# Chapter 1060: Darkness Approaches
"Ugly?"
Qin Mu immediately became tense and quickly asked, "Which Ugly?"
That divine being didn't recognize him and said, "That's unclear. This is the borderlands, where humans and demigods live together. We have no jurisdiction here, and the demigods have no jurisdiction either. There's no census."
Qin Mu's expression changed, and he hurriedly said to Yan'er, "Watch the lantern. Whatever you do, don't let it go out."
Yan'er was puzzled. The lantern was Wei Suifeng's treasure, and Wei Suifeng was at least the Yun Luo Emperor. How could a lantern he refined be easily extinguished?
But Qin Mu was very tense, pacing back and forth. He quickly said to Yue Heavenly Venerable and Ling Heavenly Venerable, "Immediately relocate the population. Move all the humans inland, far away from here. Something incredibly terrifying is about to happen here!"
Yue Heavenly Venerable was stunned and quickly gave orders, commanding people to move the humans here to the interior.
"Darkness approaches, darkness approaches. The darkness of that day should have come from one of the nearby celestial realms. Those demigods were looking in the wrong place."
Qin Mu looked up at the sky. Several celestial realms hung in the sky, and some powerful demigods were flying toward those realms, leaving traces of divine light in the sky like meteors streaking across the heavens.
Qin Mu murmured, "Ugly is actually in a nearby celestial realm world, but when darkness descends, it will inevitably affect this place... This lantern can't stop it at all! Sister Yue, Sister Ling, I must leave here immediately and head to the Heavenly Court. I must arrive at the Heavenly Court before the darkness descends and finish what I need to do this time!"
Yue Heavenly Venerable and Ling Heavenly Venerable were both reluctant and said, "You just arrived, and now you're leaving?"
Qin Mu quickly jumped onto the treasure carriage and said to the two, "We'll have the chance to meet again. Don't worry, I will definitely come back to see you in the future! Yan'er, watch the lantern. Pi, prepare to depart!"
He walked into the carriage, opened the window, and said in a deep voice, "Don't stay here either. Leave immediately!"
Yue Heavenly Venerable and Ling Heavenly Venerable saw his grave expression and knew this matter was no small thing. Ling Heavenly Venerable stepped forward and returned the peach wood hairpin to his hand, saying, "Before we part, return my hairpin to me."
Qin Mu stored that peach wood hairpin into his own brow. The moment the peach wood hairpin fell into the Qin Continent, a peach wood hairpin appeared in Ling Heavenly Venerable's hair.
Ling Heavenly Venerable revealed a smile and said softly, "With this scene, I can continue to persevere."
The six heavenly dragons pulled the treasure carriage as it rose into the air, galloping through wind, clouds, thunder, and lightning. When the treasure carriage passed before the palace carried by the great blue bird, the man tied to the pillar, his face covered in blood and grime, raised his head, stared at the carriage, and shouted, "I can't die! If I die, none of you will be able to escape!"
Qin Mu looked at that man through the carriage window, expressionless, saying nothing.
The woman in the palace walked out again, gazing from afar at Qin Mu in the carriage. Qin Mu nodded slightly, and the woman returned a slight bow.
"I distinguish between kindness and grievance. There will be repayment in the future." The woman's divine consciousness transmitted these words into Qin Mu's mind.
The heavenly dragon treasure carriage passed by that palace and flew toward the Heavenly River.
The man on the pillar, with a spear piercing through his chest, laughed and said, "Nv Xin, I sense a terrifying power surging in the darkness. Tu Bo has reincarnated. Do you want to take this opportunity to eliminate him?"
"The great enemies of the Creator race, besides Tai Di and Tai Chu, are Tu Bo."
The woman said calmly, "Tai Di and Tai Chu must die, and Tu Bo must die as well. This is an excellent opportunity. Eliminate Tu Bo, and the Creator race will have no natural enemies! I can give birth, give birth to many Creators, and re-establish the Nv Xin tribe!"
"I can help you."
The man said softly, "After all, we are husband and wife..."
If he hadn't mentioned this matter, it might have been fine, but the moment he brought it up, the woman became furious. She turned around, fetched a tray from the palace, on which lay a hundred or so silver needles.
The woman picked up a silver needle, gently shook it, and it became a foot long. One by one, she stabbed them into his body.
The man screamed in agony, his cries extremely piercing.
Just then, the woman suddenly sensed something and quickly looked toward the sky. The man tied to the pillar also became excited and said urgently, "You sense it too? This surging dark power! This power is precisely coming from Tu Bo! They've found Tu Bo. Husband and wife can join hands to eliminate this natural enemy..."
