Chapter 1358: Ancestral Court South Heaven Gate (Third Update!)
Upon hearing this, the people on the altar each unleashed their divine consciousness, summoning the power of their supernatural abilities. A dazzling beam of light shot straight into the sky, and then they vanished from the Ancestral Court!
Their divine consciousness, linked to Qin Mu’s, followed that brilliant light into another world.
The reverse side of the Ancestral Court.
In that world, everything was immensely vast, with lush mountains and clear waters, far more vibrant with life than the front side of the Ancestral Court.
The front side of the Ancestral Court had been as desolate as a desert just a few years ago. It wasn’t until the Ten Celestial Venerables each established their territories there, and the Void Beasts were brought under control by Dragon Qilin, that vegetation began to grow. After Earth Mother Yuanjun arrived, her power caused the plants in the Ancestral Court to grow rapidly, gradually adding a bit of green to the landscape.
However, compared to the reverse side, it was still far inferior.
The front side of the Ancestral Court had been cleaned too thoroughly by the Void Beasts. Countless native rare herbs, exotic plants, and precious trees had been exterminated by them. Only the five major mineral veins and perilous places like the Great Black Tree, which the Void Beasts couldn’t enter, still retained some invaluable spiritual medicines and forests.
But the reverse side of the Ancestral Court had not suffered the Void Beasts’ plunder!
As the divine consciousness of the group followed Qin Mu across the magnificent mountains and rivers of the reverse side, they saw countless spiritual medicines erupting with astonishing spiritual energy.
There was a giant flower, over one person tall, that had existed for who knows how many years. Its pistil was deep, and from within it, a fountain of spiritual energy was spraying outward—this was because the spiritual medicine had accumulated too much energy and had to release its excess!
The age of this spiritual medicine must be terrifyingly ancient!
Then, they saw a sea of spiritual medicines, a spectacular sight where tens of thousands of them were all erupting with spiritual energy fountains at once!
Such a scene was truly magnificent beyond compare!
The group’s divine consciousness wavered, deeply shaken by this sight. Such a spectacle was not only absent from the myriad realms and countless worlds but had never even been seen in the Ancestral Court itself!
The variety and quantity of spiritual medicines on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court were truly unprecedented in ancient times!
“If Medicine Master saw this, wouldn’t he go crazy?” Grandmother Si murmured.
Just then, Qin Mu’s divine consciousness led theirs in a rapid, swift movement. This was Qin Mu taking out an item that Shujun had once worn, using this personal belonging to locate Shujun’s soul.
This was another application of the Soul-Pulling Art.
His claim that the wonder of supernatural abilities lay in a single thought was not an exaggeration. In his hands, the application of these abilities was filled with such ingenious ideas that it left people astounded.
Their divine consciousness roared across the sky above the reverse side of the Ancestral Court, like a gale-force wind, following the trail of Shujun’s soul.
They saw an even more astonishing sight ahead: massive luminous pearls, like a series of moons floating in the air, each about a hundred miles in diameter, dazzling and brilliant.
Below these pearls was a beach, where giant clams opened their shells.
These were another type of ancient colossal beast.
As Qin Mu and the others’ divine consciousness flew over this area, the sea breeze stirred by their passage startled these clams. The pearls in the air immediately fell, dropping into the shells, and the clams snapped shut with a loud crack, spraying jets of seawater as they burrowed deep into the beach.
Those pearls were treasures within the bodies of these colossal beasts.
As their divine consciousness flew over the mountains and rivers of the reverse side, they also witnessed scenes of colossal beasts fighting among the peaks, causing destruction on a world-shattering scale. These were adult beasts that had likely survived on the reverse side for countless millennia. Their physical bodies had been tempered to an incredible level of toughness, like two Martial Emperors clashing with pure physical force, causing heaven and earth to crack apart!
And on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court, there was no shortage of colossal beasts with such combat power!
Suddenly, Qin Mu’s divine consciousness halted, causing the others’ to stop abruptly as well.
The group was puzzled, but then they noticed why Qin Mu had suddenly paused.
