"Haha, two more great divine powers?!"
"Wonderful, wonderful..."
Chen Ku laughed inwardly, astonished and excited.
It seemed the effects of his Heaven-Defying Comprehension were truly growing ever stronger.
Of course, that was also because this place itself was extraordinarily mystical.
In the Outer Heavens, the power of the countless stars intertwined, further nourished by Pangu's pressure from Buzhou Mountain.
To Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, there seemed to be no opportunities here.
Yet for Chen Ku, who possessed Heaven-Defying Comprehension, there was much to comprehend and immense gains to reap.
Conversely, if he were placed in a truly desolate, barren world devoid of anything at all,
then even with Heaven-Defying Comprehension empowering him, Chen Ku would be unable to comprehend anything.
After silently marveling for a moment, Chen Ku immediately began to examine the two great divine powers he had just comprehended.
The first was Star Chasing Moon Grasping!
This was a top-tier movement divine power. Once unleashed, one could chase stars and grasp the moon with ease, just as its name implied.
It was only slightly inferior to the space divine powers of heaven and earth.
After all, throughout the history of the primordial world, there had been exceedingly few who could command Space Divine Power.
The foremost among the current Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Space Ancestral Witch Dijiang, was the greatest of them.
Aside from him, only Zhu Long of the former Dragon Clan had also once touched upon the power of the Law of Space.
Without exaggeration, Star Chasing Moon Grasping was absolutely beyond comparison with such Dao techniques as earth escape and Shrinking the Earth to an Inch.
Having understood the use of this divine power, Chen Ku was overcome with delight.
"Hehe, excellent!"
"With this divine power, whether I pursue enemies or make a quick escape in the future, I'll get twice the result with half the effort."
He thought to himself.
Of course, for Chen Ku, who only wanted to lie low beneath Jie Yin and Zhun Ti's protection and quietly grow stronger, the chances of making a quick escape might be greater than those of pursuing an enemy.
He felt not the slightest shame over so-called fleeing.
After all, staying alive was the true way. As for losing face, it was simply not within the scope of his considerations.
The second divine power was even more astonishing in its effects!
Ziwei Astrology!
Upon examining it, Chen Ku discovered in surprise that this was actually a supreme deduction-type divine power.
With Ziwei Astrology, one could deduce the changing tides of heaven and earth above, seeking fortune and avoiding calamity.
Below, one could deduce cultivation techniques and divine powers, perfecting one's own cultivation until it became flawless.
One could even pierce through confusion in the midst of battle, perceive the flaws between an opponent's moves, and seize the initiative.
In short, there was practically nothing it could not deduce.
It was incomparably powerful!
It was absurdly badass!
Chen Ku cried out inwardly.
Of course, reaching the point of wielding it as freely as one wished was not something that could be accomplished overnight, and it required extraordinarily powerful cultivation as support.
But even so, that was enough to send Chen Ku into ecstasy.
With divine powers in hand, was he afraid he would not be able to completely master them?
Having gained two great divine powers in one stroke, he turned to look at Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, who were still collecting Star Sand nearby.
Who said there were no opportunities in the Outer Heavens?!
In his view, these two great divine powers were far more precious than Spiritual Root Immortal Fruits and the like.
After all, spiritual roots and even spiritual treasures each had their own wondrous uses and formidable might.
But they were ultimately external things.
Only one's own strength was an eternal truth.
Afterward, Chen Ku experimentally fixed his gaze on several other great stars.
Yet this time, even after a long while, no further sensations or prompts arose within his sea of consciousness.
Clearly, the other stars were insufficient for him to comprehend any more great divine powers.
Since that was the case, he would stop here!
"Alas... alas..."
"How wonderful would it be if I could comprehend a few more divine powers?!"
Chen Ku sighed softly.
If other cultivators heard those words, they would surely be angered to the point of spitting blood.
Whether Star Chasing Moon Grasping or Ziwei Astrology, either divine power was a rarity unseen in ages.