Hearing this, the woman's hatred surged from her heart. She picked up a whip and lashed him wildly, beating him until he was covered in wounds.
The man on the pillar screamed in pain while laughing loudly, "As long as you're by my side, even if you beat me ten times harder, I'll still be happy!"
The woman put away her whip, looked up at the place where the darkness was fluctuating, and said coldly, "Ambushing Tu Bo won't be easy. Your true body needs to come. Where is your true body? Why hasn't it appeared yet?"
The man looked at her tenderly and said, "My true body has always been here, silently watching you, watching your appearance. I watch you beating me. Even if I watch for another hundred thousand years, a million years, I won't get tired of it..."
The woman beat him again: "Get out here!"
This time, Yue Heavenly Venerable and Ling Heavenly Venerable also sensed the fluctuation of darkness. The darkness wasn't coming from nearby but from the celestial realm above their heads.
The Primordial Realm had myriad celestial realms hanging in the sky. Where these celestial realm worlds came from and why they appeared in the Primordial Realm was a mystery to the later-born races.
They only knew that the myriad celestial realms were hanging there.
After Yun Heavenly Venerable returned from his travels outside, he once revealed that these celestial realms might be worlds created by some prehistoric race, but he didn't elaborate.
Suddenly, the earth shook violently, and countless dark demonic energies surged from underground. The people at the border fell into chaos, scattering in all directions as if the sky were collapsing.
Ling Heavenly Venerable and Yue Heavenly Venerable were startled. They looked up and saw that the celestial realm in the sky had become like a huge demonic eye, with demonic energies spilling from around the eye like countless waving tentacles.
The demonic energies surging from the cracked earth of the Primordial Realm were flying toward that celestial realm, but the two immediately sensed that these demonic energies weren't coming from underground but from another time-space.
You Du!
"A drastic change has occurred in You Du!" Both thought simultaneously.
At that moment, the dark demonic energies grew thicker and thicker. Yue Heavenly Venerable quickly flew up and said urgently, "Quickly relocate the nearby people!"
Streaks of light cut across the sky, all flying toward that celestial realm. These were exceptionally powerful demigods!
On the Heavenly River, Qin Mu kept urging, and the heavenly dragon treasure carriage flew faster and faster, heading straight for the Heavenly Court. Just then, he saw the stars in the sky suddenly brighten, blocking the sun's radiance.
Qin Mu's heart stirred. Those were ancient gods moving their ancestral stars, flying over from distant time-space!
At the same time, he saw several great tower ships towing a massive object flying past the Heavenly River, heading toward one of the Primordial Realm's celestial realms.
Now he was already very far from that celestial realm. Looking from afar, that celestial realm appeared as a black line.
And the massive object being towed by those tower ships was a huge divine platform. Two enormous streams of baleful energy coiled around each other like flood dragons, constantly churning, reaching the highest point of the sky!
"Make your sacrifices, my people!"
A muffled roar came from the sky, the voice of an ancient god: "Make your sacrifices, let us descend!"
Another fleet of tower ships sailed in, appearing ahead of the heavenly dragon treasure carriage. One by one, the tower ships connected to each other, actually forming a huge altar.
Many demigods escorted countless living beings out of the ship cabins—beings of all races—and sent them to the altar.
The blood sacrifice began. Those living beings' blood and qi continuously evaporated in the crimson light. They opened their mouths wide, screaming in agony at the sky, their bodies visibly shriveling!
In the sky, trails of blood-red light pulled those stars closer and closer, lower and lower.
Ancient deities of strange and bizarre forms descended from the sky, following the blood-red light to land on the altar. They opened their mouths wide and took a long breath. Countless limbs danced and flew up, falling into their mouths!
The ancient gods of all strange shapes laughed heartily and shouted, "Let's go, go see that Ugly!"
The heavenly dragon treasure carriage passed by from the side. Dragon Qilin looked back into the carriage and tentatively asked, "Cult Leader?"
"Don't bother."
Qin Mu said indifferently, "Darkness approaches. Hurry along the way. We can't waste this opportunity. We only have five chances left to return to the past."
Dragon Qilin acknowledged and said, "But those tower ships have blocked the Heavenly River. It might be difficult to get through."
"Just drive straight through," Qin Mu said.
The ancient gods dominating the altar immediately noticed this approaching treasure carriage. Numerous gazes fell upon the carriage, and the demigods on the many tower ships also looked toward the carriage, restless.
