Translator: Ninetales Editor: DarkGem
Giant stone statues came close to the which had come out from the ground and all of them began to dig frantically. Their arms were throwing earth upwards like whirlwinds, and huge rocks were unearthed by them.
Qin Mu and the rest on Sun Ship were astonished. The devil god stone statues dug the ground at an extremely fast speed, even if they didnât look too good. Soon, they dug out a huge pit and gradually sunk into the ground. But there were still mountain rocks that were thrown out of the pit continuously.
âThese guys dig faster than dogs!â Cripple muttered.
King Kun looked at Rat Immortal and asked, âTalking about digging holes, other than Tuxing Feng, Rat Immortal is the next person in terms of ability.â
Rat Immortal stood up and said, âLet me see what they are trying to do.â After he said that, he shook his body and transformed into a huge gray rat. He leaped forward as though he was flying and ran down Sun Ship. In a few breathsâ time, he reached the ground and tunneled into it, vanishing without a trace.
âRat Immortal is skilled in finding treasures and is called Treasure Uncle Rat. He can travel underground without any obstruction, so he will definitely find something,â King Kun explained
Qin Mu raised his head and looked at luxurious flowers filling the sky above their heads. They bloomed as they shrouded Sun Ship. Meanwhile, Flower Sovereign stood in the center of one flower as if she had grown out from it.
âWe need to dispose of the gods of High Heavens!â
Qin Mu looked at Apothecary and the rest. âDo you have any ideas?â
Apothecary smiled. âWe didnât have any ideas before, but now we have.â
King Kun pulled out his golden horn and said, âLet me do it.â After he said that, he rose from the pond and paid his respects to the golden horn.
It was his sacred artifact which had been refined into a golden spear. After he paid his respects, the golden horn flew out with a whoosh, and piercing sounds could be heard as a golden line rushed through the air. It was the trace left behind by the artifact.
The golden line pierced through the heart of Flower Sovereignâs brows and came out from the back of her head. It then rushed toward another god and pierced him the same way.
The golden horn changed its direction once more at an extremely fast speed. After a moment, all the gods, including Star Sovereign Yan, had been visited by it.
A melodious whistling could be heard, and the golden horn landed back in King Kunâs hands.
The golden line in the sky gradually dimmed and slowly vanished.
Qin Muâs heart trembled slightly as he looked at the golden horn. There was not even a drop of blood on it even if it had killed numerous gods, like Flower Sovereign and Star Sovereign Qiao of the four sovereigns of High Heavens. It was also undamaged.
One had to know that the corporeal bodies of the gods of High Heavens were incomparably strong and even cult legacy treasures couldnât harm them in the slightest. Trying to attack their corporeal bodies by force was like smashing an egg against a rock and expecting it to shatter.
But the sacred artifact of East Seaâs Kun people wasnât damage in the slightest. This showed just how powerful was the treasure.
However, even though the sacred artifact was strong, one had to also look at the person using it. When King Kun had fought with the gods of High Heavens earlier, the reason he couldnât win should have been because his abilities were not strong enough.
âKing Kun, the three bridges method to fix the divine bridge have already been made public to everyone by me, so why donât you come ashore and learn them?â Qin Mu asked.
Astonished, King Kun said, âSo those methods to fix the divine bridge were spread by Human Emperor? Iâve already obtained the technique. Truth be told, our Kun people often come ashore to do business with Eternal Peace Empire, exchanging what we have for what we have not.â
Qin Mu relaxed upon hearing those words. âI see.â
Suddenly, a huge rat sprinted onto Sun Ship. Upon nearing them, it transformed into a gray-robed elder. He came to everyoneâs side and gasped for breath. âThereâs indeed something underground! I saw empty space with a piece of temporary imperial residence, a god statue thatâs outrageously large, and a huge knife!â
Apothecary immediately brought him to soak in the pond of pure yang before saying, âYour injuries have yet to heal, talk slowly.â
Rat Immortal took in a few more breaths. âThereâs a passageway underground, and the stone statues have already dug until it. Heading down, thereâs the earthâs core which is a piece of vast land. In the center of that space is a god statue that seems to have popped out from the underground. There are chains everywhere, and they are tethered to various palaces. Iâve no idea how that god statue had gotten itself into the chains, but they are even thicker than the chains pulling the sun behind Sun Ship!â
Astonished, everyone looked at each other.
The chains that held the sun were made in Founding Emperor Period. Such a divine artifact could no longer be forged.
Yet the chains beneath God Broken Mountain Range were actually even thicker than them. Could it be then they were also remnants of Founding Emperor Period?
âIf the chains of Sun Ship are to tie down the sun, could the chains underground be meant to tie down that god statue?â Deaf suddenly said.
Everyoneâs heart trembled. Why would a god statue need to be chained down?
Rat Immortal shook his head. âNo, you guys have guessed it wrong. The chains are connected to the palaces, passing through the underground. While following the digging stone statues, I saw the palaces floating around that god statue. It didnât seem to have been there from there from the start, but like it had just popped out.
âIt was also quite similar to the god statues in Eternal Peace Empire. It should have shown up along with them, just that it was slightly unlucky and found itself at the bottom of God Broken Mountain Range. It hit the chains and became unable to push itself to the surface.â
âThere will definitely be quite a number of treasures in the palace, so letâs go steal⦠Bah! Letâs go pick up some treasure!â Cripple suggested with excitement.
âYou have just gotten your life back, so stop running around and be careful of losing your life again! Rat Immortal, what else did you see?â Apothecary said with a frown.
