Chapter 1345: Deterrence (Second Update)
Qin Mu felt a stirring in his heart and looked up at the streaks of sword light illuminating the Primordial Realm. The Kai Emperor had not descended in person but had sent the Carefree Sword into the Primordial Realm.
This Carefree Sword was carving out thirty-four layers of heavens in the sky not far from the Peach Grove!
Within the sword light, the heavens manifested, a spectacle of unparalleled grandeur!
At that moment, the sky split open, and a host of Creators flew out, arriving beside the thirty-four layers of heavens left by the Kai Emperor. These towering Creators each began to meditate.
The beings of the Primordial Realm then witnessed the process of the Creators forging the heavens. Countless people stared blankly as the thirty-four layers of heavens shifted from being mere sword scars of the Carefree Sword to slowly becoming reality!
At the same time, another vast and profound divine consciousness flew in from the void, accelerating the formation of the thirty-four heavens!
It was the divine consciousness of the Langwan Divine King!
"They came here through the Void Bridge!" Qin Mu's heart stirred as he looked at the Moon Venerable. The formation of the Void Bridge was closely tied to the Moon Venerable. The three rooms at the end of the bridge were crafted by her hand, connecting various perilous locations across the universe.
The two observed for a moment. Although the Kai Emperor and the Langwan Divine King were not as powerful as the Ten Celestial Venerables, their ability to recreate the heavens in this manner was something even the Ten Celestial Venerables could not match.
As a show of force and deterrence, it was more than enough.
"By carving out the Primordial Realm, great things are within reach!" Qin Mu said with a smile.
The Moon Venerable's heart surged with emotion. She had not felt this way in a long time.
She had lived through two magnificent eras. The first was the Dragon Han Era of conquest, an age filled with countless heroes and unforgettable figures and deeds.
Back then, she had assisted the Cloud Celestial Venerable, personally building the Xiao Han Heavenly Court, brimming with ambition and devoid of romantic feelings, all for a goal that others might see as illusory or even laughable.
That goal was simply to allow the human race to survive better—a simple and humble aim. She had fought for it for hundreds of thousands of years, until the day the Cloud Celestial Venerable fell in battle.
After that, her spirit waned, and she went into seclusion.
Even during the wild and unrestrained Chi Ming Era that followed, spanning a hundred thousand years, she never emerged, living alone in her memories of the past.
When the Chi Ming Era fell, the human race suffered another near-annihilation. She had no choice but to emerge from retirement. People say a hidden dragon should not act, but she, this hidden dragon, had to leave her abyss.
It was still that simple goal: to secure the right for humanity to survive and to pursue a better life.
On her journey to save humanity, she met the Ling Celestial Venerable, who had also emerged from seclusion.
The Ling Celestial Venerable had also gone into retreat and vanished after the Cloud Celestial Venerable's death. Facing the great calamity of humanity, these two women made the same choice.
They exchanged a smile and began another new era, another equally magnificent age.
The Supreme Emperor Era was established by these two women, becoming a brilliant civilization that lasted three hundred thousand years!
The Supreme Emperor Era ended with the betrayal of the Xiao Celestial Venerable, her cruelty, and the assassination of the Ling Celestial Venerable, becoming history.
And now, a new era was emerging, one that made her blood boil once more!
Who says women only have tenderness?
Her fierce ambition and earth-shattering deeds were enough to shame countless men!
The two looked up, and suddenly flames surged across the sky. Above the Southern Sea, fire filled the air. Within the blaze, a woman in a red robe descended, sitting cross-legged. Her red garment stretched across the sky like the wings of a Vermilion Bird.
"The Southern Emperor's physical body!"
Qin Mu's eyes twitched violently. That was the physical body of the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, descending over the Southern Sea!
The Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird, had been killed by the Fire Celestial Venerable. When Qin Mu questioned the Fire Celestial Venerable in the Antarctic Heaven, the Fire Celestial Venerable had already slain her in her ancestral land, refining her entire cultivation and physical body!
Now, the Fire Celestial Venerable was releasing the Southern Emperor's physical body, also as a show of force. It was not aimed at the Ten Celestial Venerables but at the Moon Venerable, the Heavenly Duke, the Earth Lord, and the other Three Emperors!
