Chapter 1394: A Land That Must Be Contended For
“Xu Sheng Hua is neither fish nor fowl?”
Qin Mu was stunned. After a moment, he came back to his senses and said with a smile, “Although Xu Sheng Hua’s cultivation and strength are not as good as mine, he is the one who understands the Yan Kang reforms the most thoroughly. Even I am slightly inferior to him in that regard. I recommend him to teach you; he will surely enable you to comprehend everything in a short time. His greatest strength lies in being inclusive and eclectic, and he is also innovative.”
Lunar Divine Emperor shook his head and said, “If his cultivation and strength are inferior to yours, then he hasn’t fully grasped the Yan Kang reforms. Mu Tianzun, I know you have always been insidious and cunning. Between you and me, there’s no need to play these petty tricks.”
Qin Mu had no choice but to say, “If you don’t mind my coarseness, I can teach you myself.”
Lunar Divine Emperor’s eyes flickered. “You also know that a Tianzun’s vision and insight are extraordinary. If you dare to distort the teachings, our deal will be null and void! My Divine Yuan Finger is indestructible. I only need to leave one divine ability in the ancestral court’s Jade Pool. If you dare to barge in, I will kill you on the spot!”
Qin Mu smiled and said, “Rest assured, although I am often misunderstood, deep down I am still a good person.”
Lunar let out a hearty laugh and picked up his teacup. Qin Mu also picked up his teacup, and the two drank it all in one gulp. Qin Mu stood up and said, “Then let us set off for the ancestral court now. Divine Emperor, we can exchange ideas along the way.”
Lunar Divine Emperor smiled and said, “I happen to have a fleet of tower ships heading to the ancestral court. We can travel together.”
Qin Mu’s heart stirred, and he asked, “Have the Ten Tianzuns already begun transporting gods and demons to the ancestral court?”
“The situation in the ancestral court is now very favorable. Without the rampaging void beasts, without the Grand Emperor who could control the void mother beast, and without the ancient giant beasts on the back of the ancestral court, it is now a place of peace. It is time to migrate the population there.”
Lunar Divine Emperor did not hide anything from him and continued, “For now, apart from Xiao Tianzun’s faction, which has made no moves, the other Tianzuns have already begun migrating their populations to the ancestral court. Moreover, the Heavenly Court will inevitably move there sooner or later. Doesn’t Mu Tianzun have any thoughts on this?”
Qin Mu was indeed greatly tempted.
The ancestral court was a land of treasures everywhere, a land of divine mountains and grounds. It was a land that must be contended for to win the world!
To control the ancestral court was to control the world!
Although Yan Kang’s current strength was low, its power would surely grow stronger over time. Not entering the ancestral court would be cutting off its own future.
However, the ancestral court also harbored immense dangers, even greater than the threat of the Ten Tianzuns!
Every living being that died there, regardless of race or cultivation level, would become a sacrifice for the old monsters of the previous era, accelerating their invasion process!
“Judging from the current situation, the peace in the ancestral court won’t last long.”
His eyes flickered. “Temporary peace can be maintained, but in the future, after the Ten Tianzuns eliminate the ancient gods like Heaven Duke and Earth Count, they will surely turn on each other to fight for the orthodox rule of the world. At that time, the ancestral court will likely be drenched in blood!”
The forces of the Ten Tianzuns entering the ancestral court was inevitable, and the Heavenly Court entering the ancestral court was equally inevitable!
“In that case, Yan Kang must also enter the ancestral court! Losing one opportunity could mean losing everything. Yan Kang cannot afford to miss any chance!”
He pondered for a moment. Now that the Ten Tianzuns were migrating to the ancestral court, the situation there was bound to be chaotic, with everyone scrambling for precious lands and places suitable for habitation and development.
Yan Kang had to go, and it had to be early.
After a moment of deliberation, he wrote a letter and ordered it to be sent to Yan Kang, addressed to Ling Yu Xiu.
A month later, Lunar Divine Emperor had prepared the tower ships—a fleet of several hundred vessels. Each tower ship was like a floating continent, complete with city walls and buildings on board, capable of housing hundreds of thousands of people!
Moreover, the ships had a complete ecosystem, allowing for farming and animal husbandry. They even had artificial suns and moons that rose and set, revolving around the ships!
