Chapter 965: Three Prophecies
"Xiu Zhong's divine consciousness is close to the level of the Three Ancient Kings' divine consciousness?" Qin Mu was taken aback, sinking into thought.
The Creator civilization had undergone several great purges. Logically speaking, such a civilization would either be in a period of decline, with each generation worse than the last, or in a period of transformation, developing rapidly. However, the Creator civilization had already matured, making transformation very difficult.
So how did the Creator Xiu Zhong cultivate to the level of the Three Ancient Kings?
"The Creators of the Other Shore world have already abandoned their ancestral teachings!" Shu Jun fumed with indignation.
Qin Mu smiled faintly. Shu Jun was probably referring to this treasure chariot. In the ancient era, the Creators adhered to a minimalist style. Whether it was their architecture or household furniture, there was little ornamentation. They pursued smoothness and simplicity, and their artistic achievements were pitifully poor.
But the treasure chariot visualized by the Creator Xiu Zhong was extremely ornate. It had a triple-layered canopy as its top, with each layer symbolizing a layer of heaven. Beneath the canopy, sun, moon, and stars revolved around a central axis, like the most beautiful gems—truly luxurious to the extreme.
Hanging from the edges of the canopy were beads strung from multicolored gems, each gem with a unique color distribution. Upon closer inspection, the details inside those gems were also vibrant and colorful, endlessly beautiful. One could spend an hour or two examining them and still make new discoveries.
The shafts, the carriage body, the cloud couch, and even the wheels were all exquisitely decorated. Even the reins tying the nine dragons were woven with intricate patterns, truly a work of art!
In the eyes of the ancient Creators, this was outright heresy!
The Creators of the ancient era prioritized combat efficiency, so they visualized things as simply as possible to quickly manifest them in battle. Adding patterns, decorations, or veins to visualized objects would burden their divine consciousness and slow down the visualization process. For a Creator, this was a fatal weakness, giving enemies an opportunity to exploit.
"This is a betrayal of tradition!"
Shu Jun said angrily to Qin Mu, "The gravest betrayal! The Creators are doomed to extinction!"
Qin Mu laughed heartily. "Shu Jun, Divine King, this is art. Art is also combat power."
"Pah!"
Shu Jun's prejudice ran too deep. He found fault with everything and sneered at everything visualized by the Creator Xiu Zhong, mocking it relentlessly.
Fortunately, they were communicating within Qin Mu's mind. The fluctuations of his divine consciousness did not alert Xiu Zhong.
Xiu Zhong drove the chariot an unknown distance, leaving this landmass and entering the starry sky. Ahead, a river of stars surged. Qin Mu saw giant Creators in the starry void creating stars.
They surrounded a void zone, their foreheads glowing with the light of the Primal Chaos Divine Stone as a rocky planet slowly formed.
Qin Mu stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded, as he watched these Creators. Behind their heads floated divine treasuries, radiating brilliant light!
The seven divine treasuries—Spirit Embryo, Five Luminaries, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Heavenly Being, Life and Death, and Divine Bridge—were all present, not a single one missing!
What shocked him even more was that at the end of their Divine Bridge treasuries, there was a heavenly palace, resplendent and dazzling in the starry void!
He was utterly captivated, staring blankly at these Creators' giant primordial spirits standing within the heavenly palaces, visualizing and creating stars at incredible speed!
"The Creators of the Other Shore world have adopted the divine treasury and heavenly palace system!"
A sense of absurdity welled up in his heart. These Creators, who had escaped here after a narrow escape from death, had actually adopted the divine treasury and heavenly palace systems pioneered by the human race—and they had cultivated quite well!
"Could it be that the Creators of the Other Shore world absorbed the cultivation methods of Carefree Village and embarked on the path of divine treasury cultivation?"
Qin Mu steadied his mind. If one transformed the methods of cultivating divine consciousness into the divine treasury cultivation system, replacing the methods of cultivating vital energy with those of cultivating divine consciousness, it would indeed allow for faster cultivation!
Shu Jun had once said that after his rebirth, he would definitely abandon his original divine consciousness cultivation methods. He planned to combine divine consciousness with the divine treasury cultivation system to create techniques suited for this era.
If Shu Jun could realize this, then the Creators of the Other Shore world must have realized it too and already made changes.
