# Chapter 1056: Love That Will Never Change Until Death
Outside the mining area, Qin Mu quickly looked around and saw enormous eyes everywhere in the sky and on the ground. Those eyes emerged from the earth's surface, and with every blink, they revealed abyssal maws.
They were void beasts, surrounding them on all sides.
Within the mineral vein, Da Hong's body landed on the shrunken void mother beast, charging toward Gu Xiao.
His strength had surged explosively. The void mother beast carried him through the void, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, while the beast's own power was overwhelmingly fierce. Its claws and flying tongue were like weapons forged by heaven itself, blocking Gu Xiao's imperial sword. With one lick, a chunk of the Great Dao steel seal on the imperial sword vanished!
"Pastoral Celestial Venerable, there's no need for you to leave in haste."
Da Hong's voice came through, laughing: "Wait until I kill Gu Xiao, then I'll leave with my beloved wife's corpse. Brother Luo Xiao cannot die either—I still need him to find the other creators. These void beasts will protect you!"
Luo Xiao slumped powerlessly onto the carriage, his eyes hollow and devoid of spirit. After a moment, he came to his senses, looked at Qin Mu with a pleading expression, and whispered: "Brother Pastoral, kill me! I can't let him know where my people are hiding! Kill me quickly!"
"Even if you die, it's useless. Your divine consciousness remains, your soul remains—I can search your soul and consciousness, ransack your divine thoughts." Da Hong's divine consciousness entered his mind, sounding quite pleased.
Luo Xiao went numb.
Now, he couldn't die even if he wanted to.
Qin Mu perked up, trying to console him: "Brother Luo, now that the Nineteenth Void has no void mother beast, we can try to contact the ancestral spirits of your forebears."
Luo Xiao roused his spirits, but then slumped again, saying woodenly: "Even if we find the ancestral spirits, what then? I'm doomed. I must die—I cannot bring disaster to the clan leader and the others. Kill me..."
"There's still a chance for survival."
Qin Mu's divine consciousness rippled: "I built two altars—one outside the ancestral court, one inside. Actually, we don't need the altar inside the ancestral court to leave. This is our only chance. As soon as you contact your ancestral spirits, I'll immediately sense the altar outside the ancestral court, establish a reverse summoning, and bring us out of here. You must contact the ancestral spirits quickly!"
Hope flickered back into Luo Xiao's eyes.
Seeing his gaze, Qin Mu's heart stirred, and he actually felt some reluctance.
They were a pair of clear eyes, reflecting Luo Xiao's inner self.
In this filthy, barbaric world where human hearts were treacherous, it was rare to see such clear eyes. The creators who had left the ancestral court and walked in the Great Void had never experienced the evils of the world, never known the deceit of human hearts. Thus, they could still preserve pure souls, dare to trust others, dare to entrust their lives to others.
The creator Luo Xiao was such a person. Qin Mu had only seen eyes like his in infants.
Even though Qin Mu's own eyes were equally clear, he knew he had never been someone like Luo Xiao. Since childhood, the mute, the cripple, and the others had taught him to be extremely cunning, using innocent eyes to hide himself, to disguise himself.
"But I still must ensure he brings back the three prophecies."
Qin Mu's heart hardened, suppressing his reluctance. These three prophecies protected the creators in the Great Void, destroyed the Imperial Emperor's physical body, gave the people of the Kaihuang Era a place to settle and establish Carefree Village, and in the future, would make Qin Mu the Holy Infant of the creator race!
He had to ensure that Luo Xiao returned to the Great Void alive with these three prophecies.
Yet Qin Mu knew that after Luo Xiao saw his people and spoke the three prophecies, he would die.
He truly couldn't bear to see such a pure person die, but he also had to witness and even fulfill this history.
All around, countless void beasts surrounded the heavenly carriage, blocking the terrifying fluctuations coming from the mineral vein, protecting the carriage. Luo Xiao stirred his divine consciousness—his powerful divine consciousness vibrated, piercing through the void, all his divine thoughts rushing through layer after layer of void, straight toward the highest reaches of the void.
Not a trace of divine consciousness remained in his physical body, only a sincere heart wanting to find the ancestral spirits of the ancestral court.
Qin Mu silently sighed and activated his Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness, his divine consciousness also charging into the void.
In terms of the sheer magnitude of divine consciousness, Qin Mu was inferior to Luo Xiao. Luo Xiao was of the creator race, possessing astonishing talent in divine consciousness.
He was still a young creator, not yet an adult. Once he matured, his cultivation and strength would likely be no less than the Three Kings of Antiquity.
