Chapter 1516: Prehistoric Invasion, Heavenly Court Falls
The Right Yulin Army had not yet made a move when the young man suddenly vanished, reappearing beside the Burial Path Divine Coffin. His speed was so great that even these Yulin soldiers could not see it clearly!
Any one of the Heavenly Court's Ten Guard Legions, when drawn up in formation, could stand against a Heavenly Sovereign head-on. Especially after deploying the formations created by Meng Yungui, their power was astonishing!
Among the Ten Guard Legions of the Heavenly Court, the Yulin Army possessed the greatest combat strength, hailed as the Wings of the Heavenly Emperor!
The first generation of Yulin Army generals was Wei Suifeng, who earned great fame in the Guixu War, directly annihilating the most powerful demigod race of that era, the Dragonbo Nation.
This generation of the Right Yulin Army surpassed even that one. Its main general was a figure of equal renown to Yunluo Emperor Wei Suifeng: Tianluo Emperor Bian Yanfei. Yet even he could not see the young man's movements.
"Divine Feather Great Hong Formation, activate!"
Bian Yanfei roared. The fifty thousand elite soldiers of the Right Yulin Army immediately activated the formation. Its power surged to its peak in an instant, transforming into a colossal azure bird!
"Hong! Hong! Hong! Great Hong!"
The momentum of the fifty thousand soldiers was linked. They shouted in unison. The heavenly palace shifted, taking the shape of the azure bird. Dao tones vibrated, as if the Great Hong was crying out in grief, as if Hong Heavenly Sovereign himself had returned to the world!
Hong Heavenly Sovereign, famed in his time for having the greatest dharma power in the world, had been deconstructed through formations by Meng Yungui. The Divine Feather Great Hong Formation deployed by the Yulin Army combined Hong Heavenly Sovereign's demonic nature with the righteousness of the Heavenly Dao, enveloping Qin Mu's coffin and the young man within the killing formation!
The killing formation activated, but the young man trapped within was unhurried. He unfolded his thirty-three heavenly realm domain, connecting it to the thirty-three layers of void. He led the Burial Path Divine Coffin higher and higher, delving deep into layer after layer of void, quickly reaching the thirty-third layer of void.
Bian Yanfei led the Yulin Army in a joint attack, entering the layered voids. But the higher they went, the more severe the voidification of all things became. Even with the Divine Feather Great Hong Formation, the Yulin Army found it extremely difficult to contend with the omnipresent voidification.
By the time they reached the thirty-third layer of void, the voidification had already affected every Yulin soldier. If they continued deeper, it was likely that no one would survive!
A true Heavenly Sovereign could enter the thirty-fifth layer of void without perishing, but the Yulin Army were not true Heavenly Sovereigns.
Although the Divine Feather Great Hong Formation was powerful, the soldiers composing it did not possess the strength of a Heavenly Sovereign.
Bian Yanfei looked at the young man, a look of unwillingness in his eyes. The young man was in the thirty-third layer of void, seeming to merge with it. The power of this thirty-third layer of void had no effect on him at all!
"Who are you, sir?" Bian Yanfei demanded sternly.
"Void-Born Flower of the Upper Firmament."
The young man was polite and courteous, greeting him: "Greetings to the Daoist friend of the Heavenly Court."
"Void-Born Flower!"
Bian Yanfei turned and shouted: "Everyone, withdraw from the void!"
The fifty thousand soldiers of the Yulin Army raised their wings, blotting out the sky. The Great Hong flapped its wings and flew away. As soon as they flew out of the void, Bian Yanfei immediately ordered: "Stop! Activate the formation! Attack the ultimate void from here!"
The Yulin soldiers immediately activated the formation. The immense dharma power, nearly at the peak of Hong Heavenly Sovereign's era, surged forth. The great formation activated, transforming into a single strike of the Great Hong, like a world-shaking wing, tearing through layer after layer of void, slashing towards the thirty-third layer of void!
That world-shaking wing split open the thirty-three layers with irresistible force. However, in the thirty-third layer of void, the man named Void-Born Flower and the Burial Path Divine Coffin had vanished without a trace!
