore, in the eyes of the ancient Celestial Venerable, Shen Mu's soul attack was extremely heaven-defying, and he mistakenly believed that Shen Mu's soul strength far exceeded the Celestial Venerable realm, hence his politeness.

However, Shen Mu is worthy of being called a fellow Daoist.

In terms of willpower alone, Shen Mu has only surpassed the second level of the God King realm, and cannot be considered the ultimate level.

The ultimate level of will is the sublimation of comprehending the ultimate path, and it is much stronger than the dual limit.

However, thanks to Shen Mu's mastery of willpower, coupled with the blessing of the Myriad Spirits Furnace, he was still able to elevate his willpower to the ultimate level in an instant.

The impact of the ultimate level of will is enough to make most second-level God Kings without ultimate will lose their senses for a moment.

Even if they were both at the ultimate level of God King, without the secret techniques for using their will, they would not be able to unleash their full potential in front of Shen Mu.

Unfortunately, the way this world uses willpower is far too crude.

Therefore, Shen Mu was able to protect himself in front of most of the Celestial Venerables in this realm.

"Fellow Daoist Shen, you are too kind. Without your suppression, I would not have been able to suppress the Thunder Demon Lord's Thunder Body."

"A body of thunder? This Wind and Thunder Demon Lord has two true bodies?"

Shen Mu had just asked the question, and before the Ancient Celestial Venerable could answer, he already knew the answer.

Deep within the Ten Thousand Mountains, endless hurricanes swept through, once again coalescing into a gigantic wind and thunder demon bird!

"Komi! Unleash your true form of lightning!!!"

This time, the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord realized the danger and didn't approach Shen Mu and the Ancient Heavenly Venerable at all, instead staring at Shen Mu with a look of fear.

"Feng Lei, I can't suppress your clone by myself. Fellow Daoist Shen is the main force. You should ask Fellow Daoist Shen for his opinion."

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord remained silent for a moment, stared at Shen Mu, and said in a deep voice, "Human, how should I address you?"

"Shen Mu, also known as Origin."

In this realm, Shen Mu truly dared not call himself Hunyuan anymore.

It was only in a remote rural area like the Cosmic Sea that Shen Mu could use the title Hunyuan.

Once he reaches the true Origin World, Shen Mu certainly cannot continue to call himself Hunyuan; that would be suicidal.

"According to the covenant of the palaces, celestial beings cannot be conquered at will. This time, as long as you are willing to release my lightning body, I will not report to the temple."

Upon hearing this, Shen Mu was almost completely bewildered.

One of your two true forms has already been suppressed, yet you still dare to act high and mighty?

The ancient celestial being beside him also sneered: "Feng Lei, you might as well report to the Demon God Palace and see if your two supreme demons are willing to go to war with my Cloud Sea Immortal Palace for your sake."

"Furthermore, while it is true that Celestial Venerable-level beings cannot be conquered at will, Fellow Daoist Shen has not yet comprehended the Heavenly Dao's intent, so he is not a Celestial Venerable at all."

"Even if you want us to unleash your lightning form, you'll have to pay a price, won't you?"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't mind suppressing you forever, so that you will lose one of your true forms completely."

Similar methods of creating clones do exist in this world, but they are mostly innate supernatural abilities.

This Wind and Thunder Demon Lord possesses two true bodies. As long as one true body survives, it can condense the other true body.

However, if neither of the two true forms perished, but were instead suppressed, then the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord would be helpless.

Within the Ancient Celestial Venerable's Eternal Time Gourd, the passage of time is frozen, so even if the Wind and Thunder Demon Venerable wanted to commit suicide, he simply couldn't.

While making his harsh remarks, Gu Tianzun was also secretly communicating with Shen Mu.

"Fellow Daoist Shen, you come from the Eastern Divine Dynasty, so you should also know about the Alliance of the Palaces. This time, we really cannot suppress the true form of the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord forever."

"However, this time it was the demon race that was impolite first. Fellow Daoist, you can make some demands in exchange for a sufficient price."

"Alright, Heavenly Venerable, rest assured, I will make my request."

While Shen Mu and Gu Tianzun were exchanging words, the Demon Lord could no longer hold back.

"Gu Mi, Shen Mu... tell me, what conditions do you want?"

The Ancient Celestial Venerable declared directly, "I want a thousand epochs of time!"

Upon hearing this, the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord's face darkened.

The so-called "thousand-year time" refers to a lifespan of a thousand years.

Whether it is the life of a demon or a human, their lifespan can be extracted and transformed into a special substance that extends one's lifespan.

However, this kind of lifespan extension comes at a great cost. After achieving the divine realm, the lifespan of any life is ten thousand epochs.

Once the Venerable One's ten thousand years of lifespan are extracted, only a hundred years of time can be condensed to extend the lifespan of others by a hundred years.

