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Chapter 266 Using the Gods and Kings of the Heavens as materials for refining weapons?

"Just because he's only just entered the Heavenly Venerable realm, he thinks he's obtained a few supreme treasures and dares to chase after others so arrogantly, as if he's afraid of not being discovered by a powerful figure."

Shen Mu quietly gazed at the old man who had been completely suppressed and fallen to the ground, and shook his head slightly.

It should be noted that when Shen Mu first entered the boundless Nine Wonders Mountain, he personally witnessed the power of a treasure at the Hunyuan level.

Without any fluctuation of energy, he easily killed a half-step ultimate powerhouse.

Moreover, he was a half-step ultimate expert who had comprehended the Five Elements Dao and the Soul Dao. In the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace, he was second only to the Supreme Head, which shows how powerful he was.

Shen Mu slightly raised his hand and instantly cast the Soul Control Secret Technique—Origin Spirit Seal.

A mysterious and dazzling light streaked across the void like a shooting star, its light seemingly carrying boundless mysterious power, instantly enveloping the old man's soul.

The light was dazzling and colorful, and the mysterious power it contained seemed to be able to penetrate every corner of the soul, like an all-knowing sage exploring the deepest secrets of the soul.

Under the radiance, the old man's soul gradually lost its ability to resist, as if it were tightly bound by an invisible force.

In a short while, this mysterious power completely penetrated the old man's soul, turning him into Shen Mu's soul servant.

At this moment, Lei Tianheng slowly recovered from the powerful pressure of that will, and his thoughts gradually became clear again.

When he saw Shen Mu suppress this Heavenly Venerable Old Monster so easily, he was extremely shocked, as if a raging storm was churning wildly in his heart.

He knew that the three levels of the Divine Realm were each more difficult to break through and kill than the previous one.

Especially those Celestial Venerables who possess several top-tier secret treasures, even the ultimate beings of the Supreme Realm would find it extremely difficult to kill them easily, let alone capture and suppress them alive.

Lei Tianheng was even more horrified when he thought of his master, Palace Master Di Shitian, and Shen Muping's previous interactions.

"Could it be that Elder Shen is a hidden ancestor-level figure?" Once this thought appeared, it grew wildly in his mind like weeds, making Lei Tianheng's attitude involuntarily more reserved.

Shen Mu noticed that Lei Tianheng had recovered, and a faint smile appeared on his face. The smile was like a spring breeze, making people feel warm and at ease.

He asked softly, "Recovered?"

Upon hearing Shen Mu's inquiry, Lei Tianheng quickly thanked Shen Mu, his face full of gratitude, and said, "Thank you so much for saving my life, Lord Shen! If it weren't for your help, I would probably be dead today."

Shen Mu waved his hand and said calmly, "No need for that, it's just a small favor."

Then, Shen Mu looked at Lei Tianheng, his eyes questioning, "Tell me, why were you targeted by this old monster?"

Lei Tianheng hesitated for a moment, then said, "Senior, I stole a divine herb that this old monster had guarded for a very long time. This divine herb can greatly promote the evolution of bloodlines, and it has a significant effect even on supreme powerhouses."

After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, then respectfully said to Shen Mu, "Senior, you saved my life. I have no way to repay such a great kindness. If you need it, I am willing to offer that treasure to thank you for saving my life."

Shen Mu waved his hand slightly and said, "There's no need for that. I was entrusted by Palace Master Di Shitian to protect you, so how could I accept your treasure? You should keep the treasure safe and not act so rashly in the future."

Despite saying that, Shen Mu also had the idea of ​​exploring the boundless Nine Wonders Mountain.

He does need some treasures, whether they can transform his physical body or his soul.

When he first arrived in the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain World, his strength was not yet great enough.

Now, after more than a thousand years of seclusion, and with his consciousness having undergone more than one cycle of reincarnation within the small tower, his combat power has been greatly enhanced, making him qualified to explore the mysterious and boundless Nine Wonders Mountain.

Under the guidance of the Tower Spirit, and with the amplification of time acceleration, Shen Mu comprehended and fused the two branches of the Dao of Array Formation, the three branches of the Dao of Weapon Refining, and the four branches of the Dao of Spacetime over the past thousand years.

As for the Chaos Path, if one comprehends all six branches and integrates three of them, then one can take the next step to achieve the Ultimate Path.

It seems like progress is fast, but in reality it's not fast at all, and it's actually quite slow.

When Shen Mu first comprehended the most difficult branch of the Soul Dao, it took him two thousand years, based on the concept of the True Spirit Holy Realm, which is equivalent to 160,000 years in the cosmic sea.

Although Shen Mu's talent in the Soul Dao is indeed very high, and he also cultivates the power of the Soul Dao bloodline, his talent is equivalent to a weakened version of the Soul Dao Realm Beast.

