Chapter 1277: Excavating Prehistory (Third Update)
"Mu'er and this ancient god within the egg don't seem to be on very good terms," everyone thought to themselves.
Qin Mu unfolded his divine treasury domain, allowing Mute, Blind, and Pharmacist to enter his domain. He instructed, "Stand within the chaotic mineral vein. There are two pieces of eggshell there, discarded by Taiyi. They will keep you safe."
Blind and the others were somewhat displeased at being protected by him, but they knew his divine abilities were vast and far surpassed their own, so they each went to hide within the ancestral court of his divine treasury domain.
They descended the mineral vein and arrived at the valley that had been blasted open.
The valley was very deep, like a basin, with broken mountain ranges everywhere. As the group looked around, Qin Mu's heart stirred. He flew to the top of a severed mountain and looked down.
He saw that the mountain had been cut very flat, as if sliced off by a sharp weapon.
Qin Mu took out the broken sword. His heart stirred, and the broken sword grew into a long sword, its sword light extending for dozens of miles. He lightly sliced at the severed mountain!
His divine sword immediately encountered tremendous resistance. The sword light penetrated only halfway into the severed mountain before it could go no further, unable to cut the mountain in two!
"The person who left this mark was far more powerful than I am, at least at the peak of the Lingxiao realm! And judging by the cross-section of the severed mountain, it shouldn't have been left by a creator."
He withdrew his divine sword and said in a low voice, "The creators of the prehistoric era had very crude divine abilities, not this refined. However, logically speaking, the ancestral court was sealed by the ancient god, Heavenly Emperor Taichu, during the prehistoric era. No one after the Longhan era should have been able to leave such marks..."
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign came to a broken cliff. The cliff was tattered, with light shining through it front and back, shaped like a palm print a hundred feet high. But strangely, this palm print had six fingers.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign activated the Heavenly Heart Sacred Art and struck a nearby cliff. With a thunderous roar, the cliff shook slightly, leaving a palm print, but he didn't punch through it.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign frowned.
Yan'er came to the foot of the cliff and scraped the wall. Many black gravel fell down, like charcoal or petrified ash.
"What happened here once?" Pharmacist asked.
No one answered him.
The group continued forward. After a while, they finally reached the bottom of the valley.
There were even more severed cliffs and mountains here, as if a terrifyingly fierce battle had taken place. Many powerful beings had fought so fiercely that the sky had split and the earth had cracked, creating the strange scene before them.
But oddly enough, this was beneath the ancestral court—the battlefield was buried deep underground.
Standing in the valley and looking up, they could only see the sky like a well, its walls a thousand fathoms high.
The valley wasn't dark. Ahead was the light emitted by the divine bow. The group walked toward the light, when suddenly the divine light swam and rushed toward them at incredible speed.
"Sword Heaven Palace!"
Qin Mu shouted in a low voice. Those divine lights were like fish swimming swiftly through the air, moving as fast as light and lightning.
The divine light invaded his divine treasury domain, and sword light burst forth from the Sword Heaven Palace. Clanging sounds rang out, like pearls falling onto a jade plate or rain beating on banana leaves. A dense series of noises came as the sword light collided with the flowing lights!
The sword light was like a swarm of bees, or a torrent, clashing and colliding with the divine lights around the divine treasury domain.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign manifested his heavenly palace behind him. Immediately, the space around him tilted and the sky slanted, with divine lights being destroyed amid the cataclysm.
Yan'er, on the other hand, carried her lantern. The flowing lights hadn't even reached her side before they were sent who knows where by the light from the lantern.
She was actually the most relaxed.
The deeper they went, the closer they got to the source of the divine light, and the more ferocious the attacks from the flowing lights in the air became!
Qin Mu's Sword Heaven Palace could no longer hold out. He was forced to mobilize all eighteen of his heavenly palaces, even summoning the great dao of Xuan Du, You Du, Yuan Du, and the Four Extremes Heavens to resist the invasion of the divine light.
But still, many divine lights broke into his divine treasury domain and attacked him directly!
He stood firm in the ancestral court, his vertical eye on his forehead opening wide. Wherever his gaze fell, the swiftly passing divine lights exploded with a bang, scattering into wisps of yin and yang energy.