The lifespan of a Celestial Venerable can be condensed into a thousand epochs of time.

As for the Supreme Being, only their lifespan can accumulate to ten thousand epochs.

As for those beings in the Transcendent Realm, their lifespan is extracted, but it only extends the lifespan of other beings in the Transcendent Realm; it has no effect on those in the Divine Realm.

"Alright, a thousand years of time, I'll give it to you!!!"

"Now unleash my lightning form."

Ancient Celestial Venerable snorted coldly: "Fellow Daoist Shen hasn't even made any demands yet. You're thinking too easily."

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord's expression turned even uglier, and his gaze fell on Shen Mu once again.

Shen Mu directly stated, "I need one hundred demon race god-level souls! Among them, there must be a demon god who has comprehended the Dao of the Soul!"

"Impossible! You're wanting me dead by slaughtering demon gods like this?"

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord immediately panicked.

Let alone killing a hundred demon gods, even killing a hundred human venerables would probably not be enough to protect him, even from the Demon God Palace.

The Celestial Venerable cannot arbitrarily slaughter Venerables, except under certain special circumstances.

For example... a great battle takes place between the human and demon races.

"Then I want a living demon god who has comprehended the Dao of the Soul."

"No!"

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord's expression remained very unpleasant.

"The Soul Path is rare. I have a follower under my command who has comprehended the essence of illusion, which I can give to you."

"Of course, if it commits suicide under your command, then don't blame me."

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord directly abandoned his follower.

Unlike humans, the demon race, though called a race, is actually a multi-ethnic group. Apart from their true kin, they do not care about the life or death of others.

"Illusory Path... Yes, I agree."

Shen Mu nodded directly, and then the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord glanced at Gu Mi and opened his mouth to spit out a ray of spiritual light.

This is a golden radiance, formed from the condensation of time, representing a lifespan of a thousand years.

A thousand years is basically all the wealth that the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord can offer in a short period of time.

"Gu Mi, Shen Mu, you must swear an oath to the will of Heaven, and you must not break it!"

Shen Mu and Gu Tianzun naturally had no objection to this.

"Feng Lei, you also need to swear an oath to the will of Heaven that you will not secretly control the demon god given to Fellow Daoist Shen, nor will you threaten or entice him in any way to deliberately cause him to commit suicide."

A thousand years of time is a true treasure; once you have it in your hands, there won't be any problems.

However, what Shen Mu wanted was a living demon god, which meant there were many ways to manipulate things.

The Wind and Thunder Demon Lord must swear a detailed oath to the will of Heaven.

In this realm, ordinary Venerables swear oaths to the will of Heaven, and even if they break their oaths, the consequences are not too severe.

However, this does not apply to the Celestial Venerable. Once the Heavenly Dao Contract is established, it cannot be violated. Otherwise, at best, the Celestial Venerable will be stripped of control over the power of origin, and at worst, will suffer a backlash from the Heavenly Dao, or even perish.

"Alright, I will swear an oath as you request."

As they spoke, the Wind and Thunder Demon Clan took the initiative to draw upon the power of heaven and earth, communicating with the origin of the Heavenly Dao.

In that instant, the sun high in the sky suddenly dimmed, and a peculiar gaze fell upon the Wind and Thunder Demon Lord, Shen Mu, and the Ancient Heavenly Lord.

At this moment, Shen Mu instantly became alert, his gaze fixed on the heavens above.

"The primordial will actually possesses such an independent will... This feeling is just like that of a real life!"

"Could this world... be an inner world within a living being?"

At this moment, Shen Mu's expression changed slightly.

Shen Mu had made up his mind that even if he comprehended the Dao Fruit of the second level of the God King realm, he would not be able to leave his soul imprint in the original space of this world.

It's safer to imprint the soul mark on the Origin Continent.

While pondering, Shen Mu and Gu Mi swore an oath to the will of Heaven.

The Wind and Thunder Demon Clan also recited the terms given by Gu Mi word by word, swearing an oath to the Heavenly Dao.

Then, from the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains, endless wind and thunder primordial power merged into spacetime, forming a spacetime vortex.

Immediately following, a phantom, dragon-like life form emerged from the spacetime vortex.

These dragon-like life forms are quite peculiar; their heads and upper bodies are the most realistic, indistinguishable from real matter.

Then the lower body gradually becomes ethereal, and by the time it reaches the tail, there is only a phantom image, with no real body left.

"Turning reality into illusion!"

Shen Mu immediately stopped himself from appreciating the Great Dao that the dragon-like demon god had comprehended.

These are the two methods within the Illusionary Path that provide the strongest boost to combat power.

Shen Mu has begun to comprehend one of the techniques, which transforms the false into the real, but he has only achieved minor success so far, and is still far from perfection.

Another approach to transforming the real into the unreal is one that Shen Mu has not yet truly explored.

