Chapter 1052: First Exploration of the Ancestral Court
"Void Beasts?"
Qin Mu frowned, and Gu Xiao and Da Hong also frowned respectively.
Qin Mu had obtained the wisdom of the Creator race from the First Spirits of the First Spirit Realm, which included records about void beasts.
Void beasts were a type of ancient giant beast from the Ancestral Court. These void beasts could traverse the void, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, and were among the extremely powerful predators of the ancient era of ignorance!
Only the powerful divine consciousness of the Creators could control these void beasts. In that ancient era of ignorance, other races often had no combat power at all when facing such void beasts!
They traveled through the void, even devouring stars and swallowing entire heavens!
Summoning a void beast—what kind of disaster would that bring?
Da Hong's eyes flickered, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
Gu Xiao sighed, his expression wooden.
Qin Mu shivered, sensing the killing intent emanating from Gu Xiao. He knew that if Luo Xiao insisted on his course of action, Gu Xiao would undoubtedly strike to kill!
Gu Xiao's goal was to find the remnants of the Creators. However, if Luo Xiao found the Ancestral Court and summoned a void beast from it, that would mean Luo Xiao had lost control.
At that point, killing Luo Xiao would actually be the best choice!
Suddenly, Qin Mu said calmly, "Brother Luo, without summoning a void beast, can we still verify whether this is the Creator Ancestral Court? I've heard that void beasts are extremely difficult to control and devour everything. If you can't control the void beast, wouldn't it bring disaster to the world?"
He had always wanted to protect Luo Xiao and see if he could change history. This was another attempt to save Luo Xiao.
If Luo Xiao had not met Qin Mu after leaving the Great Void, he would have died long ago and never returned to the Great Void to bring back the three prophecies. To protect this Creator's life, Qin Mu had put in considerable effort.
He had to fulfill this history.
Luo Xiao hesitated for a moment, thought carefully, and said sheepishly, "My divine consciousness is indeed not strong enough to control a void beast. However, when I left this time, the clan leader only taught me how to summon void beasts. They did not teach me the methods to summon other ancient giant beasts."
Qin Mu suggested, "Since it's a summoning, it must be bidirectional. Our divine consciousness and thoughts can establish a connection with the void beasts to summon them, and we can also use this connection to probe their location."
Luo Xiao listened, feeling confused.
Da Hong and Gu Xiao, however, understood. Da Hong tested the waters, "Reverse summoning?"
Qin Mu nodded. "Establish a divine consciousness connection with the void beast. Since they can sense each other, divine consciousness can perform divine consciousness techniques within the void beast's mind. Establishing a reverse summoning is not impossible."
After his explanation, Luo Xiao also understood and hesitated, "Our clan has no such divine consciousness technique..."
"Then it needs to be created."
Qin Mu sensed that the killing intent on Gu Xiao was gradually fading and felt slightly relieved. He smiled, "You know my divine consciousness is not weaker than yours, and modifying techniques is my specialty. Teach me the method to summon void beasts, and I will establish the reverse summoning."
At that moment, he suddenly sensed a faint killing intent emanating from Da Hong.
Qin Mu's heart tightened. Da Hong's killing intent was not directed at Luo Xiao, but at him!
Clearly, his words had caused Da Hong to harbor murderous thoughts toward him.
He had dispelled Gu Xiao's killing intent toward Luo Xiao, but it had aroused Da Hong's killing intent toward himself!
"Maybe I performed too well."
Qin Mu blinked and thought to himself, "I said I could modify the Creator's divine consciousness summoning and establish a reverse summoning. He probably never thought of that before. I appeared smarter than him, making him wary, so he wants to kill me. I should act a bit more foolish..."
Luo Xiao's divine consciousness fluctuated, transmitting the divine consciousness method for summoning void beasts into Qin Mu's mind. He said, "Brother Mu, give it a try."
Qin Mu glanced at Da Hong. Da Hong smiled slightly and encouraged, "Brother Mu, feel free to try."
Qin Mu then looked at Gu Xiao and tentatively said, "If I attempt the reverse summoning, there might be unpredictable great dangers. Brother Gu Xiao, you must protect my safety."