However, with the acceleration of time, it took a full ten trillion epochs and ten billion trillion years to comprehend the sixteen branches of the Great Dao and the three fused Great Daos, but not a single ultimate Dao.

The ultimate path is difficult to achieve; it is a huge hurdle.

To comprehend all the branches of a certain Great Dao, and then merge all the branches to achieve the ultimate Dao, is far more difficult than comprehending all the branches.

In any world, the ultimate path is very difficult to comprehend, and the number of people at the ultimate level is extremely small.

Achieving the ultimate state signifies transcending the limitations of the cycle of reincarnation in the source world.

Even so-called God Emperors and Palace Masters are only those who have comprehended two or more ultimate paths.

Having comprehended the profound mysteries of the Great Dao, Shen Mu created two great supernatural powers.

The Body Refining Great Divine Power encompasses the Dao of Life, the Dao of Destruction, the Dao of Array Formation, the Dao of Chaos, and the Dao of Space-Time. It uses the Dao of Weapon Refining as its basic framework, containing all mysteries, and regards its own divine body as countless universes, and countless universes as materials for refining treasures.

Therefore, Shen Mu named this supernatural power: the Primordial Treasure Body of All Heavens.

Although it is not the true ultimate body-refining technique, it is already infinitely close to the ultimate realm level.

Based on Shen Mu's perfect foundation and further tempered by the Primordial Body of All Heavens, his physical strength has long surpassed the barriers of Heavenly Venerable and Supreme, barely comparable to the Ultimate Realm.

As for the other supernatural power, it is naturally the power to condense the soul.

Based on the Dao of the Soul, it encompasses five profound Daos: the Dao of Array Formation, the Dao of Mind and Image, the Dao of Illusion, and the Dao of Chaos. It regards the soul as the source of chaos and opens up the vast universe of mind and image.

The mind is the heart.

The human mind is infinitely vast. Even a mortal can manifest the universe with a single thought and conceive the structure of an endless galaxy.

The principle behind this technique is to use the vast and infinite universe of the mind to forge an illusionary array and condense one's own soul.

If Shen Mu's physical body was barely comparable to that of an ultimate realm being, then his soul strength had truly undergone a qualitative change, comparable to most ultimate realm powerhouses.

Shen Mu looked at Lei Tianheng beside him and said, "Summon the disciples of Yunhai Immortal Palace and other immortal palaces in the True Spirit Holy Realm."

Lei Tianheng was taken aback, and asked with a puzzled look, "Senior, what are you doing?"

Shen Mu gazed at the endless gray mist that formed the sky above the boundless Nine Wonders Mountain and said firmly, "Of course... we will search the mountains and the seas!"

Now, Shen Mu's own strength, coupled with the Myriad Spirits Furnace which has evolved to the ultimate level and the Ten Absolute Chaos Origin Exquisite Pagoda, are the two supreme treasures.

Within the entire plane of the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain, as long as one does not climb to the summit of the Nine Wonders Peak and encounter the nine naturally born giant serpents who went mad after having their Nine Wonders Power stolen, self-preservation is not a problem.

Even if he were to encounter that Ice Bell at the Chaos Origin level again, Shen Mu would still have the means to escape.

Besides, encountering a Hunyuan Treasure once is already bad enough.

According to the information provided by Indra, the appearance of the Primordial Treasure is extremely rare. Generally, one can only encounter two or three Primordial Treasures each time one explores the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain.

It should be noted that the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain World is vast enough. It may not be comparable to the true Origin World, but it can still be considered a small Origin World, no smaller than the Three Thousand Cosmic Seas of the Origin Continent.

The entire Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain has a diameter of countless billions of light-years, or even just light-years in this world.

Therefore, the probability of encountering a supreme treasure is indeed very small.

Even if I encounter it, as long as I don't follow the example of that old demon who keeps provoking the Chaos Origin Treasure, I'll be fine.

Lei Tianheng was taken aback by Shen Mu's words, then asked uncertainly, "Lord, does 'searching mountains and seas' mean the way I understand it?"

Shen Mu laughed heartily and said boldly, "It means exactly what you think it means."

As he spoke, a small, black jade-like tower appeared out of thin air above Shen Mu's head, and then emitted a burst of silvery light.

The silvery glow suddenly magnified countless times.

It was that original Thunder Pool that Shen Mu processed and reforged, incorporating various mysteries such as the Dao of Array Formation and the Dao of Mind, and transformed it into a huge flying palace-like treasure, a silver ship.

Shen Mu reached out and scooped Lei Tianheng onto the silver ship, then transformed into a flash of silver light.

Boom!

The vast fluctuations of the soul, imbued with will, merged into space and time, spreading out in all directions.