But in terms of the quality of divine consciousness, Qin Mu far surpassed him.
Qin Mu had used the later Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace systems to improve the creators' method of cultivating divine consciousness, and had also learned the Imperial Emperor's Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness. The quality was something Luo Xiao couldn't match.
His divine consciousness, though starting later, arrived first, reaching the Nineteenth Void before Luo Xiao, then charging into the Twentieth Void, continuing upward.
His divine consciousness reached higher levels of the void, only to find them also empty. The divine consciousness of the creator ancestors in the ancestral court had been completely devoured by the void beasts, leaving nothing behind.
Every layer of void was the same.
In that barbaric, ignorant era, both the Imperial Emperor and the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor wanted to erase their inglorious history.
All traces of the creators had to be wiped away.
The difference was that the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor was the victor, while the Imperial Emperor was the loser.
Qin Mu's divine consciousness reached the Twenty-Eighth Void. Here, his divine consciousness was exhausted, unable to climb further.
Luo Xiao's divine consciousness reached the Twenty-Third Void before it could go no further. This young creator's divine consciousness was filled with boundless sorrow, leaving only ethereal divine thoughts drifting through the void.
"Gone, all gone..."
"The ancestral spirits have been erased..."
His divine consciousness was filled with despair, wandering through the empty Twenty-Third Void, devoid of any fighting spirit.
Just then, a faint ripple of divine consciousness came from a higher void, flowing downward. An ancient, weathered voice touched his divine consciousness, and the voice spoke.
"Young creator, our descendant, you have finally come."
Luo Xiao's divine consciousness trembled with excitement. On the Heavenly Dragon Carriage, his physical body was suddenly streaming with tears.
"Our child, we have been silent since antiquity, enduring countless ages, observing the direction of the universe and the myriad worlds, discerning the obscure principles within the void, seeing through the past and the future."
"Child, we have seen the suffering that the creators in the Great Void will face, and we have perceived your heart."
"Child, return to the Great Void. Take these three prophecies with you. In the future, they will be fulfilled one by one."
...
On the carriage, Luo Xiao knelt deeply, sobbing and choking, weeping uncontrollably.
In the Twenty-Third Void, the ancestral spirits of the creators told him the three prophecies concerning the creators of the Great Void: the prophecy of the Imperial Emperor's invasion and Cloud Celestial Venerable, the prophecy of the Other Shore World, and the prophecy of the Holy Infant.
After the three prophecies, the ancestral spirits fell silent for a moment.
"Child, strive to live. You... go now."
Luo Xiao withdrew his divine consciousness.
Qin Mu also withdrew his own divine consciousness, watching Luo Xiao, who was caught in ecstasy. He paced back and forth excitedly, hugged Dragon Qilin, hugged Yan'er, and even hugged and kissed the six heavenly dragons.
Finally, he tightly embraced Qin Mu, sobbing: "Pastoral, you are my true brother!"
Qin Mu smiled, firmly patting his back, and said softly: "We should go now, brother."
Luo Xiao released him, wiped the tears from his face, and smiled very innocently.
Qin Mu quietly activated the reverse summoning formation, sensing the altar left outside the ancestral court. At that moment, within the mineral vein, Gu Xiao was covered in wounds, already in dire straits under the attacks of Da Hong and the void mother beast. Da Hong's laughter came from there.
"Tai Chu, you have finally lost. If you die here, your true body outside will never know what happened here! And I will slowly gnaw away, devouring the power you hold!"
He was like a cat that had caught its favorite mouse, not in a hurry to kill Gu Xiao, but playing with him bit by bit, making his injuries heavier and heavier, yet unable to escape.
"I will gradually encroach upon your Heavenly Court, divide your power, and bit by bit destroy the era you have built. I will make you despair, make you unable to find your true enemy, and ultimately make you die in endless agony!"
Finally, Gu Xiao knelt, kneeling before Gong Yun's golden coffin, with no strength left to fight.
Da Hong stood before him, a strange light flickering in his eyes. The tip of his spear lifted Gu Xiao's chin, and he chuckled: "I will seize your divine consciousness, obtain the Great Dao in this body of yours, and understand everything about you. But your true body will never know that I have been lurking by your side."
Gu Xiao raised his head with difficulty, grinning, his teeth stained with bloody red: "Imperial Emperor, do you know where Gong Yun's soul is?"
Da Hong's pupils contracted sharply.
"I carry it with me."
Gu Xiao laughed heartily: "I have always carried her soul. Although I killed her, I once loved her, so I imprisoned her soul. Do you want to see her one more time?"
