Countless streams of information surged into Quinn Shepherd's mind—knowledge of the Creator race, vast and intricate, spanning from their origins to the present day. This endless torrent of wisdom filled his memory in an instant!
He felt the Creators' joy upon first encountering the Taichu God-Stones, their delight when visualizing objects with divine sense, and their excitement at pioneering the earliest divine-sense arts.
He also experienced the immense joy of creation—watching as each Creator forged all things in the world, shaped nature, transformed mountains and rivers, strolled through the seas, and walked among the clouds. He could feel their state of mind as they performed these feats.
They possessed a unique understanding of nature and the universe, and a profound closeness to all things under heaven.
He could also sense the Creators' mindset on the battlefield—the war drums pounding, thunder roaring, blood boiling and burning. On the field, Creators unleashed their destructive urge, stirring one's blood and making you long to clash three hundred rounds in combat.
He also felt the Creators' gentle, spring-rain-like temperament—they could visualize and create suns, moons, and stars, or conjure the most beautiful flowers, meticulously carving even the finest details of each petal.
He felt the Creators' joy, and also their sorrow.
Wars between kin, the death of clan members, the fading of a life—even the withering of a flower—could sadden them, moving these rough giant warriors to tears.
Visualization and creation were the daily routine of these giants—yet so too were war, destruction, and slaughter.
He could sense all their insights—their comprehension of divine sense, and their understanding of creation itself.
All these messages flooded his mind, transforming into a vast and tangled sea of knowledge. Quinn felt as if, in a single instant, he had experienced millions, tens of millions, even billions of years—witnessing the changes of the world and the rise and fall of civilizations.
He was still himself, yet he had witnessed far too much, gained far too much knowledge, too many insights, too many divine-sense arts.
God-Queen Langwo stood beside him, watching as light from the Ancestor-Spirit Realm poured endlessly into Quinn Shepherd's brow—feeling, to her surprise, a hint of envy.
After an unknown length of time, the stream of light flowing into Quinn gradually dimmed—the transmission of knowledge was finally coming to an end.
The Ancestor-Spirit Realm returned to tranquility.
The twenty-seven Ancestor-Spirits still stood motionless in the red light, but now their gazes fell upon Quinn Shepherd.
The glow at Quinn Shepherd's brow slowly faded, yet he did not awaken.
Suddenly, the light of his third eye at the brow began to brighten, the radiance of divine sense growing ever more intense. Not only that, but they could feel powerful waves of yuan-qi surging from within Quinn, as his vital energy and divine sense fused together.
Beneath Quinn Shepherd's feet, his Spirit Embryo Treasury Domain suddenly unfolded. The starry sky soared upward, enveloping thousands of miles of the Ancestor-Spirit Realm. Each star followed its own unique trajectory, forming a galactic river.
The galactic river flowed past God-Queen Langwo and the twenty-seven Ancestor-Spirits, merging into the heavens.
In the sky appeared the figure of Quinn Shepherd, the Heavenly Duke.
A lush Origin-Root Tree soared upward, piercing straight to the galactic river. Beneath the taiji diagram of the Spirit Embryo Treasury lay utter darkness—there was Youdu, unfathomably deep.
The taiji diagram slowly spun, with Heaven Palaces scattered in elegant order—some floating above, some below, and some directly on the diagram itself.
God-Queen Langwo and the twenty-seven Ancestor-Spirits saw the silhouettes of ancient gods—each at their post, each fulfilling their duty, jointly guarding Quinn Shepherd's treasury.
A look of astonishment appeared on God-Queen Langwo's face. What Quinn Shepherd revealed—his treasury and Heaven Palaces—completely overturned her understanding of the God-Treasury Heaven-Palace cultivation system.
Quinn Shepherd's treasury actually encompassed the Heaven Palaces!
This was utterly different from the people of Carefree Haven!
The Heaven Palaces of Carefree Haven's people are established above their treasuries.
Moreover, Quinn Shepherd possessed only a single treasury, while the people of Carefree Haven had seven!
There was another peculiarity: the number of Heaven Palaces Quinn Shepherd had was also unusual. Most gods of Carefree Haven had only one Heaven Palace, but Quinn had as many as fourteen—though many of them were incomplete.
