Chapter 1038: Xiaohan Heavenly Court
Qin Mu looked at this young man, his gaze flickering. He thought to himself, "Luo Xiao, the prophet of the Tai Xu Creator race, who brought three astonishing prophecies to the Creators in the Tai Xu. The first prophecy: the Grand Emperor would invade, and the human Yun Heavenly Lord would go to help them resist the Grand Emperor and overcome the crisis."
The first prophecy was soon fulfilled. Yun Heavenly Lord went to the Tai Xu, helped the Creators there set up their formations, trapped the Grand Emperor's physical body, and slew a portion of the Grand Emperor.
The second prophecy of the ancestral spirit Luo Xiao was about the Void Bridge and the Other Shore World. This too came to pass.
After the Grand Emperor's death, the great war rendered the Tai Xu uninhabitable. Thus, the Creators, under the leadership of figures like Queen Langwo, visualized the Void Bridge and forged the Other Shore World.
Luo Xiao's third prophecy was that a holy infant would appear in the future of the Creator race. This holy infant would descend into the world bearing the Primal Chaos Origin Stone. At birth, he would represent the supreme authority of the Creator race, holding the Grand Emperor Seal in his hand, and be born on the Grand Emperor's altar.
And this prophecy was Qin Mu.
Qin Mu smiled warmly as he looked at Luo Xiao sitting beside him. Luo Xiao felt very uncomfortable under his gaze, his eyes darting left and right. He thought, "Can this person see through my origins? Impossible. I gathered the divine consciousness of the strongest in my clan to visualize my physical body to be no different from an ordinary person. Even ordinary ancient gods can't see 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 followed the fashion of this era.
"The one 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 went back to the Tai Xu to tell them these three prophecies."
Qin Mu blinked, thinking, "One day in the future, I will enter the Tai Xu and become their Creator. When I go to the Ancestral Spirit Realm to see him, he will see me and suddenly go mad. If I don't tell him these three prophecies, will it change the future? However, I must tell him these three prophecies. Only then can I ensure the safety of Carefree Village, and only then can I become the holy infant of the Creator race and make the Creators serve me..."
Luo Xiao was also sizing him up. He noticed that Qin Mu also had something like a scar on his forehead, with an eye beneath it. He thought, "This person named Qin Mu gives me a familiar feeling. Could he also be a Creator? But outsiders are very cunning. I must not reveal any flaws. After all, I am the cleverest one among our Creator race..."
Qin Mu looked out the window, thinking, "Luo Xiao left the Tai Xu a million years ago to check if the outside world was safe. He asked me how to get to the Heavenly Court. That means the Dragon Han Heavenly Court has already been established. I just don't know what year it is now... If it's the early years of Dragon Han, and I go to the Heavenly Court now, will 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 using his true face.
If he really encountered himself in the Heavenly Court, wouldn't that mean there were two of him at the same time?
According to the rule of the immutability of matter, one of them would inevitably disappear, because two identical substances cannot exist simultaneously!
Luo Xiao secretly observed him, thinking, "This Brother Qin Mu is really strange... Ah!"
He nearly jumped up, because Qin Mu's face was changing! In just a short moment, he had transformed into a completely different appearance!
Now Qin Mu looked like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old youth, with a hint of youthful immaturity still on his face.
"Don't panic, Brother Luo Xiao."
Qin Mu said kindly, "I have many enemies, so I need to change my appearance when I act. Changing my face makes me safer."
Luo Xiao's heart pounded, and he blurted out, "You're wearing such luxurious clothes and riding in such a splendid carriage. I thought you were a big shot who could safely reach the Heavenly Court, so I begged you for a ride. Since you have many enemies, I'd better get off now!"
Qin Mu quickly grabbed him and laughed, "I've changed my face, so I have no enemies now, right? Brother Luo, don't always be so startled and act like you've never seen the world. To tell you the truth, the Heavenly Court is heavily guarded. Without some status, you can't get in. You have to follow me..."
Suddenly, Dragon Qilin's voice came from outside: "Master, look down there!"
Qin Mu stepped out of the carriage and looked down at the Heavenly River. A look of surprise appeared on his face.
