Chapter 1144: The Way of Heaven Is Constant (Second Update!)
Hundreds of void beasts could no longer hold back and lunged at Qin Mu, Hong Tianzun, Long Qilin, Yan'er, and the others on the altar, like a pack of wolves fighting over food!
"Half each!"
Great Hong swept his sleeve, scooping up the charging void beasts. These beasts were enormous, but once they fell into his sleeve, they seemed pitifully small.
Qin Mu's divine consciousness erupted, and he visualized countless razor-sharp spikes. Those spikes appeared inside the remaining void beasts, instantly riddling them with holes.
The void beasts were fierce and skilled in battle. The herd let out a piercing, shrill cry that directly slammed into his mind.
Qin Mu was dazed by the impact of these void beasts' cries. He quickly activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Art (Ba Ti San Dan Gong), transforming it into supreme divine consciousness of the Great Luo realm, forming a divine consciousness domain to fortify his mind and prevent his brain from exploding.
The void beasts tried to phase their bodies to escape the spikes inside them, but as they phased, the spikes phased along with them!
This was a unique divine consciousness technique of the Creator race!
Qin Mu struggled to maintain the technique. Soon, the void beasts fled in a mad panic, making their escape.
Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. Although his divine consciousness had grown powerful enough to reach the twenty-eighth layer of the void, it was still difficult to restrain a hundred void beasts at once, so he had no choice but to let them go.
In a short time, the void beasts had fled beyond the range of his divine consciousness technique, each one hiding and not daring to come close.
Qin Mu looked around. Everywhere—in the sky, on the ground, among the mountains and rivers—huge eyes were floating, staring fixedly at them, making his scalp crawl.
The most terrifying thing about void beasts was not their frontal assault, but their ambushes from within the void. They could merge with mountains, trees, rivers, or the ground, and you might not even notice if one lurked beside you.
There were far too many void beasts here. One moment of carelessness, and you could be left with no bones to bury.
Qin Mu focused with all his might, manifesting three heads and six arms to guard against a sneak attack from the void beasts.
Hong Tianzun shook his sleeve, and pieces of broken bone fell out.
Qin Mu glanced at him and smiled. "Brother Hong, you saw me use divine consciousness techniques to counter the void beasts, yet you're not even a little curious?"
He put away the altar and walked forward with Long Qilin and Yan'er. Hong Tianzun followed him, his white brows fluttering, and laughed. "You're the Overlord Body, and you've been to the past. Why would I be curious that you know divine consciousness techniques?"
Qin Mu couldn't figure out the origins of this demon race Tianzun and probed, "I noticed that you and Brother Gong seem to have some friction. Since you're not the Grand Emperor, why does Gong Tianzun hold a grudge against you?"
"You know Gong's identity?"
Hong Tianzun's wide sleeves fluttered as he looked down. With a wave of his sleeve, he forced back the attacking void beasts and chuckled. "She mistook me for someone else and has been relentlessly chasing and killing me. But I don't want to kill her, so whenever I meet her, I have to give way and not bother with her."
Qin Mu looked around, searching for a treasure site, and said casually, "So, back then, it was you who killed Great Hong and erased the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness. You're an ancient god, and only an ancient god would be so wary of the Grand Emperor. That means you are Lady Yuanmu. I've been thinking of you constantly, Lady. Ever since I first saw you, I've been lovesick and unable to sleep. If you lived next door to me, I could get closer to you."
Hong Tianzun was taken aback and laughed. "What makes you say that?"
Qin Mu said, "Great Hong was the Grand Emperor. The Grand Emperor's divine consciousness was boundless. Back then, I severely wounded him, and his divine consciousness was damaged, but not just anyone could erase him. However, Lady Yuanmu's Guixu divine ability can destroy everything. Among the Three Ancient Kings, King Boyang was stuffed into the Guixu by the Empress and Yuanmu and ground to ashes, leaving nothing behind."
Hong Tianzun smiled. "It's not just Lady Yuanmu who can erase the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness."
Qin Mu looked toward the distant Taichu vein, where Xiao Tianzun had already flown there, and frowned slightly.
Xiao Tianzun went there for the corpse of Gu Xiao and the Emperor Sword. Moreover, the Taichu vein was extremely useful to him, and he had to get his hands on it.
It made sense that he would fly there first.