"This treasure carriage looks somewhat familiar..." An ancient god with a wolf's head and human body pondered. He was Kui Mu Lang Xing Jun.
An ancient god with a chicken's head and human body pondered, "It seems the Heavenly Emperor also has such a carriage..."
"In the Heavenly Court, all the important figures have such carriages, but the Heavenly Emperor has ten heavenly dragons pulling his carriage, and the Four Emperors have nine heavenly dragons."
An ancient god with horn-like wood on his head and a flood dragon's head, looking like a giant crocodile, spoke up: "Feudal lords have eight dragons pulling their carriages, and the crown prince has seven. I've never heard of six dragons pulling a carriage."
"Jiao Mu Jiao, six dragons pulling a carriage... I have heard of that. Ten thousand years ago, that fierce god used six heavenly dragons to pull his carriage. At that time, the Five Yao Star Lords all..."
Qin Mu opened the window, revealing half of his profile. He looked straight ahead, not at the twenty-eight constellation ancient gods, and said calmly, "It's me. If you don't get in my way, I won't get in yours. Twenty-eight Constellations, clear the path."
The twenty-eight ancient gods' gazes fell on his profile, and some hesitated.
Suddenly, Kui Mu Lang waved his hand and shouted, "Clear the river channel!"
The tower ships moved to both sides. The six heavenly dragons pulled the treasure carriage forward. The ancient gods on both sides kept their eyes fixed on Qin Mu inside the carriage.
Suddenly, an ancient god laughed and said, "Mu Heavenly Venerable's battle on the Heavenly River back then shook the world. I wonder if his combat power is still up to par now? Later, you made a few moves and lost a few times."
The heavenly dragon treasure carriage reached the center of the fleet. Qin Mu sat with his eyes closed, saying nothing.
Gui Jin Yang laughed and said, "You vanished seventy thousand years ago. I heard you lost in a battle with Hao Heavenly Venerable and became disheartened. Ten thousand years have passed. Your opponents from back then have all become famous powerhouses across the world, while you're still the same as before. Have you made any progress?"
Qin Mu opened his eyes and said faintly, "I have cultivated from the Venerable God realm to the Heavenly God realm."
Laughter erupted all around: "Others have already reached the Ling Xiao realm! Yun Heavenly Venerable has even reached the Di Zuo realm! And you're still just a Heavenly God!"
Qin Mu closed his eyes again: "I am different from them."
More laughter came from all around.
The heavenly dragon treasure carriage continued forward.
Suddenly, Jing Mu An reached out toward the treasure carriage and laughed, "Mu Heavenly Venerable, come down and play!"
Qin Mu still sat in the carriage, motionless. Just as Jing Mu An's large hand was about to grab the carriage canopy, a gate suddenly appeared in front of his palm.
The Gate of Heaven and Earth.
Jing Mu An's hand passed through this gate, and when it emerged on the other side, it had already turned into white bones.
Jing Mu An screamed in terror, trying to pull back his hand, but the power within the gate pulled him with a whoosh, and he passed through the gate.
Behind the gate, he had already become a skeleton. It swayed, then fell into the Heavenly River, washed away by the river's current.
Silence fell all around.
"My Heavenly God realm is different from theirs." Qin Mu's calm voice came from within the carriage.
The heavenly dragon treasure carriage moved forward, sailing out of the encirclement of tower ships.
The remaining twenty-seven constellation gods watched in terror as the carriage grew farther and farther away.
"A divine ability more terrifying than Tu Bo's..." someone said in a hoarse voice.
On the treasure carriage, Yan'er's eyes flickered, and she said softly, "Young master, they always say your cultivation realm is too low. Can we stay in the past to cultivate for a few hundred or thousand years?"
Qin Mu looked out the window, gazing into the distance at the Heavenly Court: "A tree without roots, water without a source. Cultivating for a long time is useless."
Yan'er didn't understand his meaning.
"Without the soil of the Reformation, even if I stay in the past for a thousand years, ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, I would only cultivate to an ordinary Di Zuo realm."
Qin Mu withdrew his gaze and said leisurely, "By then, I would become mediocre, only fit to contend with figures like Hao Heavenly Venerable and Fire Heavenly Venerable, unable to surpass the present age, unable to defeat the Ten Heavenly Venerables. Only by absorbing the fruits of the Yan Kang Reformation can I surpass them. All my achievements come from the Yan Kang Reformation, not from the past."