On the plain below the Heavenly River, tens of thousands of human cultivators had gathered. They were engaged in large-scale construction, building palaces and halls. They mined minerals and used their own magical power to create flames to smelt divine gold.
They had already built a city of considerable scale, and now they were constructing a gate, identical in specifications to the Southern Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court.
"Humans are building a Heavenly Court?"
Qin Mu was stunned. He had Dragon Qilin stop the carriage and said in surprise, "The human Heavenly Court is the Xiaohan Heavenly Court. Is this Heavenly Court built on the ground, not floating in the sky?"
This was completely different from the Xiaohan Heavenly Court he had imagined!
At that moment, many human deities who had already cultivated to the divine realm flew towards the Heavenly River. Among them were Daoists and monks. Qin Mu even saw Ling Heavenly Lord and Yue Heavenly Lord!
And those Daoists and monks were none other than the Dao Ancestor and the Great Brahma Heaven!
Besides them, there were some young human experts, also in the divine realm, with considerable cultivation.
Qin Mu's expression was strange. These ancient pioneers had already reached a very high level of cultivation. Heavenly palaces floated behind them, and their primordial spirits stood either on the Jade Pool or on the Execution Platform.
"It must have been many years since I left the Jade Pool Banquet." Qin Mu thought to himself.
He stood on the carriage as Ling Heavenly Lord, Yue Heavenly Lord, and the others flew close to the Heavenly River. Yue Heavenly Lord's voice came over: "Old Daoist, the Heavenly River floats in the sky. To use the water of the Heavenly River to lift our human Heavenly Court and make it float in the air, we must ensure that your calculations are error-free. The stress distribution on each palace must be calculated accurately, or the Heavenly Palace will fall."
"Rest assured, Yue Heavenly Lord."
The Dao Ancestor held a compass, and mathematical runes flew around him. He said, "My calculations will not be wrong. That time Lord Mu Heavenly Lord enlightened me, I discovered the mysteries of mathematics. I intend to enter the Dao through mathematics. Yue Heavenly Lord, after I finish the calculations, I will need your spatial techniques to fold the Heavenly River. Do you have that kind of power?"
"Naturally."
Yue Heavenly Lord was heroic and charming. She said to Ling Heavenly Lord, "Sister Ling, stop studying your 'immutability of matter, non-existence of time' divine ability. Come and help."
She was clearly the backbone of this group.
Ling Heavenly Lord, as usual, was unkempt, just as Qin Mu had seen her before. She wore a leopard-skin skirt and straw sandals, always muttering to herself in incomprehensible words.
The Great Brahma Heaven had grown even fatter, a smile on his face, holding a golden alms bowl in his hand, looking as if he was ready to beg at any moment.
Yue Heavenly Lord was about to mobilize her magical power to activate her divine ability and divert the Heavenly River, creating a branch to lift the human Heavenly Palace. Just then, she saw the Dragon Carriage on the Heavenly River, and also saw Qin Mu on it.
Qin Mu smiled and walked towards them. The dragons shrank their bodies and pulled the carriage behind him.
"Yun Heavenly Lord, why have you turned into Lord Mu Qing, Lord Mu Heavenly Lord's appearance again?"
Yue Heavenly Lord waved her hand and said in surprise, "Didn't you go to find Fire Heavenly Lord? Didn't you find him? Where did this carriage come from? Oh, what handsome six dragons! And a pretty girl. You're fooling around again, picking up some girl from who knows where..."
Ling Heavenly Lord looked over, her gaze falling on Qin Mu. She withdrew her gaze and snorted, "Fake." Then she sank back into her own world.
Suddenly she cried out, "Where is my hairpin? Who saw my hairpin?"
Qin Mu walked forward, his heart surging with emotion. He laughed, "Everyone, long time no see."
As he said this, his eyes reddened, and he almost felt like crying, but he quickly suppressed it.
Yue Heavenly Lord and the others mistook him for Yun Heavenly Lord. It seemed that at this time, Yun Heavenly Lord had already started impersonating him.
"Long time no see? You've only been gone for half a year."
