Chapter 1169: The Yellow Talisman of Nether Heavenly Venerable (Third Update)
Qin Mu rode the tower ship, returning to Yan Kang with the Yan Kang merchant caravan. He first went to see Mute and Blind, telling them about the Ancestral Court. Their eyes lit up, Blind's eyes especially bright, and they immediately wanted to set off for the Ancestral Court.
Qin Mu quickly dissuaded them, saying, "There are many rare and exotic herbs there; we must bring Grandpa Medicine Master along. Moreover, that precious land of mine is the foremost treasure ground of the Ancestral Court and needs a powerful guardian to prevent it from being seized by the forces of the Ten Celestial Venerables. Therefore, I plan to invite all the successive Human Sovereigns of the Human Sovereign Hall to come and oversee it. The Ancestral Court is quite distant and perilous, so when we go together, we can look out for one another."
Only then did the two elders restrain themselves.
Ling Yuxiu ordered someone to immediately contact Medicine Master and the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, saying, "It will take them a few days to get here. You two wait for a few days."
Qin Mu took out the Woodcutter Saint's letter, silently activated the Soul-Pulling Art, and after a moment, put the letter away. He picked up the Moon Celestial's lantern and rose to leave.
He had already sensed where the Woodcutter Saint was, and by searching in that direction, he could find Fengdu.
The Yuan Realm was extremely vast. Qin Mu walked forward carrying the lantern, and after half a day, he finally arrived at the source of the Yong River.
Here, the Yong River was no longer the Yong River, but the Celestial River, flowing out from various heavens of the Yuan Realm, converging together, and drifting upward, from the Yuan Realm to the Heavenly Court beyond the realm, and then to the Four Extremes Heaven.
Qin Mu walked to the source of the Yong River and looked around. He saw that the cliff that once spanned the north and south of the Great Ruins had been broken into countless segments by the unsealed Yuan Realm, stretching intermittently from the south of the Yuan Realm to the north.
He strolled along with the lantern. After a short while, his figure flickered and vanished from the Yuan Realm.
At the same time, in the celestial palace on the Yuan Wood, the clay statue of Xiao Celestial suddenly stirred. The artifact Yu Celestial outside the celestial palace immediately opened its eyes and swept its gaze towards where Qin Mu had disappeared!
Its gaze pierced through layers of void, penetrating various heavens, but it could not find any trace of Qin Mu.
"Is that brat hiding in the Nether Realm?"
The artifact Yu Celestial shifted its gaze, looking into the Nether Realm. The clay statue in the celestial palace was surprisingly agile, frowning, "He ran to Yan Kang to recruit troops, and now he's running around everywhere. He must be plotting something. Mu Celestial, can't you just be an obedient pawn..."
The artifact Yu Celestial's gaze swept into the Nether Realm like two blazing pillars of light, immense in size. After scanning the darkness without finding Qin Mu, it swept towards the Earth Lord's physical body in the dark Nether Realm.
Just then, a paper boat drifted leisurely. An old man on the boat raised a horse lantern and shone it directly into the artifact Yu Celestial's face. The clay statue's eyes suddenly went dark, turning blind.
The old man held a sheet of yellow paper and pressed it against the artifact Yu Celestial.
When the clay statue's vision returned and it looked up, it saw a yellow talisman pasted on the artifact Yu Celestial's forehead, inscribed with ghost-script-like Nether Realm characters.
"Nether Heavenly Venerable!"
The clay statue was furious. Nether Heavenly Venerable's move was extremely formidable. A single talisman had sealed his artifact Yu Celestial, closing all its apertures and preventing him from controlling it!
"This talisman won't be easy to remove. I need to be careful."
He soared up, approaching the artifact Yu Celestial's forehead, channeling the mana within the clay statue, and cautiously reached out towards the yellow talisman.
At that moment, the yellow talisman on the artifact Yu Celestial's forehead suddenly flew up—it was actually two talismans!
The other talisman slapped onto the clay statue's forehead with a *shua* sound!
