991 They Are Not You (1/2)

Qin Mu had a weird feeling when he looked at the seemingly endless graveyard.

There were seemingly three totally different worlds in the 33 heavens of Carefree Village. The old officials of Founding Emperor were filled with displeasure, complained a lot, and were self-ruinous, while the new generation enjoyed life and was extravagant.

Yet, the Qin bloodline was fighting with their lives for the sake of Carefree Village's safety.

This was too ludicrous.

'Carefree Village is deformed or, in other words, has fallen apart,' Qin Mu recollected.

A deteriorated Carefree Village where the Dao hearts of the older generation collapsed as they abandoned their original vow to protect the citizens. As for the newer generations, they lived in and were addicted to endless luxury and carefreeness.

Meanwhile, the Qin family defended Carefree Village to the point of self-ruination because they felt ashamed towards the citizens and the older generation on top of their desire to guard Founding Emperor's glory and Carefree Village's peace.

”Were you guys afraid that I would be buried here like my ancestors, which is why I wasn't allowed back here?”

Qin Mu shook his head. The Carefree Village he had imagined had already collapsed and ceased to exist. He felt that the sacrifices made by his ancestors to protect Founding Emperor's glory and Carefree Village weren't worth it at all.

”Founding Emperor cut half of the Paramita World then to establish Carefree Village, which offended the masters of creation. Today, we built the Paramita Youdu to bring peace to both sides.”

Qin Mu said to Qin Hanzhen, ”From today onwards, no son of the Qin family will need to fight the masters of creation to defend the glory of Founding Emperor.”

Qin Hanzhen shook his head and walked forward, saying, ”The future generations will still fight to the death for Founding Emperor's glory. Carefree Village is this way. Even if we leave Carefree Village, isn't the outside world another Carefree Village?”

Qin Mu followed him, and they walked past one grave after another. They felt peaceful due to their emptiness. The deaths of his ancestors and the war against the masters of creation made him laugh and cry, but he couldn't do both.

He could only shake his head.

Ever since he matured, he had searched for Carefree Village bitterly. Ultimately, what he got was a mere mirage.

It was hard for one to understand him unless one was in his shoes.

As they got closer to the King Zhen Residence, the number of graves decreased. There were younglings there cultivating hard.

They were likely the younger generations of the family. They were about the same age as Qin Mu. Some were older, while some were younger by a few years.

There were only dozens of disciples of the Qin family, but their training was harder than everyone else's in Carefree Village. They ground their corporeal bodies, vital qi, and consciousness as if they were ascetic monks.

A lot of the newer generations of Carefree Village only cared about enjoying themselves. It was rare to see people cultivating so hard.

Qin Mu stopped to look and asked Qin Hanzhen, ”Is this all that is left of our family?”

Qin Hanzhen nodded and said, ”Yes. Who still feels that you are royalty after being a hundred generations apart from the emperor? Only you think so, only you insist on this piece of pride. If one doesn't work hard, one will die brutally when the masters of creation attack. It was only when Fengqing returned that we relaxed.”

Qin Mu looked at them for a while, and Qin Hanzhen summoned a girl and said, ”Siying, this is your cousin.”

That girl was sweating before she used her vital qi to steam all of her sweat. She looked at Qin Mu curiously before saying, ”He's obviously the masters of creation's holy infant. He was very scary! He made many people cry! I was so scared, I cried too.”

Qin Mu smiled and retrieved a drop of the primordial liquid, then visualized a pearl and sealed the liquid inside. He gave it to her and smiled. ”If you wear it around your neck, it will help you in your cultivation.”

She accepted it and ran away to cultivate.

”Siying is the youngest in the family. She's your uncle's posthumous child. She's barely ten years old. I'm the one teaching her now.”

Qin Hanzhen said, ”Let's go home. I will take you to the ancestral shrine to worship your ancestors.”

Qin Mu nodded. The King Zhen Residence wasn't big. It wasn't extravagant like the Dragon Alteration Heaven either, but the ancestral shrine was large. Princess Consort Zhen and Shu Jun waited for them outside as Qin Hanzhen led Qin Mu in. He saw memorial tablets arranged in an orderly fashion, which created a large sacrificial altar.

This place was solemn with a heavy atmosphere.

Qin Mu followed Qin Hanzhen as they kowtowed and offered incense.

Qin Hanzhen took out the Qin family register and inquired, ”Shall I add your name in?”

Qin Mu hesitated before rejecting him. ”I am going to fight Founding Emperor. Before that, I can't appear there. After that, I still can't appear in it.”

Qin Hanzhen was stunned.

Fighting Founding Emperor equated fighting the family's ancestors. Qin Mu couldn't fight him as the one-hundred and seventh descendant, for it wouldn't be filial of him.

After that, Qin Mu would be a master-deceiving and ancestor-destroying rascal that shouldn't appear there. He should be weeded out of it.

”Do you really want to go this far?” Qin Hanzhen couldn't help but ask.

”After that, you can never enter this place. After you die, your grave can't be in our graveyard. You will become a lone ghost with no one from the family worshipping you!”

Qin Mu smiled and said, ”Carefree Village can't wake up if I don't fight him. Founding Emperor wishes for it too, he wants to be beaten out of Carefree Village. I can't disappoint him.”

He smiled. ”I am a catfish let into the pool that is Carefree Village. He wishes for me to revive the dead pond here, not to stir things up in order to get the disappointed fishes to be active again, to get the fishes drunk on their dreams to wake up. I have to do my part as the catfish.”

Qin Hanzhen was silent before warning him, ”Founding Emperor is very terrifying.”

”I know. I saw the mark he left behind in the Great Void when he fought Celestial Venerable Huo. Celestial Venerable Huo's cultivation was stronger, but his blade injured him anyways.”

Qin Mu said, ”Amongst the ten current Celestial Venerables, Celestial Venerable Huo may not be the strongest, but he isn't the weakest either. To be able to cause Celestial Venerable Huo to leave behind a Great Dao imprint and be injured, Founding Emperor's power is above my expectations.”

Qin Hanzhen said, ”His power goes beyond his Sword Dao. It may be his greatest strength, but his divine arts are just as strong.”

Qin Mu nodded and said, ”When I met him in the first year of the Dragon Han Era, he was matchless in sword skills and divine arts. When I angered Mistress Yuanmu by severely injuring Celestial Venerable Hao, he used his divine arts to break out and save me. The marvels of it impress me to this very day.”

Qin Hanzhen went silent for a moment before saying, ”You should leave, I can't have you here.”

Qin Mu bowed before leaving.

The sunlight outside stung his eye. Qin Mu blocked it with his hand and looked back. The Qin family's ancestral shrine looked solemn. It served the ancestors of the family, but he could never enter it again.