Such a ship could fully support hundreds of thousands of people drifting through the universe for thousands of years, maintaining ecological balance!
This fleet, carrying 150 million people, was enough to support the migration of an entire realm’s population!
Qin Mu couldn’t help but admire the financial power of a Tianzun. The divine gold and materials required to build such a fleet were incalculable. Even an ordinary realm couldn’t afford such a fleet!
Lunar Divine Emperor noticed his expression and said with a smile, “Mu Tianzun, you are still young and have opportunities. There’s no need to envy us. By the way, how many people does your Yan Kang plan to send to the ancestral court?”
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment and said, “I ordered someone to inform Yan Emperor, asking her to prepare the population. The more, the better. I’m not sure how many she has prepared.”
Lunar Divine Emperor laughed and said, “Although Yan Kang is wealthy and has sufficient financial resources, it still lacks the technology to build such tower ships. In today’s world, the best ships, aside from the rebel’s Ark of the Other Shore from Carefree Realm, are the great ships of the Heavenly Court. There are only two Arks of the Other Shore, and building them exhausted the financial reserves of the Kai Huang Heavenly Court. But the Heavenly Court has countless such tower ships!”
Qin Mu knew he was showing off, but he couldn’t refute it, as Yan Kang couldn’t even build one such ship yet.
Just then, a messenger from Yan Kang hurriedly arrived, requesting an audience with Qin Mu.
The divine official reported with a strange expression, “The visitor is a dark-faced man with many faces and many hands.”
Lunar Divine Emperor glanced at Qin Mu and said with a smile, “Invite the Yan Kang envoy over.”
Qin Mu’s heart stirred, and he immediately knew who it was.
After a moment, the four-faced, eight-armed Demon King of All Heavens walked in hurriedly, holding a small jade bottle in one hand while his other arms saluted Qin Mu and Lunar Divine Emperor respectively.
One of his faces said, “Yan Kang commoner Du Tian pays respects to Lunar Divine Emperor!”
Another face turned to Qin Mu and said, “Du Tian pays respects to the Sect Leader. Sect Leader, the Emperor has ordered me to bring the people of Yan Kang to follow you to the ancestral court.”
He had four faces, looking in all directions, allowing him to speak to different people at the same time without confusion.
Qin Mu smiled and said, “The Emperor is indeed wise to send you. Divine Emperor, my people have arrived. We can set off now.”
Lunar Divine Emperor looked at Du Tian Demon King and said with a smile, “Your Yan Kang is migrating just one person? And a demon god at that?”
Qin Mu took the jade bottle from Du Tian and said with a smile, “Yan Kang doesn’t have such large ships, so we have to put the migrating people in this bottle. Not as grand as your Divine Emperor’s wealth.”
Lunar Divine Emperor laughed heartily and boarded the tower ship with him.
Du Tian Demon King stood behind Qin Mu, looking around. After a moment, he couldn’t help but say, “Tianzun, although the Heavenly Court’s tower ships are massive, won’t they be inconvenient to move? Such large ships can’t enter the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge.”
Lunar Divine Emperor glanced at him and said with a smile, “You have some insight. But you underestimate the Heavenly Court’s financial power. The Heavenly Court plans to migrate entirely to the ancestral court. If the ships were to fly there directly, countless gods and demons would die of exhaustion along the way. That’s why the Heavenly Court’s Daoist sect went to the ancestral court some time ago to design and build a new Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge. It’s a grand bridge.”
He couldn’t help but feel a sense of pride as he continued leisurely, “This bridge requires eleven large Spirit Energy Transfer Bridges. The eleven Tianzuns each contributed funds to build one. My bridge is almost finished, located on the Heavenly River outside the Southern Heavenly Gate.”
One by one, the tower ships slowly set sail, heading toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
After sailing for a while, they saw countless Heavenly Craft Divine Races busy at work, with Shi Qi Luo of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace personally overseeing the operations.
Above the Heavenly River, an incredibly massive altar stood tall!
This pyramid-shaped altar had a base that occupied the entire Heavenly River!
The narrowest part of the Heavenly River was at Yan Kang, called the Yong River, which was still eight hundred miles wide. By the time it reached the Heavenly Court, the river was even more astonishing, ten thousand miles wide, with waves like a sea!
