Chapter 1310: All Living Beings Are Sacrifices (Second Update)
The four Heavenly Venerables stood united in purpose, and the formidable void seemed to not exist before them. Ordinary gods and demons would be assimilated by the void upon entering the first layer of it, and even powerful Creators could not penetrate the multi-layered void.
Only Creator elders whose cultivation and strength had reached a certain level could, after death, entrust their divine consciousness to the depths of the multi-layered void and become ancestral spirits.
As for gods and demons of other races, only those whose divine consciousness had entered the Dao and understood the existence of void patterns could venture deep into the multi-layered void.
Those like Qin Mu who could directly reach the thirtieth layer of the void were extremely rare—even in the era when Creators ruled the universe, such beings were few and far between.
Qin Mu relied on his comprehension of Primordial Qi and the Dao of Divine Consciousness, having already begun to touch upon the Dao of Primordial Beginning, so entering the void was not difficult for him.
But the four Heavenly Venerables relied on their powerful physical bodies—their bodies were so strong that the void could not assimilate them, but was instead crushed and destroyed by their physical forms!
This was the terror of Heavenly Venerable-level existences!
However, the Great Emperor knew that even Heavenly Venerables had their limits!
This limit had long been explored by Cloud Heavenly Venerable, Ling Heavenly Venerable, and Moon Heavenly Venerable.
The Void Bridge within the Great Void was a bridge erected in the thirty-fifth layer of the void. The bridge was built jointly by the three Heavenly Venerables and the Creators of the Great Void, and Moon Heavenly Venerable had even built three rooms at the end of the bridge.
That bridge was laid out with extreme peril—to cross it, one had to endure the grinding and crushing of thirty-five layers of void. Even a Heavenly Venerable could be ground to nothing if careless. Fire Heavenly Venerable, Void Heavenly Venerable, and Emperor Kaihuang had all been trapped there before, nearly erased by the void.
Thirty-five layers of void—that was the limit for Heavenly Venerables. The Great Emperor only needed to take the Void Mother Beast and flee into the thirty-fifth layer of the void, and the four Heavenly Venerables would have no choice but to retreat!
From the depths of the void came faint thunder, accompanied by lightning flashing in the depths of space. Standing in the Ancestral Court, one could even see that during the lightning flashes, enormous shadows were illuminated in the depths of space.
Those figures were colossal beyond measure, and as they moved, cracks appeared in the surrounding space, spreading in all directions like spider webs!
Their movement speed was also fast—when the shadows were illuminated, dimmed, and illuminated again, they had already moved an unknown distance.
That day, blood suddenly flowed from the sky.
Gushing divine blood cascaded down like a great waterfall from the depths of the sky, forming a blood waterfall suspended in midair.
Qin Mu had not traveled far. When he saw this blood waterfall, he noticed something else falling from the sky—like a star striking the earth, stirring up fierce winds and meteors.
Where that thing fell, the earth shook and mountains trembled, volcanoes erupted. Even though the Ancestral Court was far more solid than outside lands, it could hardly withstand such an impact.
When Qin Mu arrived there, many more bursts of fire erupted in the sky—huge fireballs dragging long tails of flame fell from the void.
Qin Mu looked at the first great crater. Inside was a giant fist.
It was the Great Emperor's fist, severed by one of the Heavenly Venerables, causing mountains to collapse and the earth to split.
"The Great Emperor's physical body is after all one of the most powerful bodies of the ancient era. The only one who could match him was Heavenly Emperor Taichu. Perhaps I could collect this fist and refine it into a treasure..."
Just as he thought this, he suddenly saw countless roots flying out from the magma-like earth, dragging the Great Emperor's fist away!
"Earth Mother!"
Qin Mu immediately flew forward to seize the Great Emperor's hand, but suddenly the sky brightened, turning pure white. Another thigh fell from the heavens—even more astonishing than the fist's landing—and the fierce winds and giant waves it stirred up sent him flying!