The spear in Da Hong's hand trembled, and his voice was hoarse: "Release her soul!"
Gu Xiao raised his hand with difficulty, taking a jade pendant from his neck. He tried to crush it but couldn't.
His injuries were too severe; he was at the end of his rope.
Da Hong snatched it away, pried open the jade pendant, and a woman's soul rose from it, drifting, floating toward the golden coffin.
Da Hong gazed infatuatedly at this woman's soul. She was his beloved wife, his Gong Yun Divine King.
"Nü Xin..."
He came before the golden coffin. Inside, the beloved who had haunted his dreams slowly opened her eyes.
Da Hong's body trembled, a smile on his face as he reached out his hand to the woman in the coffin. The woman in the coffin raised her hand, and their palms clasped.
Da Hong pulled her up, embracing this resurrected goddess king. Two streams of tears couldn't stop flowing from his eyes: "Nü Xin, my beloved wife, all these years I have been thinking of you, always wanting to see you again. I have countless things to say to you..."
Behind him, Gu Xiao revealed a mocking smile, slowly raising his imperial sword, pointing the hilt at Da Hong's back.
A delicate hand grasped the hilt of the imperial sword. With a *puchi* sound, the imperial sword pierced into Da Hong's back.
The woman in Da Hong's arms released him. Da Hong heavily knelt before the golden coffin.
The void mother beast roared in fury, opening its bloody maw to devour the resurrected goddess king.
"Beast!"
Da Hong was furious, blood continuously spurting from his mouth as he angrily cursed the void mother beast, shouting: "Scram!"
The void mother beast let out a timid cry, leaped into the void, looked back once, and then vanished.
Da Hong's mouth gushed with blood as he looked up at his beloved wife, still wearing a smile: "Nü Xin, I may betray everyone, betray my own race, but I will never betray you, never change my heart toward you."
The woman in the coffin rose expressionlessly, floating over his head to stand behind him. She gently grasped the hilt of the imperial sword and thrust it down heavily.
A sword tip emerged from Da Hong's chest. The Dao might contained in the imperial sword was destroying his bodily functions, suppressing his divine consciousness.
"I still love you, unchanging until death..." He laughed.
Gong Yun Divine King leaned close to his ear, her long hair falling from his neck onto his chest, her voice filled with endless hatred.
"But I no longer love you, Imperial Emperor. Ever since you destroyed my race, I have stopped loving."
Her voice was like a bone-scraping knife, her hand gently twisting the sword hilt, slowly grinding Da Hong's heart to pieces: "I only hate you, only endless, boundless hatred. I could stoop to consorting with Tai Chu, borrowing his power to kill you. Let me tell you quietly—I threw our child to its death, and I even bore a child with Tai Chu!"
Da Hong's smile didn't fade: "As long as you live..."
*Puchi.*
Gong Yun Divine King forcefully pulled out the imperial sword. Gu Xiao staggered to his feet, sneering: "Daoist friend, you still cannot defeat me."
Gong Yun Divine King didn't turn to look at him. She raised the sword and sliced horizontally backward. The sword light flashed across Gu Xiao's neck.
Gu Xiao's head slid from his neck, his body fell, and the smile on his face froze, revealing an expression of disbelief.
Gong Yun Divine King reversed the sword hilt and threw it down heavily. With a *puchi*, it pierced into the back of Gu Xiao's headless body, penetrating through his flesh, pinning him to the ground of the mineral vein.
"What I hate most is betrayal." She raised her foot and crushed Gu Xiao's skull, saying flatly.
Da Hong still hadn't breathed his last. Lying on the ground, looking at Gu Xiao's headless corpse, he chuckled: "Killed well, killed well! Nü Xin, go quickly! Outside the mineral vein, there's a boy named Mu Qing who can take you away from here! I've been interfering with his divine consciousness, and I can barely hold him back. This is your only chance..."
Gong Yun Divine King grabbed his neck, lifted him up, and walked toward the outside of the mineral vein: "I won't let you die so easily. I still need this borrowed body of yours to find your true form. Until I find your true form, I will never let you die."
Da Hong's limbs hung limply, but his eyes never left her face. He gazed at her infatuatedly, his eyes filled with satisfaction: "As long as you can come back to life..."
"I will torment you, imprison you, use countless methods to make you suffer."
Gong Yun Divine King said coldly: "I will make you taste the pain of killing my people, repay you a hundredfold, make you experience tortures you cannot imagine!"
Da Hong laughed weakly: "As long as you're by my side..."
"Shut up!"
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