Chapter 1144: The Way of Heaven Has Its Constant (Second Update!)
Hundreds of Void Beasts could no longer hold back, and lunged toward Qin Mu, Hong Tianzun, and Long Qilin, Yan'er and the others on the altar, like a pack of wolves fighting over food!
"Half each!"
Great Hong's sleeve swept out, scooping up the Void Beasts that pounced toward him. These beasts were enormous beyond measure, but once they fell into his sleeve, they seemed pitifully small.
Qin Mu's divine consciousness erupted, visualizing countless razor-sharp spikes. Those spikes appeared inside the bodies of the remaining Void Beasts, instantly riddling them with holes.
The Void Beasts were fierce and battle-hardened. The pack let out shrill, piercing cries that slammed directly into his mind.
Qin Mu was rattled senseless by the impact of these beasts' cries. He hurriedly activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Art, transforming into the Supreme Divine Consciousness of the Great Luo, forming a divine consciousness domain to fortify his mind, lest his brain burst open.
Those Void Beasts tried to phase their bodies into the void to shake off the spikes within them, but as they phased, the spikes phased along with them!
This was the unique divine consciousness divine ability of the Creator race!
Qin Mu strained to maintain the ability. Soon, the Void Beasts fled in a frenzy, beating a hasty retreat.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. Although his divine consciousness had grown powerful enough to reach the twenty-eighth layer of the void, restraining a hundred or so Void Beasts at once was still somewhat difficult, so he could only let them escape.
Those Void Beasts fled beyond the range of his divine consciousness ability in a short time, each one concealing itself, not daring to come close again.
Qin Mu looked around and saw that between the sky and the mountains and rivers on the ground, enormous eyes were floating everywhere, staring fixedly at them, making one's scalp crawl.
The most terrifying thing about Void Beasts was not a frontal assault, but ambushes from within the void. They could merge with mountains, rivers, and trees, or blend into streams and the ground. They could even lurk right beside you without you ever noticing.
There were simply too many Void Beasts here. With the slightest carelessness, one could easily end up with no bones left.
Qin Mu focused with all his might, manifesting his Three Heads and Six Arms to guard against sneak attacks from the Void Beasts.
Hong Tianzun shook his sleeve, and chunks of broken bone fell from within.
Qin Mu glanced at him and smiled: "Brother Hong, seeing me unleash a divine consciousness ability to restrain the Void Beasts, you don't seem the least bit curious?"
He put away the altar and walked forward with Long Qilin and Yan'er. Hong Tianzun stepped forward to keep pace with him, his white brows fluttering, and laughed: "You are the Overlord Body, and you've been to the past. What's so curious about you knowing divine consciousness abilities?"
Qin Mu couldn't get a read on this demon race Heavenly Venerable's origins, and probed: "I notice that you and Brother Gong seem to have some friction. Since you're not the Grand Emperor, why does Gong Tianzun have it out for you?"
"You know Gong's identity?"
Hong Tianzun's wide sleeves fluttered as he looked down below. With a wave of his sleeve, he drove back the Void Beasts that came attacking, and chuckled: "She mistook me for someone else, and has been chasing me relentlessly, killing me time and again. But I don't want to kill her, so every time I run into her, I can only yield three parts and not bother with her."
Qin Mu looked around, searching for a treasure spot, and said casually: "So, back then, it was you who killed Great Hong and wiped out the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness. You are an Ancient God—only an Ancient God would be so wary of the Grand Emperor. That said, you must be Mother Yuanmu. I've been thinking of you constantly, Lady; ever since I first saw you, I've been lovesick, unable to sleep or eat. If you lived next door to me, I could grow closer to you."
Hong Tianzun was taken aback, then laughed: "What makes you say that?"
Qin Mu said: "Great Hong was the Grand Emperor. The Grand Emperor's divine consciousness was boundless. Back then, I gravely wounded him, and his divine consciousness was damaged, but not just anyone could wipe him out. However, Mother Yuanmu's Return to Ruins ability can destroy everything. Among the Three Ancient Kings, King Boyang was stuffed into the Return to Ruins by the Empress and Yuanmu and ground to ash, not a trace left."
Hong Tianzun laughed: "Those who could extinguish the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness are not limited to Mother Yuanmu."
Qin Mu looked toward the distant Primordial Beginning mineral vein, and saw that Xiao Tianzun had already flown there. He frowned slightly.
Xiao Tianzun went there for the corpse of Ancient Xiao and the Imperial Sword, and the Primordial Beginning mineral vein was extremely useful to him. He had to get his hands on it.
