Chapter 1277: Excavating Prehistory (Third Update)
"Looks like the relationship between Mu'er and this ancient god inside the egg isn't exactly harmonious." Everyone thought to themselves.
Qin Mu unfolded his Divine Treasury Domain, allowing the Mute, the Blind, and the Pharmacist to enter his domain, and instructed: "Stand in the chaotic mineral vein. There are two pieces of eggshell there, discarded by Taiyi. They can keep you safe."
The Blind and the others were protected by him, and although they felt somewhat displeased, they also knew that his divine abilities were vast and far surpassed theirs, so they each went to the ancestral court within the Divine Treasury Domain to hide.
They walked down the mineral vein and arrived at the blasted valley.
The valley was very deep, like a basin, with broken mountain ranges everywhere. Everyone looked around, and suddenly Qin Mu's heart stirred. He flew to the top of a broken mountain and looked down.
He saw that the mountain peak was cut very flat, as if it had been sliced off by a sharp weapon.
Qin Mu took out the Broken Sword, his heart stirred, and the Broken Sword grew, transforming into a long sword. The sword light stretched for dozens of li, and he lightly sliced at the broken mountain!
His divine sword immediately encountered tremendous resistance. The sword light penetrated halfway into the broken mountain before it could no longer continue, unable to cut the mountain in two!
"The person who left this mark is far more powerful than I am, at least at the peak of the Lingxiao realm! And judging from the cross-section of the broken mountain, it shouldn't have been left by a Creator."
He withdrew his divine sword and said in a low voice: "The Creators of the ancient era had very crude divine abilities, not this refined. However, logically speaking, the ancestral court was sealed by the ancient gods led by Heavenly Emperor Taichu during the ancient era. It's impossible for anyone after the Longhan era to have left these marks..."
The First Ancestor Human Emperor came to a broken cliff. The cliff was tattered, with light passing through front and back, shaped like a palm print, a hundred zhang tall. But strangely, this palm print had six fingers.
The First Ancestor Human Emperor activated the Heaven and Earth Heart Saint Art and struck at a nearby cliff. With a thunderous roar, the cliff shook slightly and a palm print appeared, but he didn't punch through it.
The First Ancestor Human Emperor frowned.
Yan'er came to the foot of the cliff and scraped the cliff wall. Many pitch-black broken stones fell down, like charcoal, or like petrified ashes.
"What happened here before?" the Pharmacist asked.
No one answered him.
Everyone continued forward, and after a while they finally reached the bottom of the valley.
There were even more broken cliffs and mountains here, as if a terrifyingly fierce battle had taken place. In the battlefield, many powerful beings fought with heaven and earth splitting apart, creating this strange scene.
But what was strange was that this was the underground of the ancestral court—this battlefield was buried deep underground.
They stood in the valley and looked up, only able to see the well-like sky, with the well walls reaching a thousand ren high.
The valley was not dark. Ahead was the light emitted by that divine bow. Everyone walked forward following the light, and suddenly the divine light moved like swimming fish, flying toward them at great speed.
"Sword Heaven Palace!"
Qin Mu shouted in a low voice. Those divine lights were like fish swimming rapidly through the air, extremely fast, coming and going like light and lightning.
The divine light invaded his Divine Treasury Domain, and then sword light burst forth from the Sword Heaven Palace. Ding-ding-dang-dang, like pearls falling on a jade plate, like rainstorm beating pear blossoms, dense and rapid sounds came, as the sword light collided with those flowing lights!
The sword light was like a swarm of bees, or like a torrent, surging around the Divine Treasury Domain, clashing and colliding with those divine lights.
Behind the First Ancestor Human Emperor, the Heavenly Palace appeared. Immediately, the space around him tilted and the earth slanted, space spun, and streaks of divine light were destroyed amidst the heaven-collapsing and earth-splitting chaos.
Yan'er, on the other hand, carried her lantern. The flowing lights hadn't even reached her side before they were illuminated by the light from the lantern and sent who-knows-where.
She was actually the most relaxed of them all.
They walked deeper and deeper, getting closer and closer to the source of the divine light, and the attacks from the flowing divine light in the air became more and more fierce!
Qin Mu's Sword Heaven Palace could no longer hold on. He was forced to mobilize his eighteen Heavenly Palaces, and even mobilized the Great Daos of Xuandu, Youdu, Yuandu, and the Four Extremes Heaven to resist the invasion of the divine light.
But still, quite a few divine lights broke through into his Divine Treasury Domain and killed their way to his front!