In fact, Qin Mu had also modified the Creators' cultivation methods. For example, Shu Jun's Three Enclosures Upper Consciousness had been altered beyond recognition by him.
Moreover, the Grand Supreme Boundless Divine Consciousness of the Grand Emperor was also a technique based on the divine treasury and heavenly palace system. The Grand Emperor was the first Creator to adopt this system.
The Creators of the Other Shore world would certainly realize that this method was easier to cultivate.
Xiu Zhong's chariot passed through the star-creating region. Those Creators greeted him but did not speak. Instead, they communicated through divine consciousness fluctuations, exchanging in an instant what would take half a day to say with words.
Qin Mu sensed their divine consciousness, and his own consciousness touched theirs. In an instant, they exchanged a great deal of information.
These Creators were star-creating masters of the Xiu clan, responsible for creating the starry sky.
They planned to create hundreds or thousands of stars to bombard the territory of the villains from Carefree Village, using these planets to crush them to death.
"Don't act rashly."
Xiu Zhong still spoke aloud, but his language was not entirely the Creators' tongue. Many sentences were spoken in human language, mixing the ancient language with human speech, which sounded quite strange.
Qin Mu sought guidance from Shu Jun, who converted Xiu Zhong's words into divine consciousness for him.
"The villainous leader Qin Ye is very formidable. Bombarding them with these planets won't do much. If you anger Qin Ye, your lives will be forfeit."
Xiu Zhong said, "Continue creating dead star zones to trap those villains in Carefree Village, making it so they can never leave."
Those Creators acknowledged and looked at Qin Mu with curiosity.
"His name is Mu Qing. He's only two years old and tends to run around everywhere."
Xiu Zhong explained to them, "His cultivation is quite good. Many adult Creators can't match him. Look at the eye on his forehead."
The Creators all looked at the eye on Qin Mu's forehead, showing expressions of surprise and delight.
A group of Creators danced joyfully in the starry void, their movements strange yet filled with a peculiar beauty.
"Excellent! This is the Primal Stone manifesting its divinity, blessing our race!"
"A child born from the Primal Stone, a sacred infant who will save our race and lead us back to the ancestral homeland!"
"That bastard Qin Ye is in trouble!"
"That big-headed monster infant from Qin Ye's household has met its match!"
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Qin Mu was stunned, somewhat bewildered, not understanding why these Creators were so excited.
"What is this Primal Stone manifesting its divinity? What is this sacred infant? And what is this big-headed monster infant from Qin Ye's household?"
He looked utterly confused. The Creator Xiu Zhong noticed his expression and laughed, "That fool Shu Jun didn't tell you?"
Qin Mu shook his head. "Teacher Shu Jun only taught me the cultivation method of the Three Enclosures Upper Consciousness. He didn't teach me anything else."
"That fool is tight-lipped."
Xiu Zhong chuckled. "It doesn't matter if I tell you. A million years ago, the ancient people sent a young man to leave the Grand Void and head to the ancestral homeland. The Creators of the ancestral homeland were all slaughtered, but the consciousness of the ancestors still remained there. The ancestors' consciousness saw everything. This young man traveled extensively in the ancestral homeland before returning to the Grand Void. He was hunted down by the Grand Emperor, barely clinging to life, and soon died. However, he brought back the Grand Emperor's gem—the Primal Chaos Divine Stone."
Qin Mu's heart stirred.
The Primal Chaos Divine Stone?
The crystal in the third eye on his forehead was also a fragment of the Primal Chaos Divine Stone. This meant that the Other Shore world also had a fragment of the Primal Chaos Divine Stone!
"Although he died, he brought back astonishing news—three prophecies told to him by the ancestors' consciousness."
Xiu Zhong clenched his massive fist. "The first prophecy: Our Grand Void would face a catastrophe, but a young man would come to help us survive it. Later, the catastrophe indeed came. The Grand Emperor found the Grand Void and brought a calamity that nearly wiped us all out. But just as the prophecy said, a young man came from the outside world, calling himself Cloud Sovereign."
Qin Mu's body trembled violently. He murmured, "Cloud Sovereign!"
"This Cloud Sovereign was not of our race, but he wholeheartedly helped us. His wisdom was unparalleled, and he set a trap. He used the Grand Void's inner demons to suppress the Grand Emperor's cultivation, then lured the Grand Emperor into the trap and killed him."
