Chapter 1038: The Xiaohan Heavenly Court
Qin Mu looked at this young man, his gaze shifting slightly, thinking to himself: "Luo Xiao, the prophet of the Tai Xu Creator race, brought three astonishing prophecies to the Creators of the Tai Xu. Prophecy one: the Great Emperor would invade, and a human named Cloud Heavenly Venerable would go to help them fight against the Great Emperor and overcome the crisis."
The first prophecy was quickly fulfilled. Cloud Heavenly Venerable went to the Tai Xu, helped the Creators there set up their plans, trapped the Great Emperor's physical body, and slew a portion of the Great Emperor.
The second prophecy of the ancestor spirit Luo Xiao was about the Void Bridge and the Other Shore World, and this too was fulfilled.
After the Great Emperor died, the great war left the Tai Xu land uninhabitable, so the Creators, under the leadership of figures like Lang Wan Divine King, visualized the Void Bridge and built the Other Shore World.
Luo Xiao's third prophecy was that a Holy Infant would appear in the future of the Creator race. The Holy Infant would descend into the world carrying the Primordial Origin Stone. At birth, he would represent the supreme authority of the Creator race, holding the Great Emperor's Seal in hand, born upon the Great Emperor's altar.
And this prophecy was Qin Mu.
Qin Mu smiled as he looked at Luo Xiao sitting beside him. Luo Xiao felt very uncomfortable under his gaze, his eyeballs darting left and right, thinking: "Could this person have seen through my origins? Impossible. I gathered the divine consciousness of the clan's strongest members to visualize, making my physical body no different from an ordinary person's. Even ordinary ancient gods cannot see through my true form..."
The vertical eye on his forehead was also hidden, leaving only a faint red mark running vertically down his brow. Moreover, his clothing was not that of the Creator race but the clothing style of people in this era.
"The person who told Luo Xiao these three prophecies is probably me. This young Creator mistook me for the divine consciousness of the Creator ancestors, and then I returned to the Tai Xu to tell them these three prophecies."
Qin Mu blinked, thinking: "Someday in the future, I will enter the Tai Xu, become their Creator, and go to the Ancestor Spirit Realm to see him. Only then will he suddenly go mad when he sees me. If I don't tell him these three prophecies, would that change the future? However, I must tell him these three prophecies. Only then can I keep the Land of No Worries safe, and only then can I become the Holy Infant of the Creator race, making the Creators serve my purposes..."
Luo Xiao was also studying him. He saw that Qin Mu also had something like a scar on his brow, and beneath this scar was an eye. He thought: "This person called Qin Mu gives me a familiar feeling. Could he also be a Creator? But outsiders are cunning and treacherous. I must not reveal any trace of my identity, after all, I am the cleverest one among our Creator race..."
Qin Mu looked out the window, thinking: "Luo Xiao left the Tai Xu lands a million years ago to check whether the outside world was safe. He asked me how to get to the Heavenly Court, which means the Long Han Heavenly Court has already been established. I just don't know what year it is now... If it's the early years of Long Han, and I go to the Heavenly Court now, would I run into myself causing a ruckus at the Jade Pool..."
His expression turned strange. Back then, he had appeared in the Heavenly Court under the guise of Mu Qing, not his true face.
If he really encountered himself in the Heavenly Court, wouldn't that mean there were two of him simultaneously?
According to the rule of material immutability, one of them would inevitably disappear, because two identical materials cannot exist at the same time!
Luo Xiao secretly observed him, thinking: "This brother Qin Mu is truly a strange person... Ah—"
He nearly jumped out of his seat. He saw Qin Mu's features changing, and in just a short moment, he had transformed into a completely different appearance!
Now Qin Mu had become a youth who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a hint of youthful immaturity still on his face.
"Brother Luo Xiao, don't be alarmed."
Qin Mu said kindly: "I have many enemies, so I need to change my appearance when conducting affairs. Changing my face makes me safer."
Luo Xiao's heart pounded with fear, and he blurted out: "You're wearing such luxurious clothes and riding in such a magnificent carriage. I thought you were an important figure who could surely travel safely to the Heavenly Court, so I begged you for a ride. Since you have many enemies, I'd better get off the carriage first!"
Qin Mu quickly grabbed him and laughed: "Now that I've changed my face, don't I no longer have enemies? Brother Luo, you shouldn't always be so easily startled, looking like you've never seen the world. To tell you the truth, the Heavenly Court has tight security. Without some status, you can't get in. You need to follow me..."
Suddenly, Dragon Qilin's voice came from outside: "Teach Leader, quickly look below!"
