498 Fengdu’s Hall of King Qin (1/2)

Qin Mu and the dragon qilin had dazed looks. They raised their heads to look at the behemoth beside them, speechless.

The taotie stood beside them like a mountain-sized mountain goat. Its front two limbs were incomparably strong and its back limbs were thick and short. The hair on its body had bronze patterns, going round and round.

The behemoth had a human face, but its facial features were extremely weird. Its eyes were under its armpits, the place where its front limbs were connected to its chest. Its mouth was squarish and wide, filled with tiger's teeth. Its goat's horns protruded out like thorns, looking extremely fierce!

Xing An's chest had been made from taotie's skin, which was used on the surface of the chest, and bones, which acted as the frame.

One had to know that Qin Mu had two taotie sacks, but the amount of skin used to make one was merely a foot in length and width. Yet the exterior of the huge chest used the skin of one whole taotie!

If one added the taotie bones that were used to support the space inside, the chest could be said to be incomparably luxurious!

Qin Mu's taotie sack didn't transform because the interior space wasn't connected to the outside world. On the other hand, the chest had transformed into taotie because its interior space had connected with the outside world!

The transformation of the chest was slightly slower probably because its interior was a world by itself. To spat out everyone in its stomach, the chest had opened up, which resulted in its interior coming in contact with Fengdu, so the chest was also affected by the living realm of the dead.

Qin Mu pulled away his gaze and hurriedly grabbed the taotie sacks at his waist, thinking to himself, 'My taotie sacks need to be kept properly, I definitely cannot open them; otherwise, it won't be two taotie sacks on my waist, but two taoties strapped to me...'

Two mountain-sized taoties strapped to his waist and him stuck in the middle would definitely not be something pleasant. No matter if it was a squeeze or a tug, he would die incomparably miserably!

The taotie transformed from the chest raised its claws, still puzzled why it would change like that.

However, it didn't think much about it and immediately took off to chase the people that were running toward Fengdu. It opened its mouth in delight and tried to swallow them all.

Even though it was affected by the living realm of the dead and gained flesh and blood, its mind was still simpler. After all, it was a chest awakened by Qin Mu.

The dead that were being chased by it were frightened out of their wits, to the point they had no more will to do anything.

Taotie was one of the most famous evil creatures and ate anything. It was never fussy so it was no wonder they fled everywhere in fear.

Qin Mu hesitated for a moment and called out to the creature. The taotie chest ran back and looked reluctantly at the escapees. When it saw the dragon qilin, it couldn't help jumping in joy again and opened its strangely weird mouth.

The dragon qilin's hair stood on ends, and he immediately said, ”You can't eat me! I treat you as a good brother yet you want to eat me. Where's the justice?”

Qin Mu consoled him. ”Don't worry, it doesn't want to eat you. It just likes to collect some bones, hands, and legs... Spit me out, quickly spit me out! Damned chest, stupid chest, even eating me! Quickly spit me out...”

...

Finally, they came to the first divine city in Fengdu. At this place, Qin Mu saw all kinds of strange and weird people. Some of them had no heads, some huge holes in their chests, and some were missing arms or legs.

However, there were also strong practitioners that had died normally, so their arms and legs were intact.

There were many people in the first god city, and there were also strange life forms lingering in the air. They didn't look like the dead, but like spirits.

”Those are the scattered souls of strong practitioners. Their incomplete souls are lingering around here, but even in Fengdu they don't have their own corporeal bodies,” Bird-Headed God Chi Xiu said. ”Don't look at them, be careful of being possessed.”

Qin Mu hurriedly looked away. However, his curiosity was roused. Instead of looking at the incomplete souls that were lingering around, he examined other people.

Soon, he discovered something strange. Other than the incomplete souls in the sky, there were actually people without corporeal bodies as well!

There were many who didn't have an inch of it. Only their primordial spirits were left!

Yet even so, those people were extremely strong. However, the forms of their primordial spirits were different from the human body. They usually were shaped as sacred creatures.

The most common primordial spirit forms were the four great spirit bodies, them being Vermillion Bird God, Black Tortoise God, Green Dragon God, and White Tiger God.

However, there were even more primordial spirits that were something else, some fantastic oddities of every description. There were demon-faced gods with green faces and tusks, bull-headed gods with horns on their heads and fire wrapping around their bodies, gods with human heads and snake bodies, gods with three heads and six arms, and gods with all kinds of other forms.

'These people aren't incomplete souls; their primordial spirits are complete. Where are they from? Since they have primordial spirits and not corporeal bodies here, doesn't that mean that their corporeal bodies are still alive?'

Qin Mu suddenly took note of some crucial points.

The corporeal bodies of those primordial spirits were still alive!

He stared with his eyes wide open. There were numerous primordial spirits of all forms in the city. In just the period of time from when he had entered the city, he had already seen more than two hundred of them. Didn't this mean that there were two hundred and more gods still alive?

Where were all of them hiding in his world?

Not only that, more than two hundred was just what he had seen when he entered the city. This meant that there were even more primordial spirits in the city.

Besides, this city was only one god city of Fengdu. According to the where he had been the previous time he had come, there should be quite a few Fengdu Cities. The last time he had seen the place, there seemed to be some nine-ten cities, and each one was very large!

In that case, how many gods were still alive in the world?

'Why did these gods abandon their corporeal bodies and enter Fengdu? Where are their corporeal bodies at... Wait a minute!'

Qin Mu's mind was blown as qi and blood rushed into his brain, causing his ears to ring.

There were many gods in his world!

It was just that they had already become stone statues!

They were the stone statues protecting the people in Great Ruins!

Didn't this mean that they could revive anytime and become gods?

This guess was shocking!

All kinds of strange incidents in Great Ruins had troubled Qin Mu for a long time, but if his guess was correct, he could explain part of the strangeness.

For example, the incident at Heavenly King Temple in which the heavenly king's stone statue had ridden the dragon qilin to slay the dragon king at night!