Mute, Blind, and Pharmacist watched with pounding hearts and decided to stay obediently hidden within the Taiyi eggshells, not daring to show their faces.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's Heavenly Heart Sacred Art could barely hold out either. He had to use his divine abilities to clash head-on with the divine light. When he couldn't hold out any longer, he raised the Taishi egg to smash against the divine light, provoking angry curses from within the Taishi egg.
Yan'er was still the most relaxed.
The Moon Venerable's lantern was truly heaven-defying. Wherever the light shone, no law could approach. Those divine lights simply couldn't get near her.
"No wonder the Moon Venerable is one of the few venerables who survived from the Longhan era to the present." Qin Mu was also full of admiration, feeling very envious of the Moon Venerable's techniques and divine abilities.
Finally, they passed through layers of divine light and arrived before the divine bow.
The group looked up, each dazzled and entranced.
They saw a long bow, hundreds or thousands of feet in length, shining with golden light. Thousands of rays of light overflowed from the bow, shooting out in all directions!
Beside the long bow was a mountain range like a black dragon. Qin Mu looked and saw that this black dragon-like mountain range should be the root of the Great Black Tree, but it was so thick that its original form as a root was no longer recognizable.
However, between the root and the long bow, there was actually a withered bone arm!
This withered bone arm extended from the root of the Great Black Tree, tightly gripping the back of the bow!
The withered bone arm seemed to have grown out of the Great Black Tree itself!
"Where did this arm come from?" The group was stunned.
Qin Mu stepped forward, intending to forcibly take down this divine bow. Suddenly, the bowstring of the divine bow vibrated. With a twang, an arrow of light shot toward Qin Mu's brow!
Qin Mu's hand produced the broken sword. He lifted the broken sword, deflecting the arrow. The arrow light grazed past the top of his head, shooting through the Glazed Blue Sky Canopy, leaving a large hole. The arrow light was brilliant, dragging a tail flame ten thousand miles long, drawing a dazzling straight line across the sky of the ancestral court!
On the other side, the First Ancestor Human Sovereign stepped forward, activating the Heavenly Heart Sacred Art, and gently pressed his palm onto the bow body.
The bowstring was about to vibrate again, but his hand pressed down on the bow body, preventing the bowstring from drawing, and it only let out a hum.
The space in front of the First Ancestor Human Sovereign was shaken by the bowstring, instantly splitting into hundreds of pieces. They stood upright before him, slicing toward him at a speed he couldn't react to!
Yan'er raised her lantern, and the light smoothed out the split space. A lock of hair hanging from the First Ancestor's forehead instantly split into hundreds of strands and drifted away.
A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead, sliding from the bridge of his nose to the tip.
He had been just a hair's breadth away from being sliced into hundreds of pieces by the divine bow's power!
Qin Mu stepped forward and, together with him, grasped the divine bow. The two exerted their strength, intending to lift it. But the next moment, both of them shuddered violently!
A vast thought from within the divine bow crashed into their minds: "Ask my permission before touching my treasure!"
The collision of thoughts let them understand what the thought intended to convey, and they were horrified: "The owner of the divine bow is still alive?"
The two of them were frozen in place by the vast thought from within the bow, their bodies stiff and unmoving, only their eyeballs still able to turn.
Yan'er immediately reached out to grab the divine bow, but she too was frozen by the vast thought!
Just then, Blind walked out of Qin Mu's divine treasury domain, approached, and carefully examined the withered bone hand gripping the bow. He muttered to himself.
Mute stepped forward, carefully studying the withered hand, listening to Blind's words, and nodded repeatedly.
Pharmacist stepped forward, took out a spirit pill, crushed it, and smeared it on the withered bone. "It's done," he said.
Mute opened his box, reached in, and grabbed. Countless silver pills in the box floated into the air, forming a large hammer.
Mute swung the hammer and brought it down with a crash. With a thunderous boom, the withered bone hand shattered into pieces!
Qin Mu, Yan'er, and the First Ancestor Human Sovereign felt a great relief. The vast thought in their minds instantly dissipated!