Unlike before, Shen Mu has now comprehended the four branches of the Dao of Time and Space, and has even integrated them.

The Dao of Time and Space alone is comparable to the lifelong attainments of most Celestial Venerables.

With the blessing of the Time-Space Path, Shen Mu's perception of time and space became even more sensitive, and his thoughts spread out, covering hundreds of millions of light-years of this world.

Lei Tianheng asked tremblingly, "My lord, aren't we being too conspicuous?"

Shen Mu waved his hand and said calmly, "Don't worry, you just need to contact your fellow disciples and other cultivators in my True Spirit Holy Realm."

At this moment, Shen Mu's attention was entirely focused on exploring the mountains and rivers within hundreds of millions of light-years.

Shen Mu felt a sense of unease: Within hundreds of millions of light-years, there were more than four hundred Venerable Realm cultivators and three Heavenly Venerable Realm cultivators, most of whom were newly entered Heavenly Venerable Realm cultivators.

Logically speaking, there should be quite a few people who can stay in this world, so why are there only so few?

At this moment, behind Shen Mu, the old man who had been controlled by the soul slowly awoke.

The moment the old man saw Shen Mu, an instinctive sense of reverence washed over him, and he immediately knew that he had become Shen Mu's soul servant.

However, the old man had no objection to being controlled by a soul; on the contrary, he felt extremely fortunate and quickly bowed to Shen Mu, saying, "Thank you, Master, for sparing my life!"

Shen Mu nodded slightly and said, "Tell me your identity, which realm do you come from? How long have you been here?"

Upon hearing this, the old man spoke in detail: "So that my master may know, my name is Lei Yan Tianzun, I come from the Great Heavenly Star Realm, and I came to this realm more than six million days ago."

The "day" mentioned by the Thunder Flame Celestial Venerable refers to the time it takes for the pair of supreme treasures of the sun and moon to complete one cycle in the endless clouds and mist of the boundless Nine Wonders Mountain.

The time span was close to a year in the True Spirit Holy Realm, meaning this old man stayed here for over six hundred epochs before breaking through to the Heavenly Venerable realm.

This progress is a bit strange. When the various Hunyuan Worlds explore the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain, they usually send elites who are about to break through to the Heavenly Venerable level.

Logically speaking, a breakthrough shouldn't take long.

Seeing the question on Shen Mu's face, Thunder Flame Celestial Venerable quickly said, "Master should be from the True Spirit Holy Realm, right?"

Shen Mu nodded slightly: "Not bad."

Lei Yan Tianzun explained: "The True Spirit Holy Realm is quite special. Nine extremely powerful Hunyuan beings once plundered a great opportunity in this realm and were protected by that opportunity."

Therefore, apart from the powerful beings in the True Spirit Holy Realm of the master, powerful beings from other worlds who break through in this realm will have their bodies refined into artifacts by the supreme rules.

Breaking through to the Heavenly Venerable level has a 50% chance of transforming into a weapon.

If it breaks through to the ultimate realm, it will inevitably be refined into a supreme treasure.

However, no one cared too much about it; even if it became a treasure, it still had a soul and a life.

A look of realization dawned on Shen Mu's face; it all made sense now.

No wonder the treasures of this world have actually given birth to souls.

Shen Mu thought there was something wrong with the supreme rules of this realm, but it turned out that these treasures were all supreme treasures refined from life.

Upon this thought, a startling idea suddenly popped into Shen Mu's mind.

That is, the entire boundless Nine Wonders Mountain is a huge weapon-refining furnace, the weapon-refining furnace of some terrifying and great being.

Those who came from various source worlds to explore opportunities all became materials for refining weapons.

"Who exactly created this Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain? How could it possess such terrifying methods?" Shen Mu felt a chill run down his spine. Using the gods and kings of all the heavens and myriad realms as materials for refining weapons was truly unimaginable.

Seeing Shen Mu remain silent, Lei Yan Tianzun roughly guessed what Shen Mu was thinking.

After all, there have been countless speculations about the boundless Nine Wonders Mountain, and even more shocking ones.

After pondering for a moment, Shen Mu looked at the old man beside him: "Lei Yan, do you know anything about the Nine Mystic Powers of this realm, or the treasures that can counter them?"

Lei Yan Tianzun shook his head: "I don't understand the power of the Nine Wonders. I only know that these are nine treasures. When they first appeared in the Boundless Nine Wonders Mountain, they were snatched away by the nine primordial beings of the True Spirit Holy Realm."

As for the treasure that restrains the power of the Nine Wonders, it should be the supreme treasure that appears once every 129,600 days.

At that time, this treasure will follow the sun and moon, circulating through the heavens.

Everyone can try to understand the principles above and attempt to obtain this supreme treasure, but so far, no one has succeeded.

(End of this chapter)