909 Crisis of the Third Eye (2/2)
The dragon qilin heaved a sigh of relief and laughed. ”Third Brother, please stay on the ship. I will go with Cult Master.”
Qi Jiuyi's face was black. He jumped off of the phoenix ship, turning and shouting back, ”Those few with the highest cultivation, come down with me. As for the rest of you, wait on the ship, and prepare to respond at any time!”
Qin Mu shook his head and said, ”Sister Yan'er is an existence at the Numinous Sky Realm. With her by our side, there's no need to trouble anyone else.”
Qi Jiuyi had a gloomy expression and ignored him. He said to the approaching nine gods, ”When we reach the ruins, you aren't to save me even if I run into danger. You are to protect my second brother. No matter what, don't let him come to any harm! Do you understand?”
The nine gods acknowledged the order. ”Young Master's morality is as high as the clouds!”
Qi Jiuyi gritted his teeth and thought in his heart, 'What high morality? I'm just worried that if my second brother dies, I'll have to die along with him!'
Qin Mu laughed heartily. ”Brother Qi is so righteous. Since this is how it's going to be, let's proceed.”
Yan'er perched herself on his shoulder as the rest followed behind him. The nine gods scattered around the dragon qilin, guarding him seriously.
Qin Mu descended from the sky, opening up the geographical map before he reached the ground. He checked and matched the map. The location marked was supposed to be slightly to the right of the center of this vast land.
They weren't far from the target.
”Don't fly over there!”
Qi Jiuyi quickly went to his side and coldly said, ”We don't know if there will be other dangers around. Keeping our feet on the ground is better than being a target in the sky. Also, it's easier to hide or execute our power.”
Qin Mu agreed. ”Brother Qi is indeed experienced.”
Qi Jiuyi snorted and said indifferently, ”I have learned from Red Deity and Black Deity, so of course I'm experienced, and not unorthodox like you. When we arrive at the ruins, you have to listen to me!”
Qin Mu laughed loudly, landing on an ancient-looking structure among the ruins.
Qi Jiuyi followed close behind, landing after him. He scanned his surroundings cautiously, looking very nervous.
Suddenly, Yan'er stuffed his mouth with a spirit pill.
Qi Jiuyi wanted to spit it out. However, it didn't taste bad, so he ate it.
Yan'er planned to feed him again, but Qi Jiuyi hurriedly said, ”Sister Yan'er, I don't eat this.”
Yan'er laughed. ”I have fed your master, Qi Xiayu, before. When she was small, she liked it when I fed her, always chattering behind me and calling me sister.”
”You fed my teacher before?”
Qi Jiuyi's expression darkened as he thought, 'In that case, should I call her Sister Yan'er or Aunt?'
Qin Mu looked around. Suddenly, he leaped off this grand structure, landing on the ground.
Qi Jiuyi quickly stopped the dragon qilin. ”Second Brother, don't go down first. Let's wait until we're sure the one with the surname Qin is fine before we proceed. Okay, let's go down.”
Qin Mu closed his eyes and tried to enter his dreams. He then opened his eyes wide and revealed a shocked expression.
He was unable to execute the Boundless Calamity Sutra to create a dream world.
He originally wanted to let his countless selves from his dreams explore this world, as he wouldn't encounter any danger himself if he did so. However, this Blood Rust Zone had a formless power that could disrupt the Boundless Calamity Sutra, preventing the dream world from being created.
When he was trying to enter the dream just now, an extremely loud and clear sound of sacrificial offerings suddenly surged forth into his mind. The sound contained power, creating frightening disturbances and preventing the Boundless Calamity Sutra from forming the dream world.
”In that case, can I execute my divine arts in this Blood Rust Zone?”
Qin Mu tried to execute a divine art, which still had power. He couldn't help but fall into silence. When he was executing his divine art, the power of sacrificial offerings continued to disturb his consciousness.
”Brahma Buddha's Boundless Calamity Sutra is a philosophy of the mind, which is what this sound of sacrificial offerings seems like. I'm able to hear this sound when I'm entering my dream, but not when I'm awake. This means that this sound is a formless power. I wonder if this power of sacrificial offerings permeating the Blood Rust Zone is related to the earlier appearance of the Heaven Duke look-alike?”
He walked forward, towards the place where the light of ”Heaven Duke” surged from.
Qi Jiuyi caught up and said, ”Second Brother, let the one with the surname Qin go forward and explore the area. If it's safe, we shall then proceed.”
Qin Mu stopped walking. At the area where the light of ”Heaven Duke” came from was a majestic sacrificial altar, and it was surrounded by numerous giant skeletons.
There was a funnel-shaped depression at the center of the sacrificial altar. Within it, faintly discernible liquid light was coagulating.
Qin Mu walked in front of one of the skeletons and saw that it was similar to the skeleton of a human, except it was bigger by several folds. A hexagon-shaped crystal was embedded in the heart of its brows, giving off a faint light.
He flew up, circling and inspecting this giant skeleton.
”There are no imprints of the runes of Great Dao on the bones. They weren't divine arts practitioners, gods, or ancient gods. However, their skeletons didn't disintegrate after millions of years, showing that they were born strong.”
Qin Mu thought of the core of the Primordial Tree. The growth rings of the core showed that Mother Earth encountered ten catastrophes during the prehistoric times, which almost claimed her life.
Could the ten catastrophes that Mother Earth encountered be related to these giants?
Qin Mu moved to the heart of the brows of the giant skeleton. The hexagon-shaped crystal was as tall as him, and it cast shadows on him.
”This crystal should be useful, definitely worth researching!”
Qin Mu executed his magic power, prying away the crystal. Suddenly the skeleton crumbled with a woosh, turning into flying ashes!
Below, Qi Jiuyi and the rest got a fright. It was good that there were no other dangers except for this crumbling skeleton.
Qin Mu shoved the hexagon-shaped crystal into his taotie sack. He then moved to another skeleton and saw that there was another hexagon-shaped crystal embedded in the heart of its brows.
He looked around and saw that every one of these prehistoric skeletons had a crystal in the heart of their brows. ”Could these giants have used the crystals as their third eye? What can their third eye do?”