"The Great Emperor's thigh!"
Qin Mu steadied himself. More objects fell from the sky, crashing down with thunderous booms, pounding the land for ten thousand li into loose, floating earth. The surface undulated atop the magma like a pot of braised pork, bubbles lifting chunks of meat, gurgling and churning as the ground kept trembling.
"The Great Emperor truly suffered a miserable fate—dismembered by four Heavenly Venerables..."
He couldn't help but feel some pity. The most powerful existence of the ancient era, facing the four Heavenly Venerables, had fallen to such a state.
Then he cheered up again, flew through the sea of fire, and searched for the Great Emperor's flesh amidst the flames.
Suddenly, a colossal body fell from the sky, crashing into the fiery magma sea, tumbling and rolling.
Qin Mu flew forward—it was the Void Mother Beast!
The mother beast's head was gone, severed by one of the Heavenly Venerables, and its corpse had tumbled down from the void.
"The mother beast is dead? Does that mean void beasts are going to go extinct?"
He was stunned. The Void Mother Beast had devoured all the void beasts in the Ancestral Court to grow to its current size. Its death at the hands of the four Heavenly Venerables meant that the mother beasts in the Ancestral Court were extinct!
"Lang Wan still has a void beast over there—I wonder if it's still alive? If that one dies too, then void beasts will truly be extinct!"
He rushed toward the Void Mother Beast's corpse, but suddenly something rolled out from within the mother beast's body—a void beast egg, landing in the magma.
Qin Mu's heart stirred. His magical power surged out, sweeping up the void beast egg and storing it into his brow.
The mother beast had produced one final egg, and its corpse sank into the magma, disappearing from sight.
Qin Mu was about to retrieve the mother beast's corpse when he suddenly stopped, his expression turning grave. The mother beast's corpse was visibly shriveling, its beast blood draining away at terrifying speed!
"Could it be that the existences of the previous era have extended their sacrificial power even here?"
He felt his hair stand on end. The enormous mother beast's corpse turned into a giant skeleton in the magma in just a short moment. Soon after, even the energy within the bones was exhausted, and the skeleton collapsed and crumbled!
His heart sank. He immediately flew up and rushed toward the places where the Great Emperor's body parts had fallen.
He arrived at where the Great Emperor's arm had fallen—only a shattered skeleton remained!
"The Great Emperor's bones are gone too—all flesh and blood vanished!"
Qin Mu's expression was grim as he looked up at the blood waterfall in the sky—the place where the Great Emperor's divine blood had fallen.
He activated his teleportation technique, and in the next moment, he crossed ten thousand li and appeared at the place where the blood waterfall landed.
His robes fluttered, his cape billowing behind him as he slowly descended. To his surprise, the place where the blood waterfall landed had not formed a lake or sea of blood. The ground was extremely clean—not a single trace of blood!
"It seems the Ancestral Court is indeed unsuitable as a battlefield..."
Qin Mu looked around and murmured: "The entire Ancestral Court is an altar for the existences of the previous era. Any life that dies here becomes a sacrifice for their arrival into this world, this era. Can the Great Black Mountain still be defended?"
He thought carefully for a moment. In the entire Ancestral Court, perhaps only the five great mineral veins were not altars of prehistoric existences. Only the five veins could maintain their independence. Everywhere else had likely been invaded by the power of the previous era.
"Come to think of it, since I arrived in the Ancestral Court, apart from the five mineral veins, I haven't found any bones anywhere else! Whether it's the bones of giant beasts or the bones of Creators—they've all disappeared!"
He let out a turbid breath. Originally, he had thought the Creators' bones were devoured by void beasts. Now that he thought about it, that was probably not the case.
Whether human or beast, anyone who entered the Ancestral Court would become a sacrifice for the existences of the previous era!
The Ancestral Court was equivalent to a giant altar!
Or rather, the Ancestral Court was a giant serving platter, and all who entered were the dishes upon it, waiting to be enjoyed by the prehistoric existences!