And this brat was still so insatiably greedy?!
As his words fell, Chen Ku immediately turned around, preparing to return.
Yet at the instant he turned, he caught an inadvertent glimpse.
In an instant, an extremely faint glimmer flashed forth, shimmering with flowing colors, profound and mysterious.
There was another treasure?!
Chen Ku could not help but halt and focus his gaze.
Only after a moment did he see clearly that it was, astonishingly, a tiny grain of Star Sand.
However, ordinary Star Sand radiated a silvery-white glow.
This grain before him, however, was suffused with countless rays of light in every variety. Clearly, it was an anomaly.
When Chen Ku sent a trace of divine sense into it, he was even more shocked.
In merely an instant, Chen Ku sensed within it the fluctuations of laws and order.
This was truly bizarre!
It also immediately confirmed that this grain of Star Sand was not one of those ordinary grains as vast in number as waves of smoke.
As he continued to examine it, he discovered that within this tiny grain of Star Sand, all manner of phenomena appeared, profound and mysterious.
Chen Ku saw immortal towers standing in rows and heavenly palaces spread throughout.
Jade grasses and immortal blossoms emitted spiritual light, while immortal cranes danced through the air, crying long into the heavens.
In short, it resembled a wondrous scene of an immortal treasure land.
"This is... Thirty-Three Heavens Sand?!"
"And the scene within is precisely what the Heavenly Court should possess?!"
Chen Ku could not help crying out softly, his voice trembling with barely suppressed emotion.
Thirty-Three Heavens Sand!
Without question, this was the most precious single grain of Star Sand.
In other words, even if hundreds of millions upon hundreds of millions, or even more, grains of Star Sand gathered together, they might still be unable to form a single grain of Thirty-Three Heavens Sand.
Or, put another way, this object itself symbolized the Heavenly Court and could manifest everything beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Without question, this was an enormous opportunity. Calling it a supreme treasure would not be an exaggeration.
No wonder Chen Ku was shocked beyond words.
"Hehe, I never expected Master and Martial Uncle to collect for so long,"
"only to miss such a tremendous opportunity."
"It has fallen into my hands instead."
Without hesitation, Chen Ku immediately put that grain of Thirty-Three Heavens Sand away.
He knew that his Master and Martial Uncle must have overlooked it in their senses and failed to detect the existence of this object.
Otherwise, how could they have let it slip past them?!
Chen Ku did not know that,
just as he was in the Outer Heavens, reaping all manner of opportunities and feeling utterly satisfied,
at the same time, within the Outer Chaos Domain, a majestic, solemn, and vast divine hall stood suspended. Endless laws and order swirled around it, soul-stirring and boundlessly imposing.
This divine hall was none other than Dao Ancestor Hongjun's Purple Cloud Palace.
Within the Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, clad in a simple ancient green Daoist robe, his bearing solemn and sacred.
Above his head hung the Jade Creation Disc, as the laws of the Three Thousand Great Daos flowed and reflected one another.
Countless Order God Chains condensed and rang without cease.
Saintly might swept outward, directly crushing the surrounding void!
Even quasi-sages like Jie Yin and Zhun Ti were as tiny as mayflies gazing upon the azure heavens when compared to such a presence.
This showed just how incomparably powerful a saint was.
Yet at a certain moment, Hongjun, who was in seclusion, suddenly stirred slightly, as though he had sensed something.
Hongjun slowly opened his eyes.
The instant his eyes opened and closed, visions of countless universes being born and destroyed, of billions of stars intertwining, seemed to surface within them. It was truly terrifying.
Hongjun turned his head slightly, his two profound gazes looking in the direction of the Outer Heavens.
However, he did not say anything.
After a moment, he withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes again, continuing to meditate and comprehend the Great Dao.
Only the faintly fluctuating aura around him perhaps indicated that a few ripples had already arisen within Hongjun's heart.
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