Although the Chiwu Clan Ancestral Pagoda contains the inheritance of this Great Dao, Shen Mu was unable to manifest this inheritance.

"town!"

A vast and powerful surge of will erupted instantly, completely suppressing the semi-illusory demonic dragon.

This demonic dragon's willpower is not weak. As a being who cultivated the Illusionary Path to become a God-King, its willpower can barely be considered as that of a second-level God-King.

However, under the impact of Shen Mu's will, he was momentarily stunned into a mental stagnation.

"Ten Thousand Spirits Furnace, go!"

Shen Mu directly used the intent of his three ultimate moves, using the illusion technique "Heart Tribulation" to activate the Myriad Spirits Furnace, directly suppressing the demonic dragon inside the furnace.

Willpower impacts and suppresses thought!

The wisdom and profound light obscured the spiritual essence, severing the dragon's ability to resist in the slightest.

Next, the enslavement can begin; this is the first time a god-king has been enslaved by his soul.

However, given Shen Mu's understanding of the Dao of the Soul, he could enslave even a second-level God King without resistance.

hum!

The illusory power of souls intertwined and surged, beginning to engrave a control soul imprint on the soul of this demonic dragon.

At Shen Mu's level, there are no longer any so-called secret techniques for enslavement.

Soul control is a kind of soul path. Whether it is controlling one's own soul or enslaving the souls of others, it is soul control and a branch of the Great Dao.

Seeing Shen Mu suppress this demon god so easily, the ancient celestial being beside him couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Although he could also suppress this demon god, he was definitely not as decisive and efficient as Shen Mu.

As expected of the soul of the Ultimate Realm, the power of the illusion is astonishing.

"If Fellow Daoist Shen does not mind, you are welcome to come to my Ancient Heng Dynasty for a chat."

Shen Mu also shifted his gaze from the Myriad Spirits Furnace and said with a smile, "I won't bother the Heavenly Venerable for now. I have gained some insights during this seclusion, and I still need some time to reflect."

"In a few years, it will be the Conference of the Gods, and I will definitely visit the Celestial Venerable then."

A strange expression appeared on the face of the Ancient Celestial Venerable.

"Fellow Daoist Shen, you possess an ultimate-level soul, and your illusionary arts can even suppress the Wind and Thunder Demon for a moment. Why are you participating in that so-called Conference of the Gods and bullying those little guys?"

In the eyes of the Ancient Celestial Venerable, the guardians of the various dynasties under his jurisdiction were all just little guys.

Although the three realms of the divine realm in this world, the Venerable, the Heavenly Venerable, and the Supreme all have a lifespan of ten thousand eons.

However, both the Celestial Venerable and the Supreme Being are able to obtain a large amount of time and years to extend their own lifespan.

For those at the Venerable Realm, even a lifetime of one epoch is an unparalleled treasure.

Only by comprehending the Dao of Heaven, condensing the essence of the Dao of Heaven, and mobilizing the power of one's origin can one extract lifespan and form special substances; this is something that even a Venerable Realm expert cannot do.

Moreover, if it weren't for the protection of the Covenant of the Palaces, ordinary Venerables would only be life-extending elixirs for these ancient Celestial Venerables and Supreme Beings.

"This time, having received the favor of the former Venerable Master Yan of the Chiwu Clan, it is only natural that I must fulfill the agreement."

Seeing Shen Mu's stance, the Ancient Celestial Venerable shook his head helplessly.

"Fine, Fellow Daoist Shen, if you'd like to play around, then so be it. I will keep today's events a secret, and no one else will know your strength."

"Thank you, Heavenly Venerable."

Seeing that the ancient celestial being believed that he was deliberately bullying the child, Shen Mu became too lazy to explain anything.

As soon as he finished speaking, the space-time around the Ancient Celestial Venerable distorted, forming a vortex that enveloped him.

"Fellow Daoist, see you again in a thousand years."

"I'm sure I'll be bothering you!"

After the ancient celestial being left, Shen Mu's figure slowly landed on the ground.

At this moment, at the foot of Shenlu Mountain, more than a dozen elders of the Chiwu clan watched in disbelief at everything that had just happened, each one staring at Shen Mu in shock.

Shen Mu didn't explain anything, and simply gestured with his right hand.

The Myriad Spirits Furnace, shrunk countless times, landed directly in Shen Mu's palm, spinning rapidly and scattering colorful clouds.

"Come out."

As Shen Mu finished speaking, a stream of light flew out from the Myriad Spirits Furnace, re-manifesting as a demonic dragon.

Around the semi-illusory dragon, endless illusions faintly surged, forming an image of all spirits paying homage.

"Phantom Mist greets its master!"

The demonic dragon Huanwu bowed respectfully to Shen Mu, its dragon eyes filled with fervor as it looked at him.

(End of this chapter)