For Li Mu, the Star-observing Mansion was an old acquaintance.
Back at the Blessed Land of Ten Thousand Immortals, he had cooperated with the Star-Gazing Manor.
This was good karma.
The current leaders of the Star-observing Mansion were two Sage Immortals, and they were respectively addressed as the Star Emperor and the Star Emperor.
He was one of the Six Sovereigns and Six Emperors.
Furthermore, it was different from the other Heavenly Law Union factions.
Stargazing House was the only sect located on the Heavenly Dao Mountain.
Its function and status were equivalent to that of the Observatory in the mortal world in ancient times.
Previously, when the news that Li Mu, as an ascendant, had killed Defeating Armies, Sacrificing Moon, and the others, as well as the news that he was suspected to be the fourth peerless ascendant, spread to Tiandao Mountain, the Star-observing Mansion conducted a deduction on Li Mu according to the usual practice.
This was supposed to be a perfectly normal attempt.
Who would have thought that after trying it out, there would be a huge problem?
The ordinary cultivators and immortals of the Star-observing Mansion could not even grasp the trajectory of Li Mu's fate.
Forcefully divining it, Zhang Xuan ended up spurting blood.
In the end, it was Star Sovereign's turn.
However, he was still unable to deduce anything further.
In the end, Star Emperor and Star Sovereign, the two strongest experts in the Star-observing Mansion, joined hands to predict Li Mu's fate.
After expending a great deal of treasures and paying the price of injuring their own bodies, the two experts finally managed to catch a glimpse of Li Mu's future.
This was the origin of the first Heavenly Secrets Deduction Diagram.
After this deduction, the two powerhouses had suffered great losses and could only go into seclusion to recuperate.
This recuperation lasted for more than a month.
Even until today, he still hadn't fully recovered.
Fortunately, with Gui Guzi and Liu Bowen working together, he was barely able to start the divination process again today.
Moreover, there was another condition.
Therefore, Li Mu had to cooperate with him and enter the derivation tactical deployment.
The Dragon Emperor, Li Bai, and the others hesitated.
Because entering the Grand Derivation Formation meant the existence of danger.
If Li Mu's Divine Consciousness was not strong enough, once he made a mistake, it was very likely that his Divine Consciousness would be shattered, and the consequences would be extremely serious.
"It's fine."
But Li Mu readily agreed.
He was proficient in formations and Time Upanishad.
Moreover, it was not an exaggeration to say that the strength of his divine sense far surpassed that of the Six Sovereigns, Six Emperors, and Thirty-six Pillar Gods.
Fearless.
Seeing that Li Mu was so determined, the others found it hard to object.
The group arrived at the Stargazing Manor.
This was an independent tower forest outside the Heavenly Dao Palace's group of palaces.
Ice towers of various styles stood tall in different areas, especially those that clearly belonged to different historical eras, giving people a feeling that time and space were in disorder.
Li Mu even saw several buildings, which were similar to the modern high-rise buildings on Earth.
The entire tower forest was like a hodgepodge exhibition of tower architecture.
The centermost area was a thousand-meter-tall ice altar.
More than ten meters per floor.
There were ninety-nine floors in total.
Moreover, each layer was like a huge ice mill, slowly rotating at different speeds. There were ice sculptures, different patterns, marks, and symbols on them, as well as densely packed patterns and pointers, making the entire altar look like a high-speed calculating machine.
"This is the most precious treasure of the Star Observing Mansion. It's called the Star Orbit Altar, and it's the core of the divination of the Heavenly Secrets. In the last divination of the Heavenly Secrets, the Star Orbit Altar was damaged in several places, and it was only repaired a few days ago."
The Dragon Emperor introduced.
Then, Star Emperor and Star Emperor came to the front gate of the Star-observing Mansion to welcome Li Mu.
Preparation
As the "Young Master" of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Li Mu's status in the Heavenly Dao could be said to be second only to one, but above tens of thousands of people. No one dared to slight him.
"Greetings, Young Master."
"The two of us have been recuperating in seclusion, so we can't meet you. Please forgive us."
The two great experts came to greet him, and their posture was very humble.
After a ceremonial exchange, they entered the Star-observing Mansion.
In the next two hours, the four "professionals", Star Emperor, Star Emperor, Liu Ji, and Guigu 'zi, introduced the whole process of the divination, the sequence, and the important matters.
And about a thousand disciples of the Star-observing Mansion were methodically carrying out various tactical deployments and material arrangements.
The divination of the Heavenly Secrets was a big job.
Moreover, it was a good time to start the divination.
It was not until the afternoon that Li Mu set foot on the Star Orbit Altar.
He sat on the top of the altar.
On the altar on the 99th floor was a huge pattern of Eight Diagrams.
It was black and white.
Li Mu sat in the center of the pattern.
The cold wind was whistling around, and the snowflakes were flying.
He had a magnificent feeling of climbing to the top and looking down at all the towers.