It made sense that he would fly there first.
"Then among the Ancient Gods, who else could extinguish the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness?" Qin Mu asked humbly for instruction.
"Heavenly Duke, Earth Bo, Heavenly Emperor, Empress, Mother Earth, and even Tianyin—all of them could destroy a portion of the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness."
Hong Tianzun also looked into the distance, and saw Langxuan Divine Emperor flying toward the Ancestral Court's Jade Pool. He sighed softly as well, saying: "That treasure spot has been claimed by Langxuan. Because of this demon race body of mine, I've been misunderstood by Gong Tianzun. I don't want to argue, but I didn't expect Mu Tianzun to misunderstand me as well. Since Mu Tianzun has the power to protect himself, then we need not be neighbors."
Qin Mu was stunned: "Who exactly are you?"
"The way of heaven has its constant, not for Mu's sake does it exist, not for Xiao's sake does it perish. Respond to it with order, and there is good fortune; respond to it with chaos, and there is calamity."
Hong Tianzun's wide sleeves fluttered as he walked forward, laughing: "I am merely an observer who has wandered from the ancient times to the present. The Ancient God Heavenly Emperor won't let me see the Heavenly Court, Mother Earth won't let me see the Primordial Realm, Earth Bo won't let me see the Netherworld—so I had no choice but to walk the path myself."
Qin Mu's body shook violently, and he stood frozen in place. It took him a moment to snap back to his senses, and he hurried forward to catch up, his divine consciousness rippling as he transmitted his voice: "If you are him, then why did you make a move against the Western Emperor?"
Hong Tianzun drifted away into the distance, waving his wide sleeve: "Killing her is protecting her, helping her break free from the shackles of the Ancient Gods. But since you want to protect her, I'll go along with it and let her owe you a favor. At the Jade Pool, I saved you—that favor you must repay me. So I want you to write me an IOU!"
Qin Mu couldn't catch up, and stood there dazed. After a moment, he shook his head and laughed: "Truly worthy of the old yin... the old hand!"
Yan'er and Long Qilin caught up to him. Long Qilin asked: "Sect Master, was it the Heavenly Duke who killed Great Hong back then?"
Qin Mu nodded: "It should have been him. When I intercepted Great Hong from destroying the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, both Great Hong and I erupted with extremely terrifying divine consciousness fluctuations—that couldn't have escaped the Heavenly Duke's notice. He must have taken advantage of the moment when I left gravely wounded and Great Hong fled injured to intercept and kill Great Hong."
He was lost in thought for a moment, then shook his head: "King Gongjun of the Divine King discovered that Great Hong was dead and his divine consciousness wiped out, so she left. But the Heavenly Duke still split off a soul to take over Great Hong's corpse, becoming the demon race's Heavenly Venerable."
"That's not right."
Long Qilin suddenly cried out: "If Hong Tianzun is the Heavenly Duke, then the Heavenly Venerables who saved you at the Jade Pool would number five. Heavenly Emperor Xiao, Mother Yuanmu, Fire Tianzun, Hong Tianzun, and King Gongjun!"
Qin Mu glanced at him and shook his head: "Heavenly Emperor Xiao wouldn't save me. He's very afraid of exposure. If everyone suspects he saved me, he wouldn't, because he's nominally the human race's Heavenly Venerable. Fire Tianzun wouldn't either. Among those who saved me at the Jade Pool gathering, there were only Hong, Gong, and Mother Yuanmu. And Mother Yuanmu isn't among the Ten Heavenly Venerables—she's in the Heavenly Court. I estimate..."
He pondered: "At the time, Xiao Tianzun must have discovered that there were already ten Heavenly Venerable-level existences at the Jade Pool, and he wasn't among them, so he didn't reveal himself and instead watched from the sidelines. As the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, what am I to him? He wouldn't risk exposing his identity for the sake of my life."
Long Qilin said incredulously: "Then Fire Tianzun..."
Qin Mu looked around and cut in: "When I returned to the Longhan era, every time I went to visit Yun Tianzun without success, it was because Yun Tianzun had gone to see Fire Tianzun, yet he could never gain Fire Tianzun's support. Yun Tianzun and Fire Tianzun were friends—if he couldn't even convince Fire Tianzun, how could Fire Tianzun help me?"
In the distance, Ancestral Divine King swept through many Void Beasts with his Heavenly Dao ability, astonishingly powerful.
He too had found a treasure spot and intended to occupy it.
Forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures hung high in the sky, guarding the place so thoroughly that even the Void Beasts couldn't sneak in.
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