Gu Xiao glanced at Da Hong and said with a half-smile, "I also want to see the renowned Mu Tianzun, who established his path through techniques, demonstrate his skill in the art of techniques. Don't worry. We are both of the human race and brothers. I won't let you fall into danger."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
Da Hong chuckled, his hands tucked into his sleeves.
Gu Xiao also laughed, casually taking out a file and leisurely filing his nails.
Luo Xiao felt that the atmosphere was a bit off, but he couldn't quite pinpoint where the problem lay.
Qin Mu studied the method for summoning void beasts repeatedly and quickly understood the principle. After all, he had obtained the accumulated wisdom of the Creators from the Other Shore Void, so comprehending the Creators' divine consciousness methods was not difficult for him.
He used the Dao runes from later generations to deconstruct the summoning method for void beasts. After a long time, he finally completed this summoning method. Then, he used mathematical calculations to deconstruct the summoning method evolved from the Dao runes and established the reverse summoning method.
After finishing all this, he stretched lazily, then walked to the altar that Luo Xiao had taken out and carefully studied its structure.
Qin Mu pondered for a moment and immediately began modifying the altar. Gu Xiao, Da Hong, and Luo Xiao watched him busily carving array patterns and runes on the altar. When they tried to look closely, they found that they could not fully understand the array patterns and runes Qin Mu was using.
Some of these array patterns and runes used the Dao methods of later generations to deconstruct divine consciousness, while others used divine consciousness to deconstruct the Dao methods of later generations, forming cross-era runes. Moreover, many of them contained runes of acquired Dao, leaving them completely in the dark.
Qin Mu then set up a forging table, forged divine weapons in front of it, and crafted various components. He called Long Qilin forward to take these components and modify the altar.
Long Qilin did not need any guidance and directly embedded these divine weapon components into the altar.
"Mu Tianzun, who established his path through techniques, truly has great skill!"
Da Hong and Gu Xiao couldn't help but silently praise, "Even his mount is proficient in Dao methods and techniques—truly extraordinary!"
Qin Mu forged more divine weapon components and assembled the remaining parts into a smaller altar, placing it next to the larger one.
The two altars, one large and one small, had opposite structures.
Qin Mu stepped onto the larger altar and swept his gaze over everyone's faces. "Everyone, if you come onto the altar, I will activate the array and attempt to enter the Ancestral Court. On the other altar, I have set up different runes. The Ancestral Court has been sealed, and with my power alone, I cannot break the seal. So, I have left this second altar. Inside the Ancestral Court, we can use the reverse summoning method to call ourselves out. This second set of runes requires me to activate it. Do the three of you understand?"
Da Hong chuckled and said, "Brother Mu has thought it through thoroughly. I understand."
Gu Xiao also nodded and said, "I understand as well."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. With these words from the two of them, his life was considered safe.
At the very least, before leaving the Ancestral Court, these two would definitely not kill him.
The Heavenly Dragon Carriage also drove onto the altar, along with the six heavenly dragons, Long Qilin, and Yan'er. Yan'er was guarding the lantern that Wei Suifeng had handed over to them.
Qin Mu let out a soft shout and activated the method for summoning void beasts. Countless runes on the altar instantly erupted, turning into countless lights that rose slowly and converged at his brow. Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from between Qin Mu's brows and pierced into the void!
The void trembled slightly, and then Qin Mu sensed one massive lifeform after another in the nothingness, extremely ferocious and filled with a thirst for blood!
He chose a powerful lifeform and sent his divine consciousness crashing into it.
Hum.
He felt a slight vibration, and vaguely, he seemed to have established a connection with that powerful lifeform.
On the altar, Qin Mu's eyes were hollow, but his hands were dancing. The divine weapon components attached around the altar suddenly became extremely bright. The various rune imprints Qin Mu had carved on them seemed to come alive, moving like snakes or pythons across the divine weapon components!
Beams of light shot into the sky, forming a phantom altar composed of runes above their heads. Then, the phantom altar crashed into the void!
Boom!
A violent rumbling sound reached everyone's ears on the altar. Suddenly, the entire altar seemed to be pulled by a tremendous force, flying into the void.
At that moment, Qin Mu saw a huge eye split open in the pitch-black void, revealing a strange eyeball that rolled around.