"Then among the ancient gods, who else can erase the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness?" Qin Mu asked humbly.
"Heavenly Duke, Earth Lord, Heavenly Emperor, Empress, Earth Mother, and even Tianyin can all destroy part of the Grand Emperor's divine consciousness."
Hong Tianzun also looked into the distance and saw Langxuan Divine Emperor flying toward the ancestral court's Jade Pool. He sighed. "That treasure site has been taken by Langxuan. Because of this demon body of mine, I've been misunderstood by Gong Tianzun. I don't want to argue, but I didn't expect to be misunderstood by Mu Tianzun as well. Since Mu Tianzun can protect himself, we don't need to be neighbors."
Qin Mu was stunned. "Who are you, really?"
"The way of heaven is constant. It does not exist for Mu, nor does it perish for Xiao. Respond to it with order, and good fortune follows; respond to it with chaos, and calamity comes."
Hong Tianzun's wide sleeves fluttered as he walked forward, laughing. "I'm just an observer traveling from ancient times to the present. The ancient god Heavenly Emperor won't let me see the Heavenly Court, Earth Mother won't let me see the Yuan Realm, and Earth Lord won't let me see the Netherworld. So I have to go and see for myself."
Qin Mu's body trembled violently. He stood rooted to the spot for a moment before coming to his senses. He quickly caught up and transmitted his voice with divine consciousness. "If you are him, why did you attack the Western Emperor?"
Hong Tianzun drifted away, waving his wide sleeve. "Killing her is protecting her, helping her break free from the shackles of the ancient gods. But since you want to protect her, I'll go along with it and let her owe you a favor. I saved you at the Jade Pool, and you owe me a favor for that. So I want you to write me an IOU!"
Qin Mu couldn't catch up and stood there dumbfounded. After a moment, he shook his head with a wry smile. "As expected of an old yin... an old hand!"
Yan'er and Long Qilin caught up to him. Long Qilin asked, "Chief, was it Heavenly Duke who killed Great Hong back then?"
Qin Mu nodded. "It should be him. When I intercepted Great Hong to destroy the Xiaohan Heavenly Court, both Great Hong and I unleashed terrifying waves of divine consciousness. Heavenly Duke couldn't have missed that. He must have intercepted and killed Great Hong while I was severely injured and leaving, and Great Hong was fleeing wounded."
He was lost in thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Gong Jun Divine King discovered that Great Hong was dead and his divine consciousness was erased, so she left. But Heavenly Duke still split a soul to inhabit Great Hong's corpse, becoming the demon race's Tianzun."
"That doesn't add up."
Long Qilin suddenly exclaimed, "If Hong Tianzun is Heavenly Duke, then there would be five Tianzuns who saved you at the Jade Pool: Heavenly Emperor Xiao, Lady Yuanmu, Fire Tianzun, Hong Tianzun, and Gong Jun Divine King!"
Qin Mu glanced at him and shook his head. "Heavenly Emperor Xiao wouldn't save me. He's very afraid of exposure. Everyone suspects he saved me, so he wouldn't, because he's nominally the human race's Tianzun. Fire Tianzun wouldn't either. Among those who saved me at the Jade Pool gathering, there were only Hong, Gong, and Lady Yuanmu. And Lady Yuanmu isn't among the Ten Tianzuns; she's in the Heavenly Court. I estimate..."
He thought for a moment. "At that time, Xiao Tianzun discovered that there were already ten Tianzun-level beings at the Jade Pool, and he wasn't among them, so he didn't show himself and just watched from the shadows. As the ancient god Heavenly Emperor, what am I to him? He wouldn't risk exposing his identity for my life."
Long Qilin found it hard to believe. "Then Fire Tianzun..."
Qin Mu looked around and continued, "Every time I went back to the Longhan era to visit Yun Tianzun and couldn't find him, he was always visiting Fire Tianzun, but he could never get Fire Tianzun's support. Yun Tianzun and Fire Tianzun were friends, and if Yun Tianzun couldn't convince him, how could Fire Tianzun help me?"
In the distance, Ancestral Divine King used the Heavenly Dao divine ability to sweep through many void beasts, a shocking sight.
He had also found a treasure site and planned to occupy it.
Forty-nine Heavenly Dao treasures hung high in the sky, guarding the place so well that even void beasts couldn't sneak in.
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