Around the Star Orbit Altar, there were four temporary Star Pagodas. They were the Round Pagoda, the Triangular Pagoda, the Five Stars Pagoda, and the Six Stars Pagoda. They were the residences of the four Immortal Sage experts who were in charge of the divination.
The Star Orbit Altar had already stopped rotating.
Everything was quiet.
"Start."
The deep voice of Star Emperor came from the round tower.
Rumble!
The Star Orbit Altar was reactivated.
Except for the 99th floor under Li Mu's feet, the other 98 floors began to rotate at different speeds.
In an instant, the scene in front of Li Mu changed completely.
The wind and snow disappeared.
The white ice tower disappeared.
Even the Heavenly Dao Mountain disappeared.
Only the Star Orbit Altar and the starry sky were left.
The sky was dark and distant, dotted with endless stars.
The starlight flickered, adding a bit of mystery.
On Earth, there was a legend in the mortal world. It said that every person in the mortal world corresponded to a star in the sky. After a person died, the star would fall. All living beings, billions of living beings, were like the stars in the sky. From the moment they were born, their fates were already determined.
That was the so-called "human fate is determined by God".
That was a shallow and erroneous understanding of the Heavenly Secrets.
In fact, although the real divination also relied on the power of the stars, the real mystery lay in the operation and observation of the Great Way between the universe to infer some information.
Soon, Li Mu sensed that a mysterious power had enveloped him in the dark.
It was not the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth.
It was not the Great Way.
It was the power of fate.
At this moment, the chakra of fate began to run.
Then, Li Mu saw the stars in the sky began to flicker, rotate, and evolve at a speed far beyond the normal state.
Li Mu had an illusion that ten thousand years had passed in a blink.
The speed of the evolution of the starry sky was far beyond imagination.
The star patterns in the sky were like thousands of beads on a pitch-black plate that had been violently stirred by someone. Then, they rolled and collided in a disorderly and chaotic manner, constantly changing into different configurations. Until the last moment, nobody knew what kind of pattern they would be when they finally stopped.
Li Mu felt as if he was observing the history of the whole universe at a super speed.
In such an environment, the flow of time seemed to be accelerated.
It was thousands of times faster.
He began to cultivate.
The four experts had told Li Mu that he didn't need to do anything deliberately in the whole process of divination. He just needed to wait or cultivate.
Li Mu didn't choose to absorb the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth to improve his realm.
Instead, he began to take the opportunity of divination to derive the profound meaning of time to the peak.
The greatest meaning of divination was actually to control time — to be precise, it was to surpass time, and use the present as a base to foresee what would happen in the distant future.
For the four experts, that was the case.
But for Li Mu, who was on the Star Orbit Altar, it was more like he was in the torrent of time, feeling the feeling of time roaring past him.
He had a deep understanding of the profound meaning of the law of time.
With this opportunity, Li Mu felt that he had vaguely begun to peek into the peak of the profound meaning of time.
Time flew.
Li Mu was completely immersed in it.
The originally vague Taoist laws gradually became clear in front of Li Mu.
Li Mu had a feeling that as long as he stretched out his hand, he could grasp the profound meaning of time as if it were a tangible object.
After a long time.
Rumble!
The sound of vibration was heard.
Li Mu woke up from his meditation.
Immediately, he saw the stars in the sky began to fall as if the end of the world had come.
Streaks of meteor flames streaked across the starry sky.
The stars lost their orbits and rushed out of their orbits, collided with each other, collapsed, and shattered. Like clusters of dazzling fireworks, the starry sky constantly flashed with clusters of dazzling light.
"What's going on?"
Li Mu was taken aback.
"Is this the future scene I saw in the divination?"
"The future is doomsday?"
Suddenly, his body began to shake violently.
The starry sky of the universe was like glass that had been shattered. Cracks appeared on it, and then it shattered and fell …
In the cracks of the starry sky, Li Mu saw the wind, snow, and ice towers.
He saw the Tiandao Mountain.
The violent shaking came from under him.
The vast [Star Orbit Altar] was shaking violently, as if it was about to collapse.
"Get away from the altar quickly."
It was unknown whose voice it was, but it echoed in the air.
Li Mu did not hesitate. He directly exerted his strength, trying to leave the Star Orbit Altar.
However, an invisible force surged over and pressed him on the altar, preventing him from jumping up.
Rumble!
The Star Orbit Altar began to crumble. The layers below cracked, turned into ice cubes, and rolled down. The pointers, talismans, marks, and so on were all broken.
The disciples of Star-observing Mansion, who did not know where they were hiding on each layer of the altar, flew out in panic like wasps leaving their nest.
A terrible power of annihilation slowly broke out in the center of the altar.
Li Mu was drowned in it.
"Damn it …"
Li Mu couldn't help cursing.
He saw that the four Spellcasting Towers around the [Star Orbit Altar] were also collapsing at an extremely fast speed.
He wondered how Star Emperor, Star Sovereign, Guigu 'zi, and Liu Ji were doing.
Li Mu felt the coming crisis. Without hesitation, he directly used time.
He traveled through time.
Finally, he successfully got out of the Star Orbit Altar and was in a safe range.
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