荒墟牧神 - 第1135章 天尊試劈古神之卵 - 錦書坊

In the potted world, Shen Mu entered dream after dream, suffering countless failures, and little by little he groped his way into Heavenly Venerable Ling's divine ability of the Immutability of Matter. The ability grew more and more complete. To learn it at all was already exceedingly difficult; one could well imagine what monstrous talent it had taken for Heavenly Venerable Ling to comprehend it in the first place. No wonder Heavenly Venerable Yu had said back then that in aptitude and comprehension, Heavenly Venerable Ling was the foremost of them all, and that he himself was no match for her. Yet Shen Mu discovered a graver truth: once he fully unleashed the Immutability of Matter, he himself would turn into Immutable Matter. That is to say, this divine ability led to a dreadful end — the self was assimilated by the ability, became Immutable Matter, and could not escape that state. Again and again he entered dreams, again and again he tried, yet every time the outcome was the same: the Shen Mu in the dream turned into Immutable Matter, became a mass of mist. The mist upon the Surging River was Heavenly Venerable Ling herself; after unleashing this divine ability she had been assimilated into Immutable Matter, and she too was trapped within the Immutability of Matter, with no way to free herself. Of course, when she turned into Immutable Matter, she dragged down with her the Grand Emperor's reincarnated body of that time — the eleventh Heavenly Venerable, Ming Fangyu. What Heavenly Venerable Ming Fangyu had wielded was the true flesh of the Heaven Emperor, and so the Ten Heavenly Venerables had no choice but to use the Creation Divine Artifact to remake a Heaven Emperor and hold on to their rule. The most terrifying thing was not how many people this ability had trapped, but that after unleashing it, one could not free oneself from the Immutability of Matter. Even Ming Fangyu, joined with the flesh of the Ancient God Heaven Emperor, could not break through the Immutability of Matter, could not escape cycle after cycle of rebirth. So it was with Shen Mu in his dreams: again and again he unleashed the ability, again and again he was assimilated. The dainty little Shen Mus in the dream turned into mist, forever lost within the mist. He wanted to find a way out for Heavenly Venerable Ling, yet every time it was the same, without exception. This meant that if Shen Mu fully unleashed the Immutability of Matter, he too would turn into Immutable Matter and meet the same fate as Heavenly Venerable Ling. Still, he had made a discovery: employing fragments of the Immutability of Matter did not cause him to be assimilated. This was also why Heavenly Venerable Ling, before she perfected the ability, had used the Ghost Ship to exile the Yulin Army. At last Shen Mu stopped entering dreams, and instead took out the five runes he had comprehended from the Egg of the Great Beginning. "The only way to save our eldest senior brother and Heavenly Venerable Ling is to use the Egg of the Great Beginning to break Heavenly Venerable Ling's divine ability. Whether it can be broken still comes down to verifying whether these five runes are correct." Shen Mu steadied himself. In his sleep he seemed to have lived through hundreds of thousands of years of vicissitude — an illusion wrought by the transformations of matter within the dream. These five runes were the runes of the Great Dao of the Great Beginning that he had comprehended from the Egg of the Great Beginning. When Wei Suifeng had cleaved the Egg with all his strength, the Egg had burst forth with endless light of the Dao, briefly breaking open the Ghost Ship and freeing it for a moment from the Immutability of Matter — only for it to sink back into that Immutability once more. Even then Shen Mu had known that the Dao of the Great Beginning was absolutely the bane of the Immutability of Matter. Whether the five runes he had comprehended from the Egg were truly correct could only be verified by