908 Blood Rust Zone (2/2)
The form of each star also varied. The star chains surrounding them formed the shapes of the various ancient gods. They were quaint-looking, vicious, and indescribably sinister and terrifying.
The forms of the stars were also the forms of the ancient gods, so one could imagine that those ancient god sovereigns must have also looked like that.
”Those god cities are where the soldiers are stationed.”
Qi Jiuyi continued, ”In this attack of the Primordial Realm, of the celestial troops and generals that were mobilized, most of them came from the various great god cities of the heavenly spirits and earthly fiends stars. The armed forces of the celestial heavens headquarters, as well as the thirty-six celestial palaces and seventy-two throne halls, weren't mobilized at all.”
Qin Mu felt his heart tighten. The celestial troops and generals from just the heavenly spirits and earthly fiends stars had already utterly defeated the Primordial Realm. The power of the celestial heavens was truly unimaginable!
The phoenix ship then flew by the clusters of the earthly fiends stars, traveling through the stretch of starry skies with no end in sight.
Suddenly, they arrived in a shattered starry sky. Broken pieces of land and stars floated amongst the starry sky, and the phoenix ship flew by the wreckage.
Qin Mu looked towards Qi Jiuyi and asked, ”Brother Qi, what is this place? Why is the starry sky shattered here?”
Qi Jiuyi replied, ”It's the Blood Rust Zone of the celestial heavens.”
”Blood Rust Zone?”
”The Blood Rust Zone is the ruins from the prehistoric period. It has existed for a very long time, since before the Dragon Han Celestial Heavens. I heard that it's from before the rise of civilizations.”
Qi Jiuyi continued, ”As for how it came about, I have only heard a few rumors. One of the rumors says that there was a civilization here during the ancient primordial era, but it was later annihilated by the ancient Celestial Emperor and his followers. Thereafter, it was the era of the ancient gods. Thus, the ancient primordial era is also referred to as the prehistoric period.”
The phoenix ship flew by an enormous planet, which was extremely tranquil and revolved very slowly. It was only when the planet revolved to face them that Qin Mu realized that it was actually a skull.
It was a skull that was massive beyond belief!
There were many similarly massive skulls in the Blood Rust Zone. They floated together with the destroyed stars around the starry sky, which was dull and without light. If one wasn't careful, they would bump into them.
The phoenix ship decreased its speed while traversing through this area. Qin Mu stood at the side of the ship and looked outwards. An enormous piece of land floated by the top of the phoenix ship, and on that land, there were still some ruins from the prehistoric civilization.
Qin Mu raised his head to look at it and saw that the palaces on the land were grand and striking. Tall and huge pillars swung by the top of the ship, and there were also imposing god statues on the land. Behind these god statues, there were enormous circular rings.
”These rings resemble the wheels of light that form at the back of one's head after one receives blessings from the ancient gods.”
Qin Mu was astonished. Having various wheels of light behind the head should have been some sort of tradition from the era of the ancient gods. When he returned to the first year of Dragon Han, he had seen that many ancient gods and half-gods had these sorts of wheels of light at the back of their heads.
The most eye-catching amongst them were the Seven Celestial Venerables.
The Seven Celestial Venerables had all received blessings from the ancient gods, and thus they had the most wheels of light and halos at the back of their heads. Celestial Venerable Yu, especially, had countless layers of abnormally complicated-looking wheels of light at the back of his head. After all, he had received blessings from all the ancient gods.
Of course, it wasn't only the Celestial Venerables who had halos and wheels of light at the back of their heads, the ancient gods would also bless their own descendants.
In the early years of the Dragon Han Era, the ability to give blessings wasn't limited to the ancient gods. Half-gods with strong cultivation were also able to give blessings.
After researching the runes of the ancient gods' Great Dao and the blessings of the ancient gods, Qin Mu was also able to give blessings to others. To him, there weren't many secrets in the ability to give blessings.
However, the god statues in this area of primordial ruins suggested that the tradition of ancient gods giving blessings wasn't started by the ancient gods but was, in fact, something of the prehistoric civilization.
Qin Mu questioned Qi Jiuyi, ”The prehistoric civilization of the Blood Rust Zone, could they cultivate? How did they cultivate?”
Qi Jiuyi laughed. ”Cult Master Qin, I said that there being a prehistoric civilization was just a rumor. But rumors are just rumors and cannot be taken seriously, so why are you investigating this so seriously?”
Qin Mu was even more serious now. ”If one is serious enough, there are no affairs of this world that cannot be uncovered. Since the Blood Rust Zone existed in the primordial era and civilization once existed there, then the structures of this civilization must have areas where we can draw lessons from. It's worth exploring. We can stop by and do some research.”
Qi Jiuyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. ”Cult Master Qin, my teacher only let you borrow this ship to get to the celestial heavens quickly, not for you to roam about leisurely.”
Qin Mu laughed. ”We are just going to take a look, and it won't take much time. Brother Qi, aren't you curious about prehistoric ruins like this Blood Rust Zone?”
”Not at all!” Qi Jiuyi replied resolutely.
Even though he said that, he still ordered the soldiers to slow the phoenix ship down. With a grave expression, he said, ”Cult Master Qin, we can take a slow spin around this Blood Rust Zone, but we definitely cannot stay here for long! After all, it's a prehistoric ruin, and we don't know if there are any dangers around! In this place, every year, there will be some reckless fellows from the celestial heavens who end up dead!”
Qin Mu nodded and smiled. ”Don't worry, I only want to take a look…”
Suddenly, his expression changed slightly. He stared straight at a broken piece of land that was floating by and hurriedly retrieved a geographical map from his taotie sack. He checked the map and raised his head again to look at that piece of land that was floating nearer and nearer.
”Brother Qi…”
Qin Mu chuckled. ”Can we stop the ship on that piece of land? My senior brother left something for me there.”
Qi Jiuyi flew into a fury. ”You just said that you only wanted to take a look, and now you are taking back your words! Qin brat, don't think that just because you're close to my second brother that I'll let you do as you please. Back then, when I went to the lower bound on Black Deity's orders, it was to capture you! To tell you the truth, I have tolerated you for a long time!”
Qin Mu looked to the dragon qilin, and the dragon qilin coughed and said, ”Third Brother, since Cult Master wants to go there to take a look, you should just let him.”
Qi Jiuyi could barely suppress the anger within him, but he still forcefully pushed it back down. He replied coldly, ”If you die there, don't blame me! This map of yours… eh?”
He widened his eyes as he looked at the geographical map in Qin Mu's hands and then raised his head to look at the nearing piece of land ahead. With an expression of puzzlement, he asked, ”Why do you have a geographical map of the Blood Rust Zone? You really have a senior brother who left something for you here?”