"When facing his own kind, the Fire Celestial Venerable is indeed the one charging at the forefront," Qin Mu said, his eyes dimming.
Soon after the Fire Celestial Venerable displayed the Southern Emperor, the Vermilion Bird's physical body to intimidate the Primordial Realm, the Ancestral Divine King's deterrence followed. The Ancestral Divine King targeted the Heavenly Duke.
His weapon of deterrence was a projection of an artifact, not his Heavenly Dao treasure, which had already been shattered. This projection was a sphere—an incredibly complex celestial orb.
Inside the celestial orb, the Heavenly Dao and the Netherworld Dao were perfectly fused.
The Heavenly Duke's avatar, dwelling on the clouds, observed and remarked, "That bastard is formidable. This must be a treasure forged from divine metals and ores found in the Ancestral Court, right? Only the Ancestral Court's divine ores can perfectly fuse the Heavenly Dao and the Demonic Dao."
Then, the deterrents of the Yan Celestial Consort, the Gong Celestial Venerable, the Qiang Celestial Consort, the Xu Celestial Venerable, the Langxuan Divine Emperor, and other Celestial Venerables descended one after another. The Heavenly Duke, the Earth Lord, and several ancient Divine Emperor avatars saw these projections and their expressions shifted slightly.
The artifact projections of the Yan, Gong, Qiang, Xu, Langxuan, and Hong Celestial Venerables were almost all forged from divine metals and ores from the Ancestral Court!
The minerals in the Ancestral Court contained mysterious energy, allowing conflicting Daos to be blended into a single weapon. The Ten Celestial Venerables had previously been unable to forge such treasures, but after obtaining the Ancestral Court's divine metals, they could!
"It seems we cannot hold back any longer."
The Heavenly Duke's avatar sighed and pointed a finger. In the Xuan Du, forty-nine Heavenly Daos transformed into forty-nine supreme treasures, all forged from Ancestral Court divine metals, hanging high in the Xuan Du to intimidate the Primordial Realm!
The Earth Lord in the Primordial Realm pondered, stomping the ground. The earth trembled, and the Netherworld emerged. Sixty-four Netherworld Daos transformed into sixty-four Demonic Dao supreme treasures, also intimidating the Primordial Realm!
On the other side, the Eastern Emperor, the Azure Dragon, activated the Spirit Treasure Mountain. Above the Western Earth's Metal Divine City, a massive golden horn descended from the sky, emitting a long, resonant blast that made all who heard it burn with the urge to fight to the death!
The Northern Emperor, the Black Tortoise's avatar, saw this. The Xuan Emperor said to the Wu Emperor, "A few old siblings all have divine artifacts, forged from divine metals and treasures collected when they left the Ancestral Court. Only we are dirt poor, using all our assets to forge the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, only to have it stolen by thieves."
The Wu Emperor replied, "Don't speak. Act inscrutable, and we won't lose face."
The Xuan Emperor fell silent but couldn't help adding after a moment, "The Tianyin Empress and the Moon Venerable have no world-shaking treasures either. We won't be embarrassed..."
Before he finished, the Tianyin Empress raised a treasure—a living being funnel, also forged from divine metals brought back from the Ancestral Court.
The Xuan Emperor hesitated, then said, "The Moon Venerable has no treasures..."
In the Peach Grove, the Moon Venerable plucked her zither strings, and instantly, above the Peach Grove, countless transparent blades rose like knives—spatial cross-sections, slowly rotating.
The Xuan Emperor thought for a moment and said to the Wu Emperor, "The Mu Celestial Venerable is much poorer than us. After all, he's young and hasn't accumulated much..."
The Wu Emperor barely restrained himself from beating him in public and said coldly, "Shut up!"
Just then, the Youming Crown Prince manifested his divine power as the Heavenly River, stepping on it to arrive. He bowed and said, "Father... Your Majesty the Northern Emperor, the Yanshou Emperor has sent me with a batch of Ancestral Court divine metals. She says the Mu Celestial Venerable obtained many divine metals and ores in the Ancestral Court and has some to spare, asking you both to forge treasures for self-defense."
——Zhai Zhu is on a high-speed train heading to Suzhou for business. He will take the high-speed train back in the afternoon or evening and will try to find time to write without delaying the updates!