Qin Mu walked out of the carriage and looked down at the Heavenly River, his expression turning to surprise.
On the plain below the Heavenly River, tens of thousands of human cultivators had gathered together, engaged in large-scale construction, building one palace after another. They were mining minerals and using their own magical power to create raging flames to smelt divine gold.
They had already built a city of considerable scale, and were now constructing a gate, its specifications identical to the Southern Heaven Gate of the Heavenly Court.
"Humans are building a Heavenly Court?"
Qin Mu was stunned for a moment. He had Dragon Qilin stop the carriage and said in surprise: "The human Heavenly Court is the Xiaohan Heavenly Court. Could it be that this court is built on the ground, not floating in the sky?"
This was completely different from the Xiaohan Heavenly Court he had imagined!
At this moment, many human gods who had cultivated to the divine realm flew toward the Heavenly River. Among them were Daoists and monks. Qin Mu even saw Ling Heavenly Venerable and Yue Heavenly Venerable!
And the monk and the Daoist were none other than the Dao Ancestor and Great Brahma!
Besides them, there were also some young human experts, all of whom had cultivated to the divine realm, their cultivation quite formidable.
Qin Mu's expression turned strange. These ancient pioneers had already reached very high levels of cultivation. Heavenly palaces floated behind them, and their primordial spirits stood either above the Jade Pool or on the Divine Execution Platform.
"It must have been many years since I left the Jade Pool gathering." Qin Mu thought.
He stood atop the carriage. Ling Heavenly Venerable, Yue Heavenly Venerable, and the others flew close to the Heavenly River. He heard Yue Heavenly Venerable's voice carry over, saying: "Old Daoist, the Heavenly River floats in the sky. Using the waters of the Heavenly River to lift our human Heavenly Court and make it float in the air requires ensuring that your calculations are not mistaken. The force distribution on each palace must be calculated precisely, otherwise the heavenly palace will come crashing down."
"Rest assured, Yue Heavenly Venerable."
The Dao Ancestor held a compass, mathematical runes swirling around him, and said: "My calculations will not be wrong. When Mu Heavenly Venerable gave me that pointer back then, I discovered the mysteries of mathematics. I intend to enter the Dao through mathematics. Yue Heavenly Venerable, after I finish my calculations, I will need your spatial techniques to fold the Heavenly River. Do you have that kind of power?"
"Of course."
Yue Heavenly Venerable was valiant and charming, very captivating. She said to Ling Heavenly Venerable: "Sister Ling, stop studying your techniques of material immutability and the non-existence of time. Come help us."
She was clearly the backbone of this group.
Ling Heavenly Venerable, meanwhile, remained as unkempt as ever, just as Qin Mu had seen her before—wearing a leopard-skin skirt, shuffling about in straw sandals, always muttering to herself in words no one could understand.
Great Brahma, meanwhile, had grown even fatter, a smile hanging on his face, holding a golden alms bowl in his hand, looking ready to beg at any moment.
Yue Heavenly Venerable was about to mobilize her magical power and activate her techniques to pull the Heavenly River, causing it to split off a tributary that would lift the human heavenly palace. Just then, she saw the Dragon Heaven Carriage on the Heavenly River, and also saw Qin Mu on the carriage.
Qin Mu revealed a smile and walked toward them. The dragons shrank their bodies and pulled the carriage along behind him.
"Cloud Heavenly Venerable, why have you changed back into the appearance of Mu Qing, Mu Heavenly Venerable?"
Yue Heavenly Venerable waved her hand and said in surprise: "Didn't you go to look for Fire Heavenly Venerable? Didn't you find him? Where did this carriage come from? Oh, what handsome six great dragons! And a pretty girl too. You're picking up women again, where did you pick up this young lady this time..."
Ling Heavenly Venerable looked over, her gaze falling on Qin Mu, then she withdrew her gaze and snorted: "Fake." After saying this, she sank back into her own world.
Suddenly she cried out: "Where did my hairpin go? Who saw my hairpin?"
Qin Mu walked forward, his heart surging with heat, and laughed: "Everyone, it's been a long time."
As he said these words, the corners of his eyes actually reddened slightly, and he couldn't help but feel like crying, but he quickly suppressed the feeling.
Yue Heavenly Venerable and the others took him for Cloud Heavenly Venerable. It seemed that around this time, Cloud Heavenly Venerable had already begun impersonating him.
"Where has it been long? You only left half a year ago."
Yue Heavenly Venerable complained: "Fire Heavenly Venerable didn't come back with you? Is he still following Hao Heavenly Venerable? It's been over a thousand years, and he's still stubbornly convinced that he must rely on the power of the demigods. Doesn't he know that Yu Heavenly Venerable died at Hao Heavenly Venerable's hands? We shouldn't have brought him into the Heavenly Alliance... Who is this?"