âThereâs a floating bridge in the air, and itâs connected to the palaces around the god statueâ¦â
âThereâs already chains so whatâs the floating bridge for? What do either of them do?â King Kun asked in bewilderment.
Rat Immortalâs face became weird as he wanted to say something yet did not dare. âThere was also a huge knife above the god statueâs head. The chains were used to chain down that knife⦠When the god statue tunneled out from the ground, it might have knocked its head on the knife which resulted in it being slicedâ¦â
âWhat knife?â Apothecary asked in bewilderment.
âHuge knife, a very huge knife.â Rat Immortal revealed two long front teeth, and his whiskers twitched. âHeaven Knifeâs knife is already not small, but in front of that knife, itâs pitifully little. That knife stretches from the north to south and is now embedded in the head of a god statue. Itâs very very long. But when I saw that knife, I noticed something weirdâ¦â
He composed himself and said, âGranny Si, Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor, and the gods of High Heavens seemed to be in that clear knife. Its blade was like a mirror, and their primordial spirits were battling within it without finding anything wrong.â
Qin Mu and the rest carefully imagined that sight and couldnât help shivering even without feeling cold. Granny Si and the rest had executed Great Overarching Heavenly Stars Formation to pull out all the primordial spirits of the gods of High Heavens, but they had all landed in the internal space of a knife?
Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor had planned to die with the gods of High Heavens, but the power of Earthquake Cauldron had been absorbed by a terrifying energy from underground. Could it be the doing of that knife as well?
King Kun looked at him with a blank face. âWe had landed in a strange space that was boundless and completely empty, but I would have never thought that it might be inside the blade of a knife⦠We had battled for so long, but we actually didnât notice anything!â He was in slight disbelief.
Rat Immortal then added, âThe stone statues had reached there a step ahead of me, and a few of them seemed to be building a sacrificial altar, a very big one. Iâve no idea what they are going to use it for.â
Qin Muâs heart shook slightly and he asked, âCould Rat Immortal draw the appearance of that sacrificial altar?â
Rat Immortal used his vital qi as a brush to draw in the air. After a moment, a sacrificial altar showed up before him. It was similar to the one Qin Mu had seen in front of the hole to the other world which would be used for the whole devil army to pass through the barriers of the worlds and enter Eternal Peace.
The sacrificial altar Rat Immortal had drawn had similar runes to that sacrificial altar, but there were slight differences.
Qin Mu was slightly stunned and his curiosity was aroused. He asked, âWho has mirrors?â
Cripple smiled and said, âDeaf loves to show off his good looks shamelessly, so others might not have but he surely will.â
Deaf snorted and took out a mirror. Qin Mu immediately said, âI need two mirrors, so who else has one?ân/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âI have one,â Apothecary muttered.
Deaf stared at him. âYou donât even have a face so why do you need a mirror?â
âTidy my clothes,â Apothecary said with righteousness.
Qin Mu took the two mirrors and placed them on the left side of the sacrificial altar that Rat Immortal had drawn and on the right. He then said, âRat Immortal, can you push this sacrificial altar into the mirror?â
Rat Immortalâs heart shook slightly, but the sacrificial altar formed from vital qi flew into the mirror. Qin Mu looked at it and was enlightened.
âThese two sacrificial altars mirror each other! The one those stone statues are constructing mirrors the one in the other world. They should be planning to transfer their devil army directly to the sacrificial altar underground. The sacrificial altar should be a kind of teleportation formation, but itâs different from my Heavenly Saint Cultâs one. Their teleportation is much more primitive and requires blood sacrifices.â
Cripple laughed. âWhy are those fellows trying to send over their army? Are they planning to sacrifice it to wake up the god underground?â
Nobody laughed along with him, and Cripple soon couldnât continue laughing either.
If a devil army came over and sacrificed themselves to awaken the god statue with blood sacrifice, who knew what would happen?
âThat god statue is most likely not a god, but the ancestor of their devil race. The stone statues had run over to save their ancestor,â Deaf said. âAfter sacrificing the army, the god statue would revive. Hehe, no matter how hard we fought, it will all be for naught! The sons and grandsons of the god statue will end up reviving him!â
Everyone was silent. Village Chief was dead, Old Rulai was dead, Old Dao Master was dead, and even Xuan Shengwu, White Immortal, Yellow Immortal, and the rest were lost. Yet in the end, they still couldnât stop the descent of the true gods and devils.
They could no longer fight. After the true devil awakened, they were all going to die.
Qin Mu continued to examine the two mirrors, then suddenly said, âAnyone else has a mirror? Give me two more.â
Apothecary flipped through his herb basket and took out two more mirrors, throwing them to him. Deaf raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly. âFlirty!â
Qin Mu placed a mirror between the two original ones to reflect the light. He then used the fourth one to bounce the light once again. After a number of reflections, the sacrificial altar in the last mirror was a mirror image. Qin Mu thought for a moment and said, âWhat if the devil army couldnât be transferred? Could the stone statues wake up that god statue underground by themselves?â
âWhat does Little Human Emperor plan to do?â Apothecary asked curiously.
Qin Mu revealed a bashful smile. âGrandpa Apothecary, donât joke with me⦠I just plan to forge two more teleportation sacrificial altars to interfere with their teleportation. After it, the devil army might not be able to come here. Itâs just like these two mirrors. If I adjusted the direction slightly in the middle mirror, the image wouldnât be able to transfer to the last mirror.â