At that moment, the fifteenth Heaven Palace was rapidly forming within Quinn Shepherd's Spirit Embryo Treasury!
"Opening a new Heaven Palace?"
God-Queen Langwo's eyes flickered as she carefully studied how Quinn Shepherd opened this new Heaven Palace. She mused: "Perhaps this could be of great use to my Creator race. Back then, countless Creators died trying to open the Divine Sense Heaven Palace..."
When the Pioneer Emperor founded Carefree Haven, God-Queen Langwo led her people to attack it. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. God-Queen Langwo immediately realized that if the Creators could not accept the God-Treasury Heaven-Palace cultivation system, they would never be a match for Carefree Haven—and the gap would only widen with time.
So she decisively ordered everyone to adopt the God-Treasury Heaven-Palace cultivation system. Yet they knew nothing about opening treasuries and Heaven Palaces. Luckily, as Creators, they captured many of Carefree Haven's gods.
Obtaining the memories of these gods was easy for them.
Yet knowing is one thing—opening is another.
Countless Creators died trying to open the seven Divine Treasuries and Heaven Palaces—more than those lost in the battle for Carefree Haven!
After countless failures, they finally mastered the God-Treasury Heaven-Palace cultivation system.
Yet the seven Divine Treasuries and Heaven Palaces they opened still differed from Carefree Haven's system. Carefree Haven followed the Divine Dao, while the Creators pursued the Divine Sense Treasury and Divine Sense Heaven Palace system!
Now, what Quinn Shepherd displayed to them was another system. Though it originated from the God-Treasury Heaven-Palace cultivation system, it was even more advanced—far higher than their own divine-sense system!
"God-Queen, what is he doing?" asked one Ancestor-Spirit, its divine sense rippling.
God-Queen Langwo carefully observed Quinn Shepherd opening a Heaven Palace and said, "He is comprehending a divine-sense art at the Emperor's Throne level... It should be the Supreme Emperor's Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense!"
She could not help but be astonished.
Quinn Shepherd was actually modifying the Supreme Emperor's Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense!
Such audacity!
But what she did not know was that the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense Quinn Shepherd obtained was only a fragment, missing the arts for several treasuries and many Heaven Palace realms. Thus, Quinn Shepherd had always been unable to form a Divine Sense Heaven Palace.
Now, with the Creators' deep foundation of knowledge, his mastery of divine sense was unmatched—there was truly no second to be found!
Even the Supreme Emperor might surpass him in depth, but could not match his breadth!
With such knowledge, Quinn Shepherd could repair the missing portions of the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense as naturally as water flows downhill!
After all, the Supreme Emperor was the creator of this art—Quinn Shepherd was only patching the gaps, which was no great trouble.
The Divine Sense Grand-Luo Heaven Palace grew ever thicker and more imposing, nearly overshadowing the other Heaven Palaces. Yet Quinn Shepherd's main Heaven Palace was even more magnificent, always firmly holding the lead, never letting the Grand-Luo Heaven Palace usurp its place.
Once the Grand-Luo Heaven Palace formed, Quinn Shepherd's aura grew even more powerful.
But the changes were not yet over.
God-Queen Langwo and the twenty-seven Ancestor-Spirits immediately sensed a wondrous aura emanating from him. They seemed to hear a marvelous rhythm—the Dao was humming softly.
Quinn Shepherd smiled as if entering a state of indescribable wonder.
He was wielding divine arts, the rhythm of the Dao transforming into lively notes at his fingertips. Yuan qi and divine sense merged; the Creators’ legacy and knowledge, his own insights into Daoist arts—all fused together, forming a Dao Realm in that moment.
Divine Arts Entering the Dao!
At this moment, divine-sense arts and yuan-qi Daoist arts combined perfectly—beneath his hand, the first heaven of Divine Sense Entering the Dao took shape.
He raised his palm, and his yuan qi and divine sense became the forty-nine heavens of the Heavenly Dao, towering above. When he pressed his palm down, they transformed into the thirty-six avenues of the Yuandu Dao, round heaven and square earth. Though the Heavenly Dao and Yuandu Dao belonged to different systems, they fused perfectly through the unity of divine sense and yuan qi.