The remaining divine sense of the Supreme Emperor withdrew, vanishing swiftly without a trace, leaving behind only a cold snort.
Quinn Shepherd paid it no mind. After all, the Supreme Emperor was the number one in divine sense across all ages—being able to capture even a fragment of his divine sense was already quite an achievement.
Divine sense is thought and awareness, tied to memory. His goal was simply to extract the supreme method for cultivating divine sense from the Supreme Emperor’s remnant—the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense.
He was not capable of fully refining the Supreme Emperor; the divine sense left behind was just the tip of the iceberg, a drop in the ocean.
If he could refine this portion of the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense and obtain the cultivation method for Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense within, that would be a stroke of enormous fortune!
Taking out the Supreme Emperor Seal and altar to lure the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense had been a crisis for him. But every crisis contains both danger and opportunity; to survive the danger and seize the opportunity is exactly what a wise person should both anticipate and accomplish.
Many, when faced with a crisis, see only the danger and try to avoid it, forgetting that every crisis has two sides. By dodging the danger, they often miss the opportunity as well.
Quinn Shepherd, working together with the others, repelled the Supreme Emperor and captured a fragment of his divine sense—facing the hardship head-on and seizing the opportunity.
Yue Tingge and Logan Cross, seeing the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense withdraw, also flew out from his Divine Treasury.
Quinn Shepherd thanked the two of them. Shu Jun also returned to the Taichu Primal Stone, and when Quinn’s divine sense descended there, he thanked Shu Jun as well.
"It concerns your life and death, but mine as well—no need for thanks."
Inside Shu Jun’s massive head, his two eyeballs bounced around in their sockets as he laughed: "If you really feel guilty, then just supply me with more divine sense and blood-qi to help me regrow my ears and mouth and nose!"
Quinn Shepherd burst out laughing, "Relax, King Jun—I’ll definitely do as you wish!"
Shu Jun sneered, "What King Jun? I may be one of the Three Kings of the ancient era, but my people never called me King Jun—they called me God-King Shu Jun! You should call me God-King! Even if you’ve caught a fragment of the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense, do you know how to refine it and extract the memories within? If not, then you’d better offer me more blood-qi and divine sense to help me regrow my brain. Not a bad deal, right?"
Quinn Shepherd frowned and countered, "How about this—you teach me how to refine the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense, and I’ll pass on to you whatever information I extract from it. Don’t you want the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense? Isn’t this a better deal?"
Shu Jun was tempted. After thinking a moment, he said, "That’s not a bad proposal. My Three-Enclosure Upper Sense System is strong, but it’s still a bit inferior to the Supreme Emperor’s Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense. Of course, the Supreme Emperor isn’t just the Supreme Emperor because of Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense—he also has countless clansmen visualizing him, helping him cultivate…"
Quinn Shepherd coaxed, "If there’s Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense in the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense, I’ll transmit it all to you—no holding back! Once God-King Shu Jun is resurrected and has Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense, becoming another Supreme Emperor will be just around the corner!"
Shu Jun laughed, "It’s a deal!"
"Deal!"
Shu Jun was overjoyed. "For once, this kid is actually straightforward! Heh, the Supreme Emperor’s Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense is leagues above my Three-Enclosure Upper Sense System—he has no idea he’s getting the short end of the stick… Wait a minute!"
This prevents the practitioner from being assimilated by the opponent’s divine sense, while still allowing them to refine and strengthen their own divine sense.
Step-Heaven Sense-Refining was a divine sense art created by Creators in the ancient era specifically to counter other Creators. Battles between Creators were frequent in those times, so figuring out how to kill enemies became a major focus of their research. However, the divine sense arts of that era are very different from those of today, making this a strange and unfamiliar field for Quinn.
Within his Spirit Embryo Treasury, Quinn activated Step-Heaven Sense-Refining and first refined the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense trapped in the Heaven Bottle. Suddenly, a flood of chaotic information surged forth, filling Quinn’s mind with all sorts of images—this was the memory stream of the Supreme Emperor!
He immediately sifted through the Supreme Emperor’s memory stream, searching for anything useful and erasing what he didn’t need.
The Supreme Emperor’s divine sense contained far too much; just the memories from the ancient era alone held countless information.
Quinn frowned deeply; among all these memory streams, there was very little about the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense. There were, however, many fragments of various divine sense arts, but only fragments—not complete techniques.
Still, his divine sense strength soared—growing much faster than when cultivating the Three-Enclosure Upper Sense System!
By the time the Supreme Emperor’s divine sense in the Heaven Bottle was fully refined, Quinn had only obtained a brief section of the Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense.
Unwilling to give up, he refined the remaining Supreme Emperor’s divine sense, and his own divine sense grew ever stronger.
This time, the memories related to Grand-Luo Supreme Divine Sense finally increased.
He pioneered the Spirit Embryo Treasury, evolving its cosmos, but its development had limits. He had exhausted its potential earlier, and only after obtaining Origin-Root Primordial Essence from Earth Mother did he squeeze out a bit more.
However, the Spirit Embryo Treasury truly had no more potential to mine.
Especially recently, he felt his mana had reached its limit—the peak of what the Spirit Embryo Treasury could achieve. His yuan-qi cultivation was at the level of a True God, but that was the end of the Spirit Embryo Treasury.
That’s why he devoted himself to divine sense cultivation, hoping foreign systems could serve as a whetstone to break his jade and help him escape his current predicament.
He still hadn’t figured out how to proceed on the road ahead.
He wanted to blaze a new trail from the foundation of the Spirit Embryo Treasury, but had no concrete idea where that road led.
Yet he vaguely felt that the end of that road might be some wondrous realm—one that flowed with the Dao, unspeakable and indescribable.
Shu Jun said, "If I were you, I’d open a Heaven Palace."
Quinn humbly sought guidance, bowing, "Please instruct me, God-King."