No one had noticed when Void-Born Flower had left with the Burial Path Divine Coffin. Cold sweat poured down Bian Yanfei's forehead. Despair filled his heart. He murmured: "The Yulin Army is finished. Completely finished..."
This time, the Yulin Army was responsible for transporting Pastor Heavenly Sovereign's coffin to the Sinking River in the Ancestral Court. They never expected something like this to happen halfway. If they returned, they feared there would be no way to explain it to Hao Heavenly Emperor.
In Hao Heavenly Emperor's rage, who knew how many heads would roll!
"What do we do? What do we do?"
Bian Yanfei grabbed his hair. Suddenly losing control of his emotions, he wailed loudly.
In the starry sky, Void-Born Flower circled the Burial Path Divine Coffin twice. Suddenly, he laughed and said: "Qin Cult Leader, how is it inside?"
It was hard for him to smile in front of others, but before Qin Mu's coffin, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, looking very happy.
There was no movement from the divine coffin, but Void-Born Flower was not worried about Qin Mu's safety. He carefully studied this Burial Path Divine Coffin.
"This divine coffin is not a coffin. It seems more like a seal, sealing a powerful existence within."
He walked around the coffin, stopping and starting, studying it closely: "This is not the Dao techniques and divine powers of our universe. It seems to be from the prehistoric era. It is indeed a highly developed civilization, able to create such an exquisite seal. But the strongest part of this coffin is not the coffin itself, but these coffin nails. Strange, why are the coffin nails nailed into the coffin lid?"
Void-Born Flower was greatly puzzled.
He had observed for so long and seen many of the Burial Path Divine Coffin's wonders. Although he couldn't fully comprehend the prehistoric Dao techniques contained within the coffin in a short time, he could roughly grasp the overall concept of this sealing divine power.
Based on his understanding, the coffin nails were not nailed to the edges of the coffin lid to seal it shut.
The true function of the coffin nails should be to nail the person inside the coffin to the coffin itself!
That is to say, when nailing the nails, they needed to be driven in from the six sides of the coffin.
"Five nails in the head, piercing the crown of the skull. Fourteen nails in the feet, nailing the seven stars on the soles. Sixteen nails in the hands, nailing the five elements of the fingers and the palm and wrist."
He counted carefully. These coffin nails also needed to nail the brow center, to lock the divine treasures; nail the Welcome Fragrance acupoint, the throat, the heart center, the Flowery Canopy acupoint, the elixir field, the sea of qi, and various other places.
All together, it required about a hundred nails.
If a hundred nails were driven through the coffin into these places on Qin Mu's physical body, they could lock Qin Mu together with the coffin, restricting all his dharma power, divine powers, and transformations, sealing him in the state he was in when he was placed in the coffin.
If this were done, no one could escape. Truly insidious!
However, the person who nailed the nails thought they were nailing the coffin lid shut. As a result, all the nails were nailed in the wrong places. Not a single one was in the right spot!
"Who is so good to Qin Cult Leader?"
This was what puzzled Void-Born Flower. Not only were all the nails in the wrong places, but there were only forty-nine nails—fifty-one short of the required number!
"How very strange."
Originally, Void-Born Flower didn't dare to open the coffin rashly. But after seeing through the reality of this Burial Path Divine Coffin, he immediately pried out the nails from the coffin lid one by one.
He lifted the coffin lid. Inside the coffin was like a small world, vast in space. A dazzling light came from within the coffin—the Dao light emitted by the World Tree.
Under the World Tree, Qin Mu sat cross-legged.
Void-Born Flower observed Qin Mu's face and praised: "After death, Qin Cult Leader looks as if he were alive."
He struggled to move Qin Mu out of the coffin, panting heavily from the exertion. Qin Mu's physical body was not particularly heavy; what was heavy was the World Tree and the Chaotic Sea beneath Qin Mu.
Void-Born Flower looked and saw that there were also some coffin nails on Qin Mu's body, exactly fifty of them. He couldn't help but find it both ridiculous and sad.
"According to the rules, there should be one more nail. But the person who forged this coffin seemed to be afraid that Qin Cult Leader couldn't escape. Not only did they nail them wrong, but they also forged one less nail."
Void-Born Flower shook his head. He removed those nails from Qin Mu's wounds and shook his head again: "These fifty nails were also nailed in the wrong places. I wonder which unlearned fellow nailed them..."
The moment he removed the nails, a faint breath of life, like a spring breeze after a harsh winter, emerged from Qin Mu's lifeless body, revealing a trace of weak vitality!
Void-Born Flower's heart stirred slightly, but he was not surprised. He sat to the side and waited quietly.
The Chaotic Sea rippled. The ripples were not large, very slight and slow.
The vitality within Qin Mu's body also slowly increased. However, his injuries limited the improvement of his vitality.
There were fifty of these injuries. Void-Born Flower had examined them earlier. They should have come from the Dao techniques and divine powers of the Miluo Palace. The Dao wounds were extremely severe. Even though Qin Mu had destroyed his own divine treasures and transformed them into chaos, resolving the wounds on his divine treasures and primordial spirit, the wounds on his physical body could not be completely erased.
Void-Born Flower could not heal this kind of injury, so he could only wait for Qin Mu to wake up on his own and solve it himself.
He had no worries about Qin Mu. This confidence came from their first encounter, when Qin Mu was controlling the flood on the river. They were still young back then, and the confidence in Qin Mu's eyes had deeply impressed Void-Born Flower.
As their interactions increased over time, Qin Mu had weathered countless storms. This led Void-Born Flower to have a misconception: that nothing could stump Qin Mu, nothing could break him, and nothing could kill him.
Of course, he had never seen Qin Mu in a moment of despair, which was why he had this misunderstanding.
After an unknown amount of time, Void-Born Flower looked up. In the ultimate void, a blade light flickered uncertainly.
He withdrew his gaze. That blade light felt somewhat familiar to him. The last time Qin Mu came to see him, he had sensed someone in Qin Mu's shadow but hadn't asked. The feeling that blade light gave him was very similar to the person in Qin Mu's shadow.
Just then, Qin Mu slowly opened his eyes. The Chaotic Sea gradually calmed, receding into his body. The World Tree behind him also disappeared.
"Qin Cult Leader, how was it in the coffin?" Void-Born Flower asked unhurriedly.
Qin Mu's aura was still very weak. He looked up and saw Void-Born Flower's expressionless face. He smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Void, why must you mock me?"
The expression on Void-Born Flower's face instantly became extremely vivid. He laughed heartily, his clear voice carrying far.
Qin Mu coughed violently a few times, expelling the bad blood from his body. He said: "Brother Void, how did you get out of the Ancestral Court?"
Void-Born Flower's smile faded, and he returned to his usual calm demeanor. He said: "The Great Black Mountain fell. Too many stowaways crawled out from the roots of the World Tree. I couldn't defeat them, so I came out."
Qin Mu was stunned, then breathed a sigh of relief: "I was worried you would fight to the death, bleeding to the end..."
"No."
Void-Born Flower said calmly: "I am more useful alive."
Qin Mu was stifled by him, nearly half-dead. He really wanted to get up and punch him. Few people could stifle him like this, but Void-Born Flower was an exception.
"The Heavenly Court is destroyed." Void-Born Flower continued.
Qin Mu's heart shook violently. Suddenly, he couldn't suppress his injuries. Blood spurted from all fifty wounds.
Void-Born Flower watched him frantically sealing his wounds and handed him some coffin nails, saying: "These nails can help seal the wounds."
"The Heavenly Court is destroyed?" Qin Mu inserted a nail into one of his wounds and asked urgently.
Void-Born Flower nodded and said: "When I left, some accomplished Daoists had already stowed across and were preparing to attack the Heavenly Court. Calculating the time, the Heavenly Court should have fallen by now. The Ancestral Court has changed hands."
Qin Mu gasped, forgetting to insert the nails. Void-Born Flower kindly helped him insert a few coffin nails into his wounds, causing him to cry tears of pain.
"The fall of the Heavenly Court—is it a good thing or a bad thing... Lighten up! It hurts!"
——Happy belated birthday to Alliance Leader 8803! My fault for forgetting yesterday. Please don't hit me~~~