She looked at Luo Xiao with a puzzled expression.
"This is Luo Xiao."
Qin Mu laughed: "A fellow Daoist I happened to meet. An honest person. Are you planning to lift the Xiaohan Heavenly Court into the sky?"
"Xiaohan Heavenly Court? You've gone and named our human Heavenly Court on your own again?"
Yue Heavenly Venerable said angrily: "Naming things arbitrarily, that's not good at all! Our human Heavenly Court was earned by all of us together. If we're going to name it, everyone should participate, and then we'll pick the best one, right Sister Ling?"
Ling Heavenly Venerable had her hair disheveled. Because she had lost her peachwood hairpin, her hair was very messy. She casually swept her hair behind her and said: "The name doesn't matter much. Calling it Xiaohan is fine. If it rises to the sky, isn't that 'xiao'?"
Yue Heavenly Venerable was helpless. She said to the Dao Ancestor: "Old Daoist, have you finished your calculations?"
"Almost, almost. Don't rush me."
The Dao Ancestor said helplessly, muttering: "Women are so annoying. I have no status in front of you all. In this life, I will definitely not take a wife, so as not to delay my research!"
Beside him, the cheerful Great Brahma said in a low voice with a laugh: "Women indeed are annoying. I think I'll find a place to sleep. I feel like I'm close to finding my Dao..."
Yue Heavenly Venerable was preparing her techniques on the side, urging: "Sister Ling, come help. Cloud Heavenly Venerable, you too, come help. I don't have enough confidence to split the Heavenly River by myself!"
Qin Mu stepped forward, his mighty magical power erupting. He raised his hand and sliced through the waters of the Heavenly River, carving out a tributary.
Yue Heavenly Venerable was both surprised and delighted, laughing: "Your magical power has grown again."
She immediately activated her spatial techniques to control the waters of the Heavenly River. Her figure landed at the source of the tributary, standing atop a wave, and called out loudly: "Old Daoist, quickly calculate the force points of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court! Cloud Heavenly Venerable, and everyone else, come help!"
Everyone flew forward and together constrained the tributary as it descended from the sky. The tributary surged mightily, flying toward the half-built human Heavenly Court below.
The Dao Ancestor rapidly calculated the force points and pressed them into the force points of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court ahead. The Heavenly River water rushed forward, burrowing beneath the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, extending continuously along the force points the Dao Ancestor had calculated, gradually lifting this divine city.
The human Heavenly Court was countless times smaller than the true Heavenly Court. In this vast and boundless Primordial Realm, it was merely an insignificant divine city, far inferior even to the grand system of the Earth Mother Primordial Tree Heavens.
But as the Xiaohan Heavenly Court rose into the sky, everyone still cheered. Countless mortals below came from far and wide to witness this spectacular sight, and wave after wave of cheers rose from below, shaking heaven and earth.
In the distance, some demigods flew over, watching from afar, but they all sneered and turned away.
"Humans are all a bunch of country bumpkins, even the Heavenly Venerables among them."
The demigods mocked: "His Majesty permitted them to build a human Heavenly Court in the Primordial Realm, and after all these years, they've only managed to build a tiny divine city."
The Xiaohan Heavenly Court rose higher and higher. The tributary of the Heavenly River continuously contracted, until finally it was like a leaf, holding the Xiaohan Heavenly Court aloft, standing beside the Heavenly River.
This Heavenly Court was indeed small—not even as wide as the Heavenly River itself.
Yue Heavenly Venerable and the others, along with many cultivators, joyfully rushed through the Southern Heaven Gate, hopping and leaping with excitement, brimming with joy.
Qin Mu watched the lively crowd and revealed a smile. Luo Xiao said timidly beside him: "When are we going to the Heavenly Court?"
"Wait a little longer." Qin Mu said with a slight smile.
Luo Xiao shrank his head, thinking: "Following him, I don't know when I'll ever reach the Heavenly Court. Besides, he has many enemies. Maybe I should slip away quietly..."
He was about to leave without drawing attention when Ling Heavenly Venerable walked over, frowning: "Cloud Heavenly Venerable, why are you still using Mu Heavenly Venerable's face? Why haven't you changed back?"
Qin Mu looked at her and laughed: "This face makes it convenient for me to conduct affairs."
Ling Heavenly Venerable snorted: "Don't tarnish Mu Heavenly Venerable's prestige."
Qin Mu acknowledged, laughing: "I definitely won't tarnish his reputation. I've even prepared my sword pellet."