He stood firm in the ancestral court, his vertical eye on his forehead opening wide. Wherever his gaze fell, streaks of divine light that flashed by exploded with a bang, turning into wisps of yin-yang energy that scattered away.
The Mute, the Blind, and the Pharmacist watched with pounding hearts and decided to obediently hide inside the Taiyi eggshells and not stick their heads out again.
The First Ancestor Human Emperor's Heaven and Earth Heart Saint Art could also barely hold on. He had no choice but to use divine abilities to clash head-on with the divine light. When he could no longer block it, he raised the Taishi Egg to smash against the divine light, which drew angry curses from inside the Taishi Egg.
And Yan'er was still the most relaxed one.
Yue Tianzun's lantern was truly heaven-defying. With a single shine of the light, all laws were inviolable, and those divine lights couldn't even get close.
"No wonder Yue Tianzun is one of the few Tianzun who survived from the Longhan era to the present." Qin Mu couldn't help but admire her, feeling quite envious of Yue Tianzun's cultivation method and divine abilities.
Finally, they passed through layers of divine light and arrived before that divine bow.
Everyone looked up, each one dazzled and spellbound.
They saw a long bow, about a thousand zhang in length, its entire body gleaming with golden light, ten thousand strands of radiance spilling from the bow and shooting out in all directions!
Beside the long bow was a mountain body like a black dragon. Qin Mu looked at it—this black dragon-like mountain body should be the root of the Great Black Tree, but it was so thick that its original form as a root could no longer be discerned.
But between the root and the long bow, there was actually a withered bone arm!
That withered bone arm extended from the root of the Great Black Tree, tightly gripping the back of the bow!
The withered bone arm seemed to have grown out of the Great Black Tree itself!
"Where did this arm come from?" Everyone was stunned.
Qin Mu stepped forward, intending to forcefully take down this divine bow. Suddenly, the bowstring of the divine bow vibrated—twang!—and a sword light shot toward Qin Mu's brow!
A broken sword appeared in Qin Mu's hand. He flicked it upward, deflecting the arrow. The arrow light grazed past the top of his head and shot out. A streak of arrow light pierced a large hole through the Liuli Qingtian Streamer, and the arrow light blazed brilliantly, dragging a tail flame ten thousand li long, carving a gorgeous straight line across the sky of the ancestral court!
On the other side, the First Ancestor Human Emperor stepped forward, activated the Heaven and Earth Heart Saint Art, and gently pressed his palm onto the bow body.
The bowstring was about to vibrate again, but his palm pressed down on the bow body, and the bowstring couldn't draw, only letting out a hum.
The space in front of the First Ancestor Human Emperor was split into hundreds of pieces by the vibration of the bowstring, standing vertically before him and slicing toward him at a speed so fast he couldn't react at all!
Yan'er raised her lantern, and with a single shine of the light, she smoothed out the split space. A lock of hair hanging from the First Ancestor's forehead was instantly split into hundreds of strands and drifted away.
A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead, sliding from the bridge of his nose to the tip.
He had been only a hair's breadth away from being sliced into hundreds of pieces by the power of this divine bow!
Qin Mu stepped forward and joined him in gripping the divine bow. The two of them exerted force, intending to lift the bow. But the next moment, both their bodies shook violently!
A vast thought from within the divine bow slammed into their minds: "Ask my permission before touching my treasure, will you?"
The collision of thoughts let the two of them know what the thought was trying to convey, and they were horrified: "The master of this divine bow... is still alive?"
The two of them were frozen in place by the vast thought transmitted from within the bow, their bodies stiff, unable to move, only their eyeballs could still turn.
Yan'er immediately reached out to grab the divine bow, but she too was frozen by that vast thought!
Just then, the Blind walked out from Qin Mu's Divine Treasury Domain, stepped forward, and carefully examined the withered bone hand gripping the bow, muttering words under his breath.
The Mute stepped forward, carefully examining this withered hand, listening to the Blind's words, and nodded repeatedly.
The Pharmacist stepped forward, took out a spirit pill, crushed it, and smeared it on the withered bone, saying: "It's done."
The Mute opened the box, reached in, and countless silver pellets floated up from the box, forming a great hammer.
The Mute swung the great hammer and brought it down—CRASH!—with a thunderous sound, the withered bone hand shattered into pieces!
Qin Mu, Yan'er, and the First Ancestor Human Emperor felt as if a great weight had been lifted. The vast thought in their minds instantly dissipated!