They had actually seen a primordial deity being born on the reverse side of the Ancestral Court!
It was a dragon vein of the Ancestral Court undergoing transformation!
That mountain range lay like a crouching dragon, stretching for tens of thousands of miles. It was so ancient that spiritual energy had penetrated the mountain body, gradually nourishing it with spiritual essence and giving it flesh and blood. Over time, it had been constantly moistened by the medicinal power of the various spiritual medicines growing on it, and nurtured by the Heavenly Daos of the reverse side. Unbeknownst to itself, it had developed intelligence.
Today was the day of its transformation, the day it would become a primordial deity!
The group saw the mountain rocks transforming into flesh and blood. The roots of the mountain, buried deep in the earth, turned into dragon claws. As the dragon claws lifted, the earth shook and the mountains swayed. The dragon’s body slowly rose.
This divine dragon ancient god was about to take form!
“The reverse side of the Ancestral Court is truly a land of treasures everywhere!”
The group watched, mesmerized and full of admiration. This was the first time they had witnessed the birth of a deity born from heaven and earth, and it was an eye-opening experience.
But at that moment, dozens of adult ancient colossal beasts suddenly charged over. They attacked the transforming ancient god dragon, and in just a short while, they shattered the divine dragon formed from the Ancestral Court’s dragon vein into pieces!
These colossal beasts were likely the kings among beasts, incredibly powerful. They killed the ancient god dragon with almost no effort.
The group was stunned. Then, one of the ancient colossal beasts, possessing powerful divine consciousness, detected them. It let out a roar, and Qin Mu immediately sensed trouble. He decisively urged his divine consciousness to flee far away.
Behind them, dozens of beast kings roared in pursuit, but fortunately, Qin Mu’s divine consciousness was also extremely powerful, and he quickly left them far behind.
“This reverse side of the Ancestral Court is a bit strange. Why do these colossal beasts kill the ancient gods born here?”
Just as Qin Mu was pondering this, he suddenly stopped his divine consciousness. The group’s consciousness swept forward and saw a majestic Heaven Gate standing tall before them!
It was two immensely vast ancient mountains, completely crimson, radiating flames. The flames automatically formed various profound patterns that constantly shifted and changed.
The mountains were magnificent and imposing, like the two doorframes of a gate, appearing before them.
Each mountain had one side that was curved and bulging, becoming steeper and more treacherous as it rose. At the peak, a solitary spire pierced straight into the clouds!
The other side was sheer and steep, perpendicular to the ground, without any excess rock.
They were symmetrical, left and right, and the central gateway was narrow and elongated, like a line of sky.
Between the two mountains, a strange power gathered, filled with blazing Dao Fire that completely filled the gateway.
The deeper one went, the fiercer the Dao Fire became!
This Dao Fire was extraordinary—it was the true fire of the Great Dao formed by the two mountains!
“South Heaven Gate!”
The group’s divine consciousness rippled, unable to suppress the shock and excitement in their hearts. This was the real, genuine South Heaven Gate of the Ancestral Court!
When they had heard Qin Mu say that the Ancestral Court contained four Heaven Gates, they had been somewhat skeptical. But now, seeing the real South Heaven Gate on the reverse side, they knew Qin Mu’s words were true.
“Strange!”
Qin Mu’s divine consciousness fluctuated as he pondered. “How is the Ancestral Court’s South Heaven Gate on the reverse side? Could it be that the four Heaven Gates aren’t necessarily all on the front side?”
He had originally thought that the four Heaven Gates, the Ancient Kunlun Jade Pool, and the Ancestral Court Jade Capital were all on the front side. He believed that Shujun must know the locations of these places, which was why he used his divine consciousness to find Shujun and summon him back to the front side.
After all, the reverse side of the Ancestral Court was the territory of terrifying creatures like Dragon Xiao. Rashly intruding would inevitably lead to conflict with Dragon Xiao, who commanded all the ancient colossal beasts on the reverse side and possessed immense power.
He was only trying to rescue someone; there was no need to offend such an existence.
But now it seemed that if places like the Heaven Gate were on the reverse side, they would have to enter the reverse side in person!