Yue Heavenly Lord complained, "Did Fire Heavenly Lord not come back with you? Is he still following Hao Heavenly Lord? It's been over a thousand years, and he's still stubbornly believing that he must rely on the power of the demigods. Doesn't he know that Yu Heavenly Lord died at the hands of Hao Heavenly Lord? 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 met by chance. He's a straightforward person. Are you planning to lift the Xiaohan Heavenly Court into the sky?"
"Xiaohan Heavenly Court? Are you making up names for our human Heavenly Court again on your own?"
Yue Heavenly Lord said angrily, "Naming it randomly sounds terrible! Our human Heavenly Court was earned by all of us together. We should all choose a name together and then pick the best one, right, Sister Ling?"
Ling Heavenly Lord, her hair disheveled because she had lost her peach wood hairpin, casually pushed her hair behind her and said, "The name doesn't matter. Xiaohan is fine. Lifting it into the sky—isn't that 'xiao'?"
Yue Heavenly Lord was helpless. She said to the Dao Ancestor, "Old Daoist, are you done calculating?"
"Almost, almost. Don't rush me."
The Dao Ancestor was helpless and muttered, "Women are so annoying. I have no status in front of you. I will definitely not marry in this life, so as not to hinder my research!"
The Great Brahma Heaven beside him chuckled softly, "Women are indeed annoying. I think I'll find a place to sleep. I feel like I'm close to finding my Dao..."
Yue Heavenly Lord was preparing her divine ability on the side and urged, "Sister Ling, come and help. Yun Heavenly Lord, you too, come and help. I don't have enough confidence to split the Heavenly River by myself!"
Qin Mu stepped forward, his vast magical power erupting. He reached out and drew a line, splitting the waters of the Heavenly River and creating a branch.
Yue Heavenly Lord was both surprised and delighted, laughing, "Your magical power has grown again."
She immediately activated her spatial divine ability to control the water of the Heavenly River. Her figure landed at the source of the branch, standing on a wave, and shouted, "Old Daoist, quickly calculate the stress points of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court! Yun Heavenly Lord, and everyone else, come and help!"
Everyone flew forward and together they guided the branch of the Heavenly River as it descended from the sky. The branch surged mightily, flying towards the half-built human Heavenly Court below.
The Dao Ancestor rapidly calculated the stress points and stamped them onto the stress points of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court ahead. The Heavenly River surged, burrowing beneath the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, extending along the stress points calculated by the Dao Ancestor, gradually lifting this divine city.
The human Heavenly Court was countless times smaller than the real Heavenly Court. In this vast and boundless Primordial Realm, it was merely an insignificant divine city, far inferior to the grand scale of the Mother Earth Primeval Tree's myriad realm system.
However, the ascension of the Xiaohan Heavenly Court still made everyone cheer. Countless ordinary people from the surrounding villages came to witness this magnificent spectacle. Waves of cheers rose from below, shaking the heavens and the earth.
In the distance, some demigods flew over, watching from afar. They all sneered coldly and then turned and left.
"Humans are all country bumpkins, even the Heavenly Lords are no exception."
The demigods mocked, "His Majesty allowed them to build a human Heavenly Court in the Primordial Realm, and it took them so many years to build just a small divine city."
The Xiaohan Heavenly Court rose higher and higher. The branch of the Heavenly River continued to shrink, eventually becoming like a leaf, lifting the Xiaohan Heavenly Court and placing it beside the Heavenly River.
This Heavenly Court was indeed not large, not even as wide as the Heavenly River.
Yue Heavenly Lord and the others, along with many cultivators, joyfully rushed into the Southern Heavenly Gate, jumping and cheering, extremely excited.
Qin Mu watched the lively crowd with a smile. Luo Xiao timidly said 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 get to the Heavenly Court. Besides, he has many enemies. It's better to slip away quietly..."
He was about to leave without a sound when Ling Heavenly Lord walked over, frowning, "Yun Heavenly Lord, why are you still using Lord Mu Heavenly Lord's face? Why don't you change back?"
Qin Mu looked at her and laughed, "It's convenient for me to do things with this face."
Ling Heavenly Lord snorted, "Don't tarnish Lord Mu Heavenly Lord's prestige."
Qin Mu agreed, laughing, "I will definitely not tarnish his reputation. I've even prepared my sword pellet."