Chapter 1161: Void Beast Invasion (Third Update)
Back in the day, the Heavenly Duke had also lived in the Ancestral Court for a long time. He knew it deeply, and there were too many eerie legends about the Great Dark Mountain from the primordial era.
Some said it was the ashes left behind when the previous universe was destroyed. Others said it imprisoned a demon king capable of annihilating the entire cosmos.
Once, Creator-level beings had explored it, but no matter how many went, none ever returned!
When the Heavenly Duke himself tried to explore the Great Dark Mountain in the Ancestral Court, he reached a conclusion that made his hair stand on end: the universe had been born and destroyed sixteen times.
The Great Dark Mountain was actually a tree that had once held up all things in the cosmos. But for some unknown reason, this divine tree had died, leaving only its stump.
It must have perished during the destruction of the previous universe, leaving endless speculation for later generations.
At that time, when the Heavenly Duke explored the Great Dark Mountain, he saw many extremely bizarre scenes that chilled him to the bone. From then on, he kept his distance.
As far as he knew, Lord Tu had also gone to the Great Dark Mountain. But when the Heavenly Duke asked Lord Tu what he had seen there, Lord Tu was evasive and unwilling to discuss it, so the Heavenly Duke had to let it go.
Among the Heavenly Sovereigns who had entered the Ancestral Court, who would be so audacious as to claim that eerie place, the Great Dark Mountain, as their own?
Heavenly Sovereign Hong didn’t even need to think to know who it was!
“Heh, I don’t even need to see his face to imagine that little bastard looking like he’s asking for death!” Heavenly Sovereign Hong let out a laugh, but his face was ashen.
At that moment, on the Great Dark Peak of the Great Dark Mountain, Qin Mu was still filled with gratitude toward the two ancient gods inside the Taiji Divine Egg. He felt that since they hadn’t taken his claim on their mine and had instead guided him to a treasure land second only to the five great veins, it was a good karmic bond.
But he never considered that he had forcibly broken into the Taiji Mine, fought his way to its deepest depths, planted his divine sword on the altar, and with murderous intent, extorted a hundred Taiji Divine Stones and a piece of Taiji Primordial Stone. How could they possibly have sincerely guided him to such a treasure?
They must have been eager for him to go die, so they could take back the Taiji Divine Stones and the Primordial Stone.
Over the past ten-plus days, Qin Mu had deciphered four Taiji Beginning runes. His research speed was increasing rapidly. He thought to himself, “In less than half a year, I’ll be able to decipher all the runes in the Taiji Beginning Egg. Then, by inducing the Taiji Beginning Egg to converse with the ancient god egg in the Azure Sky Canopy, I’ll be able to fully understand the Dao runes of that ancient god egg too!”
Full of confidence, he was about to continue his research when suddenly his heart stirred. He waved his hand and put away the Taiji Beginning Egg, then stood up.
Dragon Qilin hurried over, his face panicked. “Cult Leader, Yan’er and I encountered something strange…”
Qin Mu raised his hand to stop him. “I already know. No need to say more. The Void Beasts are here!”
He strode quickly to the center of the Great Dark Peak, where the jade pillar of the Azure Sky Canopy stood. The pillar was like a mountain, reaching the sky and standing firm, its entire body a translucent green.
Dragon Qilin opened his mouth to continue, but then he saw an overwhelming tide of Void Beasts surging toward them from beyond the Great Dark Wood. He swallowed his words.
Yan’er ran over with Little Lord Tu, also intending to tell Qin Mu what she and Dragon Qilin had seen. Seeing the situation, she didn’t dare disturb him.
“Young master probably doesn’t know that the strange thing we encountered isn’t the Void Beasts—it’s the Great Dark Wood itself,” Yan’er said, her face full of worry.
Qin Mu watched the sky-darkening swarm of Void Beasts and laughed. “Heavenly Sovereign Qiang doesn’t even bother to act personally. Does she think mere Void Beasts can do anything to me?”
The first wave of Void Beasts crashed into the outermost heavens with a thunderous roar. The moment they entered the first heaven, they vanished, diving into the void of that realm. The next instant, they appeared near the various treasures hanging within the heaven, opening their gaping maws to devour them.