The clay statue immediately felt its entire body sealed. Neither its primal energy nor its divine consciousness could leave its body to manifest as divine abilities.
Not only that, but it also felt its body become incredibly heavy, falling uncontrollably from the air!
After a long while, a heavy *thud* was heard as the clay statue shattered upon hitting the ground, too broken to be pieced back together!
Only then did the divine consciousness and primal energy within the clay statue feel restored to freedom. The yellow talisman flew up, and from within came Nether Heavenly Venerable's icy voice: "Don't mess with the Nether Realm..."
*Shua.*
The yellow talisman vanished.
At the same time, the yellow talisman on the artifact Yu Celestial's forehead also fell off and disappeared.
"Nether Heavenly Venerable!" The artifact Yu Celestial clenched its fist tightly but did not strike into the Nether Realm.
Meanwhile, Qin Mu arrived at the Tianyin Realm.
Since the Yuan Realm was unsealed, the Tianyin Realm had lost contact with the outside world, and the crack that originally connected to the Great Ruins had also disappeared.
Qin Mu walked into the Tianyin Realm. From afar, he could see that many cultivators and deities from Yan Kang had already built numerous divine cities here, thriving and multiplying.
Ever since Qin Mu discovered the Tianyin Realm, Emperor Yanfeng and former National Master Jiang Baigui had sent some Yan Kang cultivators and commoners to live here, also helping the Tianyin Lady build up the Tianyin Realm.
After all, the Tianyin Lady had no one here except herself.
She was no longer an ancient god, but she possessed power comparable to an ancient god's, and more importantly, she had broken free from the shackles of ancient godly Dao and could cultivate other Daos.
Of course, back then, the Woodcutter Saint, King Yan, Xu Shenghua, and others were invited by Qin Mu to decipher the Dao runes of the Tianyin Realm, which also helped the Tianyin Lady comprehend her own Dao divine abilities and resolve the drawbacks of the soul black sand and the starving ghosts in the Tianyin Realm.
Emperor Yanfeng sent Yan Kang cultivators and commoners here also to develop the Tianyin Realm's divine abilities, which was immensely beneficial for both Yan Kang and the Tianyin Lady.
However, when the Yan Kang Calamity broke out, this place was not affected, which was somewhat fortunate.
"Back then, because we resurrected the Tianyin Lady, pacified the chaos in the Tianyin Realm, and deciphered its Dao runes, the Tianyin Lady gifted each of us a pearl."
Qin Mu looked into the distance and saw the Tianyin Lady sitting above the Tianyin Sea, cultivating. All broken souls in the world returned to the Tianyin Realm, subject to the Tianyin Lady's divine abilities.
At this moment, the Tianyin Lady had clearly greatly increased her cultivation, her power growing stronger. Qin Mu could see from afar a celestial palace like black sand sitting behind her, magnificent and grand!
"The Tianyin Lady used her own Dao divine light to forge seven pearls, gifting them to the National Master, the First Ancestor, King Yan, Xu Shenghua, me, Yan Jingjing, and the Woodcutter Teacher. She said that whoever held the pearl and came to her, she would help with all her might!"
Qin Mu smiled and walked towards the Tianyin Sea, thinking to himself, "I should have realized that the reason Fengdu could evade the pursuit of the Four Emperors of the Heavenly Court was because the Woodcutter or King Yan held the pearl and asked her to hide Fengdu. It's just that I never used this pearl and forgot about it."
The Tianyin Lady sensed his arrival and woke from her meditation, turning to look at Qin Mu.
She stood up, divine light swirling around her, sometimes forming ribbons, sometimes forming an elliptical halo slanting behind her head. Her hair bun was beautiful, but strands of jet-black hair like soul black sand drifted in the air, indescribably elegant.
"My sixteenth celestial palace, the Tianyin Celestial Palace, is within reach!"
Qin Mu laughed heartily, stepped forward, bowed in greeting, and said clearly, "Daoist friend, how have you been?"