This altar was the foundation of the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge. Its sheer scale was magnificent and awe-inspiring, even making Qin Mu’s heart race!
From the time the Heavenly Court decided to open the ancestral court to now, eight months had passed. The Zaofu Heavenly Palace had built such a colossal structure in such a short time!
The Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge was designed by Qin Mu and the Black Tiger God. He knew every detail of its data.
Changing one piece of data would require changing all the others and recalculating everything.
The Zaofu Heavenly Palace had magnified the bridge a thousand times. Just the data modifications alone were an enormous project. Yet they had managed to calculate and build it in such a short time. The Heavenly Court’s resources were truly unfathomable!
As Lunar Divine Emperor’s fleet arrived before the large Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge, it happened to be the moment when the Eleventh Tianzun, Shi Qi Luo, was completing the bridge. The altar’s countless runes lit up, and the entire pyramid-shaped altar seemed to come alive. Layer by layer, the structure began to rotate in different directions, clicking and clacking as it operated!
Countless runes on the surface and inside the altar activated, a breathtaking sight!
Around the altar, gods and demons were using divine abilities and Dao techniques to channel the Heavenly River’s water to cool this massive structure.
The altar built by the Zaofu Heavenly Palace was so large that the heat generated by the runes was difficult to dissipate, so the Heavenly River’s water was necessary to prevent the hard-won altar from burning up.
Finally, with a thunderous roar, a blindingly bright pillar of light shot up from the top of the pyramid altar. The pillar was incredibly thick, piercing through the void and the starry sky before disappearing.
Boom—
Another violent tremor came, and another pillar of light shone from the other end of space. Above the Heavenly River, two enormous funnel-shaped pillars of light formed!
The two pillars of light connected, and another terrifying shockwave spread. Around the altar, countless Heavenly Craftsmen cheered, shouting, “The bridge is open! The bridge is open!”
On the tower ship, Du Tian Demon King stared in awe, unable to help but admire the Heavenly Court’s magnificent power, muttering, “The Heavenly Court really has damn deep pockets…”
Qin Mu and Lunar Divine Emperor saluted Shi Qi Luo from afar. Then the fleet started moving and entered the large Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge.
When the fleet emerged from the bridge, Qin Mu realized that the other altar was built in the ancestral court, not far from the ancient Jade Pool.
The tower ships slowed down and sailed toward the Jade Pool. Along the way, one ship slowly descended and settled among a dozen divine mountains.
This ship, resting among the divine mountains, immediately became a magnificent divine city. Hundreds of thousands of people walked out of the ship, surveying their new home.
Soon after, another ship descended, landing by a great river.
Throughout the journey, ships kept landing. This kind of migration was truly eye-opening.
Qin Mu’s eyes flickered. He took out Yue Tianzun’s lantern and handed it to Du Tian Demon King, then took out the jade bottle and gave it to him. With a thought, he transmitted the geographical information of the Great Black Wood’s Ten Thousand Black Mountains to him, saying, “Go to Du Tian and let our Yan Kang people come out and stretch their legs.”
Du Tian Demon King acknowledged the order, took the jade bottle, shouldered the lantern, and quickly disappeared into the distance.
Lunar Divine Emperor smiled and said, “Such a small bottle—how many people can it hold?”
Qin Mu smiled but did not answer.
Two days later, Du Tian Demon King, travel-worn, arrived at the Ten Thousand Black Mountains. He met Yan’er and said, “The Sect Leader ordered me to bring the Gourd Heaven Bottle to migrate Yan Kang’s population.”
Yan’er was startled and exclaimed, “You’re migrating Yan Kang’s population with a great realm? Did you stuff tens of billions of people from Yan Kang into it?”
Du Tian Demon King quickly shook his head. “How is that possible? The Sect Leader only gave a month’s time. The Emperor only managed to pack in 300 million people, just the population of a few hundred divine cities.”
Yan’er was speechless. She said, “Release the people, but don’t do it all at once. Although our Ten Thousand Sacred Mountains are vast, they can’t accommodate so many people at once.”
Du Tian smiled and said, “The others can live temporarily in the Gourd Heaven Bottle. This bottle can house tens of billions of people without issue.”