"These eyes... I've seen them somewhere before... It's the Other Shore World!"
His heart jolted. Back in the Other Shore World, when the Creators summoned the First Spirit Realm, he had seen similar eyes. That was an anomaly that appeared when the First Spirit Realm emerged.
However, what Qin Mu did not know was that in the supreme divine consciousness domain of the Great Void, similar eyes existed in the earth, mountains, rivers, and sky!
But he had not noticed them at the time. Only the divine dragon he had visualized had seen those eyes!
"Could it be the eyes of a void beast? Then, was the First Spirit Realm built using void beasts?"
Just as he thought this, the altar had already rushed toward that huge eye.
The sky suddenly became bright. The huge eye seemed startled and quickly shrank back, with the altar following the eye at great speed.
The next moment, a violent tremor came, and the altar suddenly stopped. Dazzling light flooded the eyes of everyone on the altar.
A giant ancient beast's eyeball appeared beside the altar, its pupil contracting as it stared at this suddenly appearing altar. But even the pupil was far larger than the altar!
Everyone on the altar tried to see the full form of the owner of this eye, but the giant beast's eyeball blocked half the sky, making it impossible to see its true body.
"It's a void beast!"
Luo Xiao broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly opened the vertical eye on his brow, and his divine consciousness surged out, rushing toward this eye. He shouted, "Void beasts devour everything! Everyone be careful! I'll try to subdue it first!"
His divine consciousness rushed into the eyeball. The huge eyeball let out a piercing scream, so shrill that the six heavenly dragons, Long Qilin, and Yan'er rolled on the ground in agony.
Qin Mu and the others had extremely high divine consciousness cultivation and were not harmed by the scream from this eyeball. However, Long Qilin and Yan'er did not have such robust divine consciousness.
The huge eyeball retreated. Its eyelid rolled upward, as if to cover the eyeball, but terrifyingly, beneath the eyelid was an abyssal mouth with no lips at all!
It was like a giant eyeball. When the eyelid rolled up, the eyeball would turn into a mouth!
Qin Mu had never seen such a strange creature before.
That enormous mouth was like a bottomless black hole. A terrifying gravitational force came, and a long tongue curled around the altar. The gravitational force then pulled at everyone on the altar, dragging them toward the abyssal mouth!
"Don't panic!"
Luo Xiao shouted loudly, "Trust me! My divine consciousness can definitely subdue this void beast!"
He exerted his divine consciousness, desperately trying to control the void beast. Qin Mu quickly turned his head and saw that the abyssal mouth was closing!
Qin Mu activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Art, mobilized his supreme divine consciousness of the Great Luo, and also surged into the void beast's body.
As soon as his divine consciousness moved, the void beast suddenly stopped devouring them. The abyssal mouth also stopped closing, and the giant tongue pushed the altar out of the abyssal mouth.
Everyone on the altar was startled and uncertain. Qin Mu withdrew his divine consciousness and also breathed a sigh of relief.
Luo Xiao wiped the cold sweat from his brow and said joyfully, "I originally thought my cultivation was insufficient to subdue a void beast. Fortunately, at the last moment, I exerted all my strength and finally subdued this void beast."
The tongue, stretching for who knows how many miles, relaxed and set the altar down.
Qin Mu looked back and saw that the void beast had a strange appearance. On top of its head grew rows of mountain-like bone spikes. Because it was so huge, these looked like rows of bone mountains.
This void beast had clearly experienced countless battles. Many of the bone mountains on its body were broken, revealing sharp bone stumps.
He flew up, putting more distance between himself and the void beast, and finally saw the beast's full form.
This void beast had two hind legs crouching among the towering mountains, with four front legs supporting the ground—six legs in total. Its size far exceeded the majestic mountains of the Ancestral Court.
Its head was very round, with a single huge eye in the center, occupying its entire face.
Below the eye was a crack like an arc-shaped canyon, along with many folds of rough skin.
The crack should be its mouth, and the folded skin was its eyelid.
When the eyelid lifted upward, the mouth would grow larger and larger, until eventually, the round head had only an abyssal mouth filled with sharp, saw-like teeth, along with a long tongue inside!