The power of the Azure Sky Canopy came from these treasures. When the Azure Emperor and Black Emperor forged the Canopy, they had too many treasures, and their forging techniques were crude, so none of the individual treasures had reached their peak power.
When the treasures in all the heavens of the Azure Sky Canopy erupted together, they possessed world-destroying might. But individually, their power wasn’t particularly strong.
Void Beasts could even devour entire heavens. When hundreds of them attacked a heaven, they could swallow the sun, the moon, and gnaw entire continents clean!
However, Void Beasts had little intelligence, acting purely on combat instinct. Without a commander, these giant beasts would rampage, devour, and destroy randomly based on instinct.
But with Heavenly Consort Qiang secretly controlling the Void Mother Beast, the mother beast mobilized tens of thousands of Void Beasts, turning them into a terrifying army that annihilated everything in its path!
Now, under Heavenly Consort Qiang’s covert direction, the Void Beasts’ first target was the treasures in the first heaven!
Qin Mu sneered and bowed deeply. The first heaven instantly transformed into the second heaven, while the second heaven became the first. More Void Beasts surged in, charging into the new first heaven.
At the same time, in the other heavens, countless treasures blazed with light. Before the Void Beasts could devour the treasures of the second heaven, tens of thousands of terrifying rays of light pulsed, combining the might of myriad treasures to sweep away the Void Beasts that had charged into the second heaven.
Countless enormous corpses fell from the sky, crashing into the pitch-black mountains below.
“Heavenly Consort Qiang, let’s see if your troop deployment is superior, or if my formation can establish the Dao!”
Qin Mu was brimming with heroic spirit. He laughed heartily, focusing his mind to command the various heavens. Using the ancient god egg’s peculiar ability to grant requests, he activated the treasures in each heaven, unleashing their power!
The order of the twenty-eight heavens shifted constantly, dazzling the eye. The power of the treasures erupted, lights of every color flashed, and various Dao techniques transformed into visible Dao patterns that surged in all directions, cutting Void Beasts in half, splitting them open, piercing their heads, chopping them into pieces, or blasting them apart on the spot!
In one heaven after another, corpses rained down like a storm, filling the fifteen rings of the Great Dark Wood with bodies. Only the Great Dark Peak remained untouched.
This was Qin Mu’s clash with a terrifying existence like the Primordial Emperor, using the formation Dao of Eternal Peace—a brilliant collision of wits!
In terms of troop deployment, Qin Mu hadn’t fully utilized the Azure Sky Canopy. To unleash the ultimate power of this number one treasure in the world, one would need to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, arranging formations around each treasure in the various heavens, using formation changes to kill the enemy.
But now, he was alone. He couldn’t split himself into hundreds of thousands of divine beings and demons, so he could only rely on the basic power of this treasure to fight the Void Beasts.
The tide of Void Beasts surged like waves, wave after wave crashing into the heavens, a spectacular sight!
Yet they still couldn’t breach the Great Dark Peak. Countless corpses fell, gradually filling the countless valleys of the Great Dark Wood, piling higher and higher.
But no one noticed that as the corpses fell, the blood of the Void Beasts was quickly absorbed by the black mountains. Not a single drop remained. Soon, the Void Beast corpses turned into dried husks!
In the distance, Heavenly Sovereign Hong, Heavenly Sovereign Hao, Heavenly Sovereign Gong, Langxuan Divine Emperor, and others arrived. They watched from afar as the beast horde besieged the Great Dark Wood, deeply shaken.
After a long silence, Heavenly Sovereign Xiao praised, “Truly the number one treasure in the world.”
Suddenly, the void split open. A colossal beast thrust its head out from above the Great Dark Peak, opened its massive maw, and with a single *crunch*, bit through several heavens!
Eight consecutive heavens were torn away in one bite. Many treasures hanging within those heavens were also swallowed by the Void Mother Beast.
Qin Mu’s heart jolted. He saw the celestial sphere of the Azure Sky Canopy exposed!
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