1060 Unchanging Love (1/2)
Outside the mine, Qin Mu looked around hurriedly. Large eyes filled the skies and the land. They came from the surface, and with every blink, a large opening to the abyss would appear.
They were void beasts that surrounded and trapped them.
In the mine, Da Hong's body landed on the small void beast mother's body as he rushed to kill Gu Xiao.
His power grew exponentially as the void beast mother brought him through the void stealthily. Her power was strong as well, her sharp claws and flying tongues like heavenly weapons. They blocked Gu Xiao's imperial sword and licked it, and one of the Great Dao imprints on it went missing!
”Celestial Venerable Mu, you guys don't have to leave in so hurried a manner.”
Da Hong's voice traveled over. ”Wait for me to kill Gu Xiao and take my wife's body before we leave together. Brother Luo Xiao can't die either. I need him to find the other masters of creation. These void beasts will protect you guys!”
Luo Xiao fell into his seat in the carriage, his eyes soulless and devoid of spirit. After a while, he recovered and looked at Qin Mu. He gave off a pleading expression and whispered, ”Brother Mu, kill me! I can't let him know where my people are hiding! Please kill me quickly!”
”It would be useless even if he killed you. Your consciousness and soul will still be here. I can search both of them for information.” Da Hong's consciousness transmitted into his brain in an unrestrained manner.
Luo Xiao was in a daze.
Now, he couldn't die even if he wanted to.
Qin Mu became enlivened as he said, ”Brother Luo, now that there's no void beast mother in the nineteenth void, we can attempt to establish a connection with the spirits of your ancestors.”
Luo Xiao tried to raise his spirits, but he failed. He said, ”Even if we find them, what can we do? I'm dead. I have to die to not bring the chiefs a disaster. Kill me…”
”There's still hope.”
Qin Mu's consciousness pulsed. ”I built two sacrificial altars. One is outside of the ancestral court, while another is inside. We don't need the one within to leave. This is our only hope. As long as you can connect with your spirit ancestors, I can establish a connection with the sacrificial altar outside of the ancestral court and create a reverse summoning to get us out. You have to hurry!”
Hope flowed from Luo Xiao's eyes again.
Qin Mu saw his gaze and was surprisingly touched.
It was a pair of clear and pure eyes that shone with Luo Xiao's heart.
It was hard for one to find such clear eyes in the barren and corrupted world where people were treacherous. The masters of creation that left the ancestral court for the Great Void had experienced little of the treachery in the world, allowing them to keep a pure spirit. Thus, they could believe in others and dare to entrust their lives to others.
This was the master of creation Luo Xiao. Qin Mu had only seen such eyes on babies.
Even if Qin Mu's eyes were as clear as his, he knew that he wasn't someone like Luo Xiao. He had been trained to be cunning by Mute and Cripple since he was young and had been taught to use his pure and naive eyes to disguise himself.
'However, I still have to have him take back the three prophecies.'
Qin Mu was determined. The prophecies protected the Great Void's masters of creation and got rid of the Grand Emperor's corporeal body. They gave the people of the Founding Emperor Era a place to stay and a place to build Carefree Village. In the future, it would allow him to become the masters of creation's holy infant too!
He had to ensure that Luo Xiao went back to the Great Void alive with the three prophecies!
Yet, Qin Mu knew that when Luo Xiao saw his people, he would die after saying the three prophecies.
He couldn't bear seeing such a pure person die, but he had to in order to fulfill that part of history.
Around them, countless void beasts circled the carriage to shield them from the terrifying waves from the mine. Luo Xiao worked up his consciousness, which reverberated through the void. All of his consciousness rushed through the void layers and went straight to the highest point.
Not a single bit of consciousness was left in his corporeal body. All that was left was his pure wish to find the spirit ancestors of the ancestral court.
Qin Mu quietly sighed and utilized the Great Overarching Supreme Consciousness to push his consciousness into the void.
In terms of how large their consciousnesses were, Qin Mu paled in comparison to Luo Xiao. Luo Xiao was a master of creation and had a frightening talent in regards to consciousness.
He was a young master of creation that hadn't matured yet. However, after he did, his cultivation would be on the level of the three primordial kings.
Nevertheless, in terms of the quality of consciousness, Qin Mu's was way better.
Qin Mu used the divine treasures and celestial palaces system of the later generations to improve the masters of creation's consciousness cultivation technique. On top of that, he learned the Grand Emperor's Great Overarching Supreme Consciousness, which allowed him to attain a high-quality consciousness that Luo Xiao couldn't beat.
His consciousness reached the nineteenth and twentieth voids before Luo Xiao's despite being activated later, then continued upwards.
His consciousness reached an even higher level of the void. He found that it was empty. The consciousnesses of the masters of creation of the ancestral court had already been engulfed by the void beasts. None was left.
Every layer of the void was like that.
During that barbaric era, whether it was the Grand Emperor or the ancient Celestial Emperor, everyone wanted to wipe away the dirty part of their history.
Every trace of the masters of creation was to be wiped away.
The only difference was that the ancient Celestial Emperor was the victor, while the Grand Emperor was the loser.
Qin Mu's consciousness arrived at the twenty-eighth void, and his consciousness had almost run out by then. It was hard for him to continue climbing.
When Luo Xiao's consciousness reached the twenty-third void, it was even harder to go on. The young master of creation's consciousness was filled with endless sorrow. All that was left was his empty consciousness drifting in the void.
'It's gone, everything is gone…'
'The spirits of our ancestors have been wiped away…'
His consciousness was filled with despair as it drifted in the empty twenty-third void without any will to fight.
At that moment, a bizarre consciousness wave came from a void higher up. It flooded down as an old and majestic voice came into contact with his consciousness. It began to ring.
”Young master of creation, our descendant. You are finally here.”
Luo Xiao was so excited that his consciousness trembled. His corporeal body cried at that moment.
”Our child. We have been silent since the primordial era. We experienced countless eras and observed the movement of thousands of worlds of the universe. We examined the faint principles in the void and saw into the past and future.
”Child, we saw the difficulties the masters of creation of the Great Void are about to face. We also examined your heart.
”Child, return to the Great Void with these three prophecies. They will come true one by one.”
…
In the carriage, Luo Xiao kneeled down and choked on his tears. He couldn't speak.
In the twenty-third void, the spirits of his ancestors told him about the three prophecies. The prophecy of the invasion of the Grand Emperor and Celestial Venerable Yun, the prophecy of the Paramita World, and the prophecy of the holy infant.
They sank into silence after that.