Chapter 910: Void Genesis
Qi Jiuyi had originally intended to scavenge some rhomboid crystals, but upon hearing this, he immediately abandoned the idea and chuckled, "Chief Qin, your divine consciousness is strong enough. If you use this treasure to create something from the void, how powerful would the Earth Lord you create be? Could it surpass you?"
Qin Mu shook his head, lifting the small Earth Lord he had just created from the void and placing it on his palm. "It has little power. It also has no soul—just a dim, ignorant creature that looks fierce."
Qi Jiuyi extended a finger and poked the small Earth Lord. "Then this kind of crystal is useless. The life you create is far weaker than you, not even a cultivator, and without a soul, it can't cultivate. What use is it?"
His finger pressed against the small Earth Lord, and the little creature, ferocious as it was, grabbed his finger and tried to fling him away. But its strength was too weak, and it couldn't budge him, roaring in frustration.
Qin Mu set the small Earth Lord down. "If my guess is correct, the prehistoric creators must have had extraordinary prowess in divine consciousness. Their divine consciousness was undoubtedly immense, their mental power astonishingly strong. Look—on the reliefs, each of them could use crystals to create from the void, while I only achieved this after cultivating the Three Primordial Spirits Indestructible Divine Consciousness. That means each of them possessed divine consciousness comparable to mine!"
Qi Jiuyi didn't see anything wrong with that, but Long Qilin and Yan'er understood the implication.
Qin Mu's indestructible divine consciousness was already terrifyingly powerful. After he had discerned the techniques of Yan Shaoqing, hailed as the foremost divine consciousness expert in the Heavenly Court and a Lingxiao powerhouse, he could create illusions and dreams to trap him!
Qin Mu's divine consciousness might not be as deep as Yan Shaoqing's, but its quality far surpassed it.
If every prehistoric creator had divine consciousness no weaker than his, how terrifying would that be?
Pointing at the prehistoric creators in the reliefs, Qin Mu continued, "What's even more peculiar is that their physical bodies were much larger than before. I think they used void creation to enhance their own bodies."
Long Qilin was puzzled. "Chief, how do you use void creation to enhance your own body?"
"Through these crystals, using one's powerful divine consciousness to reshape the body—it wouldn't be harder than creating a small Earth Lord."
Qin Mu explained, "Earlier, in the Rust Blood Zone, we saw a skull as huge as a planet. Its body must have been even larger than its head. Who could grow that big? It must have been the prehistoric creators using these crystals to modify their bodies, making themselves increasingly massive."
He paused, returning to the earlier reliefs. "The first giant to obtain a crystal also grew taller and stronger than the others, showing that using the art of creation to enhance the body is feasible. And crucially, they were immortals—one could even call them gods!"
Qi Jiuyi frowned deeply.
Qin Mu's expression grew grave, his voice heavy. "When the art of creation reaches a certain level, you can achieve immortality, and your body will never decay. Even if you're just a small cultivator at the Spirit Embryo realm, as long as you master the art of creation, you can be as immortal as a god, never dying or perishing! These prehistoric creators were likely a batch of immortal gods as well!"
He felt this deeply because he was such a person.
For cultivators, a god was someone whose primordial spirit reached the Heavenly Palace realm—immortal, with immense power and vast abilities.
But for someone like Qin Mu, the ordinary definition of a god was laughable.
First, the cultivation realms were created by the Seven Heavenly Sovereigns, and Qin Mu had even participated in establishing them.
In the early Longhan Era, he had taught the masses the method of becoming gods on behalf of Imperial Heavenly Sovereign, and together with Hao Heavenly Sovereign, he established the seven divine realms from the Southern Heavenly Gate to the Heavenly Court, known as the Seven Heavenly Palace Realms.
Later, Qin Mu, Xu Shenghua, and other geniuses of Yankang repeatedly broke through realm barriers, merging the seven divine treasury realms into one.
Qin Mu had even reopened the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury to reshape his soul.
Ordinary people revered realms, cultivating within their constraints step by step.
But geniuses created realms, breaking free from them.
They were the founders of realms.
Qi Jiuyi studied the figures on the reliefs and shook his head. "Even if they were immortal, it doesn't matter. They only had strong bodies but knew nothing of the Great Dao or divine abilities. Besides, this creation method, aside from making them bigger and immortal, isn't very useful. The things it creates are too weak."
Qin Mu said, "What if countless prehistoric creators simultaneously activated their indestructible divine consciousness to imagine the same thing?"
Qi Jiuyi froze, suddenly recalling the altar outside and the bones around it. He exclaimed, "You mean the Heavenly Lord that attacked us was created by their void creation?"
Qin Mu walked forward to examine other reliefs. "The bones around the altar were the priests among the prehistoric creators. They gathered everyone's divine consciousness, amplified it through these crystals, allowing them to create a Heavenly Lord under their control."
Qi Jiuyi shook his head, deeply shaken. If tens of thousands of prehistoric creators simultaneously imagined the same powerful being, how strong would the creature born from their combined divine consciousness be?
What if even more creators joined forces?
Wouldn't the creature be even stronger?
Was there no limit to this power?
Suddenly, Qi Jiuyi burst into laughter, shouting, "Even if they could create a Heavenly Lord from the void, it couldn't compare to the real Heavenly Lord! The true Heavenly Lord is the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, the Lord of Xuan Du, the foremost of all orthodox gods!"
Qin Mu stood before another relief. "Come look at this."
Qi Jiuyi looked at the relief, which showed prehistoric creators with crystals on their foreheads. They had created beings far more powerful than themselves, commanding these creatures to fight and slaughter other prehistoric creator races.
He also saw a relief where a leader of the prehistoric creators stood in the altar, holding a golden scepter with arms outstretched, looking up to the sky.