Xiu Zhong continued, "The second prophecy of the ancestors was about the Other Shore. We survivors, following the prophecy, used the Primal Chaos Divine Stone to open up the Other Shore world, merging the stone into this world to create it. The third prophecy of the ancestors was about the sacred infant!"
He looked at Qin Mu, unable to hide his excitement. "The third prophecy said that one day in the future, a sacred infant born from the Primal Chaos Divine Stone would appear, leading the people back to the ancestral homeland! The moment I first saw you, I suspected you might be the sacred infant of the prophecy. Now the elders also believe you are the sacred infant, so you truly might be the Primal Stone sacred infant, sent by the stone to save us!"
Qin Mu's eyes widened, his mouth agape, unable to speak.
"I really am not..." he thought silently.
"Divine King Shu Jun, I'm not the sacred infant, am I?" he quickly asked Shu Jun.
Shu Jun grunted, very displeased. "Of course you're not! If anyone is, it's me! This Primal Stone is mine. My physical body was destroyed, my cultivation was crippled, and I was reborn from this stone. I am the sacred infant who will save the Creators! You're a human spy!"
"Heh heh." Qin Mu laughed foolishly.
Xiu Zhong said, "However, whether you are the sacred infant still needs to be confirmed by the ancestral spirits. The young man who brought the three prophecies, before his death, created the Ancestral Spirit Realm, where the consciousness of our deceased Creators can reside, forever undisturbed by worldly affairs. I am taking you back to the clan lands to prepare for entering the Ancestral Spirit Realm. Before entering, you will need to pass several trials. Very simple trials..."
Qin Mu's face darkened. "Going to the Ancestral Spirit Realm? Won't I be exposed? Aren't my parents coming to pick me up? Why haven't they appeared yet? Come and intercept me, take me away!"
"I am the sacred infant!"
Shu Jun was still indignant, fuming. "This guy is a fake. I am the genuine sacred infant!"
"Shut up!"
Qin Mu scolded, feeling uneasy. "You don't have the Primal Chaos Divine Stone. The Primal Chaos Divine Stone is embedded in my forehead."
Shu Jun was furious. "You stole it from me! You and your senior brother stole it from me! This stone originally belonged to me. Your black-hearted senior brother took it and then embedded it in your forehead! I am the sacred infant..."
Qin Mu immediately activated the Grand Supreme Boundless Divine Consciousness to seal the space inside the stone, preventing Shu Jun's consciousness from bursting out and alerting Xiu Zhong.
"My parents should be coming soon, right?" he thought silently.
Xiu Zhong urged the chariot forward, saying, "As for the big-headed monster infant from Qin Ye's household, that's another matter. Over a year ago, a big-headed monster infant suddenly appeared in Qin Ye's home. Its physique is no smaller than ours, and it has many tricks up its sleeve. It has killed many of our Creators—truly formidable. That bastard Qin Ye even boasts, saying it's his one-hundred-and-seventh-generation grandson, incredibly powerful, and that when it grows up, it will eat us all."
He sneered. "But now that the sacred infant has appeared, that big-headed monster infant's good days are over!"
Qin Mu forced a dry laugh.
Elsewhere, a tower ship burst out of the void and arrived before the Three-Room House.
"Mu'er!"
Princess Zhen walked out of the tower ship, overjoyed. "Mu'er, are you here? Come out quickly, we're going home!"
Qin Han Zhen flew out of the ship, still bearing some traces of petrification. He looked around and frowned. "He's not here. Has he run off wandering again? When I was captured by Nether Sovereign, he told me that Mu'er is a restless person who can never stay in one place for half a day and always stirs up trouble... Not good!"
He looked down the mountain, his expression changing drastically. "There are footprints left by Creators here!"
Princess Zhen's voice trembled. "Are you saying Mu'er has fallen victim to the Creators? Could he be..."
"Impossible!"
Qin Han Zhen quickly comforted her. "If the Creators knew he was a descendant of the Opening Emperor, they would capture him, torture him, and even use him to threaten the Opening Emperor. He might suffer a bit, but we can definitely rescue him, no matter the cost! Let's go back first!"
Princess Zhen wept. "Mu'er is a child of misfortune. He has already suffered so much. Does he have to suffer even more in Carefree Village? Why is heaven so unfair to him..."
— Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I see many readers leaving messages wishing me a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. I can't reply to each one, so here, I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a joyful family reunion!