Around the altar, other creators circled it, offering sacrifices to this man, making him even stronger.
This leader possessed incredible abilities, even giving birth to divine abilities!
Qi Jiuyi's heart pounded, and his voice was hoarse. "Divine abilities couldn't have been born like this! Divine abilities came from ancient gods mastering the Great Dao of heaven and earth, unleashing their power! Our later-born beings' divine abilities came from observing the ancient gods, learning the Great Dao from them!"
Qin Mu shook his head and continued forward.
This open-air hall seemed like a prehistoric epic, recording various deeds from that era.
They saw the prehistoric creators creating monsters with ox heads and human bodies, humanoid beings, bird-headed human bodies, beast-headed human bodies, snake-headed human bodies, and human-headed snake bodies.
Qi Jiuyi's face grew paler. He also saw them creating phoenixes!
"Heh heh..." He laughed but said nothing.
What was recorded on the reliefs was too terrifying. The species created by these prehistoric creators grew stranger and stranger, some even resembling the ancient gods!
"They're imitating the ancient gods!"
Qi Jiuyi laughed. "Life created by imitating the ancient gods can never match or surpass them!"
Qin Mu said, "Did they imitate the ancient gods, or did they create the ancient gods?"
Qi Jiuyi was stunned, then suddenly roared, "Blasphemy! Do you know what you're saying?"
Qin Mu also found his own guess absurd, chuckled, shook his head, and continued browsing the stone carvings.
Qi Jiuyi was furious, his voice sharp. "Do you realize that saying this means these savages created the Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Lord, the Earth Lord, the Earth Mother—created the Great Dao of heaven and earth! Do you know what you're saying?"
Qin Mu ignored him and moved on. The content of the reliefs grew more and more shocking.
These prehistoric creators formed several large tribes, gathering more people to gain greater sacrificial power.
They also staged grander sacrificial scenes. Countless three-eyed people sacrificed day and night, preparing to create even more powerful spiritual beings to destroy their enemies and conquer them.
However, one race chose to sacrifice their leader, making him stronger.
That leader's body grew immense, towering beyond the heavens. Countless giants surrounded him, the crystals on their foreheads shining, countless rays of light illuminating him, making him appear divine.
And on this leader's forehead was also a crystal, different from the others—it was cinnabar red, with a charming luster, absorbing the light from the other giants' crystals.
Qin Mu studied the leader's face closely, but his features were obscured by the light radiating from the crystal, not carved out.
Qi Jiuyi still followed him, saying coldly, "They're just using divine consciousness to create things. They can never create true gods. Ancient gods cannot be created; they can only be born from the Great Dao of heaven and earth!"
Qin Mu looked at another relief. Its content was interesting.
It showed almost all the prehistoric creators of a large tribe gathered together, concentrating their divine consciousness and thoughts, intending to create a vast world in the void, far from the troubles of reality!
They wanted to create another world, avoiding the conflicts of the real world, and move their entire tribe there.
"Creating a world in the void! Could these prehistoric creators succeed... Wait, Carefree Realm! Did Emperor Kai's Carefree Realm also involve creating a realm in the void?"
The more Qin Mu thought, the more excited he became. He continued forward, then suddenly stopped, stunned. The stone wall ahead had no more reliefs.
The reliefs ahead had been destroyed by a tremendous force, leaving only broken stone slabs on the ground.
He bent down to examine them. Most of these slabs showed no carving marks, suggesting someone had erased the content first but, still uneasy, had destroyed the reliefs.
He inspected carefully, hoping to find any remnants.
"Chief Qin, you've forgotten the most crucial point! Ancient gods have souls, but the things created by the prehistoric creators have no souls! The Heavenly Lord that attacked us earlier had no soul, and the small Earth Lord you created also has no soul!"
Qi Jiuyi said, "The prehistoric creators blasphemed the ancient gods, imitating them to create life. They touched the interests of the ancient gods, offended them, and used their deformed creations to fight—deserving of extinction! They deserved to be wiped out!"
He was clearly agitated, his Dao heart unstable.
The usual Qi Jiuyi was not talkative, but now he followed Qin Mu, chattering incessantly, seemingly trying to convince Qin Mu but actually trying to convince himself.
Qin Mu's earlier words had deeply shaken him, leaving him restless.
He had indeed grasped a key point: neither the Heavenly Lord that attacked them nor the small Earth Lord created by Qin Mu had souls or consciousness.
Long Qilin said, "Third brother, the Heavenly Lord here was only formed from the residual divine consciousness of the prehistoric creators, not in its prime. What if, in prehistoric times, they could truly create a Heavenly Lord with thoughts and a soul?"
Qi Jiuyi was stunned, his voice trembling. "Second brother, you're also blasphemous..."
Qin Mu looked up, scanning around, searching.
"Found it!"
He cheered and hurried forward. Qi Jiuyi, distracted, followed him, still trying to persuade him. "Chief Qin, you must understand that having such thoughts is a blasphemy against the ancient gods. You should repent..."
Qin Mu reached the center of the hall, looked up, and smiled. "Brother Qi, look up at the sky. What do you see?"
Qi Jiuyi looked up and saw stars embedded in the dark sky. "Naturally, the stars in the sky."
Long Qilin also looked up. "There are some stars in the sky."
Yan'er, sharp-eyed, laughed. "Those stars are fake. They seem far away, but they're not."
Qi Jiuyi was puzzled. "This sky looks no different from the real starry sky. How could it be fake... Ah! It is fake! This is the Rust Blood Zone, full of flying broken continents and planets, countless giant bones—you can't see the real starry sky from here!"
Qin Mu smiled. "This is the treasure